Chris Carey

Category: Apple

All things Apple Computer

  • AppleTV 3.0.1 works well, so far

    appletv30menuUpgraded to AppleTV 3.0.1 last night, installed the mods. Everything is going well so far! Have all features working such as AFP, SSH, full Codec support thanks to Perian, plus the new 3.0 menu system and iPhone Remote.

  • iPhone Triptych

    Painted these a few months ago and realized I forgot to post them here.

  • SLUG Magazine iPhone App hits the App Store


    SLUG Magazine iPhone App is finally out the door. This is my first native iPhone app released under the Apple Developer program.

  • AppleTV 2.4 Black Screen when playing video

    After upgrading to AppleTV 2.4 and installing Perian, I no longer can play Apple videos. The device just shows a black screen. Sometimes there is sound.

    Edit: found a fix from westont on AwkwardTV:

    Sure enough, looking in the /System/Library/QuickTime folder I found a ‘Disabled’ folder had been created. This folder contained the ‘QuickTimeH264.component’ file which had clearly been moved there by something. Moving this file back to the /System/Library/QuickTime folder and rebooting the ATV got everything working again.

  • UtahFM iPhone App

    Making good progress on the UtahFM iPhone App. Got a progress bar working so now it spins while music is playing. I’d like to get some more testers but you have to be willing to upgrade to iPhoneOS 3.0beta5.

    Main Screen

    The About Page:

    About Page

  • New link for iPhone firmware

    Updated link to find the iPhone firmwares:

    http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/

  • iPhone Google Calendar Sync

    So,  I upgraded to iPhone OS 3.0 and want to get the Google Calendar Sync up and running on the new OS.

    Search for “iphone google calendar sync” at Google. Not a single link on the first page has the instructions on how to do it. Had to search forever just to find the server name to enter which is

    m.google.com

    Sheesh. So I make this blog post so I never have to search again for this.

    Fantastic announcement, no howto:

    http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/02/google-sync-beta-for-iphone-winmo-and.html

    has some great information about the product, but no install instructions:

    http://www.google.com/mobile/apple/sync.html

    Finally found this after about 10 minutes:

    http://www.appleiphoneapps.com/2009/02/how-to-setup-google-sync-on-your-iphone/

  • Keeping PDAnet free on your iPhone

    Recent versions of PDAnet are no longer free. PDAnet changed to a $30 pay version as of version 1.40. Here is how to roll back to the old free version:

    http://www.virtuadave.com/2008/11/19/keeping-pdanet-free-on-the-iphone/

  • How to modify iPhone Calendar colors on Jailbroken iPhone

    *EDIT* updated for iOS5 here http://chriscarey.com/wordpress/2012/01/07/changing-calendar-colors-on-a-jailbroken-iphone-running-ios-5/

    After installing Google Sync for iPhone, I had a problem that the iPhone Calendar colors did not match the colors of the calendars in Google Calendar.

    I am republishing a post by michael.ansel. I found a post by him to be the best way to change calendar colors.

    One thing he failed to mention in the following steps is to install sqlite3 which is not installed by default. On your jailbroken iPhone, launch Cydia and install sqlite3.

    Then proceed with these steps…

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  • Streaming a webcam in Linux with VLC

    I wanted a simple way to make my Linux security camera server stream live video to my TV.

    The server ususally runs “motion”. I disable motion, and launch this command on the server:

    vlc v4l:/dev/video0:size=640×480:channel=1:norm=ntsc:fps=12 –sout ‘#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=768,scale=1}:duplicate{dst=std{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,dst=:8080}}’ -v –noaudio

    and this on a Linux client to test:

    mmsh://10.4.4.25:8081/

    Then, once that is all working, I use VLC on the AppleTV to play the video to the TV. I used iScripts to get it launching.

    The only problem I have right now is a 8 or so second delay.