Logitech’s two new Quickcams for notebooks
via Engadget
Logitech = $40 and $60 respectively iSight (Apple)= $149 Read More
Ecto revisited…
My previous post was commented by the Ecto developer himself… and as such, I thought it only be fair to immediately reevaluate the said software… plus of course I was excited as hell to try his suggestions out.
So now, I’m posting via Ecto, I’ve seen the edit mode he was talking about (I couldn’t imagine how I missed that). And upon posting this, I will try his other suggestion of selecting the category while publishing to specify the primary category.
If all goes well, then I guess that’s that… I will now be an official Ecto user. Read More
More covert technology
The 2005 Powerbooks have an accelerometer chip to take measurements of the laptops’ motion (e.g. during falls, etc.)
This is a tilt-sensitive game which uses the accelerometer in the new Powerbooks!
via Joel’s blog
The real purpose of said chip is:
Apple’s PowerBook laptops now have a little accelerometer inside that’s used to protect the hard drive if you drop it (it notices the sudden speed increase and parks the drive heads).
However, is it just me, or can that chip also be a safety precaution for Apple – so that people can’t just claim warranties left and right. Sorta like the black boxes of aircrafts… to determine wether it was “mechanical problems” or “pilot error” hehehehe.
But then again, you can disable it if you wanted to:
$ pmset -g Active Profiles: Battery Power 1* AC Power 3 Currently in use: acwake 0 … ams 1 $ sudo pmset -a ams 0 $ pmset -g … ams 0
So I guess it’s a cool safe thing to have after all!
Ecto-schmecto
I apologize to the Ecto-supporters out there, but quite frankly, that piece of software you love, can be quite intrusive at times.
Since I heard Ecto was the best offline blog-manager out there, of course I had to see what’s up and give it a try. I’ve been using MarsEdit for the longest time and was quite happy with it save for one problem: You could only keep an offline cache of the last 30 posts you’ve made.
I thought “Hey, since Ecto can do Markdown too, then there’s nothing to lose.” – or so I thought.
Copyrights anyone?
During a wedding, friend/choir member had mentioned The Philippine Daily Inquirer publishing an article with dubious facts. I checked out the website, but didn’t find a match… so I Googled it.
Check this Google-cached article (which my sister confirmed to be the contents of what was in yesterday’s paper) Take note of the part that says:
PPF eventually branched out into the realm of musical plays and concerts. In 1990, PPF waxed its first album, “Ama Namin,” under Ivory. Interestingly, PPF was the first to sing “Tanging Yaman” during mass service and weddings even before it became the theme song for the hit movie.
Gee!, and I thought we were the one’s who owned the song… Fr. Manoling has a lot of explaining to do! hehehehehe
Jokes aside, they should’ve phrased that bit of info along the lines of: “They have been singing the song Tanging Yaman even before it became the theme song…” That would be correct – and incidentally, would apply to any choir who had sung the song before the movie came out.
The Tanging Yaman album was released 1989, The song Tanging Yaman, was composed by Fr. Manoling while in the novitiate in 1986. Now unless we haven’t been informed of such an arrangement with the PPF, we’d be inclined to believe that Fr. Manoling’s choir would get to be the first to sing his compositions.
It’s all good fun though, we BP don’t intend to make a big deal of it – that’s why I’m not posting this in the Ministry’s official site. It’s just an interesting bit of trivia – you know us net-freaks… always keeping an eye out for some fun!