First a few things you’ll need;
- Something to stream the audio with. I’ll be using Rogue Amoeba’s Nicecast app (For Mac OS X - $40, free unrestricted trial avaliable), however any program that lets you stream audio in MP3 format will work. (if you know any - share them in the comments)
- Nullriver’s Tuner for iPod/iPhone ($5 from iTunes), as Safari/QuickTime won’t play streaming audio on your iPhone
- A Wireless Network (if you havent got one already). An AdHoc one should work just fine.

Once you’ve got those two, hit the jump for full instructions.

First, install Nicecast on your Mac, and Tuner on your iPhone.
Open up Nicecast, and click the source tab.

If iTunes is not already selected, choose it from the dropdown, underneath the application box.

Next, choose the ‘Info’ tab, and fill out the boxes with whatever you want - Make sure you include *at least* the name.
We can ignore the Titles tab, as Nicecast will grab it from iTunes for us.
For the ‘Quality’ tab, you can play around and tweak it to your liking - I’m going to use the ‘High’ preset, as it’s a fair tradeoff between quality & CPU usage. Also, it’s not much point broadcasting at 192kbps, if all your music is encoded at 128kbps.
You can adjust the CPU Usage slider to whatever works for you - beware that if you set it too low, the stream may stutter/stop/pause etc.
Finally, the ‘Share’ tab.
From here, you just want the ‘Local’ address - write this down, you’ll need to enter it on your iPhone.
Once this is all set up, click ‘Start Broadcast’, in the main Nicecast window.
Open up iTunes, and start playing a song.
Go back to Nicecast, and you should see the ‘Current Track’ info, as well as the Audio Level moving (if not - check your iTunes volume.)

Grab your iPhone/iPod, make sure it’s on the same WiFi network as your Mac, and open up the Tuner app. Change to the ‘Genres’ tab, and tap ‘Open’ in the top left corner.

Here you’ll need to tap in the local address you wrote down earlier. Don’t worry about the ‘Title’ field, as it’ll grab the title you entered in Nicecast earlier. Then, tap ‘Done’.
If all worked correctly, you should see the title of your stream, the song that is currently playing, and the visualizer should be moving.

Notes:
- If you are using a demo version of Nicecast, you will have noise overlayed after broadcasting for twenty minutes. Quit & Relaunch Nicecast for clear music again.
- You can create playlists in iTunes and just have them play through if you dont want to keep selecting the songs in iTunes each song change.
- There is a couple of seconds delay between playing the song in iTunes, and actually listening to it on your iPhone. This cannot be helped, unfortunately.

If you have any questions, ideas, suggestions, etc, just leave a comment below.
Cheers!

NuevaSync is a new website which links Google Calendar and Contacts with their Exchange server, letting you sync your Google items with devices that support Microsoft Exchange.

First up, you’re going to need a Google Account (you’ll need a Gmail account if you wish to sync your contacts too.) if you dont already have one (Google Apps accounts work fine). You can sign up here.

Once that is done, NuevaSync reccommends you verify your account, by filling out a simple CAPTCHA.
For regular Gmail and Calendar accounts go to:
https://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha
For Google Apps accounts go to:
https://www.google.com/a/YOURDOMAIN.com/UnlockCaptcha (substitute ‘YOURDOMAIN’ with well, your domain!)

Read the rest after the jump

So, you’ve got your Gmail account set up, and you’ve verified your account. Now, here’s the fun stuff.
Surf on over to NuevaSync, and create a new account. It only takes a second.

When you’ve verified your account, login to set your settings. We’ll start with Calendar. Click ‘Change’ next to the Calendar option, and choose ‘Google’ (or disabled if you dont want to sync your calendar). Click Change to confirm. On the next page, click the link to configure your account.

On this page, enter in your Google Account details (full email address, eg test@gmail.com) of the account you wish to sync with. All of your calendars will be synced to your device.
Click Save.
Alright, that’s the Calendar all sorted. Now, on to your contacts!

Head back to the status page on NuevaSync, where you’ll hit ‘change’ next to Contacts. Here, you can choose from your Google or your Plaxo contacts. I’m selecting Google for this guide. Again, you’ll need to fill out your Google Account info of the account you wish to use.
Save, and back to the status page; it should look something like this:

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So, we’ve got the online part all worked out. Let’s move on to setting up your iPod/iPhone.
Tap ‘Settings’ from your home screen, followed by ‘Mail, Contacts, Calendars’, then ‘Add Account’.

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Choose ‘Microsoft Exchange’ from the list of services (it’s the top one).

Under Email, put in the one you used for NuevaSync registration.
Your Username is the one you chose when you registered for NuevaSync, and same for the password.
For description, you can put anything (I decided on ‘NuevaSync’).
Tap ‘Next’.
Your device will now verify your account, and may take a couple of minutes.
After it has been verified, you’ll see a new field, “Server”. Enter “www.nuevasync.com” in here. (without the quotes)
When the next page comes up, make sure you turn off ‘Mail’. You can also toggle Contacts or Calendar if you just want to sync one of them.
Tap ‘Save’.

That’s it, it’s done! You can play around with your push/fetch settings in the Settings.app on your device as well.

Read on to Part two to find out how you can add your Mac into the syncing ‘loop’.

Footnotes;
- This will sync all your calendars, (except ones shared over your domain for Google Apps users), however they will all appear as the one calendar on your iPhone (eg. no colour coding).
- All of your existing contacts & calendars will be wiped from your iPhone, so I’d recommend you make a backup before turning on ‘push’

With Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.4 at least), it has support for Google Contacts built into Address Book.
Open up Address Book, and choose ‘Address Book’ > ‘Preferences’ from the menu bar.

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Tick the ‘Synchronize with Google’ checkbox, click on the Google button and fill in your Google Account.

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That’s your contacts taken care of. Synching iCal takes a bit more work.
The easiest way that I found was to use BusySync, and have it sync with Google every minute.

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I couldnt find a free alternative that was as easy, so if you know one, do leave a comment!

So, maybe all of this is not *really* ‘Push’, but neither is MobileMe.

Things you can use it for;
Now your Mac will sync it’s address book with Google Contacts. NuveaSync will then push the changes to your iPhone.
Add an event on your iPhone, which will then push it through NuveaSync to Google Calendar. Your Mac will then pick this up next time you sync it (using BusySync for example).
And lots of other things too.

Hope that at least some of you got something out of this

Hello all - Long time no blog!
Anyway, this afternoon I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the upcoming release of the iPhone in Australia, as well as the version 2 software upgrade for the iPhone & iPod Touch.

To sum up - I just can’t wait for the iPhone to land in Australia.
Think… GPS, Phone, iPod, etc… all in one.

However - I’m a little worried that Telstra won’t be offering it. As of this post, they havent announced any plans to offer it here in Australia, only Optus and Vodafone at this point. And, of course they don’t offer coverage out where I live.
The iPhone would work fine on Telstra’s NextG network - just imagine Mobile Foxtel on the iPhone’s 3.5″ screen… *drool*
So, I might have to see if I can get it unlocked, without a contract. Fingers crossed!

Now, in regards to the v2 update - I think that it might hit earlier than July ;-).
After having a poke around Apple’s site a couple of days back, I noticed an App Store ad down the bottom of the iPod Touch specs page, saying that it’ll hit June 27.

(Click for the whole page).

(oh, and by the way, it’s still up there; iPod Touch specs.

Well, that’s enough rambling from me for today - share your thoughts, etc in the comments.

Cheers,
Beau

Easy - drag ‘‘ to your Address bar (or right click and select ‘Add to Favorites’, ‘Add to Bookmarks’ or whatever it is for your browser).

The rest is easy - head to the video that you want. (I’ll use ‘You’ve Seen it all Before‘ for my example), and click that button (or open it in your favorites if that’s where you saved it). You should see a download link just under the ‘Embed’ code. Check the screenshot after the jump if you havent the faintest idea what I’m on about.

Then, just right click, and head to ‘Save File’ if you’re using IE, or ‘Download Linked File’ if you’re a Safari person.

And well, that’s it

Oh, and also worth noting - these are higher quality files than the ones that you’d watch on YouTube, and they can be copied straight to your iPod with iTunes. No encoding crap needed!

Enjoy! 

YouTube Page with the Download Link (just under the Embed code);

Right Clicking the Download Link in Safari;

Let’s download baby!

Use the following coupons to save when at the checkout; 

• beau5 - $5 off
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Or you can use these to get 15 percent off your order.

• 15gnfptlbn
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Want to get domains for $5 a year? Info after the jump

First head over to here, where you’ll be able to enter in your desired domain, and check that it’s available.

Follow on through, but when it asks for how long you want it, choose 1 Year @ 10.00. Continue on through. When you get to the ‘Package Type’ screen, choose Domain registration only if all you want is the domain, or pick build a package if you wish to get hosting as well.

When you get to the coupon part, enter in one of the $5 off coupons to get your domain for $5.
Wait a day or two for the domain to become active, then you can change the nameservers to your own host here.
 

Video after the jump >>

Comments?

So, you’re sick of being restricted at school or work or something - they won’t let you install things, access the hard drive, and numerous other things. You’ve just had enough, and would very much like to break free.

Or, you’ve forgotten your password, and can’t get log in!
So, what do you do?

You simply utilize the amazing capabilities of the good ol’ command prompt.

To start with, you probably can’t access the command prompt, or even the run box - but it can still be done!

Alright - let’s begin.

Fire up Internet Explorer, and head to any page you want. (Here might be a good start :P)

Head on up to the View menu, click and then click on View Source. You should see a whole stack of writing.
Get rid of all that, and type in the following;

command.com

By now, your screen should look something like this;

Time to save it now! - Go to File > Save, and *make sure* the file type is set to ‘All Files’, and the encoding is ANSI. Name your file;

command.bat

If that’s all correct so far, save it to somewhere you can run it from (I’m saving mine to the desktop - you could use ‘My Documents’ if necessary).

Close down Notepad, and double click your brand new command.bat file.

Didn’t work? Go back and check all the steps. Still having issues? Send me an email.

Now this is where the real fun begins.

To change a password, type in the following;

 net user <username> <password>

(Where <username> is the username you want to change, and <password> is your desired password).
Unsure of your username? Just type

net user

And it will reply with a list of all the current users.

Want to create a user? Just use;

net user <username> <password> /add

 (Where <username> is the user you want to add, and <password> is your desired password).

Or, get rid of one?

net user <username> /delete

If everything works, you should get ‘The command completed successfully’. (which looks a little like this)

Easy - right?