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First Look: Mocha VNC Lite {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 21st 2008 6:59PM Can't get it to work--Keeps timing out. I have screen sharing set up in sys prefs and I'm running the latest OSX running. How do I try different ports on the Mac side? (It's obvious how to change them on the iPhone.)
10.5.4 is in Software Update Now! {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 1st 2008 12:25PM Sheesh--I'm still trying to work out how to resurrect my MacBook's hd after installing the 10.5.3 update a few days ago. I never update unless I have a specific reason to do so. I wanted to run the Spore trial and voila--dead hd. I get the gray Apple and the sprocket and then after about 90 seconds (or so) the machine goes dead. All I had installed on it was Refit. What really pisses me off are two things: 1) I usually back up my system but have just moved from LA to NYC and hadn't unpacked my back up hard drive until a day before I did this (so all of my move photos and video hang in the balance) and 2) if I'd just waited a few days I could have installed 10.5.4 which (I assume) wouldn't have killed my hd.
Ah well, good luck all you daring people! I hope the update works for you all!!
OLPC reshuffles, gets new president and COO {Engadget}
May 5th 2008 10:17PM Tekdroid, the black smudge and the halo? That's the desktop. Sugar is a little different from a windows-based (lower case "w") computer. As a G1G1 donor I know without having ever seen an eeepc in person that Sugar is not a good thing. It may function, but it's hobbled--in my opinion, it doesn't take full advantage of the hardware. I have a Win98 laptop from 1998 with crappier specs that I can do more with.
But Tekdroid, come on--the cool stops once Micro$oft is mentioned? It doesn't matter what you put on the XO--the XO is cool. It was designed to cost $200 to make and that's how much it costs to buy if you're a 3rd world country or NGO or whatever. And they were available to the masses last year (though be glad you didn't get one due to Sugar not being ready for primetime). Other things that are cool about the XO: dual-mode display--I think "real" laptop designers should be ashamed for not doing something similar on all laptops. Seriously.
Battery life is good--I can get 3.5 hours, longer with the with the display in B&W mode (though you'd expect more based on the reputation of the XO). The tablet mode is great--there aren't many other lappies the size of the XO that have a tablet mode (though a touch screen would be BRILLIANT).
Regarding the keyboard, I don't know why everyone expects these things to be indestructible, but mine has yet to fall apart. I do have an issue where the control key sticks, but it unsticks, too.
As for solar/hand charging? I'm with you, but so far no one has come up with a practical alternative for the old wall-sockets. The XO takes *just* too much power to utilize one of those Solios and even if it could take power from one, it'd take all damn day to charge.
I just wish people could give OLPC the credit they deserve for, first, designing a cool little laptop like the XO and, second, doing a great job of drawing attention to their cause. Inexpensive laptops for poor folks. Personally, I believe that countries that can't afford to pay for paper and pencils, *should* buy XOs so that all they need to worry about is providing energy--which a lot of 3rd world areas manage to get for their TVs.
Is OLPC or the XO perfect? Nope. But show me one company that has had as positive an effect on the world.
Survey finds 37% of Gen Y-ers text while driving {Engadget}
May 2nd 2008 4:09PM This is a damn scary thing considering at least one study found even hands-free *talking* on a cell phone is still like driving drunk. Just put the damn cell phone down, man--nothing you could do is so important it can't wait until you get where you're going. If it is, pull the car over.
Or don't, it's just Darwin's "theory" in action.
Video: Digital Cowboy's spy pen camcorder {Engadget}
Apr 25th 2008 4:31AM Yeah, what they don't tell you is that the pen is actually the size of a bottle of wine.
How about a shot of the camera pen in the mirror for scale, 007? Hmmm?
That *is* some hot pussy, though...
Redesign giveaway: HTC's new Shift UMPC {Engadget}
Apr 11th 2008 4:42AM This thing would be ideal for transmitting my brainwashing signal into the hearts and minds of Terrans everywhere, making my conquest of your puny plan--
Ahem--Why, I would LOVE one of those, THANK you!
o_0
Happy birthday: take a trip in America's largest flying gadget (part 5) {Engadget}
Mar 28th 2008 2:51AM Congratulations on 4 years of Engaging Gadget blogging!!
Happy birthday: take a trip in America's largest flying gadget (part 4) {Engadget}
Mar 28th 2008 2:51AM Congratulations on 4 years of Engaging Gadget blogging!!
Happy birthday: take a trip in America's largest flying gadget (part 3) {Engadget}
Mar 28th 2008 2:50AM Congratulations on 4 years of Engaging Gadget blogging!!
Happy birthday: take a trip in America's largest flying gadget (part 3) {Engadget}
Mar 28th 2008 2:49AM Congratulations on 4 years of Engaging Gadget blogging!!
