This Much I Know

A while back, I wrote a post about detecting iPods connected to your Mac, and finding out their model number in order to deduce information such as the iPod model and colour. Then, in September, Aaron Bockover of the Banshee Project informed me that Apple have changed their approach to storing this information, and [...]

In the course of developing a new version of log4javascript, I was adding a command line feature that required the ability to evaluate and execute code in an iframe from within the main window. Fine, I thought, I’ll just call eval on the iframe window object. Which predictably worked fine in Firefox and Opera 8+, [...]

I’ve been investigating 5.1 [tag]Dolby[/tag] Digital playback on the Mac, and I’ve discovered some limitations with using 5.1 audio under QuickTime – especially when trying to output it to the Mac’s S/PDIF optical output. This makes me wonder about some not-yet-mentioned features of the upcoming [tag]AppleTV[/tag] and its support for surround sound, and Apple’s [...]