Posted in Social Software, Tools, Travel on Mar 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
United Continental Holdings to Expand Wi-Fi Service to More Than 200 Aircraft The downside is it doesn’t look like they’re using the same gogo inflight internet service United is using on their PS flights. Bummer. One would think that a newly merged company would consider making it easier for its customers to use either legacy [...]
Posted in Apple, Macintosh, SSD (solid state drive), Tech Stuff, Tools on Mar 23rd, 2011 31 Comments »
I just bought a new 15″ MacBook Pro with 2.0GHz i7 quad-core processor, 8GB memory, 512GB SSD, Hi-Res Antiglare (matte) screen. I didn’t want to buy it but my granddaughter forced me to. (wink) Backstory As some of you know I upgraded my 3 year old 2.5GHz MacBook Pro with the addition of an OWC [...]
Posted in Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Reading, Social Software, Tools on Feb 11th, 2011 2 Comments »
Is Mobile Affecting When We Read? Fascinating piece with graphs on the reading habits of people who are consuming at least some of their reading material on computers and hand-held devices and using services like Instapaper and Read it Later to time-shift when they read things they find. The study is from Read it Later. [...]
Posted in Ideas, Places, Tools on Feb 4th, 2011 No Comments »
National Geographic Giant Traveling Maps Imagine a 26×33 foot vinyl map of Europe that can be walked on with socks. They won’t fit in a classroom, but have to be unfolded and unrolled in a gymnasium or something similarly large. I love it. [via Steve Splonskowski]
Posted in Apple, iPad, Tools on Jan 27th, 2011 1 Comment »
Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad a year ago. Amazing how it’s done in just a year. Darrell Etherington has put together a nice timeline of the iPad’s first year: The Unlikely Story of the iPad, One Year In.
Posted in iPad, Macintosh, Tools, Travel on Jan 23rd, 2011 7 Comments »
I’ve been meaning to do a post like this for a while, sorry its taken me so long. Traveling back from LAX to JFK (Los Angeles to New York) yesterday I saw the following: In the United *Red Carpet Club (RCC): four 11″ MacBook Airs, one 13″ MacBook Air, twenty iPads (used with a mixture [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Opinion, SSD (solid state drive), Tech Stuff, Tools on Jan 21st, 2011 9 Comments »
Patrick Rhone over at minimal mac led me to Frank Chimero’s writing on his digital tools: The Setup which got me thinking about my digital tool situation again. Here’s a quote from Frank’s post: I think tweaking the rig is a large part of being a nerd. Agreed. As my friend Dale says as we [...]
Posted in Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Tech Stuff, Tools on Nov 1st, 2010 No Comments »
If the Keyboard on Your Mobile Phone Is Driving You Crazy, Help May Be on the Way This looks like something some very nerdy folks have come up with. Hey, the QWERTY keyboard may have looked just as weird when it was invented (to slow people down on mechanical typewriters). There is little doubt in [...]
Posted in iPad, Macintosh, Tools on Oct 28th, 2010 No Comments »
Typing Errur? Your Fingers Know Even When Your Brain Doesn’t As a touch typist the full size keyboard with decent tactile feedback on the MacBook Air is extremely important to me. As I write this I’m using all of my fingers, looking at the screen and I can feel and see mistakes as they happen. [...]
Posted in Tools, Travel on Sep 27th, 2010 No Comments »
A Wider Wi-Fi Stream on Domestic Flights This is great news and I hope Gogo follows ViaSat’s lead. Right now it would be impossible to watch a streaming Netflix movie on a plan via the Gogo inflight wifi system.
Posted in Hiking, Ideas, Photo Gear, Tools on Sep 18th, 2010 No Comments »
How to Turn a Walking Pole into a Monopod Using Sugru Interesting and “sugru” looks like useful stuff.
Posted in Ideas, Photo Editing Software, Tools on Sep 16th, 2010 No Comments »
Make Adjustments in Lightroom with Physical Sliders This is actually a fantastic capability. I find the adjustment sliders in Lightroom tough to control with a mouse. Try getting the tone sliders back to 0 sometime if you’ve not experienced this.
Posted in Ideas, Photo Gear, Tools on Sep 13th, 2010 No Comments »
Rubber Band Lens Filter Wrench Simple idea: use a rubber band instead of a dedicated lens filter wrench for filters that won’t come off with by hand with a twist. Brilliant.
Posted in iPhone, Tech Stuff, Tools on Jun 30th, 2010 3 Comments »
When iPhone iOS4 came out, I was relatively quick to upgrade my iPhone 3G to the new OS to try out the few new features that work on the older phone. One thing I noticed immediately was that the phone slowed down. The iPhone 3G, even running OS 3.1.3 is slower than the 3Gs and [...]
Posted in iPhone, Tech Stuff, Tools on May 19th, 2010 No Comments »
Stowaway from the PDA era I had a Stowaway keyboard for my Palm and it worked like a charm. Couldn’t hold it on one’s lap easily without a stiff book or magazine under it but it folded small and cradled the Palm III perfectly for easy typing and editing. If this kind of device came [...]
Posted in Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, Collections, Objects, Organization, Tools on Apr 25th, 2010 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I was inspired by Carlo so decided to do a "pocket dump" of things I carry daily. For every "thing" you see here there are numerous others that I bought and tried and put in a drawer because I don’t like them. I have a bunch of watches, a bunch of wallets, numerous [...]
Posted in Social Software, Tools on Apr 6th, 2010 No Comments »
Cool Tools reviews CreateSpace. CreateSpace is for people who want to self publish books, music, or video on Amazon.
Posted in iPhone, Social Software, Tech Stuff, Tools on Mar 25th, 2010 1 Comment »
AT&T MicroCell 3G: Salvation for Your Crappy Reception Is $150, No Strings Attached Buy this decide for $150, connect it to your cable modem and get decent cell phone coverage in your house if you don’t have it already. No monthly fee. This device would allow us to drop our land lines and go all [...]
Posted in People, Stories, Tools, Video on Mar 24th, 2010 5 Comments »
Wonderful story, nicely produced by Jerry Bowen at CBS. The kicker is that Kramer is dyslexic and his struggle with that no doubt routed him into doing things with his hands. [via Jon Moss]
Posted in iPhone, Photography, Tools on Mar 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Viewfinder iPhone app for photographers Luminous Landscape has a nice review of this iPhone app that helps in framing and composing before the shot so one can better know which lens to put on a camera to get the right angle of view. Cinematographers use tools like this all the time and many photographers have [...]
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