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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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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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Google Chrome OS on Dell D600

11/20/2009 – 8:59 am

So unless you have been hiding under a rock (in the online world) you’ve heard of Chrome OS, Google’s lightweight netbook operating system. Yesterday it was released as open source and I decided to give it ago. (The steps below are for Ubuntu Karmic, but you should be able to translate to other linux platforms.)

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