2012 iPod Shuffle Giveaway International! (CLOSED)

Happy New Year 2012!! I hope you all had a great time with the countdown and all. 2011 has been a great year for JTechTalk: – Reached 1K Subs – YouTube Partnership – 300000 video views To kick off 2012, I have a giveaway for you all! Prize: – iPod Shuffle 4th Gen – $15 iTunes Gift Card if I reach 1500 before the giveaway ends Rules: – Subscribe to JTechTalk – Like this video – Comment on this video once. Only comments will be counted as entries. The Giveaway is international and open to everyone. Winner: Generated using IGM Giveaway Machine and Random.org. Winner will receive 49 USD via paypal so they can instantly choose a colour and engraving for their own iPod Shuffle. This is also done to avoid any customs problems.

Want To Be The Robot Well You Can With BERO

We love cool robots and the BERO is a cool looking robot that started off as a wired version, but soon the designers realised that Bluetooth is cool and so now the BERO is a little robot four inch high robot, that is controlled via Bluetooth! You know that you want one, don't you?

These are the main details for the Be The Robot (BERO) Bluetooth Controlled Open Source Robot;

The initial design inspiration for BERO came from the Google Bug Droid, especially after seeing a bunch of them twitching around using servos and long wires at Maker Faire.

Wanting to improve upon things, we thought that it would be great to make a 6-motor animated robotic toy based on the Google Bug Droid. We initially thought that the Google Bug Droid design was Open Source

This project is currently going through Kickstarter, there are thirty days to go and they are about at third of the way to their target.

Source [Ubergizmo]

How to install Owncloud on a Mac mini server

“One benefit of hosting a Mac mini server is you can use it many different ways,” Brian Stucki blogs for Macminicolo. “Owncloud is a great service to add to the multi-purpose list.”

“Owncloud is like running your own Dropbox service on your own machine. Don't get me wrong, I love Dropbox. But if you want your data on a server that you own, this is a good way to do it. Also, storage space is limited only by the space on the server,” Stucki reports. “We've been seeing a lot of companies pondering whether they should put their data on a server they don't own or how to get plenty of data space for their full company. And for personal use, Owncloud will do the Dropbox-like data sync with revisions, but you can also do things like stream your music, share photo galleries, and all kinds of other features. There are apps for different OS versions as well (including mobile.) If you want to demo an install of Owncloud on a server, you can do that here.”

Stucki writes, “Ok, so Owncloud is awesome. How do you install it? Glad you asked. We worked with Macminicolo customer Kolby Allen, to put together a tutorial.”

Full illustrated instructions here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Macminicolo" for the heads up.]

What Was The Final Descent To Mars Like For Curiosity

Like anything else, it's hard to assume precisely what any experience is much like unless of course you've really been through it yourself. However, landing on Mars is one thing that the majority of us will never experience which is the reason why this Space Flight 101 video is really essential for us to determine how Curiosity managed to get to Mars successfully.

Fundamental essentials particulars that Space Flight 101 supplied with the recording

This video shows the ultimate descent of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Descent Vehicle from Warmth Shield Jettison through Touchdown as taken through the Mars Descent Imager which was supplied by Malin Space Science Systems. Raw, natural images were utilised with this video. Spacecraft UTC: Start: 5:15:21 – Finish: 5:18:11 — 666 Frames. The video is playing at 4 fps, actual average rate from the MARDI Images is all about 3.88 fps.

Source [Buzz Feed]

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where can i buy a domo ipod touch case?

i've an ipod touch 4g. i wish to purchase a case for this. one that's domo designed and is among the hard ones not the flexible ones. will they exist if that's the case how can i acquire one?

Dev pulls MplayerX from Mac App Store over sandboxing; Latest of many Mac developers to abandon Apple app distribution

“Popular video playback application MplayerX is no longer being updated on the Mac App Store,” Electronista reports. “Citing Apple’s sandboxing rules, the developer is claiming that the step is coming only after ‘arguing with Apple over three months’ trying to make the newest version of the application function under the new Apple guidelines.”

“MplayerX features affected by the sandboxing rules include the automatic loading of subtitles for videos and the ability to play the next episode of a TV show in a folder,” Electronista reports. “Many applications will never be able to be sold on the Mac App Store due to close integration with the kernel of the OS violating the sandboxing requirement, such as most of the Rogue Amoeba line of audio enhancements, with the exception of audio-capture tool Piezo.”

Electronista reports, “The MplayerX developer isn’t alone in abandoning the Mac App Store. Codebase version control app SourceTree’s developers announced that after March 1 that they would not be updating the application because of Apple’s addition of the sandboxing requirement... Apple has implemented a more extensive system-wide security feature in conjunction with sandboxing, called Gatekeeper in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. By default, Gatekeeper only allows applications downloaded from the Mac App Store, and apps that are digitally signed with an Apple Developer ID... At this time, and for the foreseeable future, despite no credible, persistent malware threat to OS X, all new applications and updates on the Mac App Store are expected to comply with the sandboxing requirement.

Read more in the full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: This is a problem because, over time, the number of Mac users who know to go outside the Mac App Store for apps will dwindle to the point of not being able to support developers whose apps offer to do things the Mac App Store does not allow. It’s a conundrum for which we see no easy fix.