euxneks.com yōō’nĭks

How to use Remote App without a wireless connection (WiFi/Airport)

There seem to be a lot of people out there who are under the impression that you need to be connected to a wireless connection, or WAN for both your computer and your iPod touch, in order to use the “Remote” app. This is not true and I’ll give you some handy directions to help you out. These directions may help out with the app “Keynote Remote” as well.

Basically, all you need to do is create a network with your mac, and connect with your ipod touch.

Here’s how to do it:

Enable your wifi sharing:

Go to System Preferences > Network
Enable Airport
Click on your airport icon and select “Create Network”
Choose a name that’s not taken
To make sure it’s password protected, check “Enable encryption (using WEP)”
Enter a 13 character password and make the WEP key length 128-bit
Click “OK”

On your iPhone/iPod Touch:

Open “Settings” App
Tap on “Wi-Fi” and make sure it’s enabled – you should see your network right there
Open up your “Remote” app and connect.

This works with my iPod touch 1st generation and a macbook 1,1. YMMV, and I don’t have Keynote nor do I have the Keynote app for my iPod touch but in theory it should be the same.

Have fun!

10 Aug 09 | Interesting Things | Read on

Rediscovered hypem.com

I recently rediscovered hypem.com and it’s been great. If you want to know how to download all the awesome music from hypem you can do so pretty easily with firebug.

Steps to download from hypem.com for free:

Always use Firefox.
Install Firebug
Go to hypem.com, and enable firebug by clicking on the roach in the corner
Enable net logging (click on the “Net tab”, it should tell you how to do it if you can’t figure it out)
Play a song on hypem.com
Find the url that ends in .mp3 near the bottom (it should be the one that takes a long time to download)
Right click on the url and copy the link.
Download with whatever system you prefer, I’ve been using “curl”, you can use wget or maybe even downthemall!
If you’re using windows, learn to use a real OS.

Tags: download, free, hypem, music

06 Aug 09 | Linux Tips, Mac OS X Tips | Read on

Alt+click window movement in Mac OS X Leopard [Update: X11 Crashes]

Hello all, I have managed to get option-click window (use the apple key, see below) dragging working in Mac OS X Leopard using an APE extension called windowdragon! W00t! The key is that you need to compile from source with xcode using the APE SDK.

I was pointed to a great project in a thread here on apple discussions:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1934542

Here are the steps to get this functionality:
1) Install XCode (you can download this from apple)
2) Install APE SDK & APE:
http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/ape/sdk
http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/ape
3) Open a terminal and cd to an appropriate directory, then, download the latest SVN checkout of dragonwindow from SF:

svn co https://windowdragon.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/windowdragon windowdragon

(you need to have svn installed)
4) Open “trunk/WindowDragon.xcodeproj” in XCode and expand “Targets”. Next, right click on APE module and select ‘Build “APE Module”‘ this will create a directory called WindowDragon.ape in another dir called “build”.
5) Open System Preferences>Application Enhancer
6) Add in the APE preference pane, set the key combination, and restart your machine.

Caveat: If you use the primary mouse button and “option” (aka alt), due to Mac OSX having a key combination to hide the previous open window when you option click a new one, this will hide your previous window. I suggest using the apple key.

DragonWindow is made by a fellow with the name of Tim Conkling, thanks Tim!

Update: WindowDragon will make X11 crash. Even if you add X11.app to the exclude list, you still need to disable the WindowDragon APE extension in order to make X11 _not_ crash.

17 Jul 09 | Mac OS X Tips | Read on

Some UK pictures up!

Click to see here:

UK Photo Set

08 Jul 09 | Interesting Things | Read on

Latest News From Beyond The Looking glass!

Hello all, I’m currently in London, enjoying the Queen’s weather and gardens. I visited Buckingham the other day and saw a wonderful amount of statues of famous dead people and lions and unicorns and dragons (oh my!).

I’m starting to get the hang of the UK, it’s almost exactly the same as North America, except there are a lot of people and it’s fairly crowded. It’s sort of like stepping through the looking glass, where people speak a little bit differently, they act a little bit differently, they drive on the opposite side of the road and even the crows are just a little bit different. I guess they call them rooks here? They seem super intelligent. Been taking lots of pictures with my new Camera (Nikon D60) so I’ll be sure to show everyone when I get back.

06 Jun 09 | Interesting Things | Read on