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 Thursday, February 28, 2002
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AudioTron Digital Music Player for Home Networks Listen to your PC digital music library and Internet radio from anywhere in your home.
The AudioTron is a network enabled stereo component that is able to access your digital music library (MP3) on your PC or Macintosh and play it over your home stereo system. This is a true stereo component, complete with an infra-red remote and a backlit display on the console. Reports I have read say that it can be made to work with OS X. The AudioTron is available at the TurtleBeach online store and retails for $299.95.
If you are running OS X and want to set up an AudioTron to access your MP3 collection, be sure to check out Paul Guthrie's Max OS X - AudioTron page. 10:59:24 AM 
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MIVOmac: Prior Art
I was searching the web and found a few other like-minded individuals who had created a MIVOmac before me. Here are a few links:'
September 19, 2001, MacObserver.com
This isn't really someone who had created an actual MIVOmac, but he discusses the idea and takes it a step further by adding video recording capability to the digital hub. Here's a quote: Mix together a headless iMac, an Airport, a custom RF/IR remote, a DVR (digital video recorder) enabled video card, and a couple of USB and Firewire ports all into a unit that fits the dimensions of a stereo rack component, and you have a true home Digital Hub Server (DHS).
July 1, 2001, Ken Tidwell
This one is really cool. Ken Tidwell put together a how-to that he calls iTunes, your Home Theater & Wireless AV 'How-to'.
Ken's page is a wonderful resource that I wish I had found before I built my own MIVOmac.
Ken uses a wireles 2.4GHz AV transmitter/receiver pair to get the audio and video output to his home entertainment system. That's pretty cool. Using his system, you don't have to dedicate a Mac as a stereo component in your entertainment system-- you can use your existing Mac to provide audio and video, wirelessly. He has some really good graphics and photos that show many of the details that I left out of my MIVOmac story. If you are thinking about building a MIVOmac, Kens page is a must read. 10:25:33 AM
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Far from the Cocoa/Carbon religious wars, here a f ....
Far from the Cocoa/Carbon religious wars, here a few random command-line things I've picked up recently.
- Typing "AppleSystemProfiler" dumps, well, Apple System Profiler data to the console. (If only it had a gratuitous XML output option...) A clever Mac tech I know at an Apple reseller uses this in single-user mode (Cmd-S on startup) to verify RAM upgrades on new systems without getting sucked into Apple's automatic registration app. If that's just too many letters for you to type, take advantage of command completion: A (tab) S (tab) (return)
- Typing ">console" as a username at the login window takes you straight to a full-screen login shell, if for some reason you need to avoid Aqua but don't want to reboot for single-user mode.
- Added to ~/Library/init/tcsh/aliases.mine: alias here open `pwd`. So now I type "here" in the shell and I get a finder window for the very directory I'm in. Kind of the inverse of the Applescript widget I linked to a few days ago.
Also, I want to plug LaunchBar again, since there's a new beta up. This is an elegant, super-intelligent, unobtrusive, way deep, incredibly useful tool. Its keyboard-driven philosophy isn't for everybody, but what is? For me, it obviates the need for all kinds of Dock enhancements, launchers, hotkey utilities, and retro-hacks. I liked it so much I bought it twice.
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| Paul Bissex [Forwarding Address: OSX] 10:04:14 AM
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Bob Frankston: Worlds in Collision. This means that I can just connect everything in my house (and beyond) with commodity connectivity and redefine the behavior simply by changing some software settings and I can buy new features and capabilities and "download" them. [Tomalak's Realm] 9:48:26 AM
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This is not good...
Have iPod, Will Secretly Bootleg. Apple's iPod can be used to copy software from display computers at stores like CompUSA. Will it herald a new era of virtual shoplifting? By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 9:35:36 AM
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