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iPhone Icecast from Rhythmbox

02/21/2010 – 3:24 pm

So I wanted to stream music from my laptop to a Bose iPod speaker set over wifi. It seemed like this should be simple right? Not really.
Apparently Icecast2 doesn’t support streaming the way that the iPhone OS expects it to. Luckily some kind souls wrote a patch to fake the iPhone/iPod touch into working.
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Selenium IE7/8 in Vista/Windows 7

11/30/2009 – 9:10 pm

So after spending too many hours trying to get selenium to work in Windows Vista/Windows 7, it turns out that you must run the selenium server from an administrative command shell.
The easiest way to do this is to search for “cmd” in the start menu and then right click on the “Command Prompt” item that [...]

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libiphone/ifuse 0.9.5

11/24/2009 – 8:26 am

So it’s been quite a while since I first started this journey, but iPhone support in Linux has progressed to the point that you can sync your music and even read some of your contact/calendar data.
Today we take another step forward with the latest release of libiphone/ifuse.
See the project page for more information.

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