Car Computer

So, I have a really cool car (Subaru Forester Turbo) and as you all may already know, I’m a Macintosh freak. I’ve been wondering how to marry these two together and trick out the Scooby with a tricked out Mac. I’ve thought it over and have come up with a Read More …

Upgrading a PowerBook G4 Hard Drive

This week’s project was upgrading the OEM hard drive in my 800Mhz Apple PowerBook G4. I did it for two reasons, mainly. One was that the stock 40GB IBM hard drive was getting a bit tight on space, and second, it’s performance left a bit to be desired when recording Read More …

Audiotron + wireless = joy

I recently set my Turtle Beach Audiotron unit up with a Linksys WET-11 802.11b bridge, and as a result, I’ve been enjoying my MP3 collection even more than before. I’ve had the AT for over a year now, but rarely used it because the AT does not have wireless ethernet… Read More …

Display of Happiness

I went out this past weekend and purchased a 20″ Apple Cinema Display from the local Apple Store in Towson. This is my first desktop LCD display, and let me say that the quality of this display is absolutely jaw-dropping. Colors are vivid, yet not artificially enhanced; and the screen Read More …

MP3/OGG Streaming and YP Servers

Oddsock committed the new YP directory server code to the Icecast2 server today. While this feature makes icecast2 far more useful as a production MP3/OGG streaming server, it got me thinking about how YP metadata can be improved…