Schon toll, da wollte man nach Hause und dann das: Eine HD unseres Mailservers spielt verrückt.
Happy fixing….
iPod in my brand new car, part III
Today we are moving servers for our company. Until this I had the time to take some photos (due to public demand) from my iceLink installation in my Audi.
This one shows where my iPod is located. I truly hate those cradles and I decided to hide the iPod. The cable doesn’t really interfere with the closing mechanism – no fuss at all.
The blurred image (sorry…) shows what’s happening when you switch off your stereo. I call this a very tight integration :-)
Two examples for different playlists. „CDC1“ in Audi language means: CD1 of CD changer. But in iceLink reality it’s the first song of my first playlist what I’m hearing. Same for CDC2 = second Playlist, first track.
I’m very pleased with it. Sound quality is fantastic and it’s very easy to use. There are just two things:
1) trying to change very fast from track 1 to, let’s say, track 36 with the wheeling knob at the right takes some time. It looks like the iPod tries to find every song between them and the harddisc is spinning a lot. Otherwise on your iPod you have to change to the playlist, scroll to the song and click „play“ again…
2) ID3 tags aren’t shown on your Display. That’s a problem with OEM Stereos: None of them is able to show the tags to you.
Every other functionality is working: „Scan“ starts every song for 10 seconds, „Random“ from „Menu“ allows you to play the songs randomly (switch between songs is much faster than the way mentioned above!), fast forward and backward works, too.
I think this will be the last episode of my iceLink experience. It’s all said, it works as described. If you don’t believe me: Try it for yourself ;-)
Apple Boot Camp
Nun ist es also passiert: Apple hat ein eigenes Programm herausgebracht, um Windows XP auch auf Intel basierten Macs zu installieren. Boot Camp heißt die Software und ist als Bublic Beta verfügbar. Apple selbst bietet keinen Support dafür, Boot Camp soll aber in der nächsten Version von OS X (Leopard) voll verfügbar sein. Die Beta ist 83MB groß, benötigt wird eine Installations CD von Windows XP und ein freier Rohling, da die Windows CD noch mit benötigten Treibern ausgestattet wird und diese samt Installation auf eine neue CD zusammen gebrannt werden.
Apple vergrößert damit seine Basis an potentiellen Käufern immens. Nach dem Scheitern vieler Versuche, Windows auf Intel Macs zu installieren, ist dies nun der logische Schritt in die richtige Richtung.
Extreme Firefoxin‘
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.