Update on the tech side of things

OK, the last post spoke of my HTC Magic order, but forgot to mention the big change on the PC side of things!

I read about ASRock's ION 330 and was very impressed with the low power high performance offered by this tiny box

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Not sure if the image will open on the blog..

Having had good Windows 7 RC experience, first on VirtualBox on iMac, then on the old PC, I installed W7 on this little beast and never looked back.

It runs Squeezebox server in the background, so I am able to listen downstairs using Squeezebox coupled via ethernet to a 2nd Airtunes device in 'proxysta'.

Opera also came out with something new called Unite, which effectively runs a media server in the Opera browser, which can be listened to in any browser given the URL and password. Its a bit dodgy to begin with.. overloaded, but has some promise. Comments were either dead against, or 100% for the idea. I sent the URLs to Susan, but she doesn't like trying things, I believe.

What else.. well of course the HTC Magic! But I'll save that for its own post, as I have parcels to collect in Slemmestad.

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Fwd: HTC Magic - Ordered from MPX

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From: "online.no" <gfraser@online.no>

Date: June 8, 2009 5:25:26 PM GMT+02:00

To: gerald.fraser.crib229@blogger.com

Subject: HTC Magic - Ordered from MPX

HTC Magic - Ordered from MPX

HTC Magic in June

A beautiful Spring morning

Yesterday's comment to the earlier Time Capsule (TC) post reminded me it was ages since I had updated this journal,, I have been making notes with MindNode Pro on iMac and the vanilla version on AIR, but, here goes on this early morning.

Yesterday Susan SMS'ed med about massive thunderclouds approaching Nærsnes. I couldn't hear any but pulled the plugs anyway. We had a hail storm, and once it had well and truly passed, I plugged everything back in, but the wifi net didn't come up. I then spent an hour or more confirming the Time Capsule had died. possibly hastened to its end by the full backup of iMac using Time Machine earlier that day.

I had to reconfigure things so the Airport Extreme took over as Internet router from TC, which required me to reset the AIrport Express to the new network name AE 245 (n/b & g compatible). God this short amount of text has used 8% of AIR battery..

In the end all but Squeezebox wi-fi worked, and contact with Eplehuset gave me the hope that the repair might be covered by AppleCare agreements on both iMac and AIR. :)

Susan kindly agreed to a Sandvika trip so I can drop it off today.

That's the news for now.

Posting from Safari 4

Well I have the AIR back now, and have been busy installing replacement apps for the Readerware set, i.e. Bookpedia, CDpedia and DVDpedia. The three databases are on the Time Capsule's Data folder and accessible therefore both from iMac and AIR.