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Finally! I got my Mac to work with Twonky and my Playstation 3. After having heaps of access denied and other problems.

First of all I updated the firmware to 1.90 on the PS3. The firewall on the Mac needs to be off or you need to configure open ports (if you want to do that, go ahead and Google it up). You need to turn on Sharing in iTunes and you need to enable personal file sharing for the Mac.

Also, in order for things to work smoothly I used the Airport Utility and configured my Aiport Extreme base station to always assign a certain IP to my Macbook Pro and to the PS3 (under the “Internet” icon and on the “DHCP” tab, given of course that you are using this). That somehow made a lot of the errors, disconnects and what not disappear.

Now that I know that Twonky works fine with the PS3 I have ordered myself a Qnap TS-201.

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Checkers, the game, is now pwned by computers

The MacBook Pro power adapter now is the size of a MacBook adapter (that is 60w compared to the 80w)

The best Castelvania is now available on the PSN store (the US version)

Awesome game for the PS3 which I’m currently longing to get back to

And now..something else:

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Mississippi Mud

Originally uploaded by larsbacklund

Testing some more Flickr. Also tried Aperture today, pretty nice.

En ljum kväll i hagen

Originally uploaded by larsbacklund

Testar att posta en liten blomma

Went to see Transformers yesterday, man what a ride. Awesome movie, the SFX alone are worth the ticket. All in all I thught it was great, I didn’t even think about the “differences” introduced in the movie in contrast to the olden goldies. Like Optimus actually having lips, Megatron not being a flying Gun (always thought that looked like blah anyway).

Also, phew. After a while now I’ve started to find new good apps for the mac.

I looked long and hard for a good utility to convert videos on the Mac and after fumbling around with ffmpegx and the likes of it I just today found VisualHub (I’m too lazy to hyperlink this so Google ahead), it is an awesome little application that does exactly what it is supposed to do, no fuss, no nothing. Perfect for converting to my PSP and my PS3 (also of course works well with all the Apple stuff, Iphone, Ipod, Apple TV).
The app costs 200 SEK and I bought it.

Another favorite app is FlickrExport and KeywordAssistant, two apps I could not do without for getting my photos to my Flickr account in an easy manner. KeywordAssistant is free but FlickrExport costs like 160 SEK, I bought it.

I’m using Fetch right now for my FTP needs, but will look into other options later. John mentioned some app I will try out. For BitTorrent I am currently using Transmission, which does the job but it ain’t uTorrent, but that will soon be out for Mac.

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