Category: Hardware
Apple has introduced a 128gb version of the 4th generation iPad with Retina Display. The new iPad will be available to users on 5 February 2013 but is available for order immediately. The standard WI-FI model will start at $799 USD with the cellular enabled model costing $929 USD. The Press Release from Apple this morning follows: CUPERTINO, California―January 29, 2013―Apple® today announced a 128GB* version of the fourth generation iPad® with Retina® display. The 128GB iPad with Wi-Fi and…
Raleigh, North Carolina – Apparent’s new Doxie One, the simple and affordable new paper scanner for everyone, is now available worldwide. Doxie One scans anywhere in your home or office – no computer required – and syncs with your iPad, Mac, or PC. Included Doxie software offers a complete solution for going paperless. Scanning made simple: Doxie One scans your paper – simply, automatically, and with no computer required. Just push the button and insert your sheet. Doxie scans anywhere…
As long as mobile devices such as my 3rd generation iPod touch still require me to squint at everything, and require me to jab at a glass screen to “type,” the desktop computer is still worlds easier to use for so many tasks. Sarah Purewal at PCWorld thinks so, too. It’s an intriguing proposition, but don’t count on mobile devices killing off your desktop PC any time soon. While mobile gear is certainly convenient when you’re trying to conduct business on…
When last year’s hard drive shortage threatened Backblaze’s all-you-can-store cloud backup service, the company had to get creative to keep up its 50TB-a-day hard drive habit. The solution: external hard drives from retail stores and an army of volunteers making sure they kept coming. “We buy lots and lots of hard drives . . . . [They] are the single biggest cost in the entire company.” Those are the words of Backblaze Founder and CEO Gleb Budman, whose company offers unlimited cloud…
A couple of weeks ago I noticed my HP printer was no longer printing two sided pages. Strictly speaking this was with Linux but it could happen with the Mac as well since they use the same printer driver software… I figured it was an application problem with Thunderbird and Firefox since all the other applications (and computers on my LAN) worked fine. It never occurred to me it was a driver problem. Thanks to some prodding by Adam T….
A couple of months ago I posted an article about a “home made” antenna I made from plans on the internet. A couple of days ago I completed an antenna with a different design I also found on the internet. Last night I held a demo of it for some friends (including a couple of retired TV/RADAR/HAM professionals. They were fairly impressed with the results and sensitivity. Considering the darned thing was made of wood and mostly wire coat hangers…
R&D Automation announced in a blog posting last week that they will be producing a new run of the CFFA3000 cards for the Apple ][. The CFFA3000 is a card which allows the Apple ][ to use Compact Flash Cards and USB Thumb Drives for hard drive storage of disk images. According to the R&D Automation website, “We are now in the process of getting final quotes on parts for run #2 of the CFFA3000. We hope to be placing…
One of the simplest and the lowest tech devices made for the iPhone is the new “Love Box” for the iPhone 4 / 4S. The device is a grooved piece of wood with a sliding mirror allowing for both the back of the camera and the front view of the camera to be recorded at the same time, making The Love Box the first device to allow true split screen video mixing without all of the hassle. The Love Box…
This is a generic sort of article… I have only tried it on one type of machine but this advice may prove useful in other situations. As regular readers know, I volunteer at an educational non-profit organisation every Friday as a systems administrator.One of the privileges is I get to borrow a computer every so often for one of my projects. In this case I had a computer I was using as a file server (using FreeNAS v7.x). Since I…
It’s going to take a while to get to the computer related material in this article. Please be patient. Ever since I was a little kid I’ve been curious about the world around me. I was the type of kid who wanted to see what was on the next block or figure out how dolls were made (yes I took them apart and put them back together again). The only time I got into trouble for it was when a…
The A2RetroSystems produced Uthernet card for the Apple ][ series computer has proven to once again be a big hit. Glenn Jones, the creator of the card has managed to sell all of the 45 units that were initially set for pre-order. At this time, it is unclear when another run of the cards will be produced, but you can check out the A2Retrosystems page to add your name to a waiting list for the next run or for more…
ThinkGeek now has a new item in their store which will fit right into those hands of the retro gamers. The new 8-Bitty is a wireless hand controller which has Nintendo Entertainment System style D-Pad controls and multiple buttons for those games requiring more than the usual A or B button. The item was announced yesterday and is already out of stock with no ETA on new stock being delivered. Some of the fesatures of the 8-Bitty include: Classic retro-styled…
Have you ever wondered what Apple had in mind when it was designing new Apple IIgs machines back in the 1980’s? Lim Thye Chen gives us a brief glimpse into some of those designs of prototypical Apple machines with a few pictures from the original Apple Design book at: http://retromaccast.ning.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=rxq26qsiiir9 While this is not the first time we have seen such wild ideas of Apple products, it is the first time we have seen a mythical Apple IIsi or a…
Kevin Dady is known for his strange hacks over the years, but this one is actually useful to Apple //c Owners. Not wanting to purchase an Apple //c joystick, Kevin set out to build himself one, using a thumb controller from an XBox controller. The result of that and a few parts from Radio Shack is a game controller that looks every bit the modern piece of equipment except for the old 9 pint //c connector. Kevin has posted a…
For those iPhone and iPad users lucky enough to have downloaded iMame prior to its being pulled on the 23rd of December, 2011, there is a nifty new instruction set available on the Internet for adding more ROMs. iMame came with 10 ROMs but none of them were particulaly exciting from the aspect of the average gamer. The one thing that was exciting was the fact that MAME had made it into the Apple App store. This has been rectified…
The first sample of the Smartport Virtual Hard Drive for the Apple //c has been released. The sample shown on the SmartportVHD Website by Cedric Peltier is largely ready for production. Cedric says in a posting on CSA2 that “Some minors details have to be reviewed before the public availability, but the device start to see the light”
A new coating produced by Liquipel, a company in Santa Ana, California, totally waterproofs the iphone. The process, being displayed at CES 2012, cost $59.95 to have done, and the user must ship the iPhone to the company to have it waterproofed. This process can be applied to any smartphone and apparently will protect the phone even if it is totally submerged in water. For more information about Liquipel, check out their website at: http://www.liquipel.com
A new modification for the Carte Blanche Board allows the user to get 12 bit color output from the board. The creator of the modification for the board, posted the following in CSA2: “I have made a little modification to the Carte Blanche to allow 12 bit color VGA output for the Apple IIgs. The modification is very simple to make. Its just a cable with some resistors and a bit-stream to send the video to the IDE connector instead…
Apple Inc. has released an update for both the Lexmark printers and the Brother printers. This driver updates fix some of the compatibility issues that people were having with the printers under Mac OS X Lion 10.7. Brother Printers supported are listed in the Apple Printer Support Document at: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669#brother To Download the Brother Driver version 2.8, go to: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL894 Lexmark Printers supported are listed in the Apple Printer Support Document at: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669#lexmark To Download the Lexmark Driver Version 2.7,…
The iCade started out as an April Fools joke, but was soon realized by the popular gadget company ThinkGeek. The iCade — Ipad Arcade Cabinet — harkens back to the old school type arcade style and enhances any game experience, especially those old 1980’s games. Many manufacaturers have looked for the iCade as a standard for their game play and while the price for the cabinet is normally $99.99, ThinkGeek is running a special for Black Friday sales with a…
