Category: Announcements

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SlingPlayer for Mac OS X Public Beta2 1.0.1.144 is Available

SlingMedia has released SlingPlayer for Mac OS X Public Beta2 1.0.1.144

With the new version of the Player, SlingMedia also releases new firmware upgrade for the SlingBox.

Unfortunately, SlingBox Setup Assistant is forcing firmware upgrade and saying that the version of the SlingPlayer has expired. No firmware upgrade can be done. As of this moment, the SlingPlayer for Mac OS X can not connect to the SlingBox.

http://us.slingmedia.com/object/KB-005161.html

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Review: Slingbox Pro (The Prelude)

I’ve been wanting to try out Slingbox since it was first out. Pricing and the lack of Mac support were the main reasons why I never actually bought it. Fortunately, an acquaintance purchased Slingbox Pro a few days ago. I was asked to set it up and I didn’t waste any seconds to do so.

To summarize the whole experience, it’s great.

I’ll post the details later on.

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Troubleshooting Mac OS X Display Resolutions

iMac G5 1.83 GHz
20 inch display
GeForce FX 5200 64MB VRAM

Mac OS X 10.4.8 with all the lates updates as of 12.26.2006

For some reasons the Displays System Preferences only allowed two different resolutions: 640×480 and 1680×1050.

None of the following steps able to fix the problems:

  • Deleting display preferences (com.apple.preference.displays.0011247aabd0.plist etc)
  • Replace Display.prefPane (/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Displays.prefPane)
  • Resetting NVRAM
  • Zapping PRAM
  • Use AppleJack to repair permissions, etc.

The solutions is much simpler than the steps above. Install Mac OS X 10.4.8 Combo Updater again.