Posts from — August 2007

Daniel Eran Dilger
Taking photos in dim conditions is tricky, but bright light poses its own troubles.
[continued from part two: Using iPhone: Camera in Low Light Conditions; CMOS vs CCD: Part 2]

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Daniel Eran Dilger
[continued from part two: SCO, Linux, and Microsoft in the History of OS: 1970s]

Xerox PARC and Apple New Macintosh: 1980 - 1984.
While Microsoft ripped off the 70s technology in Digital Research’s CP/M to resell in the 80s as MS-DOS, Apple used its hardware profits of the 70s to finance the development of a new generation of much more powerful software in order to sell new hardware in the 80s.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
[continued from part one: Daniel Lyons: Fake Steve Jobs and the SCO Shill Who Hated Linux]

he recent news about SCO and Unix copyright and Linux is difficult to accurately piece together without historical context. Understanding the market for Windows, Linux, and the Mac today also benefits from hindsight of previous events that shaped the present. It even offers to illuminate possibilities of the future.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Troy Wolverton must be back from vacation, as the Mercury News has resumed publishing slanted reports designed to cause panic about Apple under his name. The latest are particularly galling.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
MacMod.com, a website offering news and advice on the latest techniques and products for upgrading and modifying Apple products, announced the rules and entry requirements for its annual Great Mac Mod Challenge.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
A variety of bloggers have been commenting on the removal of the Apple logo from the new aluminum keyboards on the refreshed iMac release this week. They’ve explained why Steve Jobs took the Apple logo off back in the mid 80s, but nobody explains how it snuck back on since then.

En Español:
Como fue que los teclados de Apple perdieron un logo y las PC con Windows ganaron uno
Traducción: Cuauhtémoc Amox

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Daniel Eran Dilger
[continued from part one: Using iPhone: Camera and Photo Comparisons: Part 1]

No digital cameras are great in low light conditions. At dark outdoor concerts, I actually found my poor quality Treo camera took better pictures than my 5 megapixel camera, mostly because my camera was trying too hard to process a dark scene with bright stage lighting and monitors. Different cameras are good at different tasks.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple released a new thinner iMac with a matching thin keyboard, a revised Mac mini, bumped up the AirPort Base Station to support Gigabit Ethernet, and introduced a new RAID card for Mac Pro and Xserve systems.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Confounding all predictions, Apple released a new version of iLife today. Most of us had expected a new update back in January. When that didn’t happen, it seemed logical that iLife would get updated along with the release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, originally planned for late June. When Leopard was delayed until the end of September, it seemed like iLife would be delayed with it, but it’s getting difficult to guess what Apple will do next.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple gave its .Mac online service a much needed hardware and software upgrade, adding a rich new way to publish photos and bumping up both disk space and bandwidth by a factor of ten.

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