Well, blow me down. Firefox and Safari render fonts completely differently on the same platform.
The camera on the iPhone 3GS is serviceable, but I doubt anyone would claim it was good. The tap-to-focus feature, which also does some exposure correction I think, is the only real improvement on my old phone’s camera; the picture quality certainly isn’t startlingly different.
I’ve found a few applications to help me produce nicer looking photos than the camera gives in its raw form. These applications are post-processing, so can only work with what the camera gives meaning they cannot perform miracles 1. I’m sure I could improve the photos from my Ixus using similar apps—-if only they existed for the Mac for so little money.
I recently installed MacPython 2.4 while trying to get Plone installed using buildout rather than a binary build from plone.org. After I gave up and decided to use a binary build, I wanted to remove MacPython as the binary build comes with its own version of Python 2.4.
You need to uninstall MacPython manually, as there is no automated uninstaller. The documentation at python.org on removing MacPython and reverting to OS X’s default Python installation isn’t quite complete. I needed to follow a couple of extra steps, the final two below.
It’s amazing how quickly technologies make what was once established wisdom seem quaint. It often takes more than one technology, which is why it’s hard to foresee the path society will take—people combine things in unexpected ways.
The requirement to set aside a specific block of time to watch or listen to a broadcast—as one must do with live TV—has become an anachronism to me, like tube-based televisions. It took the rise iPlayer, PVRs, 4OD, Hulu and other technologies and services to make the idea of arranging my life around the times broadcasters select for TV shows seems ridiculous. Watching at the time of broadcast becomes pure coincidence. To put this in perspective: imagine needing to go to a gig to listen to a certain piece of music!
I bought a Drobo a short while ago, along with a DroboShare and two terabyte disks. A few of my friends and colleagues with similar storage needs were curious about the Drobo, and specifically it’s power usage. I used a simple plug-based energy monitor to measure the watts consumed under a few scenarios.
My setup is as follows:
- Drobo base unit;
- DroboShare NAS;
- Two one-terrabyte Western Digital [WD10EADS Caviar Green](http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=559) Disks.
Here’s the stats: |Activity |Power Draw (Watts) | Idle (with fans spun down) | 15—17 | Streaming MP3s over network | 22—26 | Streaming film over network | 25—30 | Writing data from network | 26—27, with occasional spikes to 30