IR Speeds Hit 1Gbps
Truth be told that the IR (Infared) port on my PDA’s and old laptops never saw much use since it was painfully slow to actually do anything via IR, and with Bluetooth and WiFi dominating the wireless transfer airwaves why would anyone bother with that old IR technology? KDDI R&D Laboratories are about to change [...]
MacHeist – 12 Days Left
The uber-ly popular MacHeist is back, and you only have 12 days left. For those of you who don’t know what MacHeist is, it’s a way to purcahse a bunch of apps together at one low price. Based on the number of packages that are purchased more applications are unlocked for your loving. For example [...]
Automator Image Tweaking
When you write for a blog one of the most time consuming things you do, besides actually working on the text, is to work on images. Resizing, cropping, etc.. The guys at tuaw have come up with a pretty easy step by step on creating an Automator plugin that will allow you to manipulate images [...]
RAID Primer
Now that some of us got shinny new external hard drive units that support RAID I figured we might as well go through a basic RAID primer for all so everyone know the difference between 1, 0, and 5, I know it gets confusing. With technology advancing at lightening speeds what was once only available [...]
416GB Solid State Drive
BitMicro just announced the new E-Disk Altima, it squeezes 416GB into a laptop friendly 2.5 inch enclosure. The drive will operate 24/7 and can withstand temperatures between -40 to 185 while keeping a sustained read/write speed of 100MB/sec. Currently the drive is marketed to the Military. A cost effective 640GB solid state drive isn’t going [...]
Asustek BC-1205PT Blu-Ray Drive
The Asustek BC-1205PT Blu-ray drive speeds up next generation DVD recording, capable of burning in data at 12X DVD+/- write, 4X DVD+/-R (dual layer) and 5X DVD-RAM speeds. This is made possible by a SATA interface that offers users with five times faster data transmission rates compared to DMA33 standards. You will be able to [...]
New standard for Memory Cards
Some of the industry heavy weights in flash based memory have come together to standardize removable memory cards and the technology embedded in them. Micron Technology, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Spansion, STM and TI have passed the chore on to JEDEC Solid State Technology Association with the new spec to be called Universal Flash Storage [...]
USB 3.0 to promise 5 Gbps
Remember the days of transferring data via serial or parallel? Those immensely slow speeds that we dreaded to deal with. Pretty soon we will look back at USB 2.0 and say the same thing. The new proposed USB 3.0 spec, which should be out in 2008, promises backward compatibility with USB 1.1 and 2.0. By [...]
26.25 Gigaflop Super Computer – $1256
I always feel the need to speed up the process of backup my my dvd’s and encoding them with DVD:RIP, I’m sure this bad boy would make it fly. Calvin College student Tim Brom built, from scratch, a 26.25 gigaflop supercomputer that runs off of a single wall outlet for about $1200. The supercomputer, called [...]
iMobimac: Finally tethering for the Blackberry
The loud cries of the Mac Blackberry faithful have finally been heard. Where is our dial-up networking? We are paying for data service on these things called Blackberries and it’s EVDO, and everyone else is doing it, why not us? Now you could tether the unit in Windows via Parallels or VMWare fusion, but it’s [...]
Handbrake 0.9 Out The Door
One of my favorite video converting application for the Mac, Handbrake, has just been upgraded to 0.9.0. New in this version is a “re-envisioned†interface for the Mac OS X and a completely rebuilt UI for Windows. Picture quality has also been improved quite a bit through some neat new effect; filters and deinterlacing techniques. [...]
First Looks: VMWare Fusion
In preparation for my monthly trips to Vancouver to appear on the Lab with Leo I installed the latest and greatest for the Mac from VMWare, Fusion. Suffice to say that only using this product for only the past 12 hours has already lead me to completely remove my install of Parallels. Now don’t get [...]
