Snack sausages sales are on the increase in South Korea because of
the cold weather; they are useful as a meat stylus for those who
don't want to take off their gloves to use their iPhones.
http://www.gearfuse.com/south-koreans-using-meat-as-an-iphone-stylus
On Feb 15, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Chris Dunford wrote:
Case made. What a bizarre thing to say. I don't like styli, so you can't have
one.
What a bizarre thing to say: I don't like innovation, so all progress must
stop.
Since when are touch screens an innovation? Stylus or touch screen or
Snack sausages sales are on the increase in South Korea because of
the cold weather; they are useful as a meat stylus for those who
don't want to take off their gloves to use their iPhones.
As soon as Apple sees how iPhone and iPad users want to use
something other than their fingers, they
YES, you CAN do that on an iPhone/Touch. iPad too? Probably. Don't need a
stylus. I'd lose a stylus, and don't plan to lose my fingers any time soon.
Yes, one can use their finger, but a stylus can provide for much
finer lines, greater detail and more control if a tablet can provide
such
The problem is you can't *see* the detail you are drawing if you have a big
fat finger trying to do it.
Use your little finger instead. You can see the detail with big or
little fingers. Fat fingers?
That's a cop-out. If you can draw, you can draw on an iPhone/Touch with
any fingers. Try
The problem is you can't *see* the detail you are drawing if you have a big
fat finger trying to do it.
Exactly, Mike. Seems like this aspect needs a lot of explaining to
get across. This is, in part, why pencils were invented as opposed to
using big chunks of sharpened charcoal to try and
Still waiting for that example of fine brush work on an iphone..
These are painting programs. Some fine results -
http://www.flickr.com/groups/brushes/, http://www.flickr.com/photos/fhierro/
For straight lines you calculate point locations and other geometric
shapes--use equations not
phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com escribió:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo
The iPad is, to the best of my knowledge, lacking in stylus support.
I have read that this pretty much rules out the device for drawing
purposes. Perhaps the use of the tablet as a platform for
It is not unprecedented. It exists in Japan, Korea, and other places I'm not
going to look up.
I'm not going to cite numbers on how small physically Japan and Korea
are. Compared to the US.
Finland is also building a national network. It has lots of empty spaces
and more weather
Perhaps the new networks should be owned by the public, as it is where it
works, instead of waiting and waiting and waiting for private companies to
expand the networks, often with assistance through public grants and tax
breaks. Once the networks are created with public money, they could be
Steve -
You can't taste the food on the Internet. You can't appreciate the
special French love of beauty and nature on the Internet. You can't feel
the excitement of colors and scents at the weekly outdoor markets on the
Internet. Most of all you can't appreciate the wonderful French sense of
http://www.mobilemag.com/2010/02/08/apple-iphone-reads-sd-cards-with-zoomit-accessory/
Speculation that this add-on will also allow the iPad to read SD cards.
Amazing! Apple iPhones get an oversized, clunky, overpriced add-on to do
what most newer phones can do out-of-the-box, at no extra
A fight over freedom at Apple’s core
By Jonathan Zittrain
In 1977, a 21-year-old Steve Jobs unveiled something the world had never
seen before: a ready-to-program personal computer. After powering the
machine up, proud Apple II owners were confronted with a cryptic
blinking cursor, awaiting
I have xphomesp3 and wmp10 and would like to print a simple list of albums
and artist name without folderol .sheesh! I put on winter 2003 fun pack
which contains media exporter which neatly does it but lists every song and
every track and belches forth 114 pages to print .all I want is 1 or 2
Does it matter what provider? I don't have underground service and I can't afford to switch. It's not a huge loss--I certainly don't lose any sleep over it. The main point is that cell/wireless service isn't as good or as universally available as it's cracked up to be, even in an area that's
You are changing the parameters to win an argument. No one, least of all me
said use the cloud for backup. We are specifically talking about cell
phones...
Mike, you mentioned the cloud. I rarely consider it since I don't live,
work or travel where it's universally available.
The
I wonder how many millions sit on the sideline,
awaiting an iPhone for the rest of us. I have no quarrel with Apple preserving
its control over apps, fine. It will be interesting to see, once the contract
with ATT is ended, whether Apple will make its device more universal, allowing
I have xphomesp3 and wmp10 and would like to print a simple list of albums
and artist name without folderol .sheesh! I put on winter 2003 fun pack
which contains media exporter which neatly does it but lists every song and
every track and belches forth 114 pages to print .all I want is 1 or 2
, 2010 at 12:40 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Feb 4, 2010, at 1:34 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
Apple is making their portable devices more closed than their computers by
limiting the applications that can be used on them. Of course, there are
over 100,000 iPhone apps, does Apple have to approve each
On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:24:55 -0800, mike escribió:
I sort of agree with the storage aspect, but that is relative also...to some
4 gigs is enough, others want 64 gigs and that still isn't enough. With
cloud based services many things can be left on the net and accessed as
needed from an iphone
Steve, I was addressing components; you are addressing consumer devices.
Increasing component density translates into increasing performance,
reliability or capacity/capability (depending on what the engineers
focus on). It allows things that were stationary to become faster,
mobile or just
Okay. If you're using multiple SIMs that are small, I would suggest a
container system to prevent losing them.
As their density increases, is it logical to expect you to use fewer of
them, change them out less often?
I have a multi-SIM--a card that holds data for more than one network. It
Where are you getting this? I haven't seen anything about this.
This has been talked about for years. Right here, for a recent example:
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/01/18/wifi-direct-wireless-ces.html
We are already seeing a number of wireless printers, wireless hard
drives,
Tell us you have not noticed the trend where everything electronic gets smaller
every year. Is it not natural that as part of this process key internal parts
get smaller too?
Back to SNL-- Remember their skit about the shrinking Nano? That was a
joke when the Nano 'improved' and became
Tom imagines a lot...now he is imagining a world where everyone is
controlled. Typically, people like this are really the ones being
controlled...as Apple does to it's users.
Hey Mike--Tom, too -
Cut out the hyperbole.
We use Macs and iPods/iPhones because they're good products, in spite of
nonstandard SIM slot
It is not non-standard. In is the next generation SIM.
Once again, some prefer to be clinging to the past.
This SIM card is too small for those of us who switch cards frequently.
The micro SIM is about 30% smaller [about the size you need to cut a
regular SIM card
Apple internally acknowledges more 27 iMac screen issues
http://tinyurl.com/yd57t2o
Remedy? Soup up a Mac Mini and get one of the large HP displays that
uses an S-IPS LG Philips panel, like my son has? Find a 24 iMac
instead? In addition to this article at Ars Technica, there's more
WOOHOO! Windows on an iPad!!
yawn
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/citrix-will-have-ipad-app-run-windows-7-sessions-361
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Still waiting for you link...
I heard a tech reporter say 'who needs 3g, wifi is almost everywhere'.
Where do these people live?
Near a McDonalds.
McDonald's WiFi will be free like obesity starting January -- Engadget
Dock isn't portable. Needs to be plugged in. What if I want to use a flash
drive or SD card? Sleek and stylish? Not with a dock and a bunch of cables.
Mine is a skinny little cable about 2 feet long. How is that not portable?
And if both the computer and iPad has bluetooth do I really want a
David D Odell waffenf...@atlanticbb.net escribió:
Whoa. The book was written by Arthur C. Clarke, not Kubrick.
Of course the book was written by Clarke; but the movie, the source of the
image, was by Kubrick.
Kubrick asked Arthur C. Clarke to write the screenplay for the 2001
movie.
... I can't mount the device on my desktop or view the drive anywhere except in
limited view in limited apps. Real networking has to work before it's ready for
release. ... What if you need two USB ports? Carry a hub? Bummer. What if you
need USB and want to use AV out? ... How many people are
http://gizmodo.com/306370/what-the-hell-is-a-zune-pad
$499 for an iPad. Hooha! That is what my original iPod cost.
Can it be used easily while driving?
Don't need it, but might want something like that one day. I don't like
eBooks unless someone is reading to me, i.e. audio books.
http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2010/01/26/
Why, thank you for parroting my post from yesterday!
Apple story starts with the 1/25 comic and continues with today's comic,
http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2010/01/28/.
Betty
Gizmodo too
http://gizmodo.com/5458382/8-things-that-suck-about-the-ipad?
I have to agree with most of what they say...it is odd it's not widescreen
and no HDMI out.
My iPod touch doesn't have HDMI, yet I could connect it to our 42 TV to
show a video, using the dock connection, composite but
With hdmi you wouldn't need toslink. I feel like this device is
trying to
do a lot but won't do any of them well.
[Forgot about HDMI doing AV.]
I agree. However, this device reminds us about the most important thing
about technology:
**NEVER BUY VERSION 1.0**
Apple will change
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Over the weekend, there was an odd story about people using
I made the mistake of using iMovie instead of Final Cut. Do I need to start
over? Is there an export setting that works? So far, after trying
to export 3 times, they all look terrible, but original video looks excellent, even
on a 42 TV.
iMovie is not a mistake. Many podcast producers use
One can learn to anticipate a lag of a few 1/10s of a second. A lag of 2 or 3 seconds is a completely different matter requiring the photographer to become a fortune teller. I borrowed a Nikon for a vacation that had such a lag and found it completely impossible for candid photos.
I have such a
What's the best format and easiest way to go from DV cam to upload to
youtube?
I made the mistake of using iMovie instead of Final Cut. Do I need to
start over? Is there an export setting that works? So far, after trying
to export 3 times, they all look terrible, but original video looks
Not unless you want yours to be public.
I wouldn't mind so much if I didn't have to pay for incoming calls, as
in other countries. We get too many spam calls as it is--and have to pay
for some of them too! Had to change phone numbers twice to stop getting
junk calls.
Huh? Is this a peecee thing? What's the replacement? Chrome is not ready
for prime time, and IE sucks.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/187222/why_firefox_will_flame_out.html
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EVIL looks very good, but still a bit expensive.
By coincidence, I just received a review for The Best Camera Is The One
That’s With You™ by Chase Jarvis.
http://www.thebestcamera.com/book.html
Excellent advice. The Best Camera Is The One That’s With You. That
includes Brownie, box camera,
I thinK this is a good time for some creative thinking about energy. As we
change how we get and manage portable energy many old assumptions will need to
be reexamined. If our cars start to run on big battery packs we need to
consider how those get charged...
The Peugeot 888 by Oskar
One of the real problems with today's point and shoot cameras is shutter lag -- the time delay
between pushing the button and taking the picture...
That used to be really annoying but can be mostly avoided if the compact
camera has a sport setting. That takes a series of photos quickly like
Mike
While AIO and wireless are attractive features, do you really need
color? I just bought two laser cartridges for our printers, one was $25
for 2000+ copies, the other was on sale for $20 for 2500+ copies. Color
inkjet cartridges cost many times more. Is it worth it?
Do you really need
I don't determine quality of service available--neither do you.
Providers determine that. They also decide where and what kinds of
services they offer. As long as companies decide that nobody lives
here and don't provide service for us, we're stuck with the minimum.
Moving is not an option.
You
Wi-Fi foe sues neighbor for using electronics
Man says electromagnetic sensitivity has forced him to live in his car
Tom Sharpe | The New Mexican
Posted: Thursday, January 07, 2010 - 1/8/10
A Santa Fe man who says he suffers from electromagnetic sensitivity is
suing his next-door neighbor for
In case you missed it, CNBC had a feature on Thursday called PLANET OF
THE APPS: A HANDHELD REVOLUTION!
CNBC's Planet of the Apps: A Handheld Revolution! looks at the recent
app explosion and how they have changed the way we live. Meet the
creators who are designing applications and making
Well, they could talk about technologies that aren't widely available
to the general public. I'd be happy to discuss high bandwidth
solutions...That's not exactly their mission, though. It's a fact
that they aren't going to discuss what I offer. It's way too
expensive for anyone but big
There was a significant problem not long ago, especially in major cities, with
wait staff who had handheld card readers. They'd quietly swipe cards and sell
the information. I don't know if this is
Is this not an urban legend?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/03/washington/
Well
When we deny the inevitable and keep running with an unsupportable old
technology it greatly increases the likelihood that when it finally goes it
will go suddenly. Much better to face reality now and establish a long term
plan. It took 10 years for TV to go digital and, while not perfect, it
No, no, no. There are very strict laws against discharging firearms
within x feet of a dwelling. You're no farther in the woods than I am
in Jefferson County, West Virginia, and nobody around here would stand
for that. There are very valid reasons not to allow this behavior.
Jan. 1, 2010: Boy
YMMV. Try the locations and see which works best for you, but consider how each
program works. Does this help?
Excellent!
I propose that whether one keeps the Dock visible or not depends on one's style of working. I often have many apps open at once and frequently switch among them. I usually
In fact there's really no news here. As the articles state, we're down
to 1 in 5 households that only have a landline, and that number is
dropping all the time. When, not if.
The 1 in 5 stat looks like FUD to me.
That's B.S. The United States doesn't have the broadband or cellular
capacity
I'm not trying to arm-chair anything. Inquiring minds want to know. What are
the obvious improvements?
Go try it.
Everyone I showed it to, except certain folks on this list, have found
it better. What's your evidence?
Never mind. Maybe Betty will give an actual answer.
Hi. Now that I'm
I've had fine experiences in mixed and non mixed environments. I'm
wondering...how would the scientists run their software on machines that
didn't run their software? This is precisely my point, this point has
nothing to do with windows or os x. Did they fire everyone and replace the
machines
Monocultures are almost always bad. Besides, without Macs, who would
Microsoft copy? With one OS and limited software, there are a lot of
tasks--and games--that won't get done as well as with several operating
systems and a variety of software.
You are wrong about government. YOU/WE are the
phartz...@gmail.com escribió:
And I suspect it'll be increasingly harder to find people who have *no*
experience with computers. So I would expect that most would have enough
experience to get *started* using a computer.
But what is the right computer OS to learn? Should school systems
I thought you originally were in IT when you worked with mainframes?
I was an art major in college. I took programming [Fortran--Cobol might
have been better for Y2K] because it looked like plotting and drawing
would eventually be done on computers, and because artists are
independent
My friends who are scientists at a large [unnamed] chemical company in
Delaware were doing research using Macs. Then IT said they wouldn't
support Macs any more. Wouldn't buy replacements when they requested
more powerful computers. Everybody had to use Windows, even though the
software they used
I think most kids will learn how to use both - at home and with friends,
not so important at school anymore. More important at school is
learning how, why they work. For too many people, computers are magic,
like cars. Therefore, when something behaves incorrectly, they have no
clue.
Do
Yes want is involved but in a society where you are disadvantaged and uncool
etc to not compute, it's not the determining factor.
We can afford to pay for the oil or tire but few can afford to pay for a driver.
Most of my friends when I was in high school could change oil or change
a tire
On OS X I've only used SoX...but I hear mplayer is good. Google will guide
your way..
mplayer is good, but easier to use inside the GUI of FFMPEGX or several
other GUI wrappers for Unix tools if you're planning to convert more
than one file. http://ffmpegx.com/
I also use QuickTime Pro
VirtualBox is a free emulator and works well. There are versions for OS
X, Windows, Linux, Solaris. I installed WXP Pro in VirtualBox on my
MacBook. It's just as fast as last year's Compaq. I used an installer
disk from a dead Dell.
Unless you buy an emulator and then buy another OS no it
Use Exposé to see or hide all windows.
Nobody but the IT educated know what Expose is... where it is ... nor how to
use it. It's one of the cludges I was referring to. Obviously it was
developed because Apple was aware of the problem / need but they could have
done that by fixing the Finder
I print huge documents so infrequently, I have to relearn how to do it
each time. Since I don't have a huge printer at home, how do I print a
40 x 56 map in pieces on letter paper to tape/paste together. Help
files don't mention tiling like I used to do often in Quark ,and before
that in
Never mind. Found it in faded grey in the dialog box. Not as evident as
other user-hostile programs. Thanks anyway.
I print huge documents so infrequently, I have to relearn how to do it
each time. Since I don't have a huge printer at home, how do I print a
40 x 56 map in pieces on letter
And it's not complicated for you... you have long been an IT who loves to learn
this stuff. The fact that IT people think and expect everyone else to be like
them is the big geek disconnect that the rest of the world wonders about and
makes fun of.
I'm not in IT.
I'm an artist who has
OS X dock is not as much help as it easily could be and as a Linux or Window taskbars are today. The Dock is a half measure of what taskbars were always intended to be in terms of function.
Interesting.
The only time I use the Taskbar in Windows is to see what time it is,
figure out why the
Young American woman travels over to Jerusalem to meet some friends, see
the sights, live the life. Overzealous border security officers ask her
a bunch of questions, take issue with her answers, and a few well-placed
bullets later she is allowed entry into the country with a somewhat
altered
All the manuals are missing which is OK if there is a decent help file
provided somewhere.
I actually am more likely to complain about the manuals for iPod than
anything else. I have yet to see a good explanation of how to use the on
the go playlist or how to keep my iPod from turning on disk
Quark XPress = user hostile.
I take it that you are an InDesign user? I think Quark made a much better
analysis, with better success, at managing the complexity of a modern page
layout application than Adobe did. If you are used to something different and
try to apply your old style of
I have seven apps open now. Each has Help in the menu at the top of
the screen as the last menu item. There's also a spyglass or magnifying
glass icon at the far right of the screen for searches. The Help menu
is pretty straighforward, not revealed by pressing an F-Key or in a
Start menu.
Yeah,
1. Lock the infernal icons so that inexperienced users can't poof them
2. Make the dock superficially display icons for every window running whether it is maximized or not.
Is your dock at the bottom of the screen? I've never poofed icons from
the dock when it's on the left. I have done
I recently saw a chart that showed the standard for all countries in the world
that support Cell phones.
CDMA is used outside the US, but it is not as popular as GSM. CDMA is also used
by Sprint.
When I was in Canada I could use my Verizon phone in a number of places. It
was only when I got
Michael Wosnick escribió:
With apologies for my lack of understanding, I'm not sure I see where this
conversation about external drives is taking me. What is really at issue is
whether or not I do a full install (be that on an external, internal, or
whatever drive) of all my programs for the
I'm not a customer either, I wouldn't pay my cellular carrier for the
privilege of mapping how bad their network is. It's not about politician or
technologist, it's about being a shill or apologist. I'm neither...I'm a
customer, I pay for a service. I'm glad the network I'm on doesn't have
The magic and unattached Apple menu make is so much more difficult to train the uninitiated ... and it causes a number of complications re: what's running?, RAM depletion and file backup.
The Macintosh menus are attached to the top of the display, not to the
windows. Apple had its menus at
And the newer Mac add-ons to expose the desktop, find the current window, find
all the windows, switch windows, more easlily find your program executable are
laboriously clumsy and cluged work-arounds that could just be solved by fixing
the instruments that were originally designed to perform
In essence, my original question was to utilize an external drive of sorts - at
least external to the new machine I don't have yet. I was going to use a brand
new drive placed temporarily into the loaner and the swap it into the new
machine when it arrives. That was exactly my original
This is a very misleading subject line, as we have no evidence or
indication that this data was stored in a cloud. Thus we also have no
evidence it was a failure of cloud storage that caused information
loss.
I just worry a couple of the luddites on the list will actually
reference this event in
Yes, you can boot from an external drive, but that's not what he's asking.
It's what he needs to do, but didn't state it.
With a loaner computer, there's no reason to bother to switch the hard
drive when you can plug in an external, possibly bare drive for a week
or so until the right
* What's the usefulness of the Apple menu bar that morphs with each
application and leaves apps running and consuming memory and file
locking in place when you are done with the program but
unknowingly only close the app window. You have to be an
experienced user to avoid the
Tape is a dead to dying media. It is expensive and degrades over time.
Recorders can be cumbersome. Flash cards are compressed so a bunch of data
and quality is lost. Transfer time starts to become an issue. Direct to
hard drive starts to look better and better.
I've had many hard drives
Formerly I was happy to have access over a different network that didn't
relate to my primary ISP. This would be in keeping with my belt and suspenders
approach to most technology. I reasoned that a backup
strategy would be preferred in the event, etc.
I absolutely understand network
Mail servers.
Within the past year, most of my email accounts have changed ports for
both incoming and outgoing servers. Verizon changed for some, but not
all of our email accounts:
incoming.verizon.net - port 110
outgoing.verizon.net - port 587 SSL
My Yahoo email through the yahoo.es,
chad evans wyatt escribió:
I would aver that Google Translate is getting better. Not yet quite good in
Slavic languages and Hungarian. But a great help.
Google's translation service is quite good.
I had a guest from Thailand staying with us last week. Her English is
very good, but there
John H. Davis glenwoodcompu...@verizon.net escribió:
My G5 1.8 dual is getting a bit long in the tooth.At !0.39 it did
everything I wanted it to but now several apps I want to update
require 10.4 or later.
Leopard is a better choice than Panther. It has new features and fixes
bugs. One
I use Bluetooth to transfer photos from my phone--fast, easy, at least
for a 2 mpx camera phone, maybe not for 10 mpx camera or for video. Cell
phone video transfers fast enough via BT, but they're only a minute or
two long.
Aren't there Bluetooth or WiFi enabled cameras? It makes so much
You're a victim of the fallacy that Macs are expensive. They're not,
especially if you're using a computer for business. The software isn't
necessarily expensive either, and for business, it's a tax deductible
expense. The best video editing software is Final Cut Pro, hands down.
You can also
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.com wrote:
Tony B asks what kind of video I'm editing. I'll be buying a high-end video
cam (probably a Canon XM2) to shoot for Web sites.
Most pros use tape. Tape is better than hard drives. Tapes are limited
to the number
So Betty, can I run my Adobe Premiere (that sucks:/ ) built for Windoze on a
Mac?
You can sell your Adobe Premiere, and budget $199 [or less--buy discount
for $150 new] for Final Cut Express with the money you save by using a
Mac with a good $700 prosumer camera instead of buying a pro camera
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Victor Subervi wrote:
So Betty, can I run my Adobe Premiere (that sucks:/ ) built for Windoze on a
Mac?
Actually, yes you can. I'm suprised no-one here mentioned that you can
run Windows on a Mac, either via dual-booting (Boot Camp) or in a virtual
machine (Parallels). I'll
The guy asked a straightforward question about video. There's no need
for 2-3 rabid Mac fans to pile on and hijack the topic. Take your
medications already.
I'm a pro. Don't have to be rabid to know which hardware and software is
best for results and the bottom line. What's your problem? Can't
Have you ever used a multi-touch device like the MacBook Pro/Air
trackpad or iPhone/iTouch? They're wonderful.
We survived without using 2- or 3-button mouse for years, and this is so
much better. I could never use a PC mouse comfortably because they're so
huge--hurts my hand. I don't like
Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.com escribió:
I need to build a machine that will enable me to edit video. I've been told
I should have circa 16 gigs of RAM and two graphics cards. I also have an
opportunity to pick up a desktop from a cyber cafe that's going out of
business at a bargain
FW: Well to say it's superior is only half right. It's superior in some
ways. If raw speed is what is needed, USB3 or ESATA is superior. I would
go everyday and twice on sunday for an esata drive on my home network over
FW...but there are situations where FW would be best.
For drives that
We have a couple of G4 PowerMacs that don't have WiFi cards. I'm
considering getting a USB WiFi 802.11g dongle instead of an internal
AirPort card.
If I plug it into a USB 1.1 port will the WiFi still be as fast as
advertised, or will it be restricted by the slow USB? The native ports
are
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