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Cute and sexy as hell...

Date: 23/8/2005

So yeah I'm really enjoying my new Mac mini, so far it's everything I wanted it to be. And I only went an itty bitty over budget ;)

So far I've updated to 10.3.9 and installed XCode and the X11 SDK. I intend to port Lgi using to OS X / X11 first and then try for a cocoa port sometime in the future. However if getting X11 support work proves to be too tiresome then I'll ditch that and go straight to cocoa. I've given myself 2 weeks to work that out.

After working out that I have to power cycle the cable modem when I plug it into the Mac I have most things working nicely. I'm not sure how to get my logitech keyboard's home and end keys to do their thing. Maybe it's a keyboard mapping issue... or it's just different on a Mac.

Another thing that I'd like to use the mini for is outputting to the TV. Now I know some companies make USB2 video out thingos but I havn't found any that explicitly support Mac/OS X so I've held off buying. (EyeTV? um... isn't that kinda expensive?). So I had this brilliant idea right! I already have a Sony DV cam capable of converting DV/Firewire to composite video. I wonder whether I can plug that into the firewire port on the mini and output that to the TV... as a kinda stop gap measure till I get a real TV out. Can you get Quicktime to output to a DV video device?

I also assume that somewhere there is a xvid codec for the Mac? I havn't even had time to look but a lot of my content is in xvid.

Comments:

fret
23/08/2005 4:49am

Ahhhh yes... looky here!

Just what I need... although maintaining the main display and having separate TV out would be better.

Ed
25/08/2005 8:42am

To get to the top/bottom of a document, use apple-pgup/apple-pgdn
To go up/down by one screenful, use alt-pgup/alt-pgdn

There should be a list of keyboard shortcuts in the apple help

fret
25/08/2005 8:46am

What I want is the end and home keys to behave like Linux/Windows. And I have acheived that in XCode by mapping the keys but the rest of the OS is not working how I want it to yet.

And I don't have an "apple" button... it's probably the windows button or something.

Bardo
25/08/2005 9:14am

The Windows-button behaves like the Apple-button most of the time. And it annoys me too that the home and end keys are doing nothing. It's strange I think, because an Apple-keyboard does have a home and end key too.

fret
25/08/2005 9:20am

Ok so for my first magic trick on os x... i.HomeEnd!

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