Since my devistating review of the Camangi WebStation I’ve had some time to think about what my vision is for the soon to be announced Apple tablet. This isn’t a prediction of what I think it will be, but rather a look at what I hope it will be. Of course I originally wrote this…
Tag: mac
WWDC T-Minus 4 Weeks
With less than 30 days until WWDC I’m starting to get anxious about what new Apple iGadgets might (or might not) be released. Will Steve Jobs be back from his curious sick leave to unveil the next big thing? Or will it be another disappointing and uneventful keynote? The rumors have certainly been flowing recently…
Goodbye Old G5 – You Served Me Well
This week I sold my old G5 along with a 23″ Cinema Wide Display, a BlackMagic card, Sonnet Tempo eSata card, and a Sonnet Fusion 500P populated with 5 x 500GB hard drives. It was a complete edit system including lots of fast storage, but as part of my “out with the old – in…
Sony ‘Webbie HD’ MHS-CM1 Full Review
One of the coolest little products I saw at CES was the Webbie HD camera from Sony. While I’m not a fan of the name (the manual calls it the Mobile HD Snap which is much better), this pocket sized tapeless cam shoots 30-frame HD video at either 720P or 1080P. It’s clearly targeted to…
Catch 22: ATI Radeon HD 3870 install
Apparently I’m not the only one with a blown ATI X1900. It might be because I never cleaned out the dust build up. My card was worse than the one shown at xlr8yourmac (see link). This week my monitors started turning off after a few minutes of use. Upon inspection we found a small burn…
My MacBook Pro Battery Ruptured!
I’ve been working day and night over the holiday weekend on my iphone app. I suppose normally I would just close my laptop lid in between sessions but this weekend I was trying to stay motivated to keep working. So my laptop was left on most all weekend. Two important points: One is that I’ve…
Out with the old, in with the new – part 4
The other day I discussed Apple’s move to DisplayPort on the new MacBooks. Â Their other big news was that they completely dropped firewire on the MacBook, and only have firewire 800 on MacBook Pros. In blogger terms this is old news (over a week ago) and has already been discussed to death by many other…
Is AVCHD useful?
You may have noticed this ad on my sidebar for the Sony HD-RTG1. Â I hand picked that ad because it seemed like a great semi-pro video camera. Â It is reasonably priced, records HD video to a memory stick, and is small enough to fit in your pocket. Â It might not be as professional as a…
Hard drive install time lapse
In keeping with the current theme, here’s a video of me installing a new hard drive in a G4 Powerbook. At the start of the video all the screws had already been taken out. This was my wife’s couch computer. Â I sold it to a buddy for almost enough to completely pay for it’s replacement:…