TiVo’s Home Media Option, previously a $99 upgrade, is now free for all TiVo Series 2 owners. Once you have connected your TiVo to your network, you’ll have access to web-based scheduling, multi-room viewing, music streaming, and photo browsing. A downloadable PDF guide describes these features in greater detail.

While being able to remotely schedule programs via TiVo Central Online is a great feature, most Mac folks will be more interested in serving up their iTunes music and iPhoto pictures into their living room via the easy-to-use TiVo interface and remote. So hurry up and order TiVo’s recommended USB networking adapters — the wired Linksys USB100TX or the wireless Linksys WUSB11 — and then start streaming music and browsing photos from your Mac-based media server via the TiVo Desktop software.

Posted at 3:38 PM PDT with these tags: music

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Ernest Rothman has an excellent tutorial on managing Unix software packages via DarwinPorts. DarwinPorts often complements Fink in that one sometimes offers ports that the other does not, and it seems they can be made to co-exist peacefully.

Posted at 3:08 PM PDT with these tags: mac, cli

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While most people will be better off storing extra mail locally in archived mail folders, some people need to be able to access all of their mail from multiple locations all the time. For such folk, creating a local IMAP server would enable archiving of mail from the ISP’s IMAP server to a local IMAP server where one would (presumably) have much more disk space available for mail storage.

Posted at 2:50 PM PDT with these tags: email

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For those who may have missed it, Kevin O’Malley has put together a great guide to BBEdit and Unix for MacDevCenter. Part I is an introduction to BBEdit’s Unix support features, while Part II drills down into filters, scripts, and Emacs key bindings.

Posted at 2:38 PM PDT with these tags: mac, tools, cli

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As expected, Apple has announced an updated line of Power Mac G5 workstations. While the $2,999 model with two liquid-cooled 2.5 GHz processors grabs most of the headlines, the most significant portion of the announcement is the return to dual-processor workstations across the board. The dual 1.8 GHz “low-end” Power Mac, for example, is plenty fast and can be had for $1,999.

Posted at 2:26 PM PDT with these tags: mac, hardware

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.com Solutions Inc. has updated its FileMaker 7 AppleScript Reference, offering both FileMaker 7 and PDF versions for free download. The guide provides a side-by-side quick reference for commonly used FileMaker 6 and FileMaker 7 AppleScript code examples. Each code example is stored within a FileMaker 7 database field for easy copying to the Mac OS X Script Editor.

Posted at 2:16 PM PDT with these tags: mac, database, scripting

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Tabasoft has released BBiferno, a plug-in for the popular BBEdit text editor that facilitates the process of editing Biferno source code files. Biferno is a cross-platform scripting language much like PHP.

Posted at 5:06 PM PDT with these tags: mac, web

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Bryan Derman has published an article on setting up a virtual private network (VPN) connection between a Mac running OS X 10.3.x Panther (client) and the Linksys BEFSX41 router. This solution uses the freeware tool IPSecuritas to accomplish its magic.

Posted at 4:51 PM PDT with these tags: mac, network, tools

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Apple has released a fix for recently reported security vulnerabilities in Mac OS X. The description and download links for Security Update 2004-06-07 follow below.

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Posted at 4:36 PM PDT with these tags: mac, security

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Webmin, a web-based interface to hundreds of server functions, has been updated to version 1.150. Among the enhancements is support for the BSD firewall module to configure IPFW on FreeBSD and Mac OS X systems. The changelog lists other improvements in recent versions.

Posted at 4:20 PM PDT with these tags: mac, network, tools

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