Fixing playback delay in iTunes on Mac OS X
Recently I noticed that it was taking ages for iTunes to start playback of any audio file (up to 3 seconds). I found a solution for my problem in the Apple Support Communities: One just has to disable the “Multiple Speakers” feature of iTunes when not streaming to any AirPort speakers, because iTunes seems to [...]
Chrom(e|ium) without the “Open frame in new tab” feature
Apparently the Chrome development team is becoming as ignorant as the Internet Explorer development team has been for some time now. Seems to run in the family of browser developers or something, I don’t know. Anyway, as of Chrome v10, they’ve removed the “Right-click -> Open frame in new tab feature”, which I constantly used [...]
Blosxom and UTF8
A few days ago I installed Blosxom to store my university notes which I write in Markdown and in German language, and which are UTF8 encoded. But I couldn’t get Blosxom to not screw up the encoding even if I set the correct Content-Type Header in HTML. It turned out that you need to modify [...]
Synergy: Operating System independent Keyboard and Mouse Sharing
Hey there folks, Some time ago I decided to buy myself a desktop mac, as I already was quite happy with my MacBook. But I didn’t want to throw out my good old Windows PC just yet, as I need it for my work, and sometimes to do some gaming ;) Ever since I’ve been [...]
Firefox Myths
My thoughts after reading firefoxmyths.com. Corrections “Firefox is Completely Free” The question is, free of what? It is definitely free of charge. It is not entirely free in terms of law, but I haven’t seen anyone claiming that at all. The example you mention even explains what he meant when saying completely free (“[...] There [...]