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Value prop: nice and simple….errr, ummmm…
awesome!!! I have been waiting and hoping for this to be possible. will try tonight on the Mac Mini connected to my livingroom sound system at home…
This little How-To is intended for Snow Leopard and ShairPort 0.03.
All credits to James Laird for his reverse engineering work. My best regards to him and his girlfriend.
Download ShairPort 0.03.
Download and install MacPorts.
Download and install Apple Developers tools (XCode): register to the iOS or Mac development program and grab it for free or purchase it from the Mac App Store.
Open Terminal (you can find it in Utilities subfolder in Applications folder) and write
sudo port install openssl libao nss avahi
then write your account password (this will take a lot of time!)
When the command finishes write
sudo cpan HTTP::Request
and write your account password (write yes two times if it asks for auto configuration and best mirror).
sudo cpan HTTP::Message
sudo cpan Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA
sudo cpan IO::Socket::INET6
Now we need to launch some processes, so in terminal write again
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
in the ShairPort-0.03 directory (use cd to navigate through folders in terminal) write
make
Edit the shairport.pl with and set a custom machine name on line 7 (this is what will appear on the iOS app or iTunes speakers list).
Each time you want to start ShairPort you need to open terminal, navigate to the shairport-0.03 folder and run
perl shairport.pl
Enjoy.
Surely someone will create a full featured application to easily start and stop ShairPlay, but for now it should be enough to listen you music on your mac(s).
To be fair, you also get the director’s commentary and often some pretty sweet extras. But god, yeah, nothing irks me more than being advertised to on a DVD I PAID for.
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Bad news.
Josh Nimoy, one of ITP’s finest, publishes details of visual effects for Tron Legacy. (via jtnimoy - Tron Legacy (2010))
Go class of 2004
Are Happy People Dumb? - Shawn Achor - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
In fact, happiness is the single greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy. Only 25% of your job successes are predicted based upon intelligence and technical skills, though we spend most of our education and most companies hire based upon this category. The “silent 75%” of long-term job success is based upon your ability to positively adapt to the world: optimism, social support creation, and viewing stress as a challenge instead of as a threat.
(Source: rosiesiman)
I think 20, 30, 50 years from now, when we look at media history, we’re going to look at the late 20th century as the aberration. It was created artificially by the scarcity of broadcast-frequency. The people who had that broadcast frequency created enormous monopolies, and with monopoly they had to speak broadly to huge audiences. What kind of journalism does that create? That creates a journalism of the middle.
Now we’re just back to the way it was before, when anybody with some verve could start up a publication and get it out there, and if it spoke to people, it would grow. Papers would take off, become hugely popular, and vanish almost overnight back in those days. And what does that kind of environment create? It creates point of view, it creates voice, it creates partisanship.
- David Von Drehle speaking about media coverage in the time the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire vs. today on WNYC’s On The Media
(Source: onthemedia.org)
Dan Melinger on the 4 reasons why people use location-based social networking
Andreas Weigend
4 reasons why people use location-based social networking
Finally posting this clip from a conversation with Andreas Weigend (over tapas!) 24 November 2010
The other set of championship gear — the 288 T-shirts and caps made for the team that did not win — will be hidden behind a locked door at Dolphin Stadium. By order of the National Football League, those items are never to appear on television or on eBay. They are never even to be seen on American soil.
They will be shipped Monday morning to a warehouse in Sewickley, Pa., near Pittsburgh, where they will become property of World Vision, a relief organization that will package the clothing in wooden boxes and send it to a developing nation, usually in Africa.
This way, the N.F.L. can help one of its charities and avoid traumatizing one of its teams.
“Where these items go, the people don’t have electricity or running water,” said Jeff Fields, a corporate relations officer for World Vision. “They wouldn’t know who won the Super Bowl. They wouldn’t even know about football.
- Sensitive words in the New York Times (via slavin)
Always wondered..
