Hold the home nukes: a Mac dual G5 will do just fine
The cell phone call went something like this: “Sorry to bother you dear, but the big Mac’s screen just went dark, and now smoke is coming out of it. What should I do?” My advice (”unplug it”) may have saved more unfortunate damage to the computer, if not the household.
When I returned, the house was […]
The home nuclear reactor
Toshiba has announced its Micro Nuclear reactor designed for small, remote communities, apartment buildings and small businesses. the 20 by 6-foot device produces 200 kwh and is completely automatic. Designed to run unattended for up to 40 years, the reactor produces electrity for 5 cents a kwh, about half the current grid price. Do we […]
A really big Ice Cube
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory consists of a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice some 2,500 meters below the surface. The ice, said to be about 60,000 years old, will eventually hold 80 boreholes (made by pumping hot water at high pressure), each holding a 2.5 kilometer string of optical detectors. IceCube, though only partially complete, is […]
A segue from shop to walk
We tacked our daily walk onto a little shopping expedition to the Stanford Shopping Center where the ’safety officers’ have taken to riding around on Segways. Our loot: a fry-pan splatter shield from Williams-Sonoma, The iPhone Missing Manual from the Apple Store and 2 Nike shirts (on sale)…
Dual monitors
So, I’m sitting at my $600 Mac Mini feeling like I’m at the helm of a mighty $3000 workstation, thanks to the dual monitor set-up enabled by the DisplayLink USB monitor adapter. The additional screen real estate really is useful: I can leave Mail and, say, Address Book up on one screen, while pursuing the […]
DisplayLink USB monitor drivers for Mac released
Here’s a shot of my (Intel) Mac Mini driving 2 Apple 20-inch Cinema Displays, thanks to a DisplayLink USB hardware adapter and beta Mac OS X drivers (released today). Very cool… we’re going to try hanging 2 monitors on our laptop next…
More on the iPhone camera
IPFrontline has an interesting tear-down of an iPhone. The camera is a 1/5th inch-format unit from Micron. Available data so far points to the camera being a video camera - meaning the stills are framegrabs…
iPhone photog
We’ve been experimenting with the camera in the iPhone. It’s an amazingly tiny device, but provides rather more useful photos - 2 megapixel, 1600 x 1200 pixels - than any other ‘phone camera’ I’ve owned.
I’m very curious about the details of the camera. Judging by depth of field and some other clues, I’m guessing the […]
A very satisfactory device
Linda’s mother Ede (pronounced ‘Edie’), God rest her soul, used the word ’satisfactory’ to describe things that pleased her. The impatiens in the flower beds around her house were satisfactory because they bloomed constantly and required little fuss once they were established.
Satisfactory is the word I’m choosing to describe my iPhone: I find myself using […]
Blogging from the iPhone
We’re sitting in the Boulanger Bakery in downtown Menlo Park, blogging on our iPhone, courtesy of their free WiFi. The couple across from me are busy, too: she on her MacBook Air, he on his iPhone. Blogging is possible from Safari on iPhone, as is email, if not particularly easy…
[Addendum from home Mac: I couldn’t […]