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Solution: Apple TV does not display YouTube favorites

admin — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:44:23 +0000

When I tried to set up my YouTube account on my new Apple TV and wanted to open my favorites, everything I got was:

No content was found. There is a problem communicating with YouTube. Try again later.

Bummer! It didn’t seem to be a connection or software issue as everything else (including watching YouTube videos) worked. So here is how to fix that.

Go to youtube.com, click your user name and then ‘Account’. Then select ‘Activity Sharing’. (or be lazy and go directly to that page)
Check both the ‘Subscribe to a channel’ box and the ‘Favorite a video’ box.
Save your changes.
Sorry, that’s it.

Yes…

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:54:55 +0000

Yes, I am alive. I’ve been a bit busy recently so there haven’t been any updates since November 2009 but I hope to get a new version finished within the next two weeks.

Finally managed to upgrade my WordPress installation from 2.8 to 2.9.2, at least.

(MacBook Air) Remote OS X Installation

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:12:39 +0000

Just a quick note: Don’t even think (really, no kidding!) about doing the remote installation via W-LAN (at least with if you can’t use 802.11n). Even with Gigabit Ethernet it takes ages:

(Doesn’t look too bad, huh. But: the estimated time remaining is steadily counting up, not down.)

Seafoid + Snow Leopard = Seafoid 3.0

admin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:36:23 +0000

Yes, I am alive. It’s more than a week now that Snow Leopard came out and there is still no new version that works with the new Mac OS X. The reason is simple. Instead of using the time to fix the old Seafoid I’ve started to completely rewrite the app from scratch to make it more extendible for future development. It will also come up with some cool new features. Just to name a few:

Calculating circuits with the legendary NE555 (currently as an astable and monostable multivibrator)
Revamped heat sink calculation. Additionally to the old way (calculating the resulting chip temperature for a heat sink), Seafoid has a new option called “Calculate Appropriate Heat Sink” where you specify the maximum chip temperature and the app will tell you what thermal resistance the heat sink must have.
Seafoid 3.0 combines the clean look of Seafoid 1.x and the function of Seafoid 2.0, plus lots of improvements and new features.
Seafoid is now localizable! The beta release will come with English, German and Greek translations.
Lots of minor improvements like better input information and exception handling.

A beta version will be available soon is available. Stay tuned!

Updated on September 14, 2009.

Hanging Apple Software Update

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:47:18 +0000

There’s a thing that I experienced on two different Macs (Late ’06 MacBook and Late ’08 MacBook Air, both 10.5.7) at the same time: Software Update caused the whole system to hang after I had chosen to install the updates. No app would launch anymore, even a shutdown wasn’t possible.

Deleting /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist did the trick and everything’s fine again.

Up Next: Control USB Power Outlets

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:22:27 +0000

I was a bit lazy recently when it came to coding apps. But there is something to come: a graphical user interface for sispmctl. This allows you to control USB-controlled power outlets. That’s how far I’ve come:

The final version is going to feature triggered switching (for example: turn on external HD when Final Cut is launched) and scheduled switching. Beta soon.

How Internet Explorer Handles Lists (ul and ol)

admin — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:47:06 +0000

Microsoft Internet Explorer (at least versions prior to 7) seems to have some annoying bugs concerning lists in HTML.

Problem: Margin between list items (“li”). If you set the margin of a list item to 0px in CSS, IE will still show a gap between the list items.
Fix: Set a width for the list item (“li”) and the list itself (“ul”, “ol”). 100% will do the trick in most cases.
The margin issue is fixed by this but it leads us to the next problem:
Problem: When you set a width for a list item in an ordered, that is, numbered list (“ol”), Internet Explorer won’t count properly anymore.
Fix: I don’t know any.

WordPress: Display Recent Posts Anywhere

admin — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:50:03 +0000

I wanted to display the titles of recent blog entries on my start page.
Here’s the solution I came up with:

'5' specifies the number of posts to be displayed.
Just a little CSS styling for the list (#recent_entries li {...}) and that’s it.

Make Container div Grow With Floating divs

admin — Sun, 10 May 2009 14:52:22 +0000

A thing I just discovered when doing the new design for seafoid.org:
If you have a div that acts as a container for floating divs, it won’t grow with them.

The trick is the following: insert this piece of code to the CSS of the container.

overflow: auto; width: 100%

The width attribute is necessary for Internet Explorer versions prior to 7.

Hope that helps.