The USB cable alone will not charge the handheld from the computer, you must attach the AC cord.
One would hope they had a good reason for this decision.
Friday, October 15, 2004
palmOne Tungsten T5 Handheld will not charge via USB cable
PalmInfocenter.com: palmOne Tungsten T5 Handheld Review
One would hope they had a good reason for this decision.
One would hope they had a good reason for this decision.
Thursday, October 14, 2004
macosxhints - 10.3: Skip disk image checksum verification
macosxhints - 10.3: Skip disk image checksum verification
I did this. Does seem faster. Oddly my network drive mounts seem faster too, but I assume that's an illusion ...
defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify true
I did this. Does seem faster. Oddly my network drive mounts seem faster too, but I assume that's an illusion ...
iMac G5 - upgrading the bundled drive
iMac G5: "I recently purchased a iMac G5 from Amazon using the link from your site. I plan on upgrading the hard drive when it arrives and it appears to use a standard SATA 3.5' drive. Has anyone else upgraded the hard disk in their G5 and if so whose product did they use?
[Apple's 160GB drive for the 20' model is a Seagate ST3160023AS, the same drive used in some Power Mac G5 models. There may be faster drives available, however. -MacInTouch]"
[Apple's 160GB drive for the 20' model is a Seagate ST3160023AS, the same drive used in some Power Mac G5 models. There may be faster drives available, however. -MacInTouch]"
RDC 1.0.3 is out (Mac to Windows remote control)
MacInTouch Home Page
RDC is one of Microsoft's most impressive works, one of the few areas they lead in.
Microsoft's free Remote Desktop Connection Client 1.0.3 enables Mac OS X (10.2.8 and up) to connect to a Windows-based computer running Terminal Services or Remote Desktop Services and work with programs and files on that computer. According to Microsoft, the new version includes the following changes:
Remote Desktop Connection Client 1.0.3 for Mac provides improved stability when you minimize the client window and when you copy and paste data from the client window to Macintosh applications. Stability is also improved for users of Mac OS X 10.3 and later, and when Remote Desktop Connection Client is used on Macintosh computers with PowerPC G5 processors.
RDC is one of Microsoft's most impressive works, one of the few areas they lead in.
Slashdot | Tracing the Evolution of Social Software (Collaborative tools)
Slashdot | Tracing the Evolution of Social Software
We need a new study -- the archeology of software. There's immense invention and richness in the world of pre-1990 software -- most of it lost and forgotten. This is the beginning of understanding what's been done.
We need a new study -- the archeology of software. There's immense invention and richness in the world of pre-1990 software -- most of it lost and forgotten. This is the beginning of understanding what's been done.
Google Desktop Search Download
Google Desktop Search Download
I've been waiting months for this ...
Update: Ok, so it's a bit disappointing. No way to control where the index file is stored. It doesn't seem to index anything but the c: drive (that's quite surprising, maybe something is wrong ...). Doesn't seem to index even a mounted drive-file associated network share. Oddly enough, some VPN software is incompatible with GDS.
Yeah, it's "beta", but Google's so-called "Beta" software is generally pretty good.
There's a good chance, however, it will improve quickly.
I've been waiting months for this ...
Update: Ok, so it's a bit disappointing. No way to control where the index file is stored. It doesn't seem to index anything but the c: drive (that's quite surprising, maybe something is wrong ...). Doesn't seem to index even a mounted drive-file associated network share. Oddly enough, some VPN software is incompatible with GDS.
Yeah, it's "beta", but Google's so-called "Beta" software is generally pretty good.
There's a good chance, however, it will improve quickly.
Retrospect 6.5 - creating a disaster recovery CD
There's a link on Dantz's web site for creating an OS X boot CD:
http://kb.dantz.com/display/2n/index.asp?c=&cpc=&cid=&cat=&catURL=&r=0.6419031
A tutorial on preparing a disaster recovery CD for Windows 6.5 pro:
http://kb.dantz.com/display/2n/index.asp?c=&cpc=&cid=&cat=&catURL=&r=0.6419031
And these directions: Retrospect 6.5 - creating a disaster recovery CD
http://kb.dantz.com/display/2n/index.asp?c=&cpc=&cid=&cat=&catURL=&r=0.6419031
A tutorial on preparing a disaster recovery CD for Windows 6.5 pro:
http://kb.dantz.com/display/2n/index.asp?c=&cpc=&cid=&cat=&catURL=&r=0.6419031
And these directions: Retrospect 6.5 - creating a disaster recovery CD
Creating a Disaster Recovery CD : Retrospect’s Disaster Recovery preparation wizard can save a CD image file which you can later use with CD-R authoring and recording software to create a CD. The file is an image of a CD in the ISO 9660 format, which all popular authoring software can use to record, or "burn," a CD. Though most authoring software has the capability to burn a disc from an ISO image, some programs do not have an intuitive user interface for this feature and some programs poorly document this feature. The following is documentation for the most popular CD authoring software, detailing how to burn a disaster recovery CD from the image file saved by Retrospect.
Easy CD Creator (Adaptec/Roxio): Start Easy CD Creator and cancel any wizard that appears. From the File menu, choose Open CD Layout. In the file selection dialog, change the shown file type from Easy CD Creator to All Files, navigate to the disaster recovery ISO image, select it, and click Open. In the CD Creation Setup window which appears, select your desired CD recorder, leave the write speed and options as they are, and click OK to begin recording your disc.
CD Extreme (Sony): Start CD Extreme. At the default CD Starter window, click on the CD Extreme button/combo box in the lower right to go into the full application. From the File menu’s New Job submenu, choose Global-Image or Other Image. Click the ’...’ button at the far right of the Disk Image File area. In the file selection dialog, change the shown file type to Other Image, navigate to the disaster recovery ISO image, select it, and click Open. Click the Burn button to begin recording your disc.
Nero Burning Rom (Ahead Software): Start Nero and close the new compilation window, file browser window, and any wizard that appears. Choose Burn Image from the File menu. In the file selection dialog, change the shown file type to All Files, navigate to the disaster recovery ISO image, select it, and click Open. Click OK if Nero informs you it does not recognize the format of the image file. Nero presents its Foreign image settings dialog, which should have default settings of Data Mode 1, block size 2048 bytes, other values zero, and boxes unchecked. Click OK to work with these settings for the ISO image. Nero presents the Write CD window. Click Write to begin recording your disc.
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Speak like an Sciencefictian
Boing Boing: A talented speech therapist attended ...
Science fiction fans are alleged to have a characteristic pattern of speech. Sounds like geek/engineer speak to me. Guilty thereof.
Science fiction fans are alleged to have a characteristic pattern of speech. Sounds like geek/engineer speak to me. Guilty thereof.
Points for Safari over Firefox/Mozilla
Faughnan-Lagace Herald: Local and International News
Safari is often criticized for being less standards compliant than Firefox/Mozilla, but on this page it wins out. Both Safari and IE correctly refresh the iframe-embedded page, Firefox/Mozilla caches it until one manually clears the FF cache.
Now if Safari would only render recursive menu tags in a reasonable fashion ...
Safari is often criticized for being less standards compliant than Firefox/Mozilla, but on this page it wins out. Both Safari and IE correctly refresh the iframe-embedded page, Firefox/Mozilla caches it until one manually clears the FF cache.
Now if Safari would only render recursive menu tags in a reasonable fashion ...
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
USB Bluetooth Adapter (Class 2) - $40
USB Bluetooth Adapter (Class 2)
Reasonably compact. Still likely to get whacked off the side of a laptop. They might as well bundle it with some memory (thumb drive) given the size and shape.
Reasonably compact. Still likely to get whacked off the side of a laptop. They might as well bundle it with some memory (thumb drive) given the size and shape.
Apple selling used machines as new?
MacInTouch Home Page: "used Apple computers are apparently being sold as new ones"
Sounds like the problems were not subtle. I wonder if this is legal. Macintouch is collecting stories.
Sounds like the problems were not subtle. I wonder if this is legal. Macintouch is collecting stories.
Monday, October 11, 2004
Limitation of Apple's OS X setup Assistant system migration utility: Kernel Extensions
MacInTouch Home Page
Following up on issues with Apple's new Setup Assistant (included with the iMac G5, Power Mac G5, and other new Macs), we realized that it has at least one critical limitation: When you use it to migrate from another Mac system, even one that's up to date with the latest Mac OS X software, Setup Assistant apparently excludes kernel extensions ('.kext'), causing certain applications to fail. A perfect example is PGP Disk, which needs /Library/Extensions/PGPdiskDriver.kext to function. Another is Kensington's MouseWorks.
You'll have to manually re-install these applications, but it's not obvious which they are. You can search for 'kext' in the Finder, which is a start. You can dig deeper using Terminal to issue Unix commands. For example, you can type
kextstat -k
to list active kernel extensions. ('kextload' and 'kextunload' provide dynamic control over the loading and unloading of kernel extensions, but dependencies among extensions could create technical issues that may be very tricky to navigate.)
Digital Photo Copy Cruiser Plus: Burn CDs of images
Digital Photo Copy Cruiser Plus
One of the big fears of traveling with a digital camera is losing images -- especially if one doesn't also travel with a laptop, or one doesn't have a CD burner in the laptop. (The latter is rare now, but sadly I bought my G3 iBook without a CD burner. I really ought to start looking for used G4 iBook or even another G3 with a CD burner ...)
There are several products like this emerging -- probably all using innards for the same Taiwanese/Chinese manufacturers. They make it possible to travel with a digital camera and without a laptop. They are particularly appealing because they have their own internal LiOn battery.
The idea is that every few days one burns two CDs from every memory card, then erases the card. Mail one CD home and keep one with you. (Distributing images to friends at parties/etc is probably another "feature", not sure how well that would work in practice.)
Next best thing is to have an iPod to backup images on -- especially if one travels with an iPod anyway. Problem is current iPods require an expensive, bulky, and kludgy add-on to pull in digital images. I hope the next generation iPod will work with any memory card reader or mini-USB camera connector. We'll see -- Apple has has had a surprising amount of trouble figuring out digital images (witness their underfunding of iPhoto development).
There are other hard drive image stores, analogous to the iPod, but like the iPod they are not as safe as mailing CDs. Luggage does get stolen.
This is going on my "to consider" shopping list. I may wait until the price competition gets fierce -- or until they incorporate a DVD burner as well. I will also look for a manufacturer who gets the "power brick right" including. They key thing will be either:
1. recharge via USB 2 cable (there are lots of compact USB 2 charging devices on the market).
2. have a very compact and elegant power brick (but #1 is better).
Most vendors of these sorts of devices mess up on the power brick/adapter/charger.
So things to look for:
1. replaceable or standard LiOn battery (such things exist - as in digital cameras. Wouldn't it be radical for such a device to use the same LiOn battery the camera used? Nahhh.).
2. external compact LiOn charger or USB 2.0 charger
3. DVD burning support (futuristic, takes more power, more complex, etc.)
One of the big fears of traveling with a digital camera is losing images -- especially if one doesn't also travel with a laptop, or one doesn't have a CD burner in the laptop. (The latter is rare now, but sadly I bought my G3 iBook without a CD burner. I really ought to start looking for used G4 iBook or even another G3 with a CD burner ...)
There are several products like this emerging -- probably all using innards for the same Taiwanese/Chinese manufacturers. They make it possible to travel with a digital camera and without a laptop. They are particularly appealing because they have their own internal LiOn battery.
The idea is that every few days one burns two CDs from every memory card, then erases the card. Mail one CD home and keep one with you. (Distributing images to friends at parties/etc is probably another "feature", not sure how well that would work in practice.)
Next best thing is to have an iPod to backup images on -- especially if one travels with an iPod anyway. Problem is current iPods require an expensive, bulky, and kludgy add-on to pull in digital images. I hope the next generation iPod will work with any memory card reader or mini-USB camera connector. We'll see -- Apple has has had a surprising amount of trouble figuring out digital images (witness their underfunding of iPhoto development).
There are other hard drive image stores, analogous to the iPod, but like the iPod they are not as safe as mailing CDs. Luggage does get stolen.
This is going on my "to consider" shopping list. I may wait until the price competition gets fierce -- or until they incorporate a DVD burner as well. I will also look for a manufacturer who gets the "power brick right" including. They key thing will be either:
1. recharge via USB 2 cable (there are lots of compact USB 2 charging devices on the market).
2. have a very compact and elegant power brick (but #1 is better).
Most vendors of these sorts of devices mess up on the power brick/adapter/charger.
So things to look for:
1. replaceable or standard LiOn battery (such things exist - as in digital cameras. Wouldn't it be radical for such a device to use the same LiOn battery the camera used? Nahhh.).
2. external compact LiOn charger or USB 2.0 charger
3. DVD burning support (futuristic, takes more power, more complex, etc.)
Sunday, October 10, 2004
Google AdSense - Preview Tool FAQ
Google AdSense - Preview Tool FAQ
AdSense providers aren't allowed to click on AdSense ads; this preview tool does get around that. Unfortunately it's IE only (yech). Google needs to get away from all these IE only solutions.
The Google AdSense preview tool is an addition to the right-click menu for Windows Internet Explorer 6.x, allowing you to preview the ads that may show on any web page. With just a few clicks, you can see what ads may appear on your new web pages, or make an educated decision on whether to add AdSense to your existing site pages.
Other features include:
Check the destination of ads that are on your page: ads displayed in the preview tool are in a test state, so you don't have to worry about accidentally clicking on an ad. Clicks and impressions are not counted against the ads that display within the preview tool.
View sample ad formats and colors: create previews of formats and color combinations within the preview tool. Choose from 2 different preview formats, plus a 12 ad spread that allows you to view more available ads at once.
Preview colors on your page: the 'Preview' feature of the Color Options menu allows you to see what new color combinations would look like on existing AdSense standard ad units, right on the page. By simply selecting new border, background, or text colors from the preview tool, and clicking "Preview," the new colors will be temporarily applied to the standard ad unit currently on your page.
Geo-targeted locations: select the geo-targeted location from which to view ads, allowing you to see what users in Canada will see, even if you live in Japan.
AdSense providers aren't allowed to click on AdSense ads; this preview tool does get around that. Unfortunately it's IE only (yech). Google needs to get away from all these IE only solutions.
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