Songs for Our Temple (Week 45: Ps. 126-128)
This was my week on “Songs for Our Temple” and for it, we turn to Psalms 126-128 to think about thankfulness and blessings from our God.
Das Keyboard MacTigr
Metadot Exquisitely Crafts a Mac-focused Keyboard
I’ve been reviewing keyboards once again on OFB, this week a new Mac-focused keyboard from one of my favorite keyboard makers, Metadot:
At the height of the rage around the first consumer marketed Hummer, later rechristened the H1, I remember getting the chance to climb into one at the nation’s leading dealer of that incredibly robust SUV. The vehicle was capable of tackling terrain no car I’ve ever owned could, but also was incredibly basic on certain creature comforts. This is a professional tool. That analogy aptly fits the Das Keyboard MacTigr, the curiously spelled, newly released keyboard from Metadot.
Really Spooky Stuff (October 31, 2022)
Songs for Our Temple (Week 44: Ps. 123-125)
Jason takes us through Psalms 123-125 as we continue our one year journey through these songs praising God and applying His truth to our lives.
NDI Support for Apple Silicon in OBS 28. Finally.
So, it has been about two years since Apple introduced the M1 processor, which remains a truly impressive feat of engineering — I love how well things can run on even a low-end M1 computer. Since then, the M1 Pro/Max/Ultra and M2 have come out, but OBS — the standard bearer for live-streaming software — only finally added native Apple Silicon support in late August. That delay wasn’t a huge problem since Apple Rosetta runs Intel native apps incredibly well in translation. OBS is an intensive application, but runs at least as well on an M1 Mac through Rosetta as it does on a high-end Intel Mac.
The late but finally here native release should prove even better, but for one problem when using it in a setting like I do (and like many church users do) where you want to bring in graphics and video conveyed using NewTek’s NDI protocol. About two months after OBS finally went Apple Silicon native, obs-ndi is still not ready for the new version. Thankfully, DDRBoxman has done the work to make the old version of that plugin work on OBS 28 on all the major platforms.
Two caveats to getting it up and running; the installer installed the plugin to /library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins/obs-ndi.plugin, but OBS does not seem to find it there. I moved it to ~/Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins to resolve that.
Also, you need an Apple Silicon native copy of the NDI Runtime, which is not included. A forum post on the obs-ndi GitHub tracker clued me in. I downloaded the latest, Apple Silicon native version of NDI Tools for free and the found the NDI Video Monitor app in the Applications folder. I right clicked it, clicked “Show Package Contents,” and then went into the Contents/Frameworks folder. The library located there needed to be copied to /usr/local/lib/ and renamed to libndi.4.dylib in order for the plugin to detect it.
Messy, but worth it: I now have native OBS with NDI support running on Apple Silicon.
Much Assembly Required (October 24, 2022)
What happens when our sense of plans and purpose don’t seem to be where God is headed?
Songs for Our Temple (Week 43: Ps. 120-122)
Jim takes us through Psalms 120-122 as we continue our one year journey through these songs praising God and applying His truth to our lives.
Buying an iPad in Fall 2022
The Choices are Great -- and Clearer than Before
I know a lot of people get confused about which iPad they need to buy for what they want to do. This guide is my stab at helping to sort out the options and what might be right for you.
More Than Junkyard Finds (October 17, 2022)
God saves His people and prepares them for something big for His Kingdom.
Songs for Our Temple (Week 42: Ps. 119, Part 3)
Jim and I continue our exploration of Psalm 119 this week by turning to the last third of it — and doing so live at Faithtoberfest!
