After Hours Projects

Quick review of MotionX GPS Drive Motion-X Drive is an iOS based app to replace your in car GPS. This little app is a full featured replacement for any in car GPS.

    Home sharing     Introduction I have been tinkering with network audio. So far I had been just streaming The audio around the home but now I want to actually move it for higher bitrate conversion. The goal is to play high bit rate files on a laptop for local DAC. Thereby preserving the highest quality [...]

Over the years I have had more than my share of hard drive failures. As more and more of our lives are in the form of digital photos and videos, a dead drive without backups creates a lot of frustration and lost memories. Fortunately I have not had any significant data loss in over ten [...]

WWDC Later today Apple will host its annual World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) where Apple is expected to showcase their big products for the year and set a direction for the future. So far they have had more hits than misses. Since the last WWDC, Apple has grown to become the second largest market cap [...]

Yes, I finally got all my movies, music, photos and documents backed up to a remote server. It took 9 months of slow continuous background backup to get all 2.1TB (terrabytes) or 2,100 gigabytes of data uploaded. But now that it is all there the changes will be quicker to upload. The need for remote [...]

Stopped by the apple store today and noticed that the product information that was on a printed white card has been replaced by iPads. There about 75 of them at this store. They have interactive demos and information on the products. You can even call a store representative to come and assist you in the [...]

Mac App store- easy to install and use Yesterday Apple opened the new Mac app store. Much like the app store on the iPhone. This app store for the desktop/laptop computers makes finding, installing and maintaining applications easier. Unlike other applications the app store itself is not a separate app that is downloaded. It is actually part [...]

Building on the success of the iPhone app store, Apple is introducing the Mac app store today. It single place to buy and update all your Mac desktop/laptop apps. I know many Mac users who have never installed or updated any apps after buying their Mac mainly because it is perceived as being too hard. [...]

It’s December and 2010 is coming to a close. In January it is expected that we should get a peak at the next iPhone. Let’s call it iPhone 5. There have not been too many rumors about the expected features but here are some of mine. There are the very predictable: faster processor, thinner and [...]

As disk space has become more affordable we have moved more and more data onto larger and larger drives. But as we store more the issue of backup becomes ever so critical. When we were just moving to a paperless office with all documents on a drive just a few floppy discs were sufficient to [...]