Automation Adventures

This morning Apple released version 4.9 of Apple - iTunes. Amongst the new features are subscribing to PodCasts. The subscription system is really easy - I’m transferring my subscriptions from iPodder to iTunes. However, there seems to be a bandwidth issue with some of the podcasts: I can’t seem to get Adam Curry’s Daily Source [...]

OK, this is more a personal note:
While going through my stack of papers that accumulated on my desk, I came across this printout, referring to a page on www.evillabs.net/tivo, describing how to remove MPEG2 encrypting. This may come in handy when I want to do some editing on Linux, so just for the sake of [...]

Yay! I finally got one for my birthday (June 9th - thanks… no, I don’t mind, 41), a 30Gb iPod Photo. This is a really sleek piece of hardware - about the size of my wallet without the usual accumulation of receipts, notes and business cards.
I’ve managed to squeeze all of my CD’s on it, [...]

Om Malik’s Broadband log clued me in on this page, with some photo’s of TC Con ‘05! Las Vegas. The really interesting photos are this one showing info on a DVD, with the photo’s after that showing the purchase of that same DVD. Also, it looks like there is an option to show home video’s [...]

Life moves pretty fast… (thanks Ferris). I’m just going through some of the snippets that I collected over the last couple of weeks, and I came across this short list of Tivo Tips and Tweaks, called Secret TiVo Tips and Tweaks by Yahoo! News. There’s not a lot of secrecy about them, but some are [...]