My corner

 I just received my new Airport Express and I must say I’m very satisfied. I already have a wireless network so it works as a client on the network. It is really easy to install and after a few minutes I had Trentemøller blasting my speakers,  streaming wireless from my MBP. I quickly discovered a need for using the AirTunes with other programs than iTunes. Airfoil ("Air" is the new buzzword) did the job. A small program which allow every other program to use AirTunes. I wanted to stream music from the net, so I opened the dropdown in Airfoil and selected "other programs". Now I just chose Safari and it worked like a charm.

A disadvantage with the Airport Express is the lack of support for external hard disks. The USB plug is only for printers. I guess I just have to save money for a Time Capsule.

 Now it is possible to catch me on gTalk. Go to the page "chat" and if I’m online you can contact me.

 I have a 320 GB external hard drive where I store all my music and my pictures on. For my birthday I got a new external hard drive which takes power from the USB cable, meaning it’s more portable. I decided to copy all my music and pictures to the new small portable hard drive and then use the other for Time Machine. I have been looking forward to try Time Machine, so I was really excited. 

I plugged both of the external hard drives in my mac and started copying from the 320 GB to the one with 160 GB. After around copying 10 GB of my music I get an error saying "There is something wrong with this file. Can’t copy". I closed the alert box, but I could not close the window with the progress bar. It showed a progress bar but it was stuck with this one file. After some time I restarted the finder (you can’t close or stop the finder). When the finder returned, the large hard drive made a click sound and everything on the disk was gone…..

Now both my mac and my PC will not have anything to do with the hard drive. I have tried repair it, erase everything and partition the disk with disk utility in mac, but I keep getting a I/O disk error.

Can I return the hard drive to were I bought it?

I think I will partition the small hard drive into 2 volumes and use one volume for Time Machine and the other for music/picture storage.

 I must say I was a bit concerned about how many hours it would take to install the GD library. Thanks to http://www.veola.net/macintosh/adding-gd-library-for-mac-os-x-leopard it only took a few minutes

I did exactly what was said in the tutorial and it just worked. Because I’m on a Macbook Pro (Core 2 duo) I used the tutorial for a 64-bit user. 

Thanks again to Hill Pei.

After having spent a few hours trying to get an image uploading script to work in php on my mac, I found out that the GD Library is not pre-installed with PHP. Why is that? I thought that the GD lib was a standard module and I know it is installed in the XAMPP package for windows. I have not installed the lib yet, but I found this page which explains a how-to, but by looking at the comments it seems that it is not as simple as it should be. People are really having dififculties getting it to work. I will try to install it when I have some more time and post my result here.

I’m now official member of the upatune crew. Upatune.com is a community site where musicians can license their music and earn money when people download or stream their music. Upatune.com will be launched in the near future. Check out more info and subscribe to the newsletter on upatune.com

Thanks to K2, I have now found a theme that I will stick to. It is really easy to work with and comes with different features. Read about it here

 I was pretty confused about the <base /> tag in HTML. If your base tag look like this:

<base href="http://somedomain.com" />

and your link looks like this:

<a href="page1.html">page1</a>

your link would point to http://somedomain.com/page1.html

If your base tag looked like:

 <base href="http://somedomain.com/folder" /> *whithout a trailing slash*

your link would still point to http://somedomain.com/page1.html

If you add the slash -> <base href="http://somedomain.com/folder/" />

your link would now point to http://somedomain.com/folder/page1.html

Now, as I can see it. If you add a "/" in front of your link 

<a href="/page1.html">page1</a>

and your base still looks like

<base href="http://somedomain.com/folder/" />

The link would point to http://somedomain.com/page1.html ignoring the /folder/

 This page http://www.drostdesigns.com/base-href-tag/ tells people always to add a "/" in front of all the link, but then you are not able to put subdirectories in your base tag.

This page http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/HTML3.2/5.7.html makes an example without the "/" in the link.

It makes more sense to me, not to add the "/" in front of all the links, making it easy to change the base href to whatever you want, but maybe I have missed something.