Kategorie: Apple

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iPod in my brand new car, part II

The iPod-Mania revealed a lot of more or less useful gadgets :-) One of the more useful gadgets is the iceLink from Dension. I received it last Friday and the installation worked like a charm. It took me twenty minutes to install it in my Audi A3 Sportsback and it worked right from the beginning without a fuss. Now my iPod runs as a CD changer controlled over my Stereo with superb sound quality. It’s a lot cheaper than the CD changer from Audi (EUR 149 vs. EUR 600!) and there’s no need in changing CDs all the time. :-)

If you want a seamless iPod integration in your car, give iceLink a try! It’s available for all kind of car stereos.

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iPod in my brand new car

Today I received my iceLink Box. iceLink is an iPod connection kit for your car stereo. The iPod then behaves like a CD changer. You are able to browse through the first 5 playlists on your iPod with your car stereo. I don’t know if my „Audi concert“ is able to interpret the ID3 Tags, but nevertheless the iPod is connected without a cassette or some other strange solutions.

iceLink

I will write more about it after installation!

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List of Mac OS X Volumes within Director

Sometimes you’ll need to find out the connected Volumes on OS X within your Director Application (e.g. to check if a specific CD is inserted). The BuddyAPI Xtra is not much of a help (but it will find all Volumes on a PC). So: How to do it?

Valentin Schmidt created the wonderful shellXtra, which connects your Application with an OS X Shell. If you are familiar with Shell programming, it will allow you things to do you never imagined! It’s for free and very easy to operate.

The following routine will browse through your Volumes and check for a specific file. It uses a combination of ShellXtra and BuddyAPI:

—-
— shell_cmd_list(„ls /Volumes/“)
— returns a list of all Volumes mounted!
—-
theVols = shell_cmd_list(„ls /Volumes/“)
noVol = 1
repeat with x = 1 to theVols.count
if baFileExists(theVols[x] & „:yourFile“) then
noVol = 0
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
if noVol = 1 then
— no Volume found
else
— Volume found
end if

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LiveCalc 2.0

Chris Hauser released LiveCalc Version 2.0 today. The tool calculates every number in (nearly) realtime. Based on Math bc 1.05 the tool is really fast. People in need of huge numbers will love the tool! LiveCalc is Freeware and runs on Mac OS X > 10.3.x.

LiveCalc
256 seconds to calculate e(12334) on a G4, 768Mhz.
Not in realtime really, but a number with 5378 digits! :-)

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2^9999: A number with 30103 digits. In 7 seconds.

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Need Something more complex? ;-)

Visit the Download page on his site!