Could This Be Hint Of Things To Come On iPhone?

AT&T data detail filter options

This may be nothing but I don’t recall seeing all of these choices before on my AT&T iPhone account area? Does anyone else know if they have always been there? The view filter choices just seemed interesting to me.

Could it have to do with planned iPhone video calling, multimedia messaging, and video exchange? Maybe these are choices that have been there all along but I just don’t recall seeing them.

Apple Store Down for Update

What’s coming?

Sigma DP1 Full Size Sensor Point and Shoot

A full sized sensor in a point and shoot sized camera. The Sigma DP1 has a full sized DSLR Foveon X3 full color sensor. It should be able to produce higher ISO lower noise pictures than other small digital cameras. The DP1 site also says that they have produced a very high quality lens for the camera.

“The DP1 uses the same 14 megapixel (2652×1768×3 layers) direct image sensor as the SD14.”

The price has been reported at $999 US.
Reportedly available in Spring 2008.

Sigma DP1 site

Sigma DP1 announcement on DPReview

Sigma DP1 on DPReview

Come on Canon do this with the G 10!

Did Leopard Security Update Stop Sharing with Older Mac’s?

With Leopard my old G4 tower was showing up in my Shared area of a Finder window and I was able to access the G4 and share it’s screen. Yesterday I noticed that my G4 was no longer showing up in Finder windows? A Windows PC is all that shows up now. The only thing I can think of that might have changed things was the Apple Security update recently released for Leopard Clients and Servers? If Apple disabled this intentionally that is RIDICULOUS!

I can’t update my old G4 to Leopard and I am not going to go out and buy a new computer to share iTunes and backup files to. Has anyone else noticed this? I do want to make sure it wasn’t some other small change that I made.

OK I turned off File Sharing on my G4 and then turned it back on and now I have access again!

Whew I was nervous!

I thought about removing this Blog entry but I will leave it in case it can help someone if they run into this.

Amazon Kindle Electronic Book Looks Good

Amazon’s new e-book reader Kindle looks very interesting to me. It uses an electronic-paper display that looks and reads like real paper. The electroinc ink technology looks like real paper not a computer screen. It is not backlit. You never need to sync it to a computer or use cables of any sort except for recharging. It uses SD memory cards and better than that you can download books, newspapers, magazines, blogs and probably more wirelessly and there is no need to find a WiFi hotspot because it uses Amazon’s EVDO Amazon Whispernet which is built on Sprints EVDO network. There are no monthly wireless access fees because Amazon covers that, you only pay for the device and the content you buy.

Kindle weighs 10.3 ounces, the same or a little less than a paper back book. It is currently selling for $399.Basically you can read any book you want if it’s in their download library which now stocks more than 80,000 titles and more will be added daily. Wherever you are you just look for what you want to read and purchase it. The library includes 101 of the current 112 New York Times Best Sellers which are $9.99 unless marked otherwise. The device can hold about 200 books. All of your purchases are backed up for you online by Amazon in case you should need to download them again in the future.

I would have liked to have something like this when I was in school for text books rather than lugging a bag full of books all over campus. The only drawback is that it is currently black and white but E Ink who make the screen technology has a prototype for a color display. I would think they would look into this market if it would be friendly towards this technology but with the money the used textbook stores make on reselling there might be resistance?

Looks interesting. Maybe this e-book will take off?

Leopard Not Shutting Down

 

I don’t know if anyone else is having this issue but the majority of the times that I try to shut down my computer with Leopard it gets to where it just shows the desktop with no menu bars or anything and has the little rotating tickmark. It just keeps rotating the tick marks forever and doesn’t shut down?

I thought maybe it was because I had ejected my Time Machine disk so I tried it with the disk still mounted and the first time it shut down correctly but since then it hasn’t. Because it worked the first time I think it might have something to do with Time Machine but I’m not sure?

Any thoughts on this?

I Want A Drobo!

You ask what is a Drobo?

Drobo is a exactly what I have been looking for to manage my hard drive space and data protection requirements.
It has 4 drive spaces which your computer will see as one big drive. The drive spaces are hot swapable with 3.5″ SATA I or SATA II hard drives in any mix of drive sizes and brands and Drobo employs data protection. It manages all of the drives and data protection automatically without user input. I could keep trying to explain it but it would be much easier for you to watch the demo video and check out their site.

Also check out Drobolator a capacity calculator that shows you how much useable space you would have by dragging different sized drives into the on screen Drobo.

When a drive starts getting full or is having problems a light next to the drive let’s you know and you can just pull that drive out and put in a larger or more stable one. The only drawback that I see right now is that it only interfaces with USB 2 but they are adding more options in the future. Something like this is exactly what I have been looking for to add storage and protect data.

Here’s a review of the Drobo from Aperture Users Professional Network.

Canon G9 Announced with RAW!

This is what I have been waiting for! Canon G9 announced.

I have been wanting a rangefinder that has RAW format capability!

Finally they realize that there ARE people who want RAW in a non SLR camera!

It has a 12.1 MP sensor and should be in stores sometime in October for around $500.

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