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Free TV Channels

Klaus Kjeldsen — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:02:52 +0000

The danish public service channels from “Danmarks Radio” can be streamed and viewed directly from QuickTime, iTunes, VLC player etc. on both Mac and Windows by downloading a few channel files (.mov). This of course also opens the option to stream and view the channels in Frontrow on Mac:

All you have to do is to download the files and add them to your library:

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Download TV Channels (danish channels)

A friend of mine is monitoring the channel streams at his website, here you can see how reliable each stream are >> Stream Status

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Boot Camp: Windows 7 on iMac – Fix Black Screen

Klaus Kjeldsen — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:45:12 +0000

Recently I was making a Boot Camp installation of Windows 7 on my iMac, however, it did not go as smoothly as expected. During the installation process the screen went infinitely black, and it was not possible to continue the installation process.

Software versions:

Boot Camp 3.0 (Mac OS X Snow Leopard)
Windows 7

Doing a little search, I found the following solution on how to fix the problem.

Update: Apple has made a support article on the issue: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3173

Solution (step by step from the beginning):

Run Boot Camp Assistant from Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Applications -> Utilities)
Create a partition for the Windows installation using Boot Camp Assistant
Plugin your install disc and install Windows 7
The system will reboot a couple of times during the installation
The problem: The second time the system reboots, you the see the Windows red-green-blue-yellow animated logo, and then the screen goes black and hangs infinitely.
Press and hold the power button on your iMac until it shuts down.
Start the iMac again holding “alt” key, so you can select and load Max OS X Snow Leopard again.
Run any application that let you work with NTFS partitions (e.g. Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X or MacFuse)
Find the file “C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ATIKMDAG.SYS” on your BOOTCAMP partition, and simply delete it.
Restart you iMac, and boot up Windows 7
Now Windows 7 should boot normally
Run update windows utility and install Boot Camp drivers from the Mac OS X install disc

Boot Camp: Create Partition Error – Files cannot be moved

Klaus Kjeldsen — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:11:09 +0000

Recently I was about to install a Windows 7 beta using Boot Camp on my iMac, but it did not succeed due to an error. I was setting the Windows partition to 80 GB with plenty of free space available.

Then I got this error, namely “The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved”:

But I did not like the idea of formatting my hard drive due to fix the issue, and make Boot Camp work. However, I found an other solution to the problem, namely installing tool to defragment the hard drive. Defragmentation is not something you usually do on a Mac, but here it came in handy. I found these two tool to do the trick:

iDefrag (I used this)

Drive Genius

What the tools basically do, is that they are able to moved the files, which for some reason is blocking the Boot Camp Partitioning.

Mac Themes for Windows 7

Klaus Kjeldsen — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:24:30 +0000

Running Windows 7 on Boot Camp on your Mac, you might like some Apple or Mac OS X like themes for your Windows 7 installation. Here is a couple try out. I am also look for more and better Mac or Black themes for Windows 7, so please post if you found some nice ones…

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All of these themes are installed without extra patching of you operation system, download the themes below.

Download the themes:

Windows 8 theme for XP/Vista/7

Klaus Kjeldsen — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:08:15 +0000

There are many loose rumours about Windows 8 so fars, but it hasn’t stopped designers to make Windows 8 wallpapers and Windows 8 themes. The first Windows 8 Theme I have found is the Windows 8 Professional Edition theme.

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Window 8 Theme

It is available for you.

Download: Get it here

Windows 8 theme for XP

Klaus Kjeldsen — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:53:29 +0000

There are many loose rumours about Windows 8 so fars, but it hasn’t stopped designers to make Windows 8 wallpapers and Windows 8 themes. The first Windows 8 Theme I have found is the Windows 8 Professional Edition theme.

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: Window 8 Theme

It is available for you.

Download: Get it here

Read Mac-formatted hard drives on Windows

Klaus Kjeldsen — Sun, 03 May 2009 10:24:05 +0000

HFSExplorer is a free application that can read Mac-formatted hard disks and disk images. It can read the file systems HFS (Mac OS Standard), HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) and HFSX (Mac OS Extended with case sensitive file names).

HFSExplorer allows you to browse your Mac volumes with a graphical file system browser, extract files (copy to hard disk), view detailed information about the volume and create disk images from the volume. HFSExplorer can also read most .dmg disk images created on a Mac, including zlib / bzip2 compressed images and AES-128 encrypted images. It supports the partition schemes Master Boot Record, GUID Partition Table and Apple Partition Map natively.

Update iPhone without backing up (Mac and Windows)

Klaus Kjeldsen — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:53:02 +0000

The below method is not yet tested with iOS 4.0, if you try it, please post a comment if it works.

Most iPhone OS 2.0 / iPhone 3G users have experienced the very slow backup process each time the iPhone is connected to iTunes, and as more applications are installed the process will take even longer. It is possible to just cancel the backup process, and then make a regular Sync without backing up. However, if you want avoid the backup process from starting, there is a workaround. It is possible disable the automatic backup process from starting, and how to do this is described below; firstly for Mac users, and secondly for Windows users:

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Mac users:

Quit iTunes.
Open a Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal)
Type or copy the following command:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes AutomaticDeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true
Open iTunes.
Connect the iPhone.
Make Sync without backing up.

To enable automatic backup in iTunes again use this command instead:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes AutomaticDeviceBackupsDisabled -bool false

Note: If you previously have used the command line option that entirely disables the backup feature, then type this command as well to enable to backup process:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool false

Recommendation: If you choose to disable the automatic backup process, it would be a good idea to manually making a backup it once a while to get a safe copy of text messages, call log and like (just right-click your iPhone icon in iTunes).

Windows Users: (updated)

Windows users can use the same approach:

Quit iTunes.
Press Win+R (opens the Windows Run dialog)
Type or copy the following command:
“%CommonProgramFiles%\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\defaults.exe” write com.apple.iTunes AutomaticDeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true
Open iTunes.
Connect the iPhone.
Make Sync without backing up.

Black Windows XP (Vista like) Theme

Klaus Kjeldsen — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:05:31 +0000

As an alternative to the standard blue, olive and silver themes in windows XP, Microsoft has released an aesthetic black and blue themes respectively named Royale Noir and Royale. The skins are refreshingly different compared to the traditional Windows XP themes named Luna.

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Below is a screenshot of the Royale Noir skin:

Below is a screenshot of the blue Royale skin:

The Royale themes are new themes for Windows XP that have been leaked out of Microsoft. The theme appears to have come out of a beta version of Windows Media Center 2005 that was in testing. The Royale themes are aesthetic themes and comes with two color schemes Royale (a blue theme) and Royale Noir (a black theme). The Royale theme is refreshingly different to the traditional Windows XP Luna theme.

Just download the theme and extract the .zip into “C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\”, open the folder Royale Noir (“C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\Royale Noir\”) and doubleclick the “luna.msstyles”. Select “Royale” or “Royale Noir” from color scheme.