So simple and it actually works!

You will need Xcode installed to install this way, there will be no need for gmake or sqlite.

In a terminal windows run:

svn co http://trac.aircrack-ng.org/svn/trunk/ aircrack-ng

You will notice lots of files downloading, now we need to edit the common.mak file.

Browse to aircrack-ng folder by using the following command

cd aircrack-ng

Open up the file (I will be using nano to do this)

sudo nano common.mak

Enter your password to edit the file.

Look for this line:

CC = $(TOOL_PREFIX)gcc

and replace with:

CC = $(TOOL_PREFIX)gcc-4.0

Then find this line:

CFLAGS ?= -g -W -Wall -Werror -O3 -Wno-strict-aliasing

and replace with:

CFLAGS ?= -g -W -Wall -Werror -O3 -Wno-strict-aliasing -arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk

Press ctrl o to write out the file, and then ctrl x to return back to terminal

Now type: The first line may error if you are already in the folder

cd aircrack-ng

make

sudo make install

All files should have been placed in /usr/local/bin/ directory

It seems to be happening to me, I am being sucked in by all the social networking sites you can imagine, not only social networking either. The three logos at the top are the three killers for me, Twittering, Facebooking and Blogging! Twitter is the most used site I use followed by a close second to my blog then coming in last is Facebook which I seem to have gone off.

I once deleted my facebook account but found myself logging back in to reactivate and then disabling it, I just couldn’t stay away from it. It’s kind of like an addiction that is really hard to give up, not sure what it is about these three platforms but it really has me under the thumb, if Twitter told me run around the streets naked I probably would.

I wake up in a morning and within 30 minutes of opening my eyes I always check these.

Not in any particular order but always within 30 minutes these are checked and then checked probably every couple of hours after that throughout the day until I go to bed and that is just a couple of the sites I check regularly.

Throughout the day I usually check on the following sites:

Now I know the above aren’t exactly social networking sites but still, you can communicate with other users from around the globe and share information so I guess it could be classed as social networking but not the same as sites such as twitter and facebook.

The after a little longer i’ll probably go back and check them over and over again, I find myself becoming obsessed and searching the internet for different sites, reading thing that don’t even interest me, writing about things that I don’t really know about, checking out forums, reading tutorials, looking for something that I want to have (a recent example of that is setting up my own short custom URL service) http://rzy.me

It’s more like an addiction and there is nothing that I can do about it!

For all you bloggers out there this icon may/may not mean the same to you as it does to me.

WordPress (which is used to power my blogs) is starting to take up more and more of my time the more I use it. I used to go through stages on how many blog posts I would write, when I find something really interesting I blog about it, If I have a rant I blog about it. Sometimes I just don’t blog at all no matter what is or what isn’t going on.

I’ve set my self a task now that I am going to write much better posts / interesting posts and at least 1 post per day if not more. I do have quite a few websites on the go at the moment and find it difficult to know where to start / which I should start with and how far I should go there always seems to be something else that needs doing / updating / fixing.

I’m not sure if blogging would come under the social networking category either but it certainly connects you to the world.

Those are just a few of the sites / applications I use and check on a regular basis throughout the day and that’s not even mentioning the other email accounts I have or logins for other sites / forums.

Before I forget also, the latest trend that seems to be out there at the moment:

Yep thats right, Google Wave, as good as it is, I also find myself checking this more and more often as I start to use the service more and more, this is even while it is in preview mode and not even gone live…meaning none of my friends are currently on, so you can only imagine how much hammer it is going to get when they finally get on and ride the wave!

I put this all down to one thing and one thing only:

The iPhone! My most valued possession, the one thing I would really feel lost without, the one thing I never leave the house with, the one thing I have a charger for in my car, my house, at work and also always carry my USB sync cable around with me at all time just incase I need to charge from my laptop / computer or even someone else’s computer.

It really is true what Apple say, there really is an app for everything! Twitter, Facebook, Google Wave, Email, reddit and digg plus much more that I use!

I often ask myself what I would do with my time if I didn’t use any of these services or even the internet!

I searched the web to try and find plugins for Front Row to integrate YouTube, BBC iPlayer, 4oD and all of the usual catchup TV channels as an alternative to live streaming, my search was unsuccessful and just found various forums of everyone wanting to do the same.

I then came across Plex for Mac OS X, one word describes this software, PHENOMENAL!

It’s very similar to Front Row, Act’s like Front Row and is better than Front Row! This piece of software does everything you could want from a Media Server plus much more. Here is a few things that it allows me to do:

• Stream AVI files
• Stream MP3 files
• Allows me to Browse my TB HD over Airport Extreme to access my media
• Browse my Photos
• Browse iTunes Media
• Stream Media from BBC iPlayer
• Stream Media from 4oD
• Stream Media from HULU (Although not available in the UK)
• Stream from YouTube
• Stream from Google Videos
• Watch free South Park Videos

It does so much more, tons of streamable media over the internet you can add from the built in App Store. The App store is an amazing place and allows you to browse lots and lots of different streaming channels and allows you to integrate them all within Plex.

Why do you need to turn your Mac into a TV when there are so many Streaming channels available, with TV choice right at your footstep, the only thing that could make this application better for my is if they add the ITV player to the App Store! I will be keeping a close eye on the App Store to see if it is added!

Certainly 12/10 if I could rate this app!

Give it a try and let me know what you think!!

I find the menu options a little confusing but I guess I will figure them out within time, the application is called MacJournal and it does exactly what it says on the tin, it really is a Journal for Mac.

Some of the features I like are:

1) Being able to manage and write to multiple blogs all from within the application
2) Insert images which upload perfectly
3) Full text editor
4) Offline writing / Publish later
5) View all posts ever written within the application and see which have been published

There is also so much more.

MacJournal is a great little app which I have now installed on my macbook for when travelling and also on my iMac in my office. I find it’s a much better way to type up blog posts and also find myself taking my time when writing / over using the web browser to type up posts.

I know I have trouble with spelling and also with writing blog posts, most of them are just sometimes rants (which I will continue to do) after all a blog is a place for thoughts and rants….plus it’s my blog so I will post what ever I like

Check out the MacJournal website for more information!

http://www.marinersoftware.com/sitepage.php?page=85

Have fun and happy blogging!

I had been logging into the back end and choosing to upload files, which I thought was pretty good up until I had say 50 Photos to upload at once, then it seemed like too much hard work.

Gallery Remote is an application that will connect to your Gallery2 installation and makes it quick and easy to upload photos, create albums, delete albums, edit filenames etc overall making it easy to manage your Gallery.  Gallery Remote is avaliable for Mac OSX, Windows and others.

Mac OSX
Windows
Linux
Solaris
Other Unix
Other Java

Since Gallery Remote is a Java application, it requires you to have a Java Virtual Machine version 1.4 or later installed on your system.

WordPress Notifier can be downloaded from here and is only a very small application so wont take ages to download!

When you install the application you can set the settings so that it starts at system startup etc so there will be no need in launching it from the applications menu all the time.

When it is installed you will notice a little wordpress logo in the status bar like the image below.

Firsts impressions were great and it also has some great features, infact everything that I will ever use. I will soon be un-installing Office 2008 that I have installed also, the only thing that iWork doesnt have is the email client where as Office 2008 has entourage which personally I hate!

Over all I would highly recomend iWork 09 and give it a 9/10

There is too many features to list, and cannot guarantee you would like the same ones as me.

The Problem

Grrr who would have thought that this little icon could cause me so much grief. I recently changed my home router, from the BE broadband standard one to my existing sky router that was stuffed in a box, why? Because i can hack this router to f*£k and get lots of great features that i havent been able to get with my old router. With this change I changed my IP range to something completely different, i kept all the settings the same like the WPA codes etc and all the forwarded ports, but with the IP range it messed my SabNZB+ config file up. IT WONT CONNECT ANYMORE! but me being me didnt let it die I plodded on until I fixed it. I tried the obvious remove the app and install again but still wouldnt connect to the webserver. Then came the hard part, where the hell does it store the config file on Mac OS X Leopard??

The Solution Follow these east steps.

• Open Finder
• On the menu bar click on GO
• Scroll down to the option “Go to Folder”
• Now you will have a pop up window asking for a name
• Type the following ~.sabnzbd
• This will take you to where the folder is, the reason we have to search is that it is a hidden folder and wont show up in finder unless searched for.
• Enter the folder and you will see the *.ini file
• Open this in your Text Editor
• Scroll down until you find the IP address before the change, and edit this with your new IP address.
• Save the document
• Run SabNZB+
• Browse to the http://HOSTNAME:8080/sabnzbd
• BINGO! No more issues.

Please note that SabNZBD must not be running while making this change. You will probably get an access denied, or trying to edit a protected file error.

Well seek and you shall find, i have just come across a much better application for burning 360 backups.

OSx360 is a much more user friendly interface with tons more features than iBurn360

This one is deffinitly for me, just testing it out now for first time, will post back when completed

iBurn360 for Macosx is a file burning program for the 360 backups.

Checkout the developers site for more details