Another drive goes down
We finally had to shut down the 500 GB LaCie HD hooked up to our Intel Mac Mini. The drive is performing fine, but the machine’s fan is making such a loud and annoying noise that it was no longer good company in our family room. Its control circuitry would appear to be in a […]
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)…
Geekin’
So, we came home this afternoon, after a shrink visit and an hour’s walk (a loop through downtown Menlo) to find that one of our hard drives had failed. It was kind of like coming out of the clinic yesterday and finding a flat tire on our car. So I’m digging through my box of […]
Projects to think about on the road
Linda and I are off (at 4:30 AM) to Milwaukee, of all places, tomorrow. Long story, but the Giants are playing the Brewers, I have an old college buddy there and a good friend from Chicago is coming up. I plan to use the travel time to think through a couple of very important projects.
One […]
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 […]
April fool
Well, we haven’t seen any standouts yet, but here’s Google’s Wake Up Alert, with bed flipper and connection to your water main. Public Knowledge offers the APRIL Act, a new IP bill, that, while a joke, uses actual language from bills before Congress - the FBI can wiretap you if they suspect you’re ‘attempting to […]
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…
What has twelve wheels and drives sideways?
NASA’s new demo ‘moon rover,’ of course! Tip from Boing Boing…
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 […]