Posts filed under Technology

01.21.2008

Macbook Lies About Quartz Extreme

I had this error before and convinced Final Cut Express that I really did have Quartz Extreme Support; System Preferences was reporting that I did not have Quartz Extreme support even though the Intel GMA 950 that comes with the Macbook supports it.

Last time, I think I replaced instances of “AGP” to “PCI” in FCE’s info.plist , but this time there was nothing of the sort to replace.

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01.19.2008

Invasion of Facebook Wall Spam

I got a message on my Facebook wall today. It read (links replaced): what up Jen? get the entrie billboard top100 for your cell from [RINGTONE SITE] i think that Bre is the owner and cool as hell Slightly confused, I did some digging around and it looks like it was wall spam. Lovely. Another [...]

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MacBook Air: Form vs. Function

I attended MacWorld and held the MacBook Air in my hands and I have to admit that it is one fine piece of engineering. I initially thought that there was a lot more material under the laptop hidden by the curved edges a la their previous version of the iPod Nano, but it really is [...]

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01.18.2008

Handwriting Recognition Progression

It had been awhile since I played with handwriting recognition. I remember the Newton and when I had to learn the special alphabet for the Palm III, my first PDA. I tried out my colleague’s Lenovo X61 tablet PC and was very impressed; I purposely wrote messy words, yet it still recognized my handwriting perfectly. [...]

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01.10.2008

Caught In The Battle

Originally written on May 24, 2007. Internet2 (aka I2), a high speed research network with over 200 universities, can also be used for transferring non-research related data like music or movie files. In April 2005, when I heard that the RIAA was going after people on Internet2, I remember asking my colleague, “How the hell [...]

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01.04.2008

Why I Prefer Crack Over Apples

I was trying to decide on a new smartphone, especially since the phone I thought I saved was on its last legs. I spent a lot of time researching smartphones and ended up with the top two contenders – BlackBerry vs. iPhone. In the end, I decided on the BlackBerry and have been happy with [...]

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12.20.2007

Gifts That Keep On Giving

Lately, I’ve been hearing on the news about how gift cards are popular gifts this holiday season even though gift cards are a bad idea. I hadn’t even known until a few months ago that Safeway and other supermarkets were carrying gift cards to various retailers like Bed, Bath, and Beyond, Borders, Home Depot, and [...]

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12.03.2007

The Internet Abroad

I’m currently in Hong Kong staying with my cousin. When she visited the United States earlier this year, she mentioned that although she had broadband in her flat in Hong Kong, she hadn’t set up wireless yet. So one of the things I did in the first 24 hours of arriving in Hong Kong was [...]

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