Category: Technology
Well, we’ve certainly had a fair share of hoax images of recent in the run up to Apple’s 30th Birthday on the 1st of April, but for me this has to be either the most impressive hoax so far, or the real thing.
Somehow I doubt it’s the real thing, since when did leaked photos of upcoming products ever make it out of Apple in the past? One things for sure though, this is certainly what everyone and their dog wants? It will be interesting to see if Apple can deliver on the dream.
If like me you watched the Macworld Keynote Address earlier today or last night you may well have seen the fantastic new TV ad which Apple have devised to promote the switch from IBM PowerPC processors to Intel chips.
Instant classic.
I stumbled across this amazing keyboard design by Art Lebedev Studios a while back. Then just today I saw some linkage back to it via foo reporting on availability as of Feb 1.
No idea how much it’s going to cost, they reckon less than a good mobile phone. They’re even talking of OEM opportunities. Nice.
I’ve spent perhaps 7 or 8 hours trying to configure a Belkin Wireless Access point which I bought from PC World a few months back. I was advised that the ‘Bridging Mode’ which this access point had meant that I would be able to attach wired ethernet devices to my Wireless LAN with little fuss. Hmm… not so.
I finally discovered after much googling that the little Belkin box will never do the job, it’s apparently only compatable with Belkin routers and mine is a Linksys.
At the weekend I stuffed the little belkin box on eBay and ordered a Linksys Wireless Ethernet Bridge from dabs. It arrived 20 minutes ago and it’s already set up and working a treat.
The moral of the story. Never listen to a PC World sales man and always by same brand products when you’re dealing with Wireless networking. Unless of course you’re a complete geek and know what you’re doing.
I stumbled across this great little free online service for converting your RSS feeds into MP3 files for podcasting goodness. Talkr might not have a trendy logo or backing from Yahoo! but they got themselves an r on the end of the name and a pretty neat little service to boot.
All you have to do is set up a free account then register as a ‘partner’ and add your RSS feed URL. They trot off and grab the feed and you can slap a nifty little link into your page template which links to your ‘Talkr-ed’ mp3.
The tricky part wasn’t getting it to work so much as temporarily defaulting Textpatterns RSS feed to 999 articles so that Talkr could provide audio for even my oldest posts (Sorry if you did an update with your RSS readers during the process!).
So, let me know what you think, click on the Listen to this post link below any artcile title to give it a whirl.
