Crazy-ass shenanigans...
Nice festive word for the day, eh? "shenanigans", heh...
Another slow news day, as it were...
Laura ordered her iPod mini today, should be here early next week, I've agreed to purchase mine, should have it in my grubby hands this weekend. It's kind of creepy how helping people buy stuff lately has resulted in me buying the items as well...what's going on here? She's got a green 4GB 2G mini on the way, and mine's the 40GB 4G clicker iPod classic. You know people are going to start calling the original one the "classic", I'm just ahead of the curve, for once, since I'm the last person on the face of the planet to get an iPod. (Damn those bastard Joneses! Always ahead of me!) Next week should be a good week for getting toys in the mail, it'll be like Christmas, yay!
Learned a lot about iPods and PowerBooks on the internet today, with the notable exception, of course, of what it was that I actually needed to know/was truly looking for. Grr.
Turns out the newer PowerBooks (not sure which ones just yet) actually have accelerometers built into them, how cool is that? From what I can find, it appears that they're designed to sense sudden speed increases (as in a drop situation), where they then issue "park" commands to the drive heads. This is bad-ass! Someone's found a way to tap into the output of the chip, and integrated it into an iTunes playback control called Bumptunes. Now if only we could take that information, and find a way to output it into a graphing/datalogging hybrid software package, we could take our powerbooks out to our cars on race day, strap them in for the ride, and we'd have the effectual duplication of the R34 Skyline GT-R's accelerometer display! (I should find a video of this in action and link it so y'all could know what the hell I'm talking about.) Suffice it to say that it's a feature that if I had in my car, I'd be wrecking it as fast as they could put it back together. Anyway, here's another more interesting and in-depth article about it, complete with illustrative applets. Skip, we need to chat about possible practical applications of this find.
Along those lines, I've discovered a bit of a geek tech blog in interconnected.org Haven't read much of it, but what I did read was very interesting. Brainiac geek stuff that's hella cool, but way over my head, fun.
Some other sites I've found in the course of my research are:
-ipodlounge.com, a site for all things iPod. Reviews, articles, forums, hacks, you name it. way more information than I could absorb in a reasonable amount of time.
-replica G5 PowerMac THIS guy has WAY too much time on his hands. This and the second accelerometer link were found on applefritter.com, a site seeming devoted to geekier apple stuff like hacks and tech and such. Haven't looked around much other than those two articles.
-ipodhacks.com - More hacks I haven't had a chance to look at.
-ipodbattery.com - iPod replacement batteries, along with rudimentary instructions (and too-small photos) for iPod disassembly. 4G, 3G, 2G/1G, and Mini. Be warned, however...if you're like me and feel the urge to take stuff apart simply because you can, and want to see if you can get it operationally reassembled, it's not my fault if you break your shit. I can barely keep my own things working after compulsory disassembly. As an aside, it amazes me how much juice they're able to pack into little tiny batteries these days several hundred to over a thousand mAh in a couple ccs worth of space? Amazing!
-everymac.com has a comprehensive specification listing of every mac ever made, along with estimated current market pricing. They're a little on the optimistic side on that market value range, but it's a good tool and reference if you're shopping/researching.
Oh yeah, good post on rollertrain today. Check it out.
Had every intention of getting out of the house and actually being out and productive today, but got bogged down with IMs and research, bleh. Tomorrow I'm getting out early for sure! Won't be answeringing IMs, either, dammit. Call me if you need something, I mean it! Not responding to IMs!
VERY glad I'm composing in Word tonight, friggen crap-ass pages on myspace.com keep crashing my browser, causing me to lose various e-mails and things I'm working on piecemeal. HTML isn't something kids should be playing with!
I think that'll do it for tonight...caouple more things I wanted to talk about, but 5am is rapidly approaching, and I'm getting sleepy. Happy after-the-fact paddy's day. Hope the green beer doesn't mess with your poop. ZzzZzzzzZZz.
Another slow news day, as it were...
Laura ordered her iPod mini today, should be here early next week, I've agreed to purchase mine, should have it in my grubby hands this weekend. It's kind of creepy how helping people buy stuff lately has resulted in me buying the items as well...what's going on here? She's got a green 4GB 2G mini on the way, and mine's the 40GB 4G clicker iPod classic. You know people are going to start calling the original one the "classic", I'm just ahead of the curve, for once, since I'm the last person on the face of the planet to get an iPod. (Damn those bastard Joneses! Always ahead of me!) Next week should be a good week for getting toys in the mail, it'll be like Christmas, yay!
Learned a lot about iPods and PowerBooks on the internet today, with the notable exception, of course, of what it was that I actually needed to know/was truly looking for. Grr.
Turns out the newer PowerBooks (not sure which ones just yet) actually have accelerometers built into them, how cool is that? From what I can find, it appears that they're designed to sense sudden speed increases (as in a drop situation), where they then issue "park" commands to the drive heads. This is bad-ass! Someone's found a way to tap into the output of the chip, and integrated it into an iTunes playback control called Bumptunes. Now if only we could take that information, and find a way to output it into a graphing/datalogging hybrid software package, we could take our powerbooks out to our cars on race day, strap them in for the ride, and we'd have the effectual duplication of the R34 Skyline GT-R's accelerometer display! (I should find a video of this in action and link it so y'all could know what the hell I'm talking about.) Suffice it to say that it's a feature that if I had in my car, I'd be wrecking it as fast as they could put it back together. Anyway, here's another more interesting and in-depth article about it, complete with illustrative applets. Skip, we need to chat about possible practical applications of this find.
Along those lines, I've discovered a bit of a geek tech blog in interconnected.org Haven't read much of it, but what I did read was very interesting. Brainiac geek stuff that's hella cool, but way over my head, fun.
Some other sites I've found in the course of my research are:
-ipodlounge.com, a site for all things iPod. Reviews, articles, forums, hacks, you name it. way more information than I could absorb in a reasonable amount of time.
-replica G5 PowerMac THIS guy has WAY too much time on his hands. This and the second accelerometer link were found on applefritter.com, a site seeming devoted to geekier apple stuff like hacks and tech and such. Haven't looked around much other than those two articles.
-ipodhacks.com - More hacks I haven't had a chance to look at.
-ipodbattery.com - iPod replacement batteries, along with rudimentary instructions (and too-small photos) for iPod disassembly. 4G, 3G, 2G/1G, and Mini. Be warned, however...if you're like me and feel the urge to take stuff apart simply because you can, and want to see if you can get it operationally reassembled, it's not my fault if you break your shit. I can barely keep my own things working after compulsory disassembly. As an aside, it amazes me how much juice they're able to pack into little tiny batteries these days several hundred to over a thousand mAh in a couple ccs worth of space? Amazing!
-everymac.com has a comprehensive specification listing of every mac ever made, along with estimated current market pricing. They're a little on the optimistic side on that market value range, but it's a good tool and reference if you're shopping/researching.
Oh yeah, good post on rollertrain today. Check it out.
Had every intention of getting out of the house and actually being out and productive today, but got bogged down with IMs and research, bleh. Tomorrow I'm getting out early for sure! Won't be answeringing IMs, either, dammit. Call me if you need something, I mean it! Not responding to IMs!
VERY glad I'm composing in Word tonight, friggen crap-ass pages on myspace.com keep crashing my browser, causing me to lose various e-mails and things I'm working on piecemeal. HTML isn't something kids should be playing with!
I think that'll do it for tonight...caouple more things I wanted to talk about, but 5am is rapidly approaching, and I'm getting sleepy. Happy after-the-fact paddy's day. Hope the green beer doesn't mess with your poop. ZzzZzzzzZZz.
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