Just today there was an announcment from Barnes & Noble about a new eBook reader they will be selling, made by Plastic Logic. I’ve already downloaded B&N’s iPhone app, which sits next to Kindle for iPhone in my reading apps page. They have matching apps for Blackberry, Mac and PCs as well. But I don’t [...]

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I have a chance to review a new, specialized video editing tool called vReveal, just in time to try to fix up some of the shaky vids I’m making with my new iPhone 3GS. But there’s a catch. vReveal is a MS-Windows® program. Normally this would not be a problem, since I have Windows XP [...]

Posted in audio, Computers, drivers, iPhone, MacOS X, Open Source, Operating System, smartphones, sound card, video card, Video editing, Virtual Machine, Windows 7, WindowsXP 2 Comments »

About a month ago, long-time friend Deirdré (@DeirdreS on Twitter) suggested I try Sun Microsystems’ VirtualBox application, after I’d complained about the necessity to buy yet another copy of Parallels to put on my home webserver. Since it’s opensource software, and I’m a fan of Sun anyway (having used Solaris when I worked at Cadence [...]

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We have moved to a different RV park, which has a different WISP (Wireless Internet Service Provider), one that offers unlimited bandwidth. That’s the way life ought to be! But there’s a catch. One of the things that frustrated me most about the 360MB/48 hours limitations imposed by NomadISP at Beaudry RV was that I [...]

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When I left off in my last posting, I was going to chase down the last vestiges of malware still apparently lurking on Phil’s MacBook Pro from the DNS Changer trojan horse. Even though I’d eliminated the installer, what it installed was still creating some kind of traffic back to a couple of IP addresses [...]

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On the advice of our good friend, Mark (whom you may recall showed us his on-the-road internet setup, which got us started down the mobile WiFi path), I’ve been looking into the possibility that Phil’s MacBook Pro could have some kind of malware that is sucking up all our bandwidth. First I found Little Snitch, [...]

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This afternoon I had a call from Verizon‘s sales, following up on our recent purchase of one of their AirCards and data plan. I told the rep that while we had no technical problems with the setup, and were actually pretty happy with it, their 5 GB cap is completely inadequate. In fact, four days [...]

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So now we know we need that amplifier. If you haven’t been following this blog, you might wonder what kind of amp is under discussion. Your best bet would be to start here and work forward in time to get the gist. Back now? Good. OK, what convinced me was watching the “Cellular Signal Strength” [...]

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OK, I confess. I’m having way too much fun with the iTunes iPhone App Store. So far I have no fewer than 85 apps (mini applications that are free or cost just a few dollars) on my phone. That does not include the four or five I’ve decided are simply lame and have deleted. Here’s [...]

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I’ve just added a permanent page to this site, featuring a link to my “room” in Google’s new Lively virtual world. Please link to my Lively room and let me know what you think. Oh, sorry, but so far only MS Windows XP/Vista users can actually do that for now, but Google promises Mac software [...]

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