Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
I want this: Motorola’s DC600 Bluetooth adapter. Turns a pre- or otherwise non-Bluetooth Motorola phone (such as the T730c) and straps Bluetooth on to its bottom like a prosthetic limbless limb. Now to find out if it actually works…
With a little help from an eyeglass repair kit’s screwdriver, my pocket knife, and the liquid willpower of #9, I managed to get inside of the iPod… figure 1 In figure 1 (above), the tip of the pocket knife’s screw driver indicates approximately where I chose to start. This point was chosen based on some […]
Found a nice looking tutorial for getting inside a 3G iPod. Now to dive in and see if I can fix it my ownself…
Spent an hour trying to deal with this: Only to get frustrated with the fact that it refuses to go in to “Disk Mode” so that I can wipe it’s little brain and make it work again. Alas– bad Stoli. Moved on… A came home and she and I went to town on the yard […]
Was scoping the Tiger-install Flickr stream that TUAW has up when I made a special mental note of their last image: ELEVEN HOURS!. I would expect the Spotlight to take some time indexing. Especially if you’ve got a lot of material for it to index. What made me chuckle slightly was the “11 hours”. I […]
Tiger’s release yesterday has me relatively jazzed but I’m still holding out for new hardware. The 2.0 GHz G5 iMac would be nice. Here’s to holding your breath… As you can see, even w/o the hardware updates, the iMacs are still shipping w/ 10.3 installed. This being only one day after the release, I guess […]
To update (yet again) on this post…: Gruber weighs in w/ an amusing “collapse-the-language” style redux of the official press materials. Still nothing from Moock on the subject. currently playing: Sister Machine Gun “Influence”
Holy fucking shit. UPDATE! See also this article. To which a friend of mine adds: I’m sure Adobe’s legal department will have a field day with the thousands of pieces of software available to manipulate/create/edit the open source Flash file format and related products. You may recall that in 2001 Adobe went after a Russian […]
As an RSVP to Engadget’s article… Non-server versions should ship w/ Tomcat pre-installed and pre-hooked in to Apache. Instant WebDAV for local iCal hosting/sharing. WebDAV client integrated into Finder. Subversion client integrated into Finder. Fix those FileVault bugs once and for all. (Really. Seriously. Not a feature.) iCal needs to export to Excel. Or if […]
Excitement is new gear. And via J… You are a maniackiller.It doesn’t matter who they are and what theyhave or haven’t done. You still want to killthem. And for a simple reason only; it’s fun.Seeing people in pain is like ecstasy. Maybeyou have some sort of mental problems or youare this way because of previous […]