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Wow great for security applications. SANYO introduces 1080P Full HD network camera SANYO introduces 1080P Full HD network camera Full HD and face recognition has made it into the CCTV camera market too, as Sanyo introduces the VCC-HD4000, the world’s first 1080P Full HD Network camera for security applications. The new HD4000 features 4 Megapixel…

At last there is going to be copy and paste. For me letting Notes sync and be stored is a big deal. And at last there is going to be a unlocked price for iPhone. They will charge $600 for an 8GB model vs $199 right now. So it is a $400 subsidy difference. With…

Some quick notes: 88 Xintiandi I a nice boutique hotel. And it has a nice breakfast with an open balcony. Convenient in Pixi. Thanks Ryan. Iphone handwriting input. In every iphone and it really works. Just scratch a character and the iPhone recognizes it. iPhone google maps works really well in chin. U can search…

I am the stupidest person on the planet! Arrive 2.5 hours early. I shoo everyone to the flight, but pack up my computer and lose track of my mates. I ask what gate and the person says 10C. I see the sign that says B and C gates transit and there is another sign saying…

Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About Dow Jones Newswire reports that Apple is indeed planning to launch a netbook computer with a touchscreen as soon as the 2nd half of this year. They cite “two people close to the situation” as sources. Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care…

Well, finally got one because of John and Jon. It’s a pretty neat product. If only I weren’t so tired all the time that I can’t read. The screen could be bigger and i don’t see why the keyboard has to be so big. Also why doesn’t it play games??? In any case, to get…

Great recommendations… Harvey Nichols. Classic restaurant on top of this old line department store. Zaferanos. Mayfair. Tamarind on Queens St. For high cuisine Indian The Bombay Brasserie. Kensington. Classic Indian Senior Sassies. Opposite Harrods knightbridge. The Grenadier. Classic pub, Belgravia

I can sort of understand why they have had so much trouble. It is a nice product and sets up well. But I wanted to upgrade the plan from a yearly $129 to a lifetime $400. And when I called, they said, they couldn’t take my money. They have a 30 day window and the…

Continuing the trend of impossibly powerful machines at zero cost, the Mac Mini just got an update and most significant thing is that it uses the 9400M graphics chip, so you can play call of duty with it. It is $649 vs. $1200 for a full MacBook. It is a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo,…

Well, if you are suddenly at home and with nothing to do, nothing like finding an old mac mini and building your own PBX. It isn’t as hard as you think. You can plug your own analog phones in and look like a real business. Here are some tips from Darrell: While you can use…

Also just tried this Option key trick for other icons. It works for the network icon, you get the band, for bluetooth, you get the Mac’s bluetooth name and software version. Software Updates Explain Dual-Band Networking – TheAppleBlog Hold down the option key when clicking on your airport icon in the menu bar. That’ll give…

TG Daily – Apple’s new firmware enables remote disk sharing on wireless base stations Apple quietly revised the hardware of its Time Capsule wireless appliance and AirPort Extreme base station this past Tuesday. New models sport updated hardware that enables dual-band support which utilizes both 2.4GHz and 5Ghz bands simultaneously to maximize wireless network performance,…

The stalwarts, like the Four Seasons, the Blue Bar at the Algonquin and Bemelman’s at the Carlyle, and (here’s hoping) the Oak Room, which is to reopen in the Plaza later this summer. For the early crowd that finds that description of the late-night scene nauseating, how about a calm drink with a view at…

Now the Kindle 2 just needs to arrive 🙂 Amazon Releases Free ‘Kindle for iPhone’ Application – Mac Rumors Kindle for iPhone allows Apple iPhone and iPod touch owners to read Kindle books using a simple, easy-to-use interface. You can shop for hundreds of thousands of books at www.amazon.com/kindlestore, and wirelessly transfer the books to…

Their shares have been hammered, but Warren Buffet continues to be consistent http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html. I love his rules of building companies and investments: Take a look again at the 44-year table on page 2. In 75% of those years, the S&P stocks recorded a gain. I would guess that a roughly similar percentage of years will…

NYT: Blogs – DealBook – Harvard, Private Eq So, my numbers are rough, very rough estimates — but the problem is apparent. In the short term, unless it boosts its liquid returns, Harvard is going to have to raise a lot in donations or eat up its liquid assets to fund university obligations and its…

At a hotel which blocks port 25. Of course, there is no way to find their SMTP server to send email. The solution is that many mail servers also accept mail on port 26, so you either have to find the SMTP server that works on the network (good luck). Or reconfigure your client to…

The last missing piece for the iPod Touch is a microphone plus headphone and then use Truphone or Fring and then use the $15 microphone

Apple – Support – Discussions – suddenly can t load iPhoto 08 again … What happened with me is that I was running iPhoto ’09 on a Hard Disk that was going bad. I decide to migrate the OSX boot to another volume, and then did a ‘migration’ of all my users, docs, etc to…

I have an old pair of K2 Axis XP Pros from 8 years ago now and I’m getting clobbered in the moguls. So what’s a person to do? Upgrade skis of course 🙂 The conventional wisdom is that a mogul specific ski is narrow and also very flexible at the tips and tails. Short too.…

My buddy Jon needs a cool telescope. Also on my list. The new ones are so wonderful because they don’t need as Ed Ting says at scopereviews.com: If you are just starting out and aren’t sure if you are serious then a good pair of binoculars. 10x50s. This means 10x magnification and 50mm wide lense.…

So these seem to be the two notebooks that http://blog.laptopmag.com/10-inch-netbooks-fight-for-dominance, so lets look at ASUS, MSI as the early leaders and Samsung and Acer as newcomers. Laptop Magazine did a shoot out. The net is that the ASUS Eee PC 1000HE scored highest except hard disk transfer time. In November 08, their comparison had the…

I never have time for that anymore, but during dinner: Washington DOT uses twitter. How amazing and cool. Another way to get closure information. Now that is modern government. John told me that twitter is replacing RSS. Makes sense. Follow http://twitter.com/wsdot Never could get jailbreak to work. How frustrating. Couldn’t get QuickPwn to work on…

The last missing piece for the iPod Touch is a microphone plus headphone and then use Truphone or Fring and then use the $15 microphone

Well, the folks have finally figured out how to unlock an iPhone 3G. You just have to make sure you *do not* upgrade to 2.2.1. You need firmware 2.2 with baseband 02.28.00. The source is at dev-team blog. The short notes are that it only works with the baseband you get with 2.2, so *don’t*…

Well, I discovered my Volkl Six Stars are really racing skis with a nice logo on them. Incredibly stiff and stable, but stiff means impossible on moguls and 68mm waist means sinks everywhere but the groomed. Joe showed me how to ride them though. Their sweetspot is tiny and it took two days to learn…

There are lots of levels now that are on the boards when you want to talk ability. What do they mean? Here’s to everyone who is a level 7 with kids just behind who in a week go from 6 to 7- or are watching their kids go from 8- to 8 🙂 But at…

Thank goodness for fraud prevention software. Although it is a pain to always have to call the credit card companies. Yesterday, got a $2500 charge from some random site. Locked the account and getting a new card. Another reminder that you have to be careful and hope

Hey nothing like hanging out at the no. 1 resort in North America. (OK, folks from Jackson Hole, Killington, Mammoth, Snowbird, Snowmass, Squaw, Su Valley, Taos, Vail, etc. will argue about that), but a pretty darn good spot. In any case, being here during a massive recession with the Canadian dollar down 35% is wonderful.…