Monday, July 31, 2006 at 8:22AM A German company has developed a high-end in-car system based on an Apple iMac G5, whose entire hardware in turn is integrated into the 17-inch monitor that is only 5 centimeters thickNow this sort of blows away all the mac mini car installs! Imagine a car based iMac ! I wonder if they've developed any special software/interfaces?
Friday, July 28, 2006 at 11:38PM Then I found it, the G5Jive It's a simple little metal chassis that holds three drives and sits in the empty space in front of the fans INSIDE my G5. It takes a little bit of reconfiguring the power cables, and you have to remove the optical drive to install it, but once it's in, it's perfect. It runs off the power supply already going into the G5, so no big bricks in the wall, and everything is hidden away, inside the computer. Combine that with the extra drive space in the G5 next to the boot drive, and I've got 4 empty slots, ready for drives. Plus it was cheaper than any external enclosure I found, with our without the RAID controller. $80. Lovely (obviously this only works for you if you've got a G5, but I do, so... Lovely.)
Treemeat: Text: I got 98 problems, but lack of space ain't one.
Great piece about installing an internal RAID 5 array in a PowerMac G5. If you've seen the screencast about the firewire enclosure this is the next step up. More expensive but gives you the benefit of RAID 5 so no worries about any of the disks crashing as you could rebuild a disk nad recreate your data quite easily.
Ah well, perhaps when my 1TB JBOD array fills up I could consider this!
technorati tags:raid5, mac, powermac, storage
Friday, July 28, 2006 at 11:24PM It’s not lost on me either that the first thing I tried to do with Gmail is hook Outlook up to it. I can’t stand using the Web browser for email. And I have both the beta of the new Hotmail as well as Google’s new corporate Gmail and Maryam uses Yahoo’s email (formerly Oddpost). These are the three leading web-based email systems. I know many of you are OK with reading your email on the Web, but I’m too used to having my email offline. It gives me peace of mind to know I’m in control of my access to my email.
Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger » Why Ozzie doesn’t think the Web is the be all and end all
Much as I love Gmail I have to agree with scoble that I need to process my mail off-line and have a real problem with the gmail web interface. I get all my gmail delivered into Apples mail.app where I filter and process using multiple rules and create lots of new mailboxes and smart mailboxes to organise my mail.
I just like it that way!
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 at 10:27AM This screencast shows you how to do all this by utilising the amazing new EyeTV 2 software from Elgato Systems. In the show I also demonstrate the new EyeTV for DTT device just launched by Elgato in Europe. It's basically a Freeview tuner that's the size of a memory stick and plugs straight into your USB2.0 port, turning your mac into a powerful PVR. Even better is that we're giving one away as a competition prize (kindly donated by Elgato Systems)
- Want to watch and record TV on your mac?
- Want to use a "Front Row" intergrated interface to access your TV guide and recordings?
- Want to use your Apple remote to control Live TV and recordings?
- Want to edit your TV recordings to remove ad breaks?
- Want to make DVDs and VideoCDs of your TV recordings?
- Want to convert and copy your TV programs to your iPod automatically?
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The new screencast on the Elgato EyeTV2 software has just been published. Quite a challenge with all the full screen stuff and Live TV I had to capture but I think it works! Anyone fancy digging this ;-)technorati tags:elgato, eyetv, frontrow, demo, prize, giveaway, mac, tv, recording, mpeg, ipod, dvd, screencast
