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Mega Monday Updates
r0d3nt writes "Microsoft has released their promised 10.1.4 update to office. With it comes support for Exchange via Entourage. Get the update , and read about the system requirements."
RottenApple writes "The latest iPod EU firmware update has been seen floating on the Gnutella and BitTorrent Networks. A working hack is indicated by the Time Zone appearing as US Pacific after running the updater."
An anonymous reader writes "TheLittleAppFactory is pleased to today announce the latest version of our iPod Manager for Mac OS X, iPodRip 1.5, which boasts many new features, such as the ability to play songs right from your iPod's hard drive and playlist support, as well as a slick new interface, faster importing and improved iTunes integration." It costs $7.
You can already play the songs on your iPod right in iTunes. Just turn auto-syncing off.
Vonal Declosion
Yes, it's a generic troll message posted to every Apple story, but MP3s on a 604e isn't hard at all.
MacAmp wasn't TOO terrible, and SoundJam runs in 9. I think Audion does, too.
Those old Power Macs don't make bad MP3/stereo systems if you've an A/V card for it, and they're fairly cheap at thrift stores and the like. (A place up the street from me has a 9600 with a couple of HDs for $150, keyboard and mouse included. Not terrible at all. It's an MP machine, and I think (I THINK) YDL can utilize the extra CPU, so it's definitely worth $150.)
Mikey-San
Karma: +Eleventy billion (mostly affected by watching Celebrity Jeopardy)
I was pretty excited about this update, until I downloaded it, and couldn't connect to my Exchange Server, because there is no way our admins are turning any of that crap on. They gave me the slap down about OWA ages ago. IMAP? Forget it. I think they might have LDAP going, but hell if I can get it to work with Entourage. What's the point of an Exchange update, if it doesn't work with Exchange's protocol of choice MAPI? I think I'll stick to the OSX Mail client/Address book. It's less of a hassle and it syncs with my phone. It'd be nice to sync my work calendar on my palm pilot without conversion gyrations, but its just not working out.
Even at that perhaps I gave up to early -- I had been frustrated before on a Quadra 68040, and when I absolutely couldn't get anything to play music on that I decided I was too far obsolete and got a Cube.
How did you play 'em on your Quadra? That was where I absolutely failed.
Nowadays, my wife has discovered she can paint pretty pictures in photoshop on the 8100, and she wouldn't know an MP3 from a WMD, so I guess I can shut up about music on the PowerPC -- but if it comes up again, I will remember your suggestions.
8100 stats:
8100/80 601, 256 MB, VM == off, and it will only go up to OS 9.1
Quicktime 6 also brought the system to a standstill, so I backdropped to QT 4.x
And now for something completely offtopic...
And you, madam, are very ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.
The software I used on the Quadra was some hacked-together thing that was really a one-off deal. I think it was designed for the sole purpose of proving that an '040 mac could play an MP3. I remember the mouse not really getting more than 2 frames/second when it was playing. I had it briefly but lost track of it. Rumors on the linux-m68k lists also hint that someone wrote one in assembler for the amiga, but it too was only a proof-of-concept.
The '040 was great in it's day though, quite a wonderful series of systems to work with. My 660av is still kicking, I take it out every now-and-then when Debian or NetBSD has a major update. It runs well with Mac OS 8.1 and Photoshop 3.0, which is a wonderful app for simple graphics editing. It also plays SimCity 2000, A10 Attack!, and A-Train as well as it ever has.
I'm thinking of trying to get Gentoo bootstrapped on the thing to see what kind of speed I can get out of it when I compile the whole system for the '040, I bet it'll be cute.
"Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie." -Tori Amos on Nine Inch Nails
Installed the update... Word would no longer run... I'm running OS X 10.2.6... All other Office apps were OK... Reinstalling Word did not help... consistently received message "Microsoft Word Unexpectedly Quit"... Tried lots of stuff including deleting Office with Microsoft's Remove Office utility and reinstalling without success... finally removed all Microsoft Office references on my machine and reinstalled Office and 10.1.2 update which restored Word.... A major pain... If you really don't need the 10.1.4 upgrade, you might consider not installing it...