Category: Hardware

iPad’s in Space?

The Register has pointed out that an Swiss Television show named “Einstein” wanted to see if an iPad would be able to correctly handle it’s screen rotation in “Zero G”.  So they hired an “Vomit Comet” flight to prove how well it works… Well, it’s safe to say that an Accelerometer needs to have gravity […]

Interface to an Alarm (Ademco, Vista, First Alert, etc)

Interfacing Indigo with an Alarm system (Ademco, Vista, First Alert, etc)…. Instead of hardware hacking, this thread discusses was to use off the shelf hardware with your Home Automation & Security System. Perceptive Automation – View topic – Interface to an Alarm (Ademco, Vista, First Alert, etc).

Time Machine Stalls?

So far, so good…  I had an issue with a Western Digital External Firewire 400 Mybook 500Gb drive…  After a few days, it would seemingly “go to sleep” and not always wake up properly for a Time Machine Backup… Time Machine would start processing, but continue on indefinitely, and would get “stuck” in the backup… […]

Apple Fires another salvo at Adobe…

Well, Apple has finally decided enough is enough, and publicly sent another Salvo towards Adobe’s broadsides….  And Adobe might just be happy about this one. Apple makes hardware video decoding available to developers In 10.6.3, Apple has now made a new “Video Decode Acceleration Framework” available.  What does that mean?  Adobe’s number one reason why […]

Fourth Generation iPhone Sees Light of Day

World of Apple has a summary about the Fourth Generation iPhone Leak. Overall, the only surprising item is the resolution of the screen, it’s huge, at 960×460.  But the imrpvoed battery, front facing video camera, camera flash, etc….  That’s been pretty much expected for a while, and are just evolutionary improvements…