zondag 8 februari 2009

Vreemde Architectuur

Je zou het niet altijd zeggen als je saaie gebouwen ziet, maar er zijn in de wereld veel gebouwen (of bouwsels) te vinden die ... eh ... 'anders' zijn.

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Boven: 'Dancing Building' (Praag )

Soms is een een bijzonder fraaie architctuur, soms is het gewoon heel grappig, en soms gewoon vreemd.

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Boven: 'The Hole House', Texas USA

Op het Internet zijn een aantal overzichten te vinden van de vreemdste gebouwen ter wereld:

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Boven: het 'ondersteboven huis' (Szymbark, Polen)



donderdag 5 februari 2009

"Learn to Play" workaround for PowerPC Macs

The new "Learn to Play" downloadable lessons in GarageBand are only supported by Apple on Intel-based Macs. When PowerPC users go to the lessons or the lesson store, they are presented with a message that states an intel-mac is required. Despite this, non-intel users can get lessons to run.

The lessons are located in this directory:

/Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Learn To Play/

Users on PowerPC Macs should be able to open the lesson files directly by double-clicking them, and they should play normally. It appears that the lessons run fine when users do this, though some with older PowerPC computers have noted the need to free up as much RAM and other resources as possible to ensure smooth play.

In order to get new lessons, Apple's built-in store accesses the web at the following URL:

http://store.apple.com/us/lessons/home

By navigating to the aforementioned URL, users can access the available free downloads. To do this, open the URL in Safari and click the "Basic Lessons" button. Then select the desired free lesson and GarageBand should open. A message will prompt for download confirmation, and the download should start. Users will not see a progress bar or other indication of the download, but it should happen as long as GarageBand is open. Check Activity Monitor's network section to see that the download is actually going.

Unfortunately, lessons for purchase will require the GarageBand interface, so for now the purchasing is restricted to Intel users; however, if PowerPC users have access to an Intel mac, they should be able to download the files to it and transfer them to the PowerPC machine.

Because Apple does not officially support lessons on PowerPC Macs, users may run into unexpected troubles.

Run iMovie '09 on a PowerPC G4...slowly

From Mac OS X Hints:
To patch iMovie '09 so that it will run on a PowerPC G4, Control-click on iMovie and pick Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. In the new window that appears, navigate into Contents » MacOS. Now you'll need a hex editor such as the free HexEdit; once you have that, edit the file iMovie in the MacOS folder.
Use the File » Go To Address function in HexEdit to go to the following addresses, and replace each existing entry at those addresses (7C 08 02 A6) with 4E 80 00 20. The addresses are 15fb9c, 15fc7c, and 15fe00.
What you're doing here is replacing the PowerPC instruction for mflr r0, which basically initializes the stack for the called function, with blr, which essentially causes the called function to always return, voiding the purpose of the function. So when the function is the PowerPC check, you've essentially patched your way around it.
When done, save the file and quit HexEdit, and iMovie '09 should launch on your G4.