This page looks plain and unstyled because you're using a non-standard compliant browser. To see it in its best form, please upgrade to a browser that supports web standards. It's free and painless.

Paul's Time Sink

| Main | Albums |

Harmony remote shielded?

Paul Westbrook | 13 July, 2006 23:30

Ever since we have moved into our house, we have noticed that the picture on our Sony XBR wasn't looking as good as it used to.  Colors would bleed in the corners of the picture.  Usually degaussing the tube would fix the problem, but eventually it would come back.  (There isn't a degauss button on the remote, so this requires unplugging and plugging the TV in.)

Since degaussing seem to alleviate the problem, I thought that there must be something that is causing electro-magnetic interference.  The two main differences with our setup from before we moved  is the Mac mini underneath the TV, and the Harmony Remote next to it.  Since I really didn't want to move the Mac mini, I move the remote to the other size of the room, and degaussed the TV.  So far, after a couple of days, I have not seen the problem.

I am not sure if the problem is the remote, or the charging base, but either way, they are staying away from the TV.

Technorati Tags: , ,

Electronics :: Comment (0) :: Permalink :: Trackbacks (0)

Parsing iTunes library

Paul Westbrook | 13 July, 2006 01:04

In this post, I mentioned how it would be great if Apple made the API to parse the iTunes library available.  Johnathon S. wrote that he doesn't think that Apple has made this public.

I found some other solutions for this:

  1. ITMLReader is a java class that will parse the iTunes library xml file.
  2. This page mentions using xsd to parse the file into native structures.  When doing this you will have to convert the DTD to an xml schema.
  3. PHPtunest is a php script that parses the xml file and creates an html page.

Technorati Tags: , , ,

Computer :: Comment (0) :: Permalink :: Trackbacks (0)

watermarks in gallery

Paul Westbrook | 13 July, 2006 00:09

We use Gallery 2 to host our photos that we share with our friends and family.  I am interested in trying the watermark module for these photos.  Unfortunately, it looks like the watermarks is only applied when adding a new images or when editing individual images.  Maybe there is a way to do a mass edit.

Technorati Tags: ,

Computer :: Comment (0) :: Permalink :: Trackbacks (0)
Powered by LifeType
Design by Book of Styles