Archive for the 'Hardware' Category

Camera phones are not cameras

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Fooled by marketing – again
A lot of people believe that their camera phone is actually a camera. They assume that a mobile phone with 3.2 megapixels and a Carl Zeiss lens is a great camera.
Film based cameras compared to digital cameras
I think it is fair to compare an analogue and a digital Single-Lens Reflex (SLR) [...]

Make your portable mac behave differently in different locations

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

image © Apple
Different places, different needs
Startup Items lets you open the same applications every time you log in, but that is not necessarily what you want. I have different uses for my MacBook Pro depending on where I am, and I want different programs started and different servers mounted at work than I do at [...]

Insomniac Mac

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

Technology often acts really strange, and sometimes makes us act strange too.
My three year old Powerbook G4 suddenly got into the habit of turning itself off a few seconds after I turned it on. Technical support told me it’s probably a failure in the power management unit that makes it sensitive to heat.
Since I was [...]