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 […]
The iPhone trips
Our iPhone was saying ‘No Service’ rather more often than I’m used to hereabouts, so I called support.
Turns out the time change tripped up a number of iPhones - the cure being to release and reset the SIM card (or whatever it’s called).
Oddly enough the phone made the time change smoothly - some programmer must […]
We try a low-tech fix for our high-tech problem
Trying our best to come up with a fix for the heating problem we’re seeing with our Core Duo Mac Mini and matching LaCie 500 GB hard drive, we reasoned that a piece of aluminum foil might reflect just enough of the Mini’s heat to keep the LaCie from producing its annoying fan noises.
That worked […]
Tech break
So we’re trying to fix a couple of nagging tech issues today. One is a LaCie drive, that despite being returned 3 times, still makes an annoying fan noise. Having pulled out the LaCie and the (Core Duo) Mini it sits under, we discover that the Mini’s underside is discolored from heat (seen above), heat […]
New Macbooks, Macbook Pros
From the Source:
“Apple today introduced new models of the MacBook and MacBook Pro. MacBook Pro models feature the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors (running at up to 2.6GHz with 6MB of shared L2 cache), larger hard drives (up to 300GB), and 2GB of memory standard in most models. They also include the latest NVIDIA […]
Computers for the Cloud
We have long wished for a ‘Cloud Computer’, an inexpensive device that would allow us easily to connect to the web and email. Together with Google Apps (and some installed software for occasions where connectivity or other issues come up) one might not need anything else to be productive and connected.
The computer […]