Aggregator, the guys I work for most of the time have finally done their big PR splash, with funding etc. They are doing some really nice stuff along the broadband distribution of TV content, but it’s a big job sourcing, licensing, acquiring masters, digitising, DRMing, metadating, selling it and finally delivering. An entirely different proposition to my startup TIOTI : Tape it off the internet as we are super meta, sitting atop all these rapidly appearing different delivery sites. The more the merrier, and the better for us. We are format and technology agnostic, with no view on the legality of what you do to get your media, but obviously cannot condone… blah blah. Either way, TIOTI will probably beat Aggregator to market – couple of weeks for the managed beta 1 – yay!
July, 2006
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Jul 06
MX 2004 Upgrade or Migration Problems & Fix
Just a note to myself and anyone else that gets stuck upgrading OSX, or migrates to a new mac and suddenly finds Director MX 2004 and Flash MX 2004 now failing to start up correctly, characterised by a bouncing icon but never getting to splash screen, requiring a force quit.
This worked for me: run the macromedia hotfix for this issue, repair permissions using disk utility, run hotfix again, open the apps – the 30 day trial will be reset, and you can enter serial numbers at your leisure. I believe the real issue is the hidden files Macromedia used to protect the software and manage the 30 day trial got messed up – the hotfix deletes a Macrovision directory and files related to this, so deleting that manually may have a similar effect.
That little pain in the arse took the shine off an otherwise seamless migration to a new MacBook Pro replacing a tired, battered and well used 1Ghz TiBook. Old laptop will go to a deserving retirement home, the new one is very shiny and very quick – easily the speed of my 2×2Ghz G5 tower. Nice.