Inevitable installation glitches and bug reports are flowing in for the OS X 10.7 Lion release. Here’s a brief rundown of the issues I’ve heard about around the scratching post.
OS X Lion Installation Issues And Bugs Prove Nobody’s Purrfect
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Jolicloud Brings Cloud Computing To Vintage Computers
The folks at Jolicloud have put together a front-end desktop consisting of third-party, web-based applications and tools, that can make even your netbook a relevant computer again.
Create Collaborative Concerts And Master Multi-user Music
Many years ago, I bought my first MIDI capable music synthesizer and realized that the MIDI standard was essentially the glue that would attach computers to musical instruments, opening up a world of new possibilities for musicians. Not only did it allow a computer system with a full-screen monitor, keyboard, and mouse to become the […]
Haptic Feedback Asks Can You Feel Me Now?
Every touchscreen smartphone user has experienced it by now: the sudden realization that it’s impossible to manually dial a number without looking at the display. Until now, the only sensory feedback we’ve been able to get from touchscreen-enabled devices (besides audio-visual) has been crude vibrations generated by small motors inside the units. Several companies are […]
There’s A Charge In The Air About WiTricity
The concept of inductive charging has been around for a little while now. (The Palm Pre launched with such a feature, and battery manufacturers Duracell and Eveready offer their own inductive chargers to use with various electronic devices.) The goal, of course, is to eliminate extra wires and clutter. So, when the Wall Street Journal […]
Opening The “Bag Of Hurt” With Blu-ray Discs And Mac OS X
Despite Apple Macs still not including Blu-ray disc capable drives and Steve Jobs’s famous statement from late 2008, claiming the technology amounted to a “bag of hurt”, OS X users are finding a growing number of options for using the media with their systems. For quite a while now, Blu-ray capable players and recorders have […]
Google Rebrands Popular Services To Boost Google+
According to Ben Parr at Mashable, Google intends to rebrand several of their popular products, including the Picasa photo manager software and their Blogger product. Picasa will become “Google Photos”, while Blogger gets renamed “Google Blogs”. The word is other products will be renamed as well, but Google intends to leave YouTube alone. (They already […]
Amazon Cuts Ties With Affiliates In California To Dodge Sales Tax
Today marks the first day Amazon.com would have been required to start charging California customers a 7.25% base sales tax on their purchases, after Governor Jerry Brown signed a new piece of legislation to that effect two days ago. The catch? The justification for requiring this state sales tax hinged on the fact that Amazon […]
On-Ramp Wireless Develops Wi-Fi With 45-Mile Range
A start-up company out of San Diego, On-Ramp Wireless, is developing a new Wi-Fi technology that uses the same 2.4 Ghz frequencies as today’s wireless routers, but it has the ability to transmit a signal as far as 45 miles away from the source! Their new “Ultra Link Processing” isn’t intended for your home computer, […]
Firefox 5 – What’s New And Is It Worth The Number Change?
Yesterday, the Mozilla Project folks began pushing Firefox 5 out as an automatic update to Firefox 4 users. The first thing that ran through my mind, and surely many others’ minds too, was “Huh? Why are they upgrading me to an entirely new release via their auto-updater?” Traditionally, if you ran Firefox, you would never […]