Following much controversy about Apple’s implementation of HDCP in their new range of notebooks, here’s a list of HDCP licensees.

I’ve updated my iPhone to the new software update. Safari seems much snappier and the new interface is easier to use.

Although Google Street View is available, currently there aren’t any Street Views in my location, but it seems to work when i search for Cupertino.

The Podcast downloader is also reasonably good, and allows you to delete podcasts using a swipe. This means that if you were going away for a weekend, you could get your podcasts without running out of space.

This is another welcomed update to the iPhone OS.

Last night an update was distributed. It was quick and simple and, reportedly, fixes the problems.

So this seems all well and good. But, there is one more thing.

This application isn’t exactly the prettiest looking software.

While searching for a solution, i found a tidbit of information about sharing a DVD drive using Target Disk Mode. The plan would be to place a second Mac in target disk mode and then place a DVD in the drive of the second Mac. This would then be accessible to the first Mac. However, upon experimentation, i found that this didn’t work.

An idea did appear though, that you could install OSX to any Mac and have any other Mac boot from it. Therefore if you could install Mac OSX onto the drive of the eMac then you would be able to boot this later.

So i placed the eMac in target disk mode, and placed the DVD in the second Mac. Then booted the second Mac from the DVD, and told the installer to install to the FireWire drive (the eMac’s drive). This started to install, unsurprisingly slightly slower than normal. Once OSX was fully installed, the eMac booted fine.

One thing to bear in mind, if you’re going to try this, is to check the minimum requirements of OSX so that you don’t spend time installing the OS when it won’t run.

You can download a copy and compile it using the command gcc -o connect connect.c , however you might find if you are using Mac OSX that it doesn’t compile properly, that’s because you need to make a couple of changes. You need to find the #include <resolv.h> line and change it to #include <resolv8_compat.h> and above it add #define MAXDNAME 2048.

Once it’s compiled successfully copy the resulting executable file ‘connect’ to /usr/local/bin (as root, or sudo). then, in your ~/.ssh/ssh_config file add the following line:

ProxyCommand /usr/local/bin/connect -5 -S proxyserver:proxyport %h %p

Or -4 if it’s a SOCKS4 server.

Why is this useful? If you were lucky enough to get hold of NetShare before it was pulled, you can use this to SSH through it directly, you might also want to experiment with the -C option for SSH which enables compression if you’re going to do something like this.

Interesting article about iPhone headphones.

Since i don’t run Windows and therefore can’t use Alcohol 120%, i went in search of a solution.

The solution is simple. By renaming the .mdf file to a .cdr file, this allows the Disk Utility in OS X to mount the drive as normal. This also gives you access to all the data inside the disk image.

The Evernote iPhone application (iTunes link) has added offline support - select a ‘favourite’ note, and it’s synchronized for offline use.

This is exactly what I have been waiting for from this application. Now I can use this application much more for notes that I need on the go, without having to worry about whether or not I will have signal.

What’s Evernote? Check out this Lifehacker article for information on how you can expand your brain with Evernote.

On Monday morning, i checked UPS’ tracking service and found:

THE RECEIVER WAS UNAVAILABLE TO SIGN ON THE 1ST DELIVERY ATTEMPT.

However, there were 3 people up and around on the Monday who would have heard the door. Secondly, no “We Missed You” note was left.

I phoned the customer support line, who got the local depot to call me back. Within half an hour of my call, my parcel had arrived. How often does this happen?

However, this takes time, particularly if you have a large amount of RAM, and during this time the hard drive is still spinning - and writing data. If you want your Mac to go to sleep straight away and don’t care about losing the ’safe’-ness of your sleep mode, you can change your hibernation mode using this terminal command:

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0

Before doing this, you might want to check what your current hibernation mode is:

pmset -g | grep hibernatemode

By default it will either be 3 (Safe Sleep) or 7 (Safe Sleep if you have secure virtual memory enabled).

Now your Mac should go to sleep much quicker.

Looks like Apple is really making an effort with developers now.

Here’s the answer, and it involves Automator.

Create a new Workflow in Automator, and then add the “Run Shell Script” action to your Workflow. Then add the following command into it.

/System/Library/CoreServices/”Menu Extras”/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend