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	<title>todbot blog &#187; macosx</title>
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	<description>Random experiments, circuits, code, rapid prototyping, sometimes things to buy, and the odd tune by Tod E. Kurt.</description>
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		<title>MobileMe Free: iPhone to iCal OTA syncing</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2010/03/22/mobileme-free-iphone-to-ical-ota-syncing/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2010/03/22/mobileme-free-iphone-to-ical-ota-syncing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[macosx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[calendar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've been frustrated with my calendars not being in sync between my iPhone and my Mac's iCal.   I've inadvertently double-booked myself many times.  I didn't want to spend $99 a year for MobileMe because I already spent a lot on remote servers and don't need most of what MobileMe offers. I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Roombas Go Caroling</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/12/21/roombas-go-caroling/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/12/21/roombas-go-caroling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[macosx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roomba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Roomba family was out caroling.  They stopped by and sang a few songs. I caught a few on tape.  I think they were a little tipsy on mulled 30W or something.

 (revver link)

This was a demo of RoombaMidi2, a Mac OS X program to turn your Roomba into a MIDI instrument. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Roomba Tilt Control and Holiday Buying Guide</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/12/08/roomba-tilt-control-and-holiday-buying-guide/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/12/08/roomba-tilt-control-and-holiday-buying-guide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[macosx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roomba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two updates from HackingRoomba.com.

First, if you're unsure about how to get into hacking Roombas or just want some tips on how to get cheap Roombas, see the DIY Robotics with Roomba Holiday Buying Guide.

Second, if you've got a MacBook and a Roomba, try out this way of using the MacBook's built-in tilt sensors and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Better Video on OS X: NicePlayer &amp; Perian</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/10/09/better-video-on-os-x-niceplayer-perian/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/10/09/better-video-on-os-x-niceplayer-perian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[macosx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

I watch movies on my Mac. I've been ripping my DVDs to DivX or h.264 to my hard drive simply because it's easier to double-click a file than hunt around for a particular configuration of atoms.  I used to use VLC for any files that Quicktime Player couldn't play, but I've recently come [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>RoombaCtrl: Drive your Roomba with your cell phone</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/09/12/roombactrl-drive-your-roomba-with-your-cell-phone/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/09/12/roombactrl-drive-your-roomba-with-your-cell-phone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[hardware-hacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[macosx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roomba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Bluetooth adapters for Roombas appeared, I've wanted to control my Roomba with a cell phone.  All my recent phones have had Bluetooth. But getting a devkit for a phone was expensive and phone-specific.  Trying to develop J2ME (aka "JavaME") applications for cell phones has been  a mess, especially for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>RoombaMidi: Roomba as MIDI instrument</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/05/03/roombamidi-roomba-as-midi-instrument/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/05/03/roombamidi-roomba-as-midi-instrument/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 07:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[macosx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roomba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

The Roomba has a piezo beeper that can play tunes.  You've heard it.
And its motors make noise.  Why not put them under MIDI control?

So here is RoombaMidi: a Mac OS X application that creates a virtual MIDI [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>HOWTO: Mac OS X Bluetooth Serial Port</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/02/23/howto-mac-os-x-bluetooth-serial-port/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2006/02/23/howto-mac-os-x-bluetooth-serial-port/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[hardware-hacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[macosx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roomba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Setting up a Bluetooth serial adapter like the SparkFun BlueSMiRF isn't very hard, but not very intuitive.

Bluetooth supports many "profiles" for doing various things (phone headset, address book syncing, file exchange, etc.)  One of these profiles is the "COM" profile and is a simple serial port: raw binary data transmit and receive.  [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Powerbook power cable repair</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/10/13/powerbook-power-cable-repair/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/10/13/powerbook-power-cable-repair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[hardware-hacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[macosx]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I finally broke my last working power adapter.  Fortunately it was in a fashion that was orthogonal to the rest, so I was able to cobble together a working one.





Details [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Two-finger scrolling on older Aluminum Powerbooks</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/03/19/two-finger-scrolling-on-older-aluminum-powerbooks/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/03/19/two-finger-scrolling-on-older-aluminum-powerbooks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 23:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[macosx]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The new Powerbooks are very rad: 3D accelerometers and "two-finger" trackpad scrolling.

While the former can't be retrofitted on, the latter can, thanks to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mac OSX Virtual Desktop Managers</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/01/26/mac-osx-virtual-desktop-manager/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/01/26/mac-osx-virtual-desktop-manager/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[macosx]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CodeTek has been pretty unresponsive to my emails requesting status about the problems with Firefox and their VirtualDesktop program.  Their site hasn't been updated in many months, I wonder if the company still exists?   I and many others have been stuck at Firefox 0.8 for many months now.  It's very [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Replaced Powerbook  Hard Drive</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/01/13/replaced-powerbook-hard-drive/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2005/01/13/replaced-powerbook-hard-drive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[macosx]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Replacing a hard drive on a 15" Aluminum Powerbook isn't that hard.  Really.



The hard drive in my Powerbook started to fail last week, making those scary "tschk-tschk-tschk" noises of something rotating rubbing against something else.

Luckily I used Carbon Copy Cloner right when I started hearing the problem, syncing the entire disk (45 GB [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>P900 &amp; iSync redux</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2004/12/22/p900-isync-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2004/12/22/p900-isync-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2004 04:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[macosx]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I once had my P900 working with iSync and stuff but with various updates bluetooth connectivity has gone tits up.  I've kinda stopped caring and just emailed things on&#038;off the phone when needed. But it looks like others have gotten it working well:


  macosxhints - Add iSync/Address Book support for P908/P900 phones
 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sloppy Focus Tricks</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2004/06/21/sloppy-focus-tricks/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2004/06/21/sloppy-focus-tricks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2004 02:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[macosx]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are you a Unix geek who has been seduced by Mac OS X? 
Are you totally frustrated with the lack of 'sloppy focus'? 
Here's some tricks to do, depending on what you want to do:

 for just Terminal windows: 
 %  defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES


 for X11 windows: 
 % defaults [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Useful Tools Recap</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2004/06/14/useful-tools-recap/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2004/06/14/useful-tools-recap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2004 00:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[macosx]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just got a new Powerbook and had to re-remember all the bits I need/like:

uControl   -- Capslock -> Ctrl key remapper 
I also use it to remap the 'enter' key next to the arrow keys to be  a 'fn' key, so I can do 'fn+arrows' to give me easy pgup,pgdown,home,end.


Codetek VirtualDesktop [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Modal Sheet Dialog Box Speed-up</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2004/06/08/modal-sheet-dialog-box-speed-up/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2004/06/08/modal-sheet-dialog-box-speed-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2004 02:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[macosx]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As 
discussed on macosxhints.com, there is a way of speeding up the 
'drop-in' speed of those modal 'sheet' dialog boxes.
Here's what I like:


 % defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime .05


Smaller numbers make it faster, larger numbers make it [...]]]></description>
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