Paul's Tech Talk

Rogers Wireless expecting iPhone home for the holidays?

PaulNovember 12, 2007

TUAW has posted up a potentially sweet holiday tidbit with the Canadian Apple store showing an iPhone in its holiday gift guide. Of course, as some clever reader has pointed out, the Italian Apple store is also showing an iPhone with a bit of cut and paste wizardry, could this be a case of just a template mistake on Apple’s part? We know iPhone’s coming to the Great White North — or at least are pretty sure — and the holidays do make sense, but until we hear something official, we’d lean toward error on this one. Check your local site and post back with your findings, make a game of it.

[Via TUAW]

Yep if Rogers is coming out with the IPHONE. I really hope they tell people soon.

How to enable Time Machine on unsupported volumes

PaulNovember 12, 2007

Although we’ve been mostly happy with Leopard, one of the features we were most looking forward to was the ability to set Time Machine to use a NAS volume like Airport Disk, thus making laptop backups wireless and sexy (well, sort of sexy) instead of wired and cumbersome. Sadly, Apple cut the feature at the last minute, but as with all things OS X, nirvana is usually just a defaults write command away, and Volker Weber has got it sorted for us. Just pop open a terminal window and enter:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

and you should be able to select NAS volumes in the Time Machine prefs. Of course, you should only re-enable this for giggles — we don’t know why Apple turned it off to begin with, and it could very well be full of bugs and hose your data. Considering some of the other glitches that have cropped up in Time Machine, we’d actually recommend staying well away from this one, but if you’re desperate, by all means — go for it and let us know how it works in comments!

Since I do not have a mac, I do not know how well this works. If anyone tries it let me know!

Use FeedCrier to Read Feeds Via IM

PaulNovember 12, 2007

Get your favorite site feeds via FeedCrier, a service that delivers updates to your instant messenger client. No download is required; just type in the username for AIM, MSN, Jabber, or Google Talk, along with the website you’re interested in getting updates from, and you’re done. This would be a good way to get the latest news updates delivered to you almost in real time. FeedCrier is a similar service to web app immedi.at; both are excellent tools for keeping a very close watch on a particular feed.

Feed Crier [via ResourceShelf]

The Nerd Handbook

PaulNovember 12, 2007

A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head.

A great nerd definition talking about all the aspects of nerds. I thought this was a excellent article and you should go check it out!!

Mike Tech Show Listener Round Table #156

PaulNovember 11, 2007

Topic: “Favorite items in your computer tool bag”

I had a great time with this round table and we discussed a lot about our little tools we have in our toolbag. If you have any tools you’d like to talk about. Email Mike or me. You could also check out the forums and talk about your favorite items yourself. I wish to tell everyone thanks for a good time and thank you for listening. It’s people like you who we do this for. I will always listen to the listeners, come join the fun.

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