What’s wrong about inventing your own cursors? Â Or about using non-standard animations? Â Pierre Iggot (Betalogue) expands on his previous discussion on where Adobe has gotten it wrong, when giving “wait” feedback to the user. In short, Adobe uses a custom “waiting” cursor animation when doing certain actions (eg. Loading a large file). Â Pierre discusses the […]
The Register has pointed out that an Swiss Television show named “Einstein” wanted to see if an iPad would be able to correctly handle it’s screen rotation in “Zero G”. So they hired an “Vomit Comet” flight to prove how well it works… Well, it’s safe to say that an Accelerometer needs to have gravity […]
Here is some interesting facts from the Steam (May 2010) Hardware survey that includes Macintosh hardware…. Percentage of Macintosh systems ~ 8.7% Mac OS X 10.6.3 ~6.95% Mac OS X 10.5.8 ~1.40% Mac OS X 10.6 ~ 0.33% That exceeds the percentage (6.95%) of Vista 64 bit systems, […]
Interfacing Indigo with an Alarm system (Ademco, Vista, First Alert, etc)…. Instead of hardware hacking, this thread discusses was to use off the shelf hardware with your Home Automation & Security System. Perceptive Automation – View topic – Interface to an Alarm (Ademco, Vista, First Alert, etc).
Interfacing Indigo with an Alarm system (Ademco, Vista, First Alert, etc)…. Instead of hardware hacking, this thread discusses was to use off the shelf hardware with your Home Automation & Security System. Perceptive Automation – View topic – Interface to an Alarm (Ademco, Vista, First Alert, etc).
Valve has released updates to Portal, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Half-Life 2 Fixed crash due to long hud hint messages, seen when playing in French Fixed Lambda logo at […]
It turns out that the Magic Mouse is fine, it’s the Mac Pro that has problems. This issue is not, as is commonly reported, that the metal case of the Mac Pro impedes the signal. In fact, the antennae are hooked up incorrectly in many of the units. A number of Mac Pros were shipped […]
RouterPassView is a freeware application that taps into a router’s configuration file, allowing you to recover important data like router login information, wireless network keys, and more in the event any of that important information goes missing. Once you load the configuration file into the program, it displays your (supported) router’s passwords, wireless keys, and […]