A customer brought in their laptop that they had shoved two discs in at once. After taking apart the computer and then the disc drive, I had to laugh. I had just Freed Willy.
I had and idea driving home tonight. Why can’t car stereo manufactures add a timer feature to radio presets? I did a search on Google and came back with nothing. Here’s what I want. I start the car in the morning to go to work and the radio automatically goes to the morning show I listen to. And then coming home, say I like to listen to Heavy Metal to unwind (Don’t drive angry). Maybe I drive around during the day and there is a certain talk show I like listening to but don’t what to have to remember to change the channel when it comes on, because I should be paying attention to the road. I don’t know, what do you think? Did my search fail me and is there a product out there like that?
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With some reluctance I decided to set aside my reservations and watch Real Steel this weekend. I mean how good can a live action movie of an age old board game of Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots. Mea Culpa. I don’t watch sports, so sports based movies are not ones I seek out. However I do seem to go for boxing base sports movies; don’t have an explanation, just do. So I decided to give it a chance. Right off even though it is suppose to be set in the near future, there is a sense of nostalgia, with the truck he is driving and down home of Americana with wide shots of unharvested fields and a small town fair. Charlie isn’t the most likable character, but you know he is the inevitable underdog. It was easy to see the direction the whole movie was going to take out the gate, but was entertained and had minimum A.D.D. outbreaks. The semi-abruptness of the ending without a sense of complete closure might put some off, but it leaves you completing the story on your own.
The Super Bowl XLVI live streaming to your Mac or iOS devices for U.S. viewers.
Using Microsoft’s Silverlight plugin, Mac users will be able to see the game live streaming. iPad users will see the video play in their browser both via Full-Screen and AirPlay to be supported.
So watch anywhere as it kicks off at 4:30 P.M. Mountain, @ NBC Sports
Serious issues have been found by many users since the release of 10.7.3 and 10.6 Security Updates. The 10.7.3 update has been pulled in favor of the combo updater, which does not seem to have the CUI error. And those with 10.6 that had updated to the recent security patch found themselves unable to run PowerPC legacy apps via the Rosetta compatibility layer. Today a new version of that update (Security Update 2012-001 v1.1) is now available, hope this resolves the issues.
I know this has been around for some time, but it always puts a smile on my face.
Apple just release an update to Lion, 10.7, that includes Safari 5.1.3. As it’s downloading I hope they have fixed the Wi-Fi issues and Safari issues like they claim to have done in the release notes. You can launch Software Update and get it that way. Or I recommend going directly to the source and downloading the combo updater. Here is what is changed:
- Add Catalan, Croatian, Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, Slovak, Thai, and Ukrainian language support
- Address issues when using smart cards to log into OS X
- Address compatibility issues with Microsoft Windows file sharing
- Address an issue printing Microsoft Word documents that use markup
- Address a graphics performance issue after sleep on some earlier iMacs that use ATI graphics
- Resolve a Wi-Fi connection issue when waking from sleep
- Address an issue that may prevent Safari from opening before joining a wireless network
- Fix a potential issue authenticating to an SMB DFS share
- Include RAW image compatibility for additional digital cameras
Directory Services
- Improve binding to read-only Active Directory Domain Controllers
- Improve binding and login speed for Active Directory users in a domain whose name ends in “.local”
- Improve reliability of Dynamic DNS (DDNS) updates by Active Directory clients
- Allow login with an Active Directory username that contains a space
- Improve compatibility with Active Directory schemas that have been extended with the “apple-user-homeDirectory” and “apple-user-homeurl” attributes
- Fix home directory Dock item for Active Directory users with mobile accounts
- Allow NIS users with MD5-hashed passwords to log in
Firefox Ten is out now. According to release notes: they have include a forward navigation button that doesn’t show up until you hit the back button first, the ability to have web apps in full-screen mode, and anti-aliasing for WebGL graphics. As well as new support for CSS3 3D-Transforms, while developers will get a new CSS-style Inspector with content highlighting and new IndexedDB APIs. Element were added to the HTML5 code as well, allowing for bi-directional text isolation and support for CSS properties.
Honda released their entire promo today.