Archive for the 'computers' Category

The iPhone

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

I was talking to Dru about that today. He said he’s not worried. “Apple says it’ll be fine as long as you go to a Cingular store and not Apple Store on the day of launch.”

Web 2.0 Lunch
Chinatown, San Francisco, California
Nikon D200, Tokina AT-X PRO 16-50mm f/2.8 DX
1/640sec @ f/2.8, iso100, 16mm (24mm)

“Maybe in podunkville. [...]

Back to Safari

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

(No, I haven’t tried Safari 3.0.)
At work yesterday we were talking about how slow Firefox has become. You’re chugging around, opening a few tabs and then, after a few hours, you notice that everything takes like a second to respond. Has anyone else noticed this? It’s also been crashier of late—to the point where I’m [...]

Aperture supports Panasonic/Leica

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

I noticed in the release notes of the Mac OS X 10.4.10 update today:

Adds RAW image decoding support for the following cameras: Panasonic DMC-LX1, Panasonic DMC-LX2, Leica M8, Leica D-LUX 2, Leica D-LUX 3, Fuji S5 Pro, Nikon D40x, and Canon EOS 1D Mk III.

Since Apple Aperture uses the same RAW decoding. That means that [...]

2007-06-14 My ten seconds at WWDC

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

A friend of a friend hooked me up with a WWDC pass. Shhh… The real reason I went there was to meet a friend, but he had to miss out that day because of bugs and a release. (I won’t name names, but you suck!)
Unfortunately, I was too tired from driving back from Lunch 2.0 [...]

PHP (and mac) pinup

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

I was catching up on some of my newsreading when I ran across this article, with the quote:

Image from Macenstein and model from Suicide Girls. (horny php guy desktopper)

I thought I’d make it into this desktop image as a shout-out to all you (male) PHP devs out there. (There was an old PHP image I [...]

Complete my album

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

It’s (almost) finally safe to make a single song purchase in iTunes Music Store. A new feature called Complete My Album will count your single song purchases to the purchase of the entire album.
Nice.
It’s currently a limited time offer. My guess is they’re going to see the conversion rate before deciding to make it permanent. [...]

Pair your remotes

Monday, March 26th, 2007

One f’d up thing I ran into today is that every time I try to do anything on my Apple TV, my MacBook starts reacting to the remote (going in and out of Front Row for instance).
The solution is to take your remotes and pair them. What pairing does it it forces the computer or [...]

AppleTV and me

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

TV came yesterday. Since I work all the time, I had to drive to FedEx to pick it up. The lady there mentioned that all day people were picking up their TVs. I thought this product would not do well at all.
The TV definitely did not like me.
(And after I spent an hour getting [...]

His conversion is almost complete

Monday, March 19th, 2007

I used to work with a guy named Haiping, a former developer at Microsoft who was hired just two people before me at Plaxo. He has some crazy C++ skills as well as is pretty damn good at that headshot thing in PC first person shooters. Last time I was in South Bay, I stopped [...]

Callwave

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Callwave recently released a widget to provide free visual voicemail. The idea seems to be that you configure your account to do a conditional call forwarding to CallWave’s servers. From there, the widget provides access to the website to allow you to view your voicemail.
Clever.

Download the widget.
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