Kasper Duhn talking about stuff, food, macs, culture, organisations, information technology & a heap of photos
I installed the universal (intel) version of cocoAspell on my MacBook Pro five minutes ago. Works fine with the Danish version 5 dictionary and Adium and Apple Mail so far.
A nice surprise on a sunday.
It would be cool if Anton had RSS feed or newsletter email on cocoAspell (cocoaspell.leuski.net). I do not fancy MacUpdate that much. Too much junk and paid subscription.
Attention Danish Mac users!
Apple Store Denmark has a limited time 10% discount on Miglia TVMini until 23rd of April. I can not direct link to the TVMini, but it near the bottom on the front page. With this USB2-device you can watch free to air Digital Terrestal TV (DVB-T or DTT).
I have just received my TVMini yesterday.
First impressions
It is smooth and easy to record, fastforward/rewind, even pause live TV. EyeTV has a buffer and remembers what you have been watching for almost an hour. It is of course possible to adjust how much harddisk or RAM space you want to waste on that feature.
Recording
The Electronic Program Guide (EPG) makes timed recordings a walk in the park. Just place a red circle on any program and it turnes into a red spot. EyeTV will launch in the background automatically to record the show using a measly 6% CPU load. Normal TV watching takes 30% CPU load of just one of the cores on my MacBook Pro. Watching or recording on the go does not seem to affect my battery significantly. The time indicator went from 3:30 to 3:10 in a few seconds but stayed on 3:10 for at few minutes. I have not tried burning with Toast og converting anything to iPod format yet.
Subtitles
Yes, they work great on all Danish channels. You just have to enable them in the View-menu. The subtitle feature can also be turned on and off while watching recordings. I have included a screenshot of some daytime tv-show with Danish subtitles. The quality of the transmission itself is nothing special, but the subtitles are perfectly rendered:
Conclusion
My old trusty VHS is shaking with fear – and probably with good reason.
PithHelmet 2.6.5 has universal appeal…
This release is mostly for native compatibility with the new Intel Macs. I did add a few new rules that should scrub the latest annoyances from most pages, so even if you aren’t on an Intel Mac, I think it’s worth upgrading. Oh, I also added a Russian translation.
Go get it and block some popups, ad images, cruddy flash-animatons and horrible midi loops.
At the end of my second evening with my MacBook Pro I feel quite satisfied with my MacBook Pro’s battery life. It was approximately 3 hours from when it came out of the box (I forgot to plug in the power due to sheer exitement) and automatic sleep mode kicked in. Then I charged it until 100% full. It took a few hours to fill it up. After that I worked, goofed around with Photo Booth, installed some apps like Xcode and surfed a bit – and the battery lasted for 3 hours and 40 min. with display brightness set on 50-60%.
I guess the battery life will be even better when I’m just writing emails and reading stuff. I feel satisfied with the PowerBook’ish battery performance.
I am starting to miss certain applications and plug-ins:
I’m a bit too tired to continue this post right now. See you all tomorrow.
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