Aggregate multiple audio devices
Speaker vs. Headphone Did you ever plug in a headphone? Then the same happens like on the iPhone: The Computer is muted and the headphone makes the music. I hate that! Why? Because I am so fussy and want to spare my hardware. Especially jacks are sensitive and easily getting loose. So it would be [...]
Printer LED mystery
Needing a printer While living in the virtual reality I help my environment to save valuable resources. One of them is avoiding the use of paper whenever possible. But, unfortunately there are some rare situations where somethings needs to get printed out and signed – contracts for example. And the winner is Some years ago, [...]
VirtualBox3 vs. Parallels5
The Parallels Desktop virtualization is great, and the update from 4 to 5 brings a lot new features. But there is one thing what makes me really angry: the price! Pricing In my humble opinion the price for this update is very much to much. Some months ago, I just bought the update from 3 [...]
Closed lid with open eyes
A MacBook can close it’s lid and then it is going to sleep. On some situations it could be useful your Mac would stay awake instead of using it magic power LED hypnotizing you. One of those moments could be A party and your MacBook is serving some music, but you don’t want anybody to [...]
iPhone headset troubleshooting
I had the problem that my iPhone headset was not working properly anymore. The music playback went fine, but when answering a call the caller could not hear me. Also I noticed then, that I could not use the headset’s button to control call answering or iPod playback. First of all I thought it was [...]
Windows95 running on iPhone
The iPhone is one of the most powerful handheld devices available on the market. Enthusiastic developers from GoodiPhone.com made it real to create a complete Windows emulator. Windows95 and even WindowsXP can be running on a iPhone! As owner of an Apple device I have of course no real intention in using it, but “yes, [...]
Win a “Record you” invitation
Do you want to win an invitation for the brand new Record You application? Be the first to place a comment. Record makes use of extremely efficient multi-core audio rendering, making the software very lightweight, even with large projects. Record’s dynamic multi-core audio rendering improves performance without introducing any latency. It is future proof, making [...]
Burning speeds
Sometimes I need to burn CDs or DVDs when I want to give huge data away. Unfortunately not everybody owns a big enough USB stick, yet – although they went quite expensive. I got mine 16 GB USB stick for less than 20 Euro! Burning takes too much time in my humble opinion nowadays and [...]
Boot from USB instead of DVD
You do not want to burn a DVD or CD when installing a new operating system or running some maintenance tools? Me not, too! Espacially, when you want to install something large which normally requires an expensive dual layer DVD or even when no DVD drive is available at all, it makes sense to use [...]
Running Virtual Machines from a USB stick
Since I got my 16 GB USB memory stick, which is a quite huge storage amount, I got the idea to make the best out of it and do a performance test. Many disc accesses are usually done with a Virtual Machine, so I put a blank Parallels Windows XP virtual machine image to the [...]
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