Another useful link that has emerged relating to our last meeting. If you recall, Dan talked about installing Lion on a remote drive – so that you can boot off a different space and not commit to Snow Leopard just yet.
This is a related link – enjoy.
At our last meeting, I commented that one potential Apple play is the ubiquity of wireless. They were the first to talk about wireless back in the day and steadily releasing communication apps that are wireless only – apple device to apple device.
Think the new messenger product appearing in upcoming iOS5.
Think FaceTime – available on EVERY Apple product.
Think iChat.
My contention was – and remains – that they are setting up a framework to bypass the carriers – and their extortionate prices.
Even now, all of these products are usable – and UNLESS you need absolutely always on cell communication – there strong argument that a lot of us could really live without a cell phone – so long as we had ability to make calls from the variety of hotspots there are today.
I know that there are a LOT of infrastructural issues before we have an always on wireless network – but it is coming – and was delighted to read this earlier today:
The truth is, high speed wireless is critical. We’re just a few years away, I believe, from pervasive, high quality wireless anywhere, and I hope we can scoff on the minor issues we see today with congestion, slowness and even pockets without access.
Read the full piece here : WiFi Day in a Wireless World
Speedtest.net – The Global Broadband Speed Test is the place to go to test the sped of your internet connection.
Posting this since a couple of people have asked how to do it recently.
At the last meeting, we had a healthy discussion on Final Cut Pro – and it’s failings. When I saw this article – decided to share it. As I said in the meeting – I am not a video guy, so really have no valuable input to the debate – however I thought this article from someone who ‘is in the biz’ …
I don’t know if 100% of our customers are FCP editors. They range from ambitious freelancers, to ad agencies, to Hollywood post shops, to in-house editors at the BBC. We believe that the vast majority of these editors – and probably you, too – will be using FCP X as their professional editing platform within a year.
and
Conclusion: In a Year, Most Professional Editors will be Using FCP X
Full Article With Comments : CrumplePop Blog.
Found this to be a useful, complete and reference-able summary of the new features in Quicktime under Lion. With thanks to Mac Stories.
Lion’s QuickTime Player: Screen Recording Improvements and New Sharing Features
Have to say – being a big user of expose and spaces in Snow Leopard – on upgrade to Lion, and find them all gone – apparently – got me to wondering.
This explains nicely why they haven’t – how to do it – and why the new way is better. [ Well it doesn’t explain that last bit – but it is 🙂 ]
The quickest way to tell is go to Google, do a google search – and if you are infected – you will get a warning like this at the top of your page.
Want to read more about it …. follow the link.
Google Warning Users They May Be Infected By Malware (From Mashable)
Careful – the attached document is over 100 pages long and comes in at a hefty 70 MegaBytes or so. (BTW – because it is so big, I have stored it on one of my own servers, hence you might not recognize the address ‘BeyondBridges’ when you download. But it is safe. It is valid.)
It is a great piece of work that you will enjoy. It is the Apple Users Spotlight – Issue Number 15 – covering June and July 2011. To help you understand what delights are contained within – this is the list of contents.
Click on this link and the doc will download and be visible in your browser. It will take a little while, so once it is down there – use file / save as and store the doc locally – and then open it up in Preview or Adobe Acrobat.
That means you will be able to navigate faster and search the doc quickly in the usual manner for items of specific interest.
Enjoy.
In the words of Wuala : Backup. Sync. Share. Access Everywhere.
Wuala – Secure Online Storage – Backup. Sync. Share. Access Everywhere..
In the wake of the Dropbox guys dropping the ball and admitting they not be quite as secure as they had previously suggested – AND that they had changed their terms and conditions that also implies that your stuff might not be as private as you thought – Wuala – along with a couple of others are jumping on the bandwagon in a hope of denting the line.
Wuala comes from your friendly hard drive manufacturer LaCie. It is a ‘freemium’ model (first gig is free – compared to dropbox’s 2 gigs). I downloaded and installed. So far I am puzzled as to why it seems to be so slow – but also I am missing the social media aspects (or at least if they are there – I haven’t yet found them – so that I can’t quite as easily save stuff into my Wuala to share with others.
Still – for now – I will stick with it – though free always has a cost – will link to that post another time!
(Oh and you could also buy La Cie’s new wireless hard drive so that you can back up locally and to the cloud – automatically – in parallel.)
When you follow the link to the article – you will see that it says :
a search for the word “whiteboard” in the App Store returns a whopping 170 iPad apps.
Personally not used any of them – BUT – a rapid peruse of the screen shots – and the first I would try is SyncSpace. Why ? One thing I have observed is that though Apple is trying to guide their third part developers along good standards and practice – at the end of the day – it is up to the developer as to how they design. But it is up to me how I use – and I don’t like steep learning curves – at least if all I am doing is trying something out.
SyncSpace has a recognizable look to it – it feels like other apps I have – so I am feeling it is going to be prretty intuitive.
And at the other end of the spectrum is LucidChart – which looks plain SCARY !!
What do you think ?