Computer: March 2008 Archives

I discovered Evernote a few days ago, thanks to a post from ViewFromTheDock, and even though I'm not fully convinced yet, they do have a strong point to make. So why not try it out? (And I'm not getting anything out of this... ).

Get your Evernote invitation. Time's running out.: "

(Via Evernote Blog.)

We don't live in a huge flat, far from it. But we have two computers: the main family computer, an iMac G5 in the big corridor, and my laptop, often in the living room.

For a while, we would listen to music on the iMac, and when Hermine is sleeping, the music would play on the laptop through iTunes sharing. But there was one main drawback to this approach: if we're moving a lot, there is no way to listen to the same music synchronized on both computers.

A couple weeks ago, I decided to try to remedy to this. I quickly discovered Airfoil and Airfoil speakers: Airfoil runs on the iMac, sending its music to the local speaker or to the laptop, and sometimes, like right now, only to the laptop. To control iTunes remotely, I'm using iTRC which is ugly but works great (I tried TuneConnect but it kept crashing or not refreshing). What prompted this post was an enthusiastic comment by Christelle, earlier today, when we were listening to synchronized music loudly on both computers. Moving from room to room and having the music follow you is just great! And both Airfoil and Airfoil speakers have a Windows version. Two thumbs up!

One final note: I could not make Airfoil connect to Airfoil speakers initially, and even though I had not yet bought the product, the support at Rogue Amoeba was amazing: they answered very rapidly (on a Sunday) and we finally found out what was wrong (one computer had IPv6 turned off).