To enable it:
$ sudo apt-get install pulseaudio padevchooser pulseaudio-module-raop pulseaudio-module-zeroconf

Then run System -> Preferences -> Pulse Audio Preference. Tick “Make discovereable Apple AirTunes devices available locally”.

Run RhythmBox, or any app which uses pulse-audio as its backend, and play some audio.

Run Applications -> Sound & Video -> PulseAudio Volume control.

Select Airport Express as the output for this app.

On a 16GB Drive 2 gig seems an awfully large waste of space (remember as hibernate doesn’t work, the file is completey useless).

Open a terminal, and remove the current hibernate file:

$ sudo rm /var/vm/sleepimage

Use pmset to turn hibernation off:

$ sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0

I also found that for some reason the system still re-created a hibernate file, though I am no sure why or under what circumstances it would do that.

But to make sure it doesn’t happen simply set the location of the hibernate file to /dev/null:

$ sudo pmset -a hibernatefile /dev/null

You get 2GB back – Yay!

But following the first post I now have bluetooth working great, and tethering to my iphone (3.0) working as well. It is brilliant.

It wasn’t the storage which interested me, and I am happy with picassa over Apple’s equivalent. But I use multiple computers, and I wanted the same calendar and mail on each computer and my iphone, and mobile me seemed the best way to do it. But now with Apple’s Address book able to sync with google, and Google Sync for the phone. I have all of my computers and iPhone syncing with the Google cloud, and staying in sync with each other.

Google Sync is also good news for linux users, allowing syncs without itunes. I think I’ll write a howto for linux users soon.

Read on for a how to.

First Steps

• Sync you iPhone to you Mac. Both now have the current Address Book and Calendar data.
• Turn off Address Book syncing and Calendar syncing in iTunes. We will no longer be syncing our data this way.

iCal Sync

This is probably the easiest step.

• Export your ical calendar to a .ics file on your computers
• Log in to Google Calendar go to your settings and import your just exported ics file. Your Google and Off-line calendars now match.
• Setup your ical to sync with Google Calendar. To do this I simply folowed the instructions here.
• You should now have 2 calendars setup. When you are happy that the Google one is correct you can delete the old one.
• Now all of your events entered in iCal will be stored on Google’s calendar server.

Address Book Sync

This one is a little more difficult. For a computer you have plugged an iphone into for syncing you can simply tick a box in the Address Book preferences. The point is I want this to work for computers who do not sync to my iPhone normally. Also it can only be initiated by syncing the phone.

• Open a Terminal and type:
  $ defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iPod Devices -dict-add foo '{ "Device Class" = iPod; "Family ID" = 10001; }'
• Now open Address Book. Now under Address Book preferences you can select to sync with Google.
• Back at the terminal type
  $ sudo defaults write /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GoogleContactSync.framework/Resources/ClientDescription Type server
  This changes the way the sync behaves.
• Add the Sync Menu Bar app. Open the Finder and run: Macintosh HD -> System -> Library -> CoreServices -> Menu Extras -> Sync.menu
• Run a Sync from the Menu Button, You Google Address Book is synced with you Mac one. Clean it up, and sync again.

On The iPhone

• Follow Google’s instructions here.
• When asked, allow the iPhone to delete the existing contacts and events, otherwise you will have doubles of everything.

All Done! Now a change online, or from any computer or iphone will be synced to all others. Admittedly not quite as simple as MobileMe, but free is good.

It has been done many, many times before, but let me say, it is awesome.

Wasn’t sure if I would like it or not, but it is amazing. Everything just seems to work. I have had a couple of hiccups, I cannot seem to tether a 3G phone without problems via bluetooth, and the the trackpad simply sucks, but it is great.

I used the howto from gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/5156903/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-9-into-the-ultimate-os-x-netbook.

There is just one simple error in the post. Once you have booted from the usb, device 80 is the USB stick, not the SSD. All you have to do is select device 81, and you can boot from the internal drive. You do not need to use a CD Drive for the second part of the process like the howto suggests.

I found this: http://www.andrewgrant.org/2008/03/30/how-to-sync-an-iphone-with-two-or-more-computers.html

# Defaults specification
Defaults        env_reset
Defaults        env_keep += "BLOCKSIZE"
Defaults        env_keep += "COLORFGBG COLORTERM"
Defaults        env_keep += "__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING"
Defaults        env_keep += "CHARSET LANG LANGUAGE LC_ALL LC_COLLATE LC_CTYPE"
Defaults        env_keep += "LC_MESSAGES LC_MONETARY LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME"
Defaults        env_keep += "LINES COLUMNS"
Defaults        env_keep += "LSCOLORS"
Defaults        env_keep += "SSH_AUTH_SOCK"
Defaults        env_keep += "TZ"
Defaults        env_keep += "DISPLAY XAUTHORIZATION XAUTHORITY"
Defaults        env_keep += "EDITOR VISUAL"

At work I am behind a proxy, commands run as root from the terimnal are not inheriting my terminals proxy settings. MacPorts was failing.

There are 2 solutions.

Explicitly state the environment variable in the command line:

$ sudo env http_proxy=http://proxy.url:port/ command

or, add the environmant variable "http_proxy" to the list in /etc/sudoers.

Tethering is awesome. The MMS and cut and paste has been implemented very well.

I haven’t encountered any major bugs yet either, although it seems other have. My biggest problem is that with Optus I cannot as yet mms and use the internet. I have to change the APN in the settings to the appropriate one for either task and then restart the iphone. So basically I don’t actually have mms working. But we are still a while from the the official launch and I am sure optus and apple can work it out by then.

I wanted to have a few SMB shares mount on my apple workstation every time I login. I couldn’t work out how. I thought about automount, I thought about writing an apple script, and then my retired uncle showed me how, its simple.

In system preferences -> accounts -> login items, simply add the volumes. If the passwords are stored in your keychain they will remount every time you login.

http://www.anomalousanomaly.com/2008/10/31/triple-booting-your-mac/