Dec 31
One of my Macs is a Mini just old enough to have been supplied with a low speed wireless card. It has been deployed as a media center a long way from anywhere and is therefor connected by wireless.
This was all OK until I wanted to stream HD video … can’t be done over 802.11g as at high resolutions this is just not fast enough. Since my local Apple Reseller wanted over $300 (that’s AUD) to supply and fit an upgrade to the internal card the idea was shelved. Until now that is …
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Dec 16
The very first thing that my wife noticed about the spanking new iPhone I bought her recently was the glassy touch screen. You might have thought that her comment would be along the lines of “amazing technology”, “beautifully elegant interface” … but no, it was more like “how will I keep it clean“!
Pogo iPhone Stylus
A later observation related to the fact that she has had to develop a touch style which works with her beautifully manicured (long) fingernails. This was after discovering that several improvised “styli” did not work.
I, of course, informed her that her new iPhone’s glassy touch sensitive screen is only sensitive to human fingers. Why? Because it uses a technology called capacitive touch which I am told measures the flow of electrons through the skin. Problem is, even without the manicured nails, fingers are pretty rounded and not too precise at picking out tiny URLs in Safari.
Luckily the geniuses behind the Pogo iPhone Stylus have magically solved this problem by making a stylus that somehow tricks the iPhone into thinking it’s really a finger. What’s more, the tip of the stylus is a soft felt like material that has the added benefit of keeping your screen clean while you tap away. How do they do it? Frankly I have no idea, but hopefully it doesn’t involve grave-robbing. (Leave a comment if you know the answer).
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