La Cie and Thunderbolt. If you depend on moving a lot of data around and are looking for ways to move it faster then the Thunderbolt technology (formerly Light Peak) is something that should be of interest to you. Companies and individuals who work in the area of video editing and transfer will be one of the first groups that will take advantage of the Thunderbolt technology. The Thunderbolt technology was developed by Intel in collaboration with Apple. The technology supports both data and display protocols simultaneously over a single cable. The Thunderbolt technology outperforms all other method of transfers by a mile. Task that previously took a workstation will soon be performed on a consumer compact device. The new Macbook Pro is the first computer to take advantage of this technology.
“Thunderbolt technology is a breakthrough in I/O technology and represents the future of mobile computing. How to Embedding Task List on Mac Desktop. I was looking for a way to create a todo list that I could add to quickly and see on my Mac desktop. I have manage to cobble together a method that is working for me . It is a work in progress but I thought other people might find it interesting. It does require the following items. Todo.tx, Dropbox and Geektools are all free. Textexpander is $34.95 and is well worth the price. For the purpose of this article I am going to assume you already have Dropbox and Textexpander installed and set up. Todo.txt is an open source application an is available through Github . Tell application “Finder” activate application "Terminal" delay 30 quit application "Terminal" end tell The number after delay indicates how long the Terminal will stay open, you can adjust that number to your liking.
If you just want to easily create a task list and don’t need it on your desktop then Geektool is unnecessary , I just like having my task right in front of me. News360 a Review. Review of AirPlay on the iPad. IOS 4.3 is now available for download through iTunes . One of the things that came with the update was enhanced AirPlay. Which not only allows you to play iPad videos on your Apple TV as it did before, but it now also allows you to share your Itunes library including videos to your iPad, iPhone (3GS and 4) and iPod Touch. One of the coolest new features is the enhanced Airplay. Prior to this you could send video from your iPad to a T.V. that is connected to an Apple TV.
The enhancement is now you can share your Itunes library on your iPad. To get this to work there are a couple of things that you will need to do. Once you have everything set up on your computer, you are ready to set things up on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. There are a couple of things that I did notice at this point. Banana TV. Trunk.ly or Memolane: Two Ways to Save Your Online Life. Ten Must Have Iphone Applications. I suspect that many people have gotten Iphones for Christmas, after doing the set up the first thing you want to do is install some applications.
You click on the Application button on the Iphone and then you freeze, because you have no idea which ones are the best. You could go by the top 25 list, but remember these are the top 25 most popular, not the top 25 best applications. You can also go by how applications are rated, however people are more likely to a rate an application negatively they dislike then they are to do a positive rating of one they love. The best way to find out which applications might be best for you is to ask your social circle both on line and off which applications they like best and why.
This is my top 10 list of applications for the Iphone. Sharing PicturesInstagram (Instagram) Take a picture or choose one from your album. Whether you like an application or not is often a matter of personal preference. 24hr Podcast. Cr48 a Gift from Google. Yesterday afternoon an unexpected package arrived by UPS from Google, inside was the cr48.
After installing the battery and attaching the power cord. I lifted the lid of the lap top and the Chrome logo appeared I entered my Google account information to register. I then watched a brief tutorial. After the tutorial the chrome browser appears. This is your world on this computer, there is no desktop , no file system everything you do is through the browser. There are a couple of problems I ran into right away and I wanted to discuss them in this post. The first problem I ran into was how I was going to upload a picture I took of it with my Iphone, on my Mac I either email it too myself and then drag it too my desktop or I add them too my Iphoto library when I sync. Beside the usb port and SD card slot there is a headphone jack on the right and side of the computer.
I do like the computer I am still in the process of learning how things work. Untitled. Like many families now, it’s not unusual for everyone to be using the wi-fi network at home at the same time. Game consoles, tablets, media players and smart TVs all take their share of the data stream, and with the potential for multiple HD streams, the wireless takes a real hammering. In response to this demand, 11ac wireless uses dual frequencies and multiple antennae to get gigabit class data speeds, while still being backwards compatible with the older standards. Under the Archer brand, TP-Link have a range of 11ac routers and modems, starting with twin antennae 750 Mb/s Archer C2 up to the three antennae 1750 Mb/s Archer C7.
TP-Link has kindly sent one of the latter to GNC for review, so I’ll be taking a look at that later. At The Gadget Show, I caught up with Simon from TP-Link who told me a little about their design philosophy and what they’re aiming for with the new 11ac routers. Podcast (specmedia): Play in new window | Download | Embed This compact charger does it all! Is It Time For An REA for the Internet. The death of Senator Bryd at the age of 92, had me thinking about the technical advances he saw in his life time. That the fight to get those advances to the most people was being fought then and continues to be fought today. The battleground may have changed, but the arguments often repeat themselves. Today, the battle is over what is the best way to get broadband to the most people. In the 1930′s it was electricity. While 90% of all urban residents had electricity by the 1930′s only 10% of rural residence did. Electric companies of that time said it was too expensive to supply electricity to sparsely populated rural areas, that they could not justify the cost.
Rural residents who were lucky enough to have electricity paid rates two times as high as those in urban areas. Despite their unwillingness to build in rural areas, utility companies and their supporters fought against any kind of government involvement, They insisted that the free market would take care of the issue. Wave Goodbye. Google decided last week to give up on Wave as a separate application and integrate some of it into other applications. According to the official Google Blog, Wave was just not attracting enough users to make it viable to continue. A lot has been written on its demise and why it wasn’t successful. Although it wasn’t successful I don’t think it was a failure. I think a lot of what Google learned from wave will show up on in other Google products, like Google docs and Google apps.
Too be honest that was where it probably belonged in the first place. People who loved it and used it said it was a great way for a small group to collaborate. Unfortunately, Google didn’t sell it as a collaboration tool, they sold it as a communication tool, that you could just jump in and use. Google is a great company with a lot of great engineers, but that is also their weakness. The Importance of Linking. I was listening to an audio post by Robert Scoble on Cinch about how increasingly sites are either not using external links at all or are hiding them. This is done in an effort to keep the reader within the website, and increase page hits. As he said this is how the internet was prior to the advent of blogging, when the internet was dominated by a few major websites or walled gardens as they are often called. The introduction of blogs which quickly realized that linking was one way to rise up Google‘s ranks broke these old walled gardens down. Unfortunately, new walled gardens are being recreated often by the same blogs who once torn the original ones down.
Without proper linking it is next to impossible to find and read the original article. As a reader I find this trend troubling, since it makes it difficult if not impossible to find where information originated from. Privacy in a Public World. Facebook rolled out Places late on Aug 18, it allows you to check in where you are through Facebook. In its default mode it also allows your friends to check you in. Lifehacker has a good article on how to adjust your privacy settings for Places to a level you are comfortable with. This again brought out the issue of privacy. Some of the answers to the issue of privacy by those who believe being public is best ranged from impractical to absurd, such as don’t be on these social sites, to change your name, which is what Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt suggested in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. (if you are unable to get the Wall Street Journal article PC world has a good review of it ) On the other side, privacy evangelist can sound like members of a lunatic fringe group, when they talk about things like RFID tags being the work of the devil.
Anytime an application or website is created or changed in a way that affects a person privacy, that change should be made clear and public. The Problem with Real Time Information in the Real World. People today especially those in business, want information as fast as they can get it, the closer to real time the better. The problem is that more information does not equal more knowledge. People often make the mistake of thinking they have too react to the information as fast as they get it. They often do not take the time to separate what is important from what is not. Many people especially those in business expect immediate answers to questions. If those answers are not available immediately, they become angry and frustrated. My husband works for a traditional manufacturing company. It would be nice if this story was unique to the company my husband works for, but I suspect it is not. Dragon Dictation for the Iphone. I have had Dragon Dictation on my Iphone for about a week now and have started to use it more and more.
Dragon Dictation is made by Nuance Communication which also created Dragon Naturally Speaking, Jott Assistant, Jott for Salesforce and MacSpeech among other products. Nuance Communication is actually fairly new to the Apple market, they started as a PC product with Dragon Naturally Speaking. They launched Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search shortly after the Iphone came out. In February 2010 they purchased MacSpeech. Dragon Dictation fits my need very well. Once you have done the dictation, you have the option of sending it directly to Twitter or Facebook from with in the application.
Paper.li Review. HippoRemote Pro. A mouse that I use with one of my computers died and I decided to try the Hippo Remote Pro as a replacement. As a mouse replacement it has both its strength and weaknesses. However if you have a computer set up to play media, it works great. HippoRemote Pro can be downloaded from Itunes, for $4.99, you can get Hippo Remote Lite for free, too try out the basic functions. You can set up the remote to be use either with Windows, Mac or even Linux. There are easy to follow setup directions for each, on line and also on the application itself. HippoRemote Pro, can be used as a simply desktop remote, but its real power is within the different profiles that are available.
Different applications and website have their own profile which are created to get the best out of that application. As might be expected the remote works best with those websites and applications that you would normally use a stand alone remote with, such as YouTube, Pandora, Hulu, among others. The Rise and Fall of Blockbuster. Today I was reading an article that indicated that Blockbuster was in the process of filing chapter 11 bankruptcy, which got me thinking about the how much media delivery has changed in my lifetime and is still changing. When I was growing up in the 60′s if you wanted to see a movie, you had to go to a theater. If you missed it at the theater, it might be years before it would appear in edited form on the TV.
If for some reason you were away at the time it was on and missed it, too bad it might be another year or so before they appeared again. The advantage in this of course is that movies such as Wizard of Oz were a once a year special event, the disadvantage was that it was a once a year event and easy to miss it. When VHS tapes started selling, it was such a big change. Now you could purchase a movie to watch anytime you wanted to However VHS tapes were fairly expensive and fragile, if played over and over again, they would wear out and break easily.
Storify An Attempt to Curate. In the past the record of an events was kept in newspapers, magazines and letters. which are all semi-permanent. Today however events are recorded not only by newspapers and mainstream media, but also by normal people who are not only observers but actual participants in the event. The first report of the airplane landing on the Hudson, was a tweet sent out from someone, who just happened to be in the area. Many Americans first heard about the Chinese earthquake through twitter. The problem is that tweets are by nature fleeting, they roll down a virtual page and disappear, there is nothing permanent about them. So the question becomes first how do we collect this information. Then how do we separate the information about an event that is important from that which is not. Finally how do we organize it.
Storify is available at Storify.com it is invite only beta. So far I like what Storify has done, but there are somethings I wish they would add or change. Victory: Internet Censorship Bill is Delayed, For Now. Public Humiliation: It's Not The Web, It's Us. Can We Please Have a Decent Remote. TiVo Premier. Live Video Stream. Teams : Punkin Chunkin : Discovery Channel. Is democracy necessary for economic success? - The Curious Capitalist - TIME.com. Ron Paul Questions Fed Authority, Vows Another "Audit the Fed" Effort.
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