Posted on April 24, 2010 at 10:24 am - by Corey DeGrandchamp
I’m working on using a series of hacks and patches and modified javascript to get Pandora Radio running in a desktop application windows rather than your standard web browser.
Right now I’m accomplishing this locally on my PC using a combination of the methods above, with Mozilla Firefox and Prism. I’m working out a way to package it up, but I did want to provide a screenshot of the “coming soon” version.
Just a quick note, I needed to accomplish blocking the ads on Pandora, and allowing popups, there’s a few “oddities” in the version to be released soon, but I’ll try to get them worked out before I package them up.
Here’s the screenshot though!
Posted on April 22, 2010 at 9:27 am - by Corey DeGrandchamp
At some point in the recent past, the LogMeIn installer for Mac OS X just got jacked. It now returns a message saying there was an error requesting the license… and sometimes getting a status message of
- com.logmein.SetLMIAccount,7
- com.logmein.SetLMIAccount,5
This is a huge issue because you simply cannot install LogMeIn with this issue. There is however a workaround available, which requires installing the .pkg for LogMeIn from the terminal.
To start, open up your Terminal.app and enter the following command.
sudo installer -pkg “~/Downloads/LogMeIn Installer.pkg” -target /
Please note that “~” in a UNIX-like OS means the users home directory. If your installer .pkg is not in your user’s Downloads folder, please change the command as required.
Also note that the above command will ask for your password.
And a final note, you may still get an error similar to the following.
Install Failed
The following install step failed: run preflight script for LogMeIn. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.
THIS IS OKAY! – As long as you see the LogMeIn logo in your menu bar, then we’re off to a great start. You’ll next need to open that up, by right clicking and choosing “Open LogMeIn” and then you’ll need to just tie it to your LogMeIn account and you should be good to go from there!
Posted on April 22, 2010 at 9:08 am - by Corey DeGrandchamp
If you’re like me, you run a MacMini as an HTCP running Boxee, and your main media all resides on a Windows 7 machine.
This never used to be an issue at all, until shortly after Windows 7 launched, microsoft pushed a botched update to users, but we’ll get to that in a moment.
At some point, trying to get Boxee to connect to a Windows 7 network share promted for a username and password, no problem, right? Wrong, because it never worked, even if you entered your proper credentials in. For the longest time I had thought this was a Boxee issue, but boy was I wrong.
It turns out Microsoft pushed an update to “Windows Live Sign-In Assistant” that just BORKED some sources from connecting w/ the proper credentials. The easiest way around this issue is to just uninstall the “Windows Live Sign-In Assistant” That’s right, it’s that simple, just uninstall, and reboot both your HTPC w/ Boxee, and Windows 7 for good measure (Windows 7 reboot is required after the uninstall).
The next time you launch Boxee, go to the network settings and feed it your proper Samba credentials (Windows 7 box’s username and password that has access to the shared) and go from there, from then on out, it shouldn’t even be prompting you for a pass.
