Recent Comments:
Sprint and Intel signing up Baltimore-area XOHM testers {Engadget}
Sep 24th 2008 4:58PM I recently moved to Baltimore and I would say they chose Baltimore because it is a large enough urban center to test it but not so large that it would overwhelm them. Baltimore city has about 650,000 residents and when you add in the 'burbs it adds up to about 2.5 million.
iPhone 2.1 update: the aftermath {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 14th 2008 9:49AM Battery life is greatly improved but I have issues with Safari crashing on sites that are overly complex with Javascript or input boxes. I didn't really notice any performance increases, the settings screen still takes too long to load (shouldn't it be instantanious?)
I've always had full signal at my house so I don't really know about signal strength but I haven't had any dropped calls in the few that I've made since the update. I had several frustrating ones just walking around Baltimore's Inner Harbor with full signal and after about 8 mins of talk the call just dropped.
iPhone 2.1 update: the aftermath {Engadget}
Sep 14th 2008 9:24AM Yes, I've had many issues with Safari too. I have had several sites that use lots of JavaScript crash Safari.
I can forgive some of that for the greatly improved battery life though.
Are you affected by MobileMe mail outage? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 21st 2008 11:24AM This wouldn't be so bad if it were a free service but when you pay $99/yr for a service you expect it to have 99.9% uptime. I don't have enough computers to make MobileMe worthwile and even if I did I think I would be a little reluctant to fork over that much money for Twitter like service.
The BlackBoard Pro {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
May 22nd 2008 8:36AM I can't imagine the chalk dust being too friendly to the CPU heat sink. That's why most classrooms nowadays have whiteboards- so that chalk dust isn't caking the insides of computers.
Ask TUAW: Optical out, default Docks, dual wifi networks, virtualization and more {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Feb 8th 2008 6:23PM Marcos,
even though 802.11n, and g are backwards compatible they will fall back to the lowest common denominator. Meaning, if there is even just one computer using G on the network the whole network slows down to G speeds (54 Mbps), or even worse, if a B device connects everything slows down to B speeds (11 Mbps). That's why it is smart to separate them or upgrade all of the hardware to N (which is not always feasable nor economical).
And Ben, I was just about to point out what you said, good job!
Ask TUAW: Announcing Caller ID, Time Machine, iTunes syncing, Bonjour and more {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jan 5th 2008 1:51AM I have a question:
I'm trying to clone my hard drive in preparation for Leopard (which I'll hopefully be getting for my soon to come birthday). I've used all of the usual programs such as Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper as well as Disk Utility and Disk Utility booted from a Tiger DVD.
My problem is that after a few minutes I get an I/O error and none of the programs are able to continue. At first I thought it might have been because my external hard drive was formatted with FAT32 so I changed it to HFS Journal and I still get the same results.
Any thoughts, anyone?
Xbox Live suffering from major outage. On Christmas weekend. Ouch. {Engadget}
Dec 23rd 2007 2:25AM The prepaid cards to buy Live subscriptions are also not working. When purchasing the cards they can't be activated by the register. I called in about it and I got some explanation that it went down because of a storm somewhere and there's no eta on a fix.
Phosphor E Ink watch giveaway (part 2) {Engadget}
Dec 20th 2007 12:53PM Please?
Best Buy kicks analog TVs to the curb {Engadget}
Oct 17th 2007 2:23PM Walmart changed all of their tv's to digital tuner models back in May. No big news here.
