b.larik

It would be nice if there would be something like mail profiles separated by tabs in Mail.app. Let me explain what I mean: At home I use Mail.app at home for personal mail and Thunderbird for business mail. At work I use one account with Mail.app and other work accounts with Thunderbird. All accounts are IMAP based. The reason for this setup is, that I like separate accounts in a separate viewing space. That means I don’t want all messages to appear in every viewing space. Some accounts require more attention than others, while others are messages generated from automated systems or shared among multiple users. The problem arises that Thunderbird is not as nicely integrated into Mac OS X (address book, ical, spotlight) as Mail.app. But when I configure Mail.app to handle all accounts it gets very crowded in terms of screen estate and messages. When it is possible to start mail.app and have several mail viewers available for a group of accounts possibly handled by tabs in the viewer window, this would increase productivity. For example:

• tab1 [home]
  • personal@mydomain.domain
  • myother@my2nddomain.domain
• tab2 [work-personal]
  • me@coorporation.domain
• tab3 [work-shared]
  • support@coorporation.domain
• tab4 [system-messages]
  • monitoring@ourcorp.domain
  • cron@ourcorp.domain

When switching tabs, you will get a new viewer (left-pane and right-pane). Of course the icon in the dock, should somehow be configurable to show which messages are unread. I don’t know if someone likes this idea, but I guess it will be useful for many (business) people, but not for average joe with one email account. I for sure hope to see this in the next Mail.app release :-).

While the world is getting crazy about the iPhones. The guys at Touchmods wrote a VOIP SIP client for the iPod touch. If this software works well, the iPod touch will be a interesting gadget tot buy.

They will be releasing the software at 01-01-2007 00:00 (German time). You need some kind of mic for your iPod touch. Info about them is also on their website. Original post is here.

Since I still own a old S-video and Composite Sony Trinitron TV, I wanted to know if it was possible to hook it up to an AppleTV. The AppleTV supports HDMI and Component video out of the box.

My first thought was chaining several cables together like this:

AppleTV » HDMI to DVI cable » DVI2 to S-Video » TV

But after searching on the internet and reading the comments from this article on The Apple Blog I learned this wasn’t possible.

Investigation showed that there are several converters on the market which will do this for you. You’re setup will look like this for S-Video or Component video:

AppleTV » Composite Cable » AppleTV converter » S-Video or Component video » TV

There is also an converter which converts Composite to SCART:

AppleTV » Composite Cable » Component (YUV) to RGB/VGA Converter » S-Video or Component video » TV

The converters cost around € 120,00 per piece. Adding this price to an AppleTV of € 399,00 will set you back € 519,00. Which is a high price for such a limited (especially in Europe) device.

At this price you might want to consider putting some extra cash in it and buying a Mac Mini with some nice stuff from Elgato which gives you TV recording capabilities and a non-restricted Mac OSX on it. You might even want to consider some of the media center software available for Mac OS X like MediaCentral or CenterStage. But that’s a another story.

In the end it is possible to hook up an AppleTV to your old TV, but you’ve got to ask yourself if it’s worth it.

While everyone on the web is crazy about the iPhone, what happens if you scratch the iPhone or drop the iPhone. Will it still function? Will it still work after dropping it on the floor?

See for yourself, PC World did a iPhone Stress Test

After Apple released drivers for various WWAN cards like the Novatel wireless products. The Vodafone Software didn’t work any more, it was conflicting with the Apple provided drivers.

The problem could be worked around in Mac OS X 10.4.9 and the WWAN Support update, by manually removing the WWAN update or just not installing it.

After Apple released the 10.4.10 update, the drivers seem to be included in this update, making the Vodafone Mobile connect software fail again!

I live in the Netherlands and the provided software version of Vodafone Mobile connect is 2.06.05.02.

Poking around in the Vodafone files installed by the installer, it looked like it was developed in Germany, so I went to the German website of Vodafone and there I found a newer version: 2.07.00.00.

After Installing this version, everything worked flawlessly. Your default “Novatel Wireless HSDPA Modem” should be disabled by this software update. See the picture above.

Please uninstall the Vodafone software first before installing a new version.

Just wanted to see if my MacBook Pro was powerfull, in terms of fun things:

MacPower!

Ik heb wat tweedehands Apple producten te koop

• Apple Cinema Display 22”
• Apple Airport Extreme (54Mbps)
• Powerbook G4 Titanium
• iSight Camera

Kijk op deze pagina voor meer info.

As reported by The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), the first people are getting their MacBook Pro's delivered. At the site there are unpacking pictures and some experiences about the new MacBook Pro's.

I Didn't order one, because I'm still a little sceptical about a first generation product.

In case you've been living under a rock, the MacBook Pro's are the new laptops from Apple. The big change from previous PowerBook's is that the new generations are running on Intel Dual Core processors.

If you want to know more about the MacBook Pro, go visit the product site.