Shuffle and iPhone headphones

• September
• 17

I have a first generation Shuffle. It does not work with my iPhone headphones. Are they not compatible for some reason? I can only hear about half the music and none of the lyrics. When I plug in any other headphones-it’s fine.
I’m sure no one else even has an old Shuffle like me.
No tag for [...]

Microsoft Dropping Seinfeld, Directly Targeting ‘Get a Mac’ Ads

• September
• 17

was one of the first to report that Microsoft will be officially moving away from the use of Jerry Seinfeld in "phase two" of their $300 million ad campaign, though there appears to be some debate about whether or not this was part of the original plan:

Quote:

Microsoft flacks are desperately dialing reporters to [...]

Translucent Menu Bars - Mine doesn’t seem that… translucent.

• September
• 17

Hey guys.
I’ve got a query, about the Translucent menu bar.
It is definitely turned on, and it is definitely translucent, but in a lot of images, and videos that I have seen of other peoples desktops, their Menu Bar always seems a lot more translucent.
I personally love the look of the translucent menu bar, and would [...]

Power Cord for Ooold iMac

• September
• 17

Hello all!
A friend of mine recently purchased a old iMac- the one with colored casing, and the slot loading drive in the front. The computer does not come with a power cord. I think it was made between 1999-2003.
I was wondering if anyone knows where I can find a power cord for the computer.
I don’t [...]

DIY espresso machine

• September
• 17

Seeking the perfect espresso, Home-Barista user matadero210 decided to take matters into his own hands and craft a custom espresso machine from scratch.
The Pavoni is not really up to the rigors of 9 bar. It flexes and tries to move. A second hand is nearly always used to hold the machine in place. This design [...]

It’s all about attitude when getting iPhone replaced…

• September
• 16

at least that’s what the Orange Shirt Genius told us on Friday, September 12, ‘09 at the Emeryville (Bay Street) Apple Store, California. I drove one of my friends to the Apple Store and mentioned to the Genius that her v1 iPhone had froze-up during the 2.1 firmware update, I did the hard-boot at [...]

Custom background color on a UIView…

• September
• 15

I am trying to set the background color of a UIView to a custom color, without much success!
I can set it to a standard color like this…

Code:
[self setBackgroundColor:[UIColor lightGrayColor]];

But, when I try to set a custom color, it defaults to white!
The example below should be displayed as pale blue

Code:
[self setBackgroundColor:[[UIColor alloc] initWithRed:134 green:166 blue:228 alpha:1.0]];

I [...]

Higher then 32GB?

• September
• 15

I currently use a Boot Camp partition with Windows XP Pro SP2 that is 32GB, as accoridng to Boot Camp that is the max I can go, before unabling to access windows files on my Mac.
For example, if I download a file, and wanted to put that file on my Windows parition, I would place [...]

Returning iPhone 3G… subsidized replacement?

• September
• 15

Hey guys… I mentioned this in the AT&T forums but I think I’ll get a quicker response here
So I heard, if the rumors are correct, that AT&T will have the Blackberry Bold sometime next month. I’m still on the fence with this iPhone… only had it since Wednesday… so 50/50 with it.
If I [...]

Zoom H2 line input hack - make a 4 channel field recorder

• September
• 15

Berto Aussems wrote in from the Netherlends to tell us about his hack which replaces the microphones in the Zoom H2 recorder with 4 line inputs, perfect for 4 channel field recording. The Zoom H2 has gotten a lot of glowing reviews in its standard form, but converting it for line input gives you [...]