This guy has successfully engineered a GPS Module to interface with the iPhone and iPod Touch, bringing true GPS to the devices made by Apple, Inc. This should be an exciting project for anyone wanting to use their iPhone as a GPS device. Imagine the ability to cache Google Map’s directions and follow the route in real time. This functionality would fit in nicely with a car holder for the iPhone. The current GPS feature Apple released in January 2008 actually triangulates the positional data based on the relative position between the device and cell phone towers. GPS triangulates position using satellites in orbit, and is thus more accurate (around 3-6 meters). Seems like the project has moved into the final design phases, so a GPS solution for the iPhone should be on the market by next year hopefully!
Miglia has had the same message posted on their site for months, ever since OS X Leopard was released:
“AlchemyTV and AlchemyTV DVR are not compatible with Mac OS X 10.5. We are currently working on an update that will be released as soon as it is ready for prime-time. As AlchemyTV DVR started its life in the 10.2 days (and works fine up to 10.4.11), the architecture needs profound modifications to enable 10.5 compatibility. The update is taking longer than we would really like, but rest asssured that we are working on it.”
I have rest assured for eight months now, still unable to use the card with OS X Leopard on my PowerMac G5. Whenever I try to run the software, a kernel panic happens and the little grey screen appears telling me to restart.
There is a workaround for anyone with this problem though. That is, to have a working copy of Tiger on a separate volume, so the card has an OS that will run it. Then, you could boot into Tiger whenever you want to use the card. I have this setup and it is rather cumbersome. First off, Leopard’s Spotlight constantly wants to index the other volume, so I had to exclude it from the search. And the fact that I have to boot into another OS is really inconvenient. If I wanted to do that, I would have installed Windows.
Why wasn’t Miglia testing out their card while Leopard was still under development? Miglia, please update the software for the Alchemy DVR to work with OS X Leopard!
