A while back I wrote about my initial impressions of my new iPhone 3GS. One of main reasons for upgrading was the touted improved call quality associated with the 3G models, but in my article I lamented that the improvement seemed nominal at best, from my cursory tests. I also noted that this would take [...]
So we had yet another calamity in the Systems Boy household last week: A hard drive failure in a four year old, 15″ PowerBook. Oddly, a workmate had the exact same thing happen to him within days of our catastrophe. In fact, there’s been all manner of hardware failure in recent days. I know that [...]
I think the Voice Control screen on my new iPhone is damn pretty. I doubt I’ll use it much as it tends not to work as well in noisy areas, and I live in one of the noisiest areas on the planet. But there’s one nice touch that might make the feature that much more [...]
Here’s a fun one: Tap the microphone image in the Voice Memos application in iPhone OS 3.0 and the virtual VU meter will respond. The peak light will even flash red, just like a real recorder attached to a real mic. Blowing into the screen will do nothing, however.
Taking the iPhone 3GS on the subway will repeatedly get its compass all out of whack. It sits and spins in all directions. Eventually it produces this screen: I don’t know how the compass works in the phone. But I’d venture a guess that the big, giant electrified track might have something to do with [...]
Much of the press surrounding the iPhone 3GS deals with whether or not this is a compelling upgrade to the 3G iPhone. No one is really comparing it much to the 1st Generation iPhone, which is what I’m upgrading from. Some write-ups are describing the iPhone 3GS as “evolutionary, but not revolutionary.” Funny, ’cause that [...]
Or is it Hudzee? A friend of mine is trying his hand at product creation. Based on his 15+ years of systems experience in the world of commercial video production he’s determined a burgeoning need for storage storage: a case for your hard drives. See, hard drives have become so cheap that they’re actually the [...]
Hello, and happy Mother’s Day! My mom recently switched over to the Mac platform, and she wanted to take a photo for me. I told her she could use the built-in iSight camera and PhotoBooth on her MacBook Pro to take the shot, but she couldn’t figure out how to do it. No problem, Mom. [...]
Burn Folders are special folders you can create in the Mac OS X Finder for burning data to optical media — CDs and DVDs. But the way they’re implemented can be confusing, and that confusion can lead to data loss. Fortunately, there are ways to recover. Creating a Burn Folder is easy; simply choose “New [...]
I really like my Apple aluminum keyboard. I really do. It’s compact and attractive, and hairs don’t get all caught in it, or if they do you can’t see them. The keyboard is springy and resistive; it’s got a really nice feel to it. Unless, of course, you’ve just walked up to it across a [...]