Posted on May 15th, 2009 by Shan
I love my Mighty Mouse. Like many others, my grubby hands eventually caused the scroll ball to stop scrolling in one or more directions. I tried the official Apple instructions to clean the ball, but it didn’t really work. Others have suggested compressed air and other tricks, but I didn’t have any luck with those, [...]
Posted on July 8th, 2008 by Shan
So, last fall I bought a Genie PowerLift Excelerator garage door opener from Home Depot. I decided to go with a higher-end opener because of the nice warranty graphics on the box touting their superior warranty. It turns out to have been a great decision. Over the past couple months, I’ve noticed that the garage [...]
Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Shan
I got sucked into a spontaneous purchase the other day at Wal-Mart. I was walking by and saw they had an Aiptek Action HD Camcorder. It has several key features that had caught my eye in the previous weeks: It’s cheap ($199) It’s HD I was in the market for a cheap, small, HD camcorder, [...]
Posted on April 27th, 2008 by Shan
I’ve just realized that over the past 12 months I’ve gone Apple. It started innocently enough with a Juniper iTunes credit card and an iPhone on launch day last June. Then an Apple TV found it’s way into my home. Eventually, a MacBook and a Mac Pro followed suit. I have to say I’m impressed [...]
Posted on April 6th, 2008 by Shan
Someone that I follow in twitter had a near-death experience yesterday… They dropped their camera, and their lens stopped working for a bit. For those of you without DSLR cameras, you might not realize that good lenses go for $300-1600 and up. Anyway, so I started telling them about the Personal Articles policy I got [...]
Posted on April 2nd, 2008 by Shan
So, less than a year after we got a ColdHeat Freestyle glue gun, the original and spare (extended life) batteries we got are dying. They now barely hold a charge. I called them up and ordered three more spares a couple weeks ago, and they said they’d arrive in 5-10 business days. 15 business days [...]
Posted on March 23rd, 2008 by Shan
I’ve been hearing about e-ink for awhile now, but I came across my first actual sighting in Walmart here in Janesville. I originally noticed it because it’s a giant ad hanging from the shelf. Then, when it started flipping, I knew exactly what it was… The thing seemed to be powered by a small battery, [...]
Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Shan
So I had an idea for a great iPhone app that now appears will never happen. Why, you ask? Because Apple wants to have super-strict control of the user experience. The problem is hidden in the documentation… A nice little limitation that gets but a paragraph mention. The iPhone will only allow a single 3rd [...]
Posted on February 11th, 2008 by Shan
First time I’ve heard rumors that Flash was actually on it’s way to the iPhone. http://www.gearlive.com/news/article/q108-flash-on-iphone-is-just-around-the-corner/ I have faith that this will happen, even if it has to wait till Adobe gets access to the SDK along with the rest of the world. Let’s hope it’s already done, and they’re just testing it.
Posted on January 15th, 2008 by Shan
So, I was going to a party this past weekend, and I forgot to grab directions. No problem, I’ll just pop the address into my TomTom Go 700. Uh oh, the address can’t be found. Well, that’s ok… I saw the house on Google Maps online, I’ll just look it up on my iPhone. Except [...]