Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Oct 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
Ask Different Ask Different is a brilliantly built discussion site that allows people to ask questions about their Apple products and get a variety of answers and tips from others. I first heard about it back here and I decided to subscribe to its RSS feed for a while to see what kinds of questions [...]
Posted in Gadgets, iPhone, Tech Stuff on Oct 19th, 2011 2 Comments »
Google announces NFC-based Android Beam for sharing between phones Watch the video, it’s very cool. Since the old days of Palm Pilots I’ve wanted a way to beam a single address to a nearby iPhone, or, any single piece of data that I want to share. The Palm had IR for this and the iPhone [...]
Posted in Process, Tech Stuff, Video on Sep 28th, 2011 2 Comments »
These two videos take some time but if you like this kind of view of fabrication you’re gonna love it. The piano music goes well with it but gets long after a while. Turning sound off helps but then you miss the occassional sound of the fabrication tools. Note: I originally posted this on January [...]
Posted in Apple, Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Sep 27th, 2011 4 Comments »
What tiny thing in Lion makes you smile or has caught you off guard? Ask Different collected a lot of great discoveries about Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) that make people smile. I knew about some of these but not many. Great tips. [via Hypertext (Justin Blanton)]
Posted in Apple, iPhone, Tech Stuff on Sep 26th, 2011 6 Comments »
Apple’s ‘Assistant’ Seen as Key Feature for New iPhone Hardware Apple has been thinking about virtual assistants for years. Some of you may remember their mock up called Knowledge Navigator that included a visual person in the form of a guy with a bow tie. That bow tie guy is an assistant who understands natural [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Photo Printing, Tech Stuff, Video on Sep 17th, 2011 1 Comment »
My friend Edward and I saw the Joel Meyerowitz show of his large ground zero images at The Tremaine Gallery in Lakeville, Connecticut and we were both impressed by the way the images were mounted and hung. The above video shows the process. This isn’t something I want to do with my own images; I [...]
Posted in Disability, Process, Tech Stuff, Video on Aug 24th, 2011 No Comments »
Great stuff. Glen creates hacked Kindle for his sister who has cerebral palsy. This reminds me so much of the early days of what is now called assistive technology: Hacked Apple IIs, HyperCard running X10 controllers, big switches, and the Closing the Gap conference where we all shared this stuff. This was my life for [...]
Posted in Audio, Gadgets, Ideas, NPR, People, Process, Tech Stuff on Aug 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
Young Entrepreneur Has A Better Idea. Now What? Meredith Perry turned 22 this month. She just graduated from college and started a new company built around a technology she recently invented. There’s plenty of bad economic news these days, but Perry and her company, called UBeam, are trying to defy it — she’s hiring and [...]
Posted in Canon PowerShot G12, Macintosh, Objects, Tech Stuff on Aug 13th, 2011 6 Comments »
For those of you who are Mac users, this is a self-made Mac OS 10.7 Lion install on a USB flash drive. I could have gotten a 4 gig drive but the 8 gig was cheaper. Why do this? Because Apple is phasing out optical drives and this will boot any modern Mac and do [...]
Posted in Ideas, Tech Stuff, Video on Aug 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
Michael from sauce explains video in a very entertaining short video. [via PetaPixel]
Posted in Apple, Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Jul 24th, 2011 7 Comments »
Lion no longer “burps” the optical drive when you wake your MacBook Pro up from sleep. This makes me very happy. I’ve also noticed that the Bluetooth control panel’s control for allowing and disallowing bluetooth accessories to wake the computer from sleep is also working as it should. My MacBook Pro can now hibernate and [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Jul 21st, 2011 13 Comments »
Just finished installing Mac OS 10.7 Lion on this machine, will do my wife’s machine tomorrow from DVD. Before installing I did yet another complete backup with SuperDuper just so I’d be able to get back to my last Snow Leopard environment if Lion stubbed its toe on install. I highly recommend reading this and [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Jul 20th, 2011 13 Comments »
Apple has just released the newest OS upgrade for the Mac: Mac OS 10.7 Lion. Apple is not selling boxes of CD/DVDs however, they are selling Lion through the Mac App Store as a paid download. We have a few Macs in our house and a single purchase of Lion for $29.95 will cover a [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Creativity, Learning Disabilities, Tech Stuff on Jul 1st, 2011 No Comments »
PBS NewsHour does Maker Faire: “Can DIY Movement Fix a Crisis in U.S. Science Education?” Xeni Jardin, one of the tech contributors to boingboing has a great post and overview of a piece Miles O’Brien did the other night on the PBS NewsHour on the Maker Faire. Read her excellent post and watch the NewsHour [...]
Posted in Disability, Tech Stuff, Video on Jun 29th, 2011 No Comments »
Miles O’Brien of the PBS NewsHour did an outstanding job of putting together one of the best overviews I’ve seen yet of how technology is being used to help people with various kinds of disabilities. We saw this on air last night and it blew my mind and I’ve been involved in this area for [...]
Posted in Ideas, Tech Stuff, Video on Jun 22nd, 2011 3 Comments »
Fantastic technology in this new printed money, most of it aimed at counterfeiters but also to make the bills more durable and cheaper to make. Of course, the idea of “using plastic” to pay for things will have to be revised in Canada. [via NPR]
Posted in Apple, Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Jun 12th, 2011 No Comments »
Mac OS X Lion: What you need to know Macworld has a great overview of Apple’s next Mac OS update, Lion. How to buy it, what it will need to run, how to install it on multiple Macs, UI changes, the major new features, and more. If you plan to upgrade to Lion at some [...]
Posted in Audio, NPR, Tech Stuff, Travel on Jun 8th, 2011 No Comments »
Leading The Charge To Make Better Electric Cars Fresh Air interviews science writer Seth Fletcher on electric cars, battery technology, lithium mining, and more. This is one of the best pieces on the electric vehicle movement I’ve ever heard. Seth is knowledgeable and articulate. Great stuff.
Posted in Social Software, Tech Stuff, Travel on Jun 6th, 2011 No Comments »
In-flight Internet: the view from 35,000 feet and three years Glenn Fleishman has put together an excellent overview of the history, what’s available now, and the future of wifi and internet access on planes. I regularly fly a United PS 757 from JFK to LAX and use the Gogo wifi internet service on my iPad. [...]
Posted in Apple, Cloud Computing, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Jun 6th, 2011 2 Comments »
iCloud Rather than speculating or attempting to follow live blogging of today’s keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference, you can read the details on the new (free) cloud service at the link above. No doubt the keynote and various well produced video demos will be available soon. Also demoed today were the coming upgrade to [...]
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