Jun 20, 2010
Not quite. But the concept is alive and well. Apple’s magsafe power connectors are a good thing, allowing your power cord to disconnect itself from an attached device when you trip over that device’s power cord. In Britain, designer Konstantinos Ladas has developed a concept using an internally reinforced cable along with a PVC housing that lets...
Jun 20, 2010
Yep, it had to happen: Apple’s App Store, that well known protector of public morals, has decided that one of the world’s greatest ever writers needs to be censored. Belgian artist Tim Bouden created a graphic novel back in 2001; this was based upon the Oscar Wilde play, ‘The Importance of Being Earnest.’. Bouden turned the play into a...
Jun 20, 2010
Microsoft have reminded us – which means everybody – that support for XP with Service Pack 2 ends on July 13. That’s just a couple of weeks away. Please move on to Service Pack 3. Or Windows 7.
Nov 23, 2009
Olympus are trying very hard to push their entries in the four thirds marketplace, and with their recently released entry into the micro four thirds space, they have revived the now fifty years old Pen name, bringing forth the Olympus Pen E-P1 Micro Four Thirds Camera. The camera is available with either or both of a 17mm “Pancake” lens and a 14-42mm...
Nov 19, 2009
Ever since installing the Windows 7 RTM build, I have been unable to have that system automatically log on to an assigned mapped drive on my MacBook. Until now. The basic concept is that from Windows Explorer, you want to map a networked drive, and retain that mapped network drive so that it is persistent through multiple reboots and logins to that system. The...