" Elgato EyeTV Specials at OWC
We are really pleased to have to opportunity to work with ElGato to offer some really great deals on their award winning products. In addition to our normally competitive prices on their line up of Mac TV-DVR-A/V Products, we've got some super hot deals on like new, ElGato Factory Refurbished units. These come complete with all original accessories and a 180 Day Warranty.

Elgato EyeTV EZ - USB 2.0 TV Receiver: Watch TV right on your Mac, and import-capture A/V too! Great way to bring in video from your VCR, etc into your Mac's digital Realm too - now $59.99

Elgato EyeTV 250 USB 2.0 - Full Featured TV Receiver/Digital Video Recorder with hardware encoder - now $119.00
(Other ElGato products also also listed there)
UPS Ground from $4.50 or less, 2nd day air for $7.95 or less. "

FYI - There's a page here with Encoding Speed Tests w/Elgato Turbo.264 Hardware Encoder - tested with iBook G4, Quad G5, Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro, iMac Core Duo 1.83GHz.

" Mike, AMUG has posted a review of the CFI Terabox+ Compact SATA PM Enclosure model CFI-B4043PM-SS. This 4-bay SATA PM enclosure sells for less than $200, looks good with the Apple Mac Pro, provides hard drive activity lights and includes an easy to mount SATA backplane design. Performance, acoustics and cooling capabilities are all discussed in the article.
Have a great weekend, TEAM AMUG "

" Subject: iPhone Hack for T-Mobile
Have you already seen this? http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com
-Gregg H. ."

The linked page notes the first unlocked iPhone is now for sale on ebay. Down the page is info on how it was done. (CNN has a related story titled Teen untethers iPhone from AT&T)
William R. later sent a link to another story on the above hardware unlock and another reportedly software-based unlock.

"Ref: 802.11n Express/34 cards
Mike, I've tracked down three models of this card: two are the RAlink chipset models, one is the Atheros. (Note: the Apple 802.11n capable Macbook/Macbook pros use Atheros AR5008 based Mini-PCIe cards, which have been swapped into earlier model Macbook/Pros, Minis, etc. by a LOT of readers since Feb.-Mike) According to the FCC F5D8071 is Atheros based, while F5D8071C and F5D8073 are RAlink cards. Notable, the F5D8073 card is marketed as N (sticker on the card, the box, etc), not N1.
As for the Atheros chipset models, they /do/ work in MacBook Pro models, if you have the right drivers (un)installed. I found that they worked fine in 802.11a/b/g mode with the standard airport drivers in 10.4.10 on a MacBook Pro CoreDuo, but froze the SantaRosa based Core2Duo. The SantaRosa MBP would hang when the card was inserted, but in some cases would enventually load and work. With some help, I tracked the issue to the IO80211Family.kext file, which on the CoreDuo machines lacked the AirPortEnabler.kext file that turns on the N functionality. Removing the enabler and the extensions caches enabled the card to work, with just a few hot-swap usability issues, but without the N support.

You can alternately force the N enabler to load at startup (either by using an rc.local script that calls kextload or manually editing the info.plists to add the OSBundleRequired Root string) and bypass the hang on load, and gain full a/b/g/n functionality. For some reason, the hang is only present when the kext loads dynamically.

The RAlink drivers (which are for PCI, PCMCIA or USB models) may work with the other cards, but you lose the ability to do 802.1x based authentication, or use the built-in airport configuration tools. If that isn't an issue, the card labeled with just the N would be the easy one to spot. Personally, I'd like to try D-Link's DWA-643 card in the future. The FCC page shows it has an Atheros chipset, and only a single revision. Hope all this helps. I had to chase some of the info down, and thought it might be useful. BTW, thanks for the site. I've been a reader for years.
-DH"

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