Anything Tehnology related. Be it software, hardware, or toys in general.
Before anything else, this is probably just a sourgraping post. Since I can’t get the iPhone anytime soon, I’m trying to rationalize and make myself feel better by pointing out the factors that could make the said mobile device impractical for the time being.
But before I get into that, more eye-candy for everyone:
Cingular locked? Hits the US in June? Hits Asia 2008? WTF man!?!?!?!
I got some nice looking external hard disk enclosures last year, and have been struggling with them since then. Ultimately it was a chipset problem.
They were using the infamous Prolific chipset which often resulted to inconsistencies in performance. One day they’d be working fine. The next, they wouldn’t mount. Sometimes you’d have to power-cycle them to get them working again. Other times, you’d have to take them apart and massage the cables a little (I have no idea why this would work, but I was out of options and tried it – and it worked) Sometimes if it wouldn’t load on USB, switching to IEEE1394 would solve it.
They were more reliable in Windows than they were in the Mac. If your machine goes to sleep with them connected, don’t expect them to wake up along with it.
A few days ago, I decided to replace them with these babies:
Following up on my “Do It Yourself Laptop Wrist Rug” post, I’ve added protection for the other parts of my MacBook Pro.
As I stated in the picture’s Flickr page, there have been quite a few nice additions:
- The wrist rugs now go all the way; flush to the edge of the keyboard.
- Trackpad and button are now protected as well
- Apple logo is now protected as well.
Images are level adjusted (and sharpened) to exaggerate the contrast of the texture and edges of the vinyl. On normal usage, they’re not that noticeable.
