tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-120798272024-03-07T02:55:30.871-07:00Aric's Tech BlogA blog covering all technical issues I come across in my life. Mostly that's bugs and fixes for Windows or Mac OS X. It also covers software development issues I come across my work as a software engineer. I rarely post a problem without a fix, so the main goal of this blog is really to solve problems, not just list them. If you are looking for support for my application Fetch Art, check out my <a href="http://fetchartblog.blogspot.com/">Fetch Art specific blog.</a>Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-55584186932322407162018-02-04T10:37:00.001-07:002018-02-04T10:40:00.193-07:00<h2>
Creation Crate Crashes macOS X Sierra or macOS X High Sierra</h2>
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Background (If you just want to find out how to fix it scroll down to the Solution section)</h3>
So <a href="https://creationcrate.com/">Creation Crate</a> is a 12 month subscription service where they send you a package containing hardware to build interesting electronics devices. It also requires coding. They give you the code to type into their app or you can download the source files from their website. If you are interested in teaching your child basic coding I recommend having them retype it in from the instruction book. My son was excited enough he did this diligently and then we spent a few minutes fixing syntax errors the compiler found. It was a good learning experience about programming basics and debugging syntax errors in my opinion. <br />
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What They Don't Tell You Upfront</h3>
So first, all these projects are based around an Arduino Uno board as opposed to a custom Creation Crate board, so you will be using the Arduino IDE software to program it. I'm a big fan of Raspberry Pi and wasn't really invested in also learning Arduino hacking but since everything is packaged together, <i>in theory</i>, you don't have to become an Arduino expert or hang out in Arduino forums. <br />
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I figured to save on costs the first kit would include the experimenter's breadboard and the Arduino Uno and the other 11 kits would just include the hardware specific to them. It turns out they send you a new Arduino and breadboard with every kit. I guess they don't want you to have to tear apart your previous project to build a new one.<br />
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I did find where I believe they are getting these items at a very low cost:<br />
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<li><a href="https://www.aliexpress.com/item/high-quality-UNO-R3-MEGA328P-CH340-CH340G-for-Arduino-UNO-R3-USB-CABLE/32582444772.html">Arduino Uno</a> ($3.95 USD)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Mini-Universal-Solderless-Breadboard-400-Contacts-Tie-points-Available-AL/32767835502.html">Breadboard</a> ($1.35 USD)</li>
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Drivers?</h3>
So here is where the problems start. In order to run this on a Mac you need to install drivers (think printer driver or scanner driver… basically a small program that tells your computer how to recognize and talk to a hardware device). Creation Crate gives you a location to download the macOS X drivers. It's called the UNO R3 Driver and they give you <a href="https://mycreationcrate.com/month-1">this URL</a> (password is given in the documentation but I won't post it here) The only problem is that driver is dated November 1st 2015. Now it's my understanding this will work with most Mac OS X versions, but not the latest Mac OS X 10.13 High Sierra or 10.12 Sierra. And that's the crux of the problem.<br />
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Issue Description</h3>
So what <i>does</i> happen? Well I've tried on two different Macs and saw somewhat different behaviors. <br />
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On my MacBook Air it never gave an option to allow the driver to run in the Security & Privacy System Preference settings so I believe it installed the files but they weren't allowed to ever run. So in the IDE you use to enter the code and upload it to the Arduino board, the board simply never was seen and it basically said there were no devices plugged in. (BTW contact customer service about this and they will say it is probably a bad USB cable. I tried several different cables with the same results of course.)<br />
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On my son's Mac mini the drivers did install and I did get an option to allow them to run in the "System Preferences"->"Security & Privacy"->"General" control panel. A button specific to this driver appeared that asked me to allow it to run. This was closer to the procedure I expected. So now after restarting when I plugged the Arduino board in to the USB cable the computer would immediately crash, shutdown, and restart. This is what most people are seeing.<br />
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Solution</h2>
Well you need a newer driver. Creation Crate as of the writing of this blog on 2/4/2018 is not aware of this yet and is not supplying it. Luckily an updated driver is available for download on GitHub. You can find the repository <a href="https://github.com/adrianmihalko/ch340g-ch34g-ch34x-mac-os-x-driver">here with a detailed ReadMe</a>. <br />
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Assuming you've already install the old drivers and experienced the crashing of your Mac you'll need to remove them first, which requires using the Terminal/command line. I had to use the following command:<br />
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Then from the repository I downloaded the <a href="https://github.com/adrianmihalko/ch340g-ch34g-ch34x-mac-os-x-driver/blob/master/CH34x_Install_V1.3.zip">CH34x_Install_V1.3.zip</a> file and ran the .pkg installer it contained. Then I restarted, and I was able to upload my program to the Arduino board just as described in the Creation Crate instructions. All of this is detailed in the ReadMe at the link I gave above. <br />
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<i>Thanks to Adrian Mihalko who setup the GitHub repository with the new driver and wrote the documentation describing how to use it.</i><br />
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Keywords: Mac OS X macOS High Sierra macOS Sierra<br />
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Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-3696770991105380972018-01-19T09:28:00.001-07:002018-01-19T09:52:07.265-07:00iPhone Activity App Sending Messages to the Wrong PersonSince my wife and I got Apple Watches for Christmas and are trying to get healthier we started sharing our activity data. You are supposed to be able to message each other through the Activity App by tapping the message icon shown below.<br />
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However, something odd happened when I did this. The message did not go to my wife it went to me! Clearly a bug but how to fix it?<br />
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Turns out if you and your wife, say, have the same home phone number and that number is the first phone number on your contact card the Activity App decides you are the desired recipient. <br />
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Simply delete that number from you contact card and if you still want to have that number on your contact card, add it to a spot that isn't the first spot.<br />
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That solved the problem for me. Now I'm off to file a bug report to Apple.Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-69881215611948834352015-12-01T13:45:00.004-07:002015-12-01T14:19:31.595-07:00GarageBand for iOS (iPad and iPhone) Length of Recording LimitRecently (and with about 6 hours notice) I was told I would be recording a concert that lasted from 2 to 3 hours in length. I'd be given a line level output from the main mixer to tap into but it was up to me to supply the method of recording. <br />
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It had actually been several years since I needed to record something more than 30 minutes and more importantly away from my home equipment (I usually just record into my computer).<br />
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I have a stereo line level input into an iOS device via my Blue Mikey microphone. But what software would record for multiple hours?<br />
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I decided to test out GarageBand. I found that it ran out of space after 320 bars. Assuming the minimum tempo at 40bpm, 4 beats to a bar, that means 32 minutes maximum recording time. <br />
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I ended up using the free <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spire-recorder/id1013021109?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D8">Spire Recording app for iPhones</a> (works on the iPad but scales up, so when searching on the app it shows up as an iPhone only app). <br />
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Just a quick post in case you find yourself in this situation with a short amount of time to prepare.<br />
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Update: Turns our Spire Recording is limited to one hour of recording, so that didn't solve my problem.Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-59745909689318467612015-07-30T22:58:00.002-07:002015-07-30T22:58:46.953-07:00A Few Months with the Apple Watch<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a registered developer I was able to get an Apple Watch on the first day it was available when most of my friends were still waiting for theirs to arrive. Now that I've had it a little over three months I felt I should write my thoughts about it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I am sitting at a restaurant I no longer take my phone out of my pocket and set it on the table because if anything important comes in (message or email) my watch will let me know, I glance at it, and can decide if I need to reply (rarely) or just enjoy lunch. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I use it on my bike rides to watch my time and milage. That's been a really nice addition to my workouts. I also use it to remote control my music while I'm riding on my bike (I have speakers on my bike, yes really, because headphones in traffic are dangerous) although the screen for the music controls is small enough when you are moving and sweating I often have to try a couple times before the skip button activates. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's comfortable. I was worried it might be too big for me but it really isn't. Have you seen how ginormous some of the other smart watches are? This one is fine. I love having the current temperature and weather info on the watch face. Whenever I check the time I also know the outside temperature. Living in Phoenix it's nice to know when it's over 110º before you walk out the door for lunch. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The analog faces are beautiful but the full text face displays more information more efficiently and that's more important to me than looks (I know and I'm and Apple user... go figure). I've answered calls with it when my phone was near enough for Bluetooth but not near enough to get to in time (say it's downstairs and I'm upstairs, yes I had it work that far away.) Obviously the speaker is tiny so you can have a fine phone conversation on it in a quiet environment but that's it. Outside with even mild wind or a small amount of traffic is enough to cause you to not hear the speaker. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Siri is pretty good at letting me dictate text messages on it. There's no keyboard so aside from some canned responses (i.e. yes, no, I'm driving, etc. that you get to customize with the phone app) you have to dictate texts, which works better in quiet environments where you don't mind people hearing your asinine text messages. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I scratched the face within two weeks of owning it. I know someone who works in a mechanics shop who wears their watch while they work (so they get phone calls and important messages) who has the sapphire faced model and he hans't scratched it yet so it does seem the sapphire makes a big difference. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Apps I tend to use: Alarms, stopwatch/timer, Workout, Music, Remote (for AppleTV), Shazam (which is slower on the watch), Weather, and Maps/Navigation. When you are using turn by turn directions on your iPhone your watch gently taps you three times when a turn is approaching and the watch will display what you need to do (turn left, right, etc) That alone is very cool because it's not as distracting as looking at the phone screen display. When I'm driving now with navigation I never look at my phone anymore. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh and yes, the "taptic" feedback is pretty brilliant. You know how your phone vibrates and it's somewhat disconcerting? The taping is so gentle it feels pleasant. It's true if you are in an environment that's bumpy (jogging, riding a bike, etc) you might not feel a tap. But most of the time I feel it. And that's another nice thing. I often miss important text messages or even calls with my phone in my pocket without the watch but the watch is much better at subtly getting my attention. I rarely miss any important emails, message, or calls now. And I choose which email accounts notify me (only my most private one) so I don't get alerts from my accounts that get spam. </span><br />
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The first step most people take is to simply purchase an external hard drive (preferably USB 3.0) and plug it into their computer. For projects they are currently working on they usually keep them on their internal storage and use the external drive to backup current work (using Time Machine on Mac OS X, File History on Windows 8, or Backup and Restore on versions of Windows prior to 8) and to archive off projects that they are no longer working on. This would mean you have two copies of your important files. One on your internal hard drive and backups on your external. If one drive were to fail, you still have your files on the other drive.</div>
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Now most hard drives will last a few years as a minimum (although I’ve had several fail in the first year while still under warranty) and I’ve had some last over ten years under nearly constant use. However, they will all fail someday. So in the previous paragraph I talked about using a single external drive to archive your old projects. At some point you will probably need the space on your internal hard drive for new projects and after archiving your old ones to the external drive you will delete them from your internal hard drive. But that means your project is now stored on only one hard drive which at some point will fail.</div>
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Now you might be thinking, “What about those backups I made?” Well it’s true you can use the backups to restore files you’ve deleted from your internal hard drive later. But there are a couple of caveats to this. First, depending on how old your backups are (and how big your files are) there is a good chance your backup software has had to throw away older backups. My computer warns me when this is happening and I usually have enough space to go back a year before it starts deleting old backups. This means if you wanted to restore something from over a year ago you no longer have it, so that can be a problem.</div>
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Now, you might be thinking, “Ok, so what if I have a huge external drive (say 3TB) and a small internal hard drive (say 256GB) so I will never have old backups get deleted.” Ok, fair enough although in our example we are talking about large photography projects so the chances are good you will fill up multiple 3TB drives as the years go on. The problem goes back to “All hard drives fail at some point.” You have two copies of your files (the ones from the automated backups and the ones you copied to archive them) but they are on the same hard drive just in different places on the file system of that hard drive. You only have your files on a single hard drive, so when it fails, you lose both of your copies.</div>
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So if you are going with the most inexpensive route by simply buying an external USB hard drive, make sure when you start archiving your projects to it off of your internal drive, you buy a second one and also copy your archived files there. Basically at a minimum make sure any file you may want to have at a later date is stored on two different hard drives at all times. Either your internal one and your external one, or two different external ones. That’s your minimum cost solution.</div>
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External hard drives of this type are usually around $120 to $200 depending on the size and if they support USB 3.0. Of course, USB 3.0 will become more of a common feature as this article gets older. Interestingly external hard drives haven’t really fallen in price over the years but the capacity you can get for the same price has increased.</div>
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Hard drives (well, non-SSD ones) use magnetism on a spinning platter to store your data. Bear with me I won’t get more technical than that. Unfortunately magnets lose their magnetism over time. There are no hard and fast rules but some people recommend checking your files or even copying to a new drive every 5 years. What is a bit more concerning is some people who work on hard drive firmware have hinted that as the drive is used, in the background it will rewrite/refresh the data stored on the magnetic platter implying that if the drive is sitting on a shelf not powered on you do not get this benefit of have the data refreshed automatically. I’ve actually contacted both Seagate and Western Digital and asked if this is true and what they feel the shelf life of their drives are and if simply powering them up for a while will activate this automated refresh action but neither company has responded. If someone from a hard drive manufacturers is reading this blog, please feel free to let me know. </div>
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This is the next step up and is what businesses and professionals would use. Network Attached Storage (NAS) is actually a small computer/server but designed specifically to host file storage and hold two or more hard drives and make them available on the network. Note there are some NAS products that only house a single drive but that means they cannot even enable RAID protection (explained later) so if you are going to spend the money on a NAS make sure it supports at least two drives and RAID 1.</div>
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NAS drive arrays start around $300 and can go up to several thousand depending on how many drives they hold. Also when shopping for a NAS device often they will be priced without hard drives, so make sure if you buy just the NAS you also plan to buy at least two hard drives. If you purchase a NAS with four bays for example, you don’t have to fill all the bays. A minimum of two will allow you to turn on RAID 1 and you can use the other bays to expand later. </div>
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Remember that these connect through the network so you’ll need to think of where you have a wired network connection to plug them in. Although if connecting to a single computer they usually offer USB and eSATA connection options. </div>
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In my opinion for a quality vs price, I think the Synology DS415+ (with no drives) and Western Digital RED hard drives (RED is their most reliable model line made for businesses/enterprise) hits a sweet spot. At $600 for the NAS which holds up to 4 drives and two 3TB Western Digital Reds at about $120 each you are talking $840 as well as two more bays to expand later.</div>
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Although not a consideration for me as I have a dedicated server in my home that handles things like file sharing, VPN, DHCP, and other server related tasks it’s worth mentioning that because a NAS is really just a small computer with a lot of hard drive space some venders include additional functionality. Synology for example offers app downloads to enable all kinds of extra features on their NAS to provide other services. For example it can be a firewall and router, a VPN server, a media server, web server, etc. If you don’t have a server and this type of capability appeals to you check out the apps/features that the disk vendors offer. To review Synology's app store you can go here: <a href="https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/app_packages"><span style="color: #336699;">https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/app_packages</span></a> Drobo, another NAS manufacturer, offers their app selection here: <a href="http://www.drobo.com/drobo-solutions/drobo-apps/"><span style="color: #336699;">http://www.drobo.com/drobo-solutions/drobo-apps/</span></a> </div>
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Ok I could write a whole article about Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) but that’s been done: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID"><span style="color: #336699;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID</span></a></div>
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The basics is it is a way of writing data across multiple hard drives so that if one hard drive dies there is duplicate data on the other drive(s) that makes sure no data is lost. Of course you want to replace the failed hard drive ASAP so it can recopy the data before another hard drive fails. </div>
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There are several RAID configurations. Some are for redundancy (the point of this article) and some are for increasing the speed of getting and saving data (not really our goal here.) The simplest RAID (that offers any data protection/redundancy) requires two hard drives. It’s called RAID 1 and basically one drive mirrors the other one. There is a downside though. If you have two 3TB drives, you actually only have 3TB of available space. Instead of adding the space giving you 6TB total it’s hides half of the space and in the background duplicates all the data across both drives. As you add more drives you have more RAID configuration options but mostly you should assume you will lose half of your storage capacity to RAID. RAID 5 offers a parity method of duplicating the data that only requires 1/3 (instead of 1/2) of the storage space to backup the data. It requires at least three drives so with three 3TB drives you would have a total of 6TB of space available however it also requires occasionally rebuilding the array and if an error occurs during this rebuilding it can result in dataloss. RAID 5 is generally being recommended against as hard drive capacity is increasing, the amount of time to rebuild is increasing, and the chance of errors during a rebuild are growing. RAID 6 and RAID 10 are the most recommended/reliable options, however they require a minimum of four drives and are back to using half of your storage like RAID 1 does but they offer considerably more redundancy (for example, you could have two of four drives fail and still not lose any of your files.)</div>
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Don’t think if you buy a single RAID drive you’ve covered all your bases. RAID arrays protect you from drive failure. They do not protect you from user error. </div>
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Have you ever made a change to a document and meant to click Save As… to create a new copy of that document but instead clicked Save which wrote over the previously saved version? Or mistakenly thrown away a folder of old files thinking it was a different folder only to find later you no longer had some important document. RAID won’t protect you from these kind of mistakes. Backups can restore overwritten and deleted files, RAID cannot. So simply getting a RAID isn’t the full answer to the problem. </div>
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With increases in internet bandwidth the idea of saving your files outside of your computer or your own hard drives is becoming an option. Initially too expensive to consider it is dropping in price rapidly and some cloud services off native apps for your computer that make cloud storage as easy as having another drive connected. DropBox is one of these. However they offer 1TB at $10 per month (or $120 per year) or 5TB at $750 per year. Those prices are still high enough I’m not ready to consider using those services as a full time storage or backup option. Also while we have relatively fast internet in most developed areas, retrieving and uploading/storing large files will still be much slowing than internal to your own computer or network and I have a monthly 250GB cap on my internet data usage, so backing up a 3TB drive to the cloud isn’t really an option for me through my current internet provider. There is also the issue of security. Once you put your files on someone else’s server you don’t have control over who might see them. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/02/showbiz/hacked-nude-photos-five-things/"><span style="color: #336699;">This won’t be the last cloud hack we hear of.</span></a></div>
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An external USB 3.0 drive is a great home/low cost solution. If you want to protect your files and they are not stored anywhere else (like on your computer) you should get two drives and use one to back the other one up.</div>
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NAS is a more professional and expensive solution. If you are editing and saving video or using it for any kind of professional work you probably want to go with a NAS solution that handles multiple hard drives in a RAID setup</div>
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Cloud is always an option but can be slow and get expensive depending on how much data you need to store. You also might not be able to be 100% sure no one else can ever get to your files.</div>
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RAID is not a backup. Even if you have an expensive NAS with lots of drives in a RAID configuration you aren’t protected against accidental events like deleting the wrong files. Even with a NAS solution you should have a backup solution which means either the NAS is backing up files you have on your computer or if the NAS is the only place the files exist then even jst cheap USB 3.0 drives can be used to backup the files on the NAS. Cost no object two NAS drives, one a primary and one that could be used to automatically backup your computer and your other NAS would be the most failsafe solution. Rule of thumb: Make sure you always have two copies of every important file stored on different physical hard drives.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Ok, so you’ve got a Mac and you want to make a DVD slideshow. You’d think since Macs are so video oriented this would be easy. The truth is as Apple has migrated away from DVDs (and optical media in general) this has actually become more difficult. You cannot even purchase iDVD anymore which was a good way to make a slideshow.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In this blog post I tell you how to create a slideshow that can easily be played in a DVD player using only your Mac. Unfortunately my method does require that you own a copy of Toast. It doesn’t have to be the latest version but it is needed to encode the video for DVD (or Blu-ray) and of course you need a DVD (or Blu-ray) burner to actually write the optical media. Alternately you can use the free Burn application found here <a href="http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html</span></a> although it doesn’t support Blu-ray.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You can see in this screeenshot I have created an album entitled LOL Cats and placed some images in it.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">First, let’s choose our Theme which will have some default settings that we will then change. Click the Themes icon in the lower right of the screen. The Theme selector should appear. By default Ken Burns is usually selected. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This is a nice slow pan and zoom effect for each slide, however, usually when dealing with slideshows you want to put on a DVD you will find that when the images are stylistically zoomed in it crops your pictures too much, often leaving the heads off from pictures of people, for example, and zooming towards their feet. So instead we will choose Classic as our theme.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">Ok so T-Mobile has added a new pricing structure that removes the subsidized cost of a phone. This doesn't necessarily stop you from paying for a new phone over a two year period but it breaks out the cost of the phone from the plan cost which gives you more information on what you are paying which is still an improvement over competitors who hide the price of the phone in the plan. And if you, for example, choose not to upgrade your phone, you know your plan costs at non-T-Mobile providers still include a monthly subsidy for a new phone.</span><br />
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The question quickly becomes, for someone like me, that has multiple phones on a single Family Share plan at AT&T, will this new type of plan save me money?<o:p></o:p></div>
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$69.99 for 700 shared minutes with rollover minutes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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$30 for unlimited texting shared across all phones.<o:p></o:p></div>
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$30 for 3GB of data for your first phone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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$30 for 3GB of data for your second phone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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$9.99 for the non-smartphone.</div>
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That’s a monthly cost of $169.98 and remember AT&T does not include a hotspot feature with the $30 a month data plan. <o:p></o:p></div>
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On T-Mobile currently this same setup would look like this:<o:p></o:p></div>
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$50 for the first line.<o:p></o:p></div>
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$30 for the second line.<o:p></o:p></div>
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$10 for the third line.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Apparently this includes 500MB of data for each phone and no hotspot capability.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Let's add Unlimited data at $20 per line which also adds hotspot capability.</i></div>
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$20 for unlimited data on the first phone</div>
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$20 for unlimited data on the second phone.</div>
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That’s a monthly cost of $130.00. $39.98 per month less than AT&T but with unlimited data and hotspot capability.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now let's add the cost of a phone.</div>
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On AT&T's a new iPhone 5 with 64GB of storage has an initial upfront cost of $399. If you divide that $399 over 2 years, that's $16.63 per month.</div>
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On T-Mobile, a new iPhone 5 with 64GB of storage is $349.99 + $20 per month over 2 years, which comes out to $34.58 per month if you divide the initial cost and monthly payment over 2 years. </div>
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So to compare monthly costs, let's take that $16.63 per month for our iPhone at AT&T, and add to that the extra $39.98 per month that AT&T's plan costs then subtract the monthly payments and initial cost of $349.99 for our iPhone on T-Mobile at 34.58 and you appear to save $22.03 per month on T-Mobile's plan.</div>
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That's if you buy 1 iPhone. But we said we needed two. So let's double the numbers.</div>
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AT&T Initial cost: $798/24 = $33.25 </div>
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T-Mobile Initial cost: $699.98/24 = $29.17</div>
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Add in AT&T's $39.98 plan difference so AT&T is $73.23 per month</div>
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Add in T-Mobile's $20 per month payments X 2 phones = $69.17</div>
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And now T-Mobile is only $4.06 per month lower, although with unlimited data and hotspot.</div>
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So what does that mean?</div>
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It means if you don't upgrade your phones every 2 years to the latest models, you can save as much as $39.98 per month with T-Mobile. However, if you have two smartphones, and upgrade them every time you become eligible for an upgrade you actually save only $4.06 per month.</div>
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Also that 3rd phone in our hypothetical example was a feature (non-smart) phone. Looks like you can get a Samsung t159 for $3 a month at T-Mobile. On AT&T I used an old Razor so it didn't cost me anything for the phone.</div>
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Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-86553213348174489922013-04-23T10:19:00.001-07:002013-04-23T10:19:19.737-07:00Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft.Data.Entity.Design.BootstrapPackage.BootstrapPackage 10.0.0.0Upon opening some solutions in my latest VS 2010 SP1 installation I would see an error dialog stating that:<br />
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reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\AutoLoadPackages\{adfc4e66-0397-11d1-9f4e-00a0c911004f} /v {7A4E8D96-5D5B-4415-9FAB-D6DCC56F47FB} /f </div>
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reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\AutoLoadPackages\{93694fa0-0397-11d1-9f4e-00a0c911004f} /v {7A4E8D96-5D5B-4415-9FAB-D6DCC56F47FB} /f </div>
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reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Packages\{7A4E8D96-5D5B-4415-9FAB-D6DCC56F47FB} /va /f</div>
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Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-39756287801926547822012-11-11T15:50:00.002-07:002012-11-14T10:13:13.591-07:00Parrot Bluetooth MKi Series Remote Control FunctionsDid Parrot create the most complicated automotive Bluetooth system remote control on the market today? <br />
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I made the following diagram to show the functions of the remote. Now you be the judge:<br />
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Technically (if you consider the up and down actions of the jog shuttle knob to be equivalent to separate + and - buttons) this is an 8 button remote control. Many buttons also have a secondary function if you hold them down for 2 seconds as opposed to simply pressing and releasing them (for example, pressing and holding down the jog knob toggles the dim night mode on the display.)<br />
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Would you like a PDF with this graphic in higher resolution so you can learn to use your remote? I created one <a href="http://www.aric.org/blog/images/parrot-remote.pdf">here for you to download</a>.Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-71586672585380592362012-08-22T16:36:00.002-07:002012-11-07T15:01:21.873-07:00How to Flatten a Folder Structure in AppleScript<b>Introduction (i.e. The Problem)</b><br />
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Ok, so recently I was given a large archive of files. These were old automated backups that I had nothing to do with in the past. They were stored in individual directories. The directories each had a name that indicated the date the backup was run. Inside the directories were one or more files that indicated a time that the backup was started. It looked a bit like this:<br />
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<i>The above is much smaller than the actual directory but it gives you an idea. There was a single top folder called "archive" that contained all the subdirectories (or folders.) Each subdirectory had a date as the name in Year-Month-Day (yyyy-MM-dd) format separated by hyphens. Under each directory was one or more files. The files had names that indicated when their particular backup started in Hour-Minute-Second (HH-mm-ss) format separated by hyphens.</i></div>
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Now I had to run a batch application on every .bkp file to create a summary of each change for audit purposes. This application could take an entire directory of .bkp files and generate the needed report. It had one shortcoming though, it could take a single directory as its input and would look for every .bkp file but it was not recursive. Meaning it would not check subdirectories. That means I could manually point it to each "date" directory such as "02-03-2010" but not to the top level "archive" directory. As there were over 500 "date" directories I really didn't want to have to do that manually.<br />
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<b>Describing the Solution</b><br />
What I needed was a way to move every .bkp file stored under a date directory up one level so the files were under the top level "archive" directory. Then I could just point the batch application to the "archive" directory and it would run though every file. <br />
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However, in moving the files that only had the time as their name such as "11-00-00" out of its sub directory I would lose what date it was created on. I'd rather not lose that information.<br />
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Even worse you can see several .bkp files have the same name so they could not all be moved into the top level directory without name conflicts.<br />
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What I needed was to prepend the subdirectory name such as "02-03-2010" to the .bkp filename so the filename was actually "02-03-2010_11-00-00.bkp" (in this case I used an underscore "_" character as a separator between the folder and the file name.) Then I could move the file up to the top level directory and not worry about name conflicts or files being overwritten.<br />
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<b>Searching the Web for a Solution</b><br />
Since I'm on a Mac this seemed like a perfect job for AppleScript. As a good engineer never reinvents the wheel I figured I'm not the first person to run into this problem so I could probably find a solution out there and just reuse it.<br />
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I found this first: <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/1140725/flattenfolder.html">Flatten folder structure via AppleScript | Macworld</a><br />
This script basically worked but it didn't solve the problem of duplicate named files being moved into the same directory. I needed something a bit more advanced.<br />
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I also found this: <a href="http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2009050922241243">Mac OS X Hints</a><br />
But that didn't seem to work and still didn't address the naming issues.<br />
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Unfortunately I didn't find any workable solutions. <br />
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<b>Creating Our Own Solution</b><br />
Ok, so here's the solution. Looking at some of the code for the two links I listed above I wrote the following script.<br />
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<b>tell</b> <span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>application</i></span> "Finder"</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>set</b> <span style="color: #4f8f00;">this_folder</span> <b>to</b> (<span style="color: #812fdc;">selection</span> <b>as</b> <span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>alias</i></span>)</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>set</b> </span>this_folder_list<span style="color: black;"> <b>to</b> <b>every</b> </span><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>folder</i></span><span style="color: black;"> <b>of</b> </span>this_folder</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>repeat</b> <b>with</b> <span style="color: #4f8f00;">i</span> <b>in</b> <span style="color: #4f8f00;">this_folder_list</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 117.8px; text-indent: -117.8px;">
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>set</b> <span style="color: #4f8f00;">this_file_list</span> <b>to</b> <b>every</b> <span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>file</i></span> <b>of</b> <span style="color: #4f8f00;">i</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 117.8px; min-height: 15px; text-indent: -117.8px;">
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>repeat</b> <b>with</b> <span style="color: #4f8f00;">x</span> <b>in</b> <span style="color: #4f8f00;">this_file_list</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>set</b> <span style="color: #4f8f00;">theFile</span> <b>to</b> (<span style="color: #812fdc;">name</span> <b>of</b> <span style="color: #4f8f00;">x</span>)</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>set</b> <span style="color: #4f8f00;">theFolderName</span> <b>to</b> <span style="color: #812fdc;">name</span> <b>of</b> <span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>container</i></span> <b>of</b> <span style="color: #4f8f00;">x</span></div>
<div style="color: #942193; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 157.1px; text-indent: -157.2px;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>set</b> </span><span style="color: #812fdc; font-family: Verdana;">name</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> <b>of</b> </span><span style="color: #4f8f00; font-family: Verdana;">x</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> <b>to</b> </span><span style="color: #4f8f00; font-family: Verdana;">theFolderName</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> & "_" & </span><span style="color: #4f8f00; font-family: Verdana;">theFile</span> -- change "_" to whatever seperater string you want.</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>end</b> <b>repeat</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
<div style="color: #4f8f00; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 117.8px; text-indent: -117.8px;">
<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>set</b> </span>this_file_list_with_new_name<span style="color: black;"> <b>to</b> <b>every</b> </span><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>file</i></span><span style="color: black;"> <b>of</b> </span>i</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
<div style="color: #4f8f00; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 117.8px; text-indent: -117.8px;">
<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="color: #0433ff;"><b>move</b></span><span style="color: black;"> </span>this_file_list_with_new_name<span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: #0433ff;">to</span><span style="color: black;"> </span>this_folder</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span>-- delete i (* uncomment this line to delete the subdirectories when done*)</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 78.5px; text-indent: -78.6px;">
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>end</b> <b>repeat</b></div>
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<b>end</b> <b>tell</b></div>
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You should be able to copy and past this into the AppleScript Editor. Then go into the Finder and select your top level folder. Go back to the Script Editor and click Run. If you trust the script uncomment the delete line and it will remove the empty subdirectories when it is done moving the files. Good luck!<br />
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PS<br />
I've received a couple of emails that this can be useful in preparing to batch process videos with Handbrake if you don't want to use the Handbrake CLI (Command Line Interface.) I added a mention here so if anyone searches specifically on Handbrake folders in Mac OS X they will find this entry.<br />
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PPS<br />
I was not able to figure out how to do this using the more simple Automator in Mac OS X. I realize you can use Automator to call an AppleScript but that defeats the point here. If anyone can implement this logic using Automator I'd love to hear from you. Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-46615375573658267702012-06-12T15:56:00.002-07:002012-06-13T12:23:33.231-07:00Comparing Verizon shared data pricing<br />
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Ok so Verizon has announced its shared data pricing. On June 28, 2012 you will now be able to
share a data plan across multiple phones much like you already can share text
messages or voice minutes (think like a “Family Share” plan.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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The question quickly becomes, for someone like me, that does
have multiple phones on a single Family Share plan, will sharing the cost of
data instead of paying for data on each phone save me money?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Here we go.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s assume you have two smart phones (like an iPhone or an Android.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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On AT&T currently you would pay monthly:<o:p></o:p></div>
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$69.99 for 700 shared minutes with rollover minutes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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$30 for unlimited texting shared across all phones.<o:p></o:p></div>
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$30 for 3GB of data for your first phone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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$30 for 3GB of data for your second phone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s a monthly cost of $159.99 and remember AT&T does
not include a hotspot feature with the $30 a month data plan. <o:p></o:p></div>
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On Verizon currently (without shared data) this same setup
would look like this:<o:p></o:p></div>
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$69.98 for 700 shared minutes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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$30 for unlimited texting shared across all phones.<o:p></o:p></div>
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$30 for 2GB of data for your first phone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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$30 for 2GB of data for your second phone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s a monthly cost of $159.98. 1¢ less than AT&T but 1GB less of data
for each phone. Like AT&T, Verizon does not include a hotspot feature with
the $30 a month data plan. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Now let’s see how much Verizon with shared data will cost:<o:p></o:p></div>
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$70 for 4GB of shared data (you could go as low as 1GB for
$50 but I tried to keep the plans close in data capacities)<o:p></o:p></div>
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$40 for unlimited minutes and text messages on the first
phone<o:p></o:p></div>
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$40 for unlimited minutes and text messages on the second phone<o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s a monthly cost of $150. A savings of just under $10 from the
non-shared data plan. And if you could
drop your data to 1GB or 2GB you could save an additional $20 or $10 a month
respectively. Also it appears Verizon
includes the Mobile Hotspot feature on the shared data plans which it didn’t
with the non-shared data plan we chose above.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s look at one other scenario that actually mimics my
current phone plan:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now let's assume you have two smartphones like an iPhone and one basic phone that has no
data or texting.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On AT&T currently you would pay monthly:<o:p></o:p></div>
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$69.99 for 700 shared minutes with rollover minutes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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$30 for unlimited texting shared across all phones.<o:p></o:p></div>
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$30 for 3GB of data for your first phone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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$30 for 3GB of data for your second phone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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$9.99 for the non-smartphone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s a monthly cost of $169.98.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On Verizon currently (without shared data) this same setup
would look like this:<o:p></o:p></div>
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$69.98 for 700 shared minutes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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$30 for unlimited texting shared across all phones.<o:p></o:p></div>
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$30 for 2GB of data for your first phone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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$30 for 2GB of data for your second phone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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$9.99 for the non-smartphone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s a monthly cost of $169.97. 1¢ less than AT&T but 1GB less of data
for each phone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now let’s see how much Verizon with shared data will cost:<o:p></o:p></div>
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$70 for 4GB of shared data (you could go as low as 1GB for
$50 but I tried to keep the plans close in data capacities)<o:p></o:p></div>
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$40 for unlimited minutes and text messages on the first
phone<o:p></o:p></div>
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$40 for unlimited minutes and text messages on the second phone<o:p></o:p></div>
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$30 for the non-smartphone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s a monthly cost of $180. That’s an increase of $10 from the non-shared
data plan. If you could drop your data to 1GB or 2GB you could save an
additional $10 or break even with the monthly cost of the non-shared data
plan. Also it appears Verizon includes
the Mobile Hotspot feature on the shared data plans which it didn’t with the
non-shared data plan we chose above.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So what's the conclusion here? If you have any non-smartphones on your shared plan it will probably cost you more to go to shared data because they are increasing the cost per phone. This may encourage people to move away from basic phones and use smartphones. I'm sure Verizon would like that as they make more off of smart phones. This is also reflected in their basic phone offerings. They barely offer any basic phones and often charge $80 or more for these phones that provide little functionality outside of making and receiving calls. However, if you have all smartphones it looks like it might save you a little money. Interestingly the differences are around $10 a month. Those actuaries at Verizon juggled the numbers so no matter how you arrange your plan, they make pretty much the same amount of money but did you expect anything different?</div>
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My biggest disappointment is in how much a non-data basic phone adds to the monthly fee. With the previous Family Share plan, that line was $9.99 a month. With the data sharing plan (and remember this basic phone won't use/cannot access the data portion of this plan) that line now costs $30 month. Another way to look at it is currently, an additional smartphone costs $9.99 + $30 for data whereas a basic phone just adds $9.99 per month. On the new plan a basic phone costs $30 per month whereas an additional smartphone costs only $10 more at $40 per month. You could look at it like you pay $30 per line (as opposed to $9.99) and $10 for data (as opposed to $30.)</div>
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<a href="http://solutions.vzwshop.com/shareeverything/pdf/verizon_share_everything_plan_details.pdf">You can view the Verizon shared data plan details yourself here</a>. <br />
<br />Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-10832456977061952022012-06-04T14:11:00.001-07:002012-06-06T11:09:45.342-07:00When Naming a Group on Facebook, don't use & (an ampersand)Although Facebook will happily allow you to create a group with an ampersand & in the name you cannot search on it.<br />
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Let's say, for example, you created a new Facebook group or page called: "A and B - Sales & Service"<br />
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Then you typed the exact phrase "A and B - Sales & Service" into Facebook's search field. You would be disappointed to find the search results are 0.<br />
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You see, the & is a valid character in a group or page name on Facebook, however, it breaks the Facebook search routine. So, continuing with this example, if you instead typed "A and B - Sales" It would find your group successfully.<br />
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Something to keep in mind when naming your next product or interest on Facebook.Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-72121980399965734862011-08-02T11:44:00.002-07:002011-08-02T11:47:31.967-07:00EDID Reader for Windows that WorksChances are if you need to read the EDID information stored in a display you are already frustrated. Usually you only need to see this low level information if something isn't displaying correctly. The last think you want to do is download multiple applications that claim to extract the EDID information only to find they do not work correctly or at all.<div><br /></div><div>So I've done the searching and experimenting for you and if you are on Windows (specifically I was on Windows 7 64bit but this should work on most versions of Windows) I recommend the free <a href="http://www.extron.com/download/software.aspx?material=2&id=E">Extron EDID Manager that can be found here</a>. </div>Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-42934276951309247362010-09-06T22:24:00.005-07:002010-09-06T22:41:41.073-07:00Applications Allowed in Parental Controls don't Show Up<div style="text-align: left;">Parental Controls are a nice integrated feature of Mac OS X. The problem is they have some problems.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>This article specifically addresses when you allow specific applications for a restricted user but they still do not appear available to the user.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>I’ve been fighting this issue for nearly a year. Sometimes I’ll add a new application for my child (usually a game or educational application) via the Parental Controls control panel only to find the application is never made available to my child. There are tons of posts that span several years and different versions of Mac OS X describing this problem and a few suggestions that never worked for me. After a particularly frustrating day I decided to determine what was causing the issue. The good news is I did find the cause and offer a solution here...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>I tried a lot of things that didn’t work including reading the console log entries, reinstalling software, running Disk Utility and repairing permissions. Finally I started comparing an application that behaved as it should and one that refused to show up. Here’s a picture showing the comparison.</div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 280px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFa3tnraD7I9nQBAOLo9881TF28UARFt21HR7fLY4V90YgrSYE9Q3g7-noED1xFBK19PdheV66sVSt3f2VHpMEpQzLtYCXqAvSjmOMveXvQKhZvUL3kK3qx0DWClUdfi0-ctw/s400/blog.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514039379705965426" /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Preview behaved as it should and MarbleBlast Gold would not. BTW my username and main admin account on this machine is “aric.”</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 179px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCziODlJFW63MKGPwUwzYgypn4-8x-5pwR7A7qhU1gBX5pxRytg4bpxWC9FfJg-epUp4UFFLAyCwuZxJotxedjXatXXEhs3IMnXVw-EseYdt6g4t5xgJpR-gexnnpX5uLEr9g/s400/blog2.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514040908651615298" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>See the difference? Preview is set to system: Read& Write whereas MarbleBlast is set to aric: Read&Write.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">For the record I had run repair permissions multiple times so this is apparently a permission issue that is not corrected by Disk Utility. </div><div><br /></div><div>So we’ve identified the problem… what’s the easiest way to fix it if Disk Utility doesn’t do the trick?</div><div><br /></div><div>Instead of working on the individual applications and manually adding system: Read&Write (which should work if you only have one application to fix.) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><ol><li>I recommend selecting the Applications folder and doing a Get Info (either command I or File->Get Info). You should see permissions similar to those shown on my Preview application consisting of system, admin, and everyone. </li><li>Now click the lock in the lower corner of the Info window for the Applications folder so you can make changes. I show it circled in red in the picture below. It should ask for your admin password.</li><li>After that you should have access to the permission settings. We don’t want to change the permissions for this folder but we do want to use a feature here. </li><li>Now click on the Gear icon at the bottom of the same window. I show it circled in green in the picture below. A drop down menu should appear with an option called “Apply to enclosed items…” Go ahead and select that. </li><li>Now on my computer applying that setting took several minutes so be prepared to let it run until it is finished. You’ve really solved the problem at this point.</li></ol></div><div>Parental Controls seems to cache permission data sometimes so I recommend rebooting the system now too. After that everything should work as you expect! Unless you run into Parental Control Issues with applications due to creator problems which I’ll save for another blog post.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 188px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXE2L_FNtN7ntUOEeV3xdelOpX4nXHC39yxng7t10juKxpIDRL2M_IlEriW8pdsdCCc3qCMo6Rh5BwMSWwfdNm_arZIc2g_7m_1I0DJC8eX01KFvJZeGu4Jh5H8VY50fiBluQ/s400/blog3.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514042269808278050" /></div><div><br /></div>Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-11687350300742169112010-06-01T21:32:00.003-07:002010-07-26T06:58:51.023-07:00iPhone forces you to double accept appointments you already accepted in Outlook<div>Ok, so here are the symptoms. Your iPhone is setup to get/send email and appointments with your corporate MS Exchange server. You use MS Outlook as your email and calendar application on your Windows machine at the office.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you get a meeting invitation it shows up on your iPhone calendar notifications as well as Outlook. If you accept it on your iPhone everything is fine and Outlook understands it's been accepted. However if you accept it from Outlook your iPhone won't realize it's been accepted and will still show it as a notification and an unaccepted meeting in your calendar. You then have to accept it from your iPhone which sends an additional accept notification to the meeting creator causing them to think you are an idiot.</div><div><br /></div><div>As I searched the web for a solution I found convoluted answers about Exchange not being setup correctly, MS and Apple bugs, etc.</div><div><br /></div><div>There was another clue to my issue. Two other co-workers with iPhones were not having this behavior so it was somehow specific to my setup.</div><div><br /></div><div>It turns out this is a bug in the iPhone if you have Outlook setup to keep meeting requests in your inbox after accepting/declining. You see by default (and most users keep their default settings) Outlook will remove a meeting invite from your inbox once you respond. At that point the only way to find that meeting is in your calendar and no longer in your inbox. This can be annoying if a meeting request had an attachment and you didn't remember the date of the meeting and need to open the attachment. So whenever I get a new work PC with Outlook one of the first things I do is change that default setting to leave meeting requests in the inbox.</div><div><br /></div><div>Apparently the iPhone uses that information to determine if you've accepted/responded/denied a meeting request. This appears to be a bug in the iPhone as it assumes the user hasn't changed their email settings in Outlook.</div><div><br /></div><div>To get the iPhone to recognize that a meeting request has been responded to in Outlook so it stops asking you to accept/decline, do the following in Outlook (This should work for Outlook 2003 and 2007, not sure about other versions): Go to Tools->Options->Email Options->Advanced Email Options. Look for the item called "Delete meeting request form Inbox when responding" and make sure it is selected.</div><div><br /></div><div>If it was already selected then you have a different issue then I did. This has solved my problem 100%.</div><div><br /></div>Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-43419767319747875812010-05-12T09:48:00.004-07:002010-05-12T10:21:47.309-07:00Unlink YouTube and Google Account or Gmail passwords<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Hey so the last time I tried to log into my YouTube account it said:</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Sign in with your YouTube or Google Account. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">So I tried using my YouTube account that I've had for years, but then it said:</span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Please use your Google Account. We no longer support signing in with your old YouTube password. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">So apparently Google linked my Google/Gmail account with my YouTube account. I don't remember asking it to and it sure doesn't seem like something I would want considering I've had the same YouTube login since early 2007. Anyway if you run into this situation you can unlink your two accounts by following the link below. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/my_account_unlink"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Unlink YouTube and Google Account</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Good luck!</span></span></div>Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-72252638512896016952010-03-30T07:22:00.003-07:002010-03-30T11:16:26.475-07:00iPhone heads to Verizon?<div><div>The iPhone becoming available on Verizon in the U.S. has been an ongoing rumor for the last few years. A new iPhone is always released in June and leading up to June the rumors start to fly. Supposedly the sources this time are "more accurate" so it's possible but don't get your hopes up. Also it *is* understood that AT&T's exclusive contract runs out this year so that may indicate more of a chance as well...</div><div><br /></div><div>To keep some perspective I've posted the rumor as it has appeared over the past few years...</div><div><br /></div><div>Here's the same rumor in October 2007:</div><div><a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2007/10/rumor_iphone_2_for_macworld_2008.html">http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2007/10/rumor_iphone_2_for_macworld_2008.html</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Here's the same rumor in September 2008:</div><div><a href="http://www.9to5mac.com/cdma-iphone-verizon-sprint">http://www.9to5mac.com/cdma-iphone-verizon-sprint</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Here's the same rumor in November 2009:</div><div><a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/11/06/report_apple_to_launch_verizon_iphone_in_q3_2010.html">http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/11/06/report_apple_to_launch_verizon_iphone_in_q3_2010.html</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Long story short... I'll believe it when I see it (or rather when Steve Jobs says so.)</div></div>Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-47703157706041801102009-11-16T14:35:00.002-07:002009-11-16T14:42:05.260-07:00My favorite Regular Expression for deleting a line at a timeOk, so you probably know the power of regular expressions or regex. One of the great things about regex is that with most modern text editors (and even some old classic ones) you can use them to do quick editing over a large file.<div><br /></div><div>My favorite (and this will work in Visual Studio) is for removing lines at a time based on some match.</div><div><br /></div><div>Let's say we want to select (most likely for removal) any line from a file that has the word Bart in it. Our regex would look like this:</div><div><br /></div><div>^.*Bart.*$\n</div><div><br /></div><div>The \n indicates new line. If you left off the \n the line would be selected without the new line character. If you are doing a replacement (such as with nothing to delete the line) and leave off the \n the line is selected but not the return character so for removing the text, a blank line would still exist in the file, whereas including the \n will delete the entire line from the file.</div>Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-16200250961727126912009-11-09T12:59:00.011-07:002010-03-31T20:46:53.069-07:00Snow Leopard Doesn't Support Some Epson Printers<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">UPDATED: See update below...</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Well I wish I had known this before I upgraded to Mac OS X Snow Leopard.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Apparently Epson hasn't released drivers for some of its more expensive "pro" printers such as my Epson Stylus Photo 2200. It appears the same is true for the 1280 and 2100 and probably others as well.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Epson has stated they will release a new printer driver by the end of January 2010 that will be distributed by Apple as a software update. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The current version of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.2) includes the open source Gutenprint driver for these printers, however, most people report that either they don't work, or the colors are so off that they are useless.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For a list of Epson (and other) printers supported with native drivers in Snow Leopard </span></span><a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669#epson"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">you can go here</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. If the driver lists Gutenprint next to the printer name (i.e. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Epson Stylus Photo 2200 - Gutenprint v5.2.3</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">) you know that the manufacturer hasn't developed a native Snow Leopard printer driver yet and your printing results may vary.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">BTW you may find the printer driver on </span></span><a href="http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supDetail.jsp?oid=14402&prodoid=20306147&infoType=Downloads&platform=Macintosh"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Epson's website here</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> that claims it is compatible with Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6. That file is identical to the older printer driver that worked under 10.5 and is not a new one that fixes color issues in 10.6. Epson has stated multiple times that the new version will be available through Apple's software update and not a download from their website.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">UPDATED: January 3rd 2010</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Well it appears they've released the update. Oddly it doesn't appear during the Apple Software Updates but through the new printer driver update facility that Apple added to Snow Leopard. Now you might be wondering how to get the update to appear? Well, mine showed up automatically when I plugged in the USB cable of the printer to the computer. Immediately I got a dialog saying updated drivers existed and asked if I wanted to download them. Note that I had already uninstalled the non-working Gutenprint drivers, so if you were using those, I have no idea if you would get the update notification. I hope you would.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">After downloading it automatically added the printer, and I was able to print. I haven't done any detailed photo printing but printed a few color pages on plain paper the colors looked good. So good luck to you and thank you Epson for living up to your word. It would've been better if you had these drivers available when Snow Leopard shipped but better late then never. You can see several printers have been added here to </span></span><a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669#epson"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the list here</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> with a + which indicates the Vendor software was recently added via software update.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br /></span>Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-81390182128169227182009-11-06T12:32:00.010-07:002009-11-06T12:54:37.307-07:00Clicking HTTP URL Links in Outlook 2003 on Windows opens two browser windows in Safari<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I've seen this happen in both Safari and Firefox. This fix is specific to Safari although the Firefox fix is probably similar.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">If you open explorer.exe (the Windows file manager, you can just double click "My Computer" or "My Documents" to get an </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; white-space: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">explorer window) then go into </span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1) Tools->Folder Options... </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; white-space: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; white-space: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">2) Then click the File Types tab. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; white-space: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">3) I scrolled down and found two entries for:</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; white-space: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJuufAt9IfCM6jEeOjt1zMp9Mlm7nuAOeMRJo3uG3q2fJ5tARjaszlSzrqtojBBoiEa0mgV1I8_jXyN-ZmeGrfMFMuLf3Jeb_EMER3J9IiWc_De-JF5dbpp-gsdp23WdbEd_E/s400/file_types.PNG" /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; white-space: normal; "></span>(NONE) Safari URL</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; white-space: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">As you can see from the picture, the Delete button was grayed out so I couldn't delete one of them.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">4) I selected one of them and</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; white-space: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> clicked Advanced. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; white-space: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In the Actions list was a single entry named "open" </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3ZeJiATK-ODmkT88UwOKP_JH0spX0xrtxIH-9qAnv5VsNyenDD5CrgfPoAnxxYUViQW0HH1N1zwQ45-BIOnJZyTdCKiR2KIoymOkWGroT6maElrJ5eCPSZl8oGwcoGrRVfh4/s400/file_types2.PNG" /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">5) I selected that action and clicked Remove. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">After that I only get one window in Safari when I click links in Outlook 2003.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap;">I've gotten some feedback from other users (including Firefox) that this isn't always the problem/solution so I'm adding another step here.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap;">You may have to remove the DDE entry. Follow the steps above 1-4. Select "open" and click Edit...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj13YMVhv95jS7z0E3oz-ZmdcgSbutMOaIXtooU_CuLP8YeW5OUdbzB6WPz9ljYKPoXZVN2xJcTGhZCa0nzZqGidl2PEWsGC46JhUdZy-JHUwJSR2gyqpUOVZDMhIXkL2g9ll0/s400/file_types3.PNG" /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you see anything in the DDE Message area, just clear it out and click OK.</span></span></div>Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-49890687125799281312009-09-09T10:14:00.000-07:002009-09-09T10:15:19.327-07:00iTunes 9 Released, new version of Fetch Art coming soonToday Apple released iTunes 9. I am currently testing a new version of Fetch Art and should know about compatibility with iTunes 9 and have a new version with some bug fixes available in about a week.Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-86938206359713478362009-08-26T12:13:00.004-07:002009-08-26T13:04:25.467-07:00Robocopy trumps RichCopyMicrosoft has released a new replacement for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy">Robocopy</a>. What's Robocopy you ask? Only about the best way to copy a lot of files across a network via the command line in Windows.<div><br /></div><div>Robocopy will copy a directory with any amount of files and subdirectories. It will merge the contents of the directories if duplicates already exist in the destination depending on options you pass it. If a file cannot be read, it will pause and retry a certain number of times, and if you lose your network connection during the copy, when your connection is back, you can reissue the same command, and it will pick up where it left off, not recopying the files it already copied.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's a really great command line tool and I wish drag and drop copying in both Windows and Mac OS X behaved like this instead of failing miserably if the network drops or wiping destination directories out even if they contain different files from the source.</div><div><br /></div><div>Robocopy is great. It's one of the first things I install on a freshly formatted Windows box.</div><div><br /></div><div>So what could be better then Robocopy? <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx?pr=blog">According to Microsoft TechNet, RichCopy</a>. RichCopy is the next generation Robocopy adding an easy to use GUI and performance enhancing multithreaded copying (so it can move more then one file at a time which reduces network lag if you are moving a lot of small files.) </div><div><br /></div><div>So today I installed RichCopy and put it to the test. I needed to move a directory that had 19.8GB in 69,510 files and 13,654 directories (or folders if you prefer.) I started RichCopy and used its GUI interface to start the copy. My network performance was only about 10Mbps (I'm on gigabit people) but it's an overworked corporate network, so I don't think that's any fault of RichCopy. Unfortunately about an hour and 45 minutes into the job, the server disappeared from the network for a second. No problem, right? That's the kind of thing RichCopy was made to handle. Unfortunately at that point RichCopy crashed with an exception, and the only option was to close the exception dialog which closed the RichCopy application.</div><div><br /></div><div>So now I've got Robocopy doing the copy. It doesn't have a fancy GUI but it's working.</div><div><br /></div><div>Oh BTW, there is also a <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.11.utilityspotlight.aspx">GUI for Robocopy here</a>. But I tried it and it had at least one bug (back when I tried it.) It may work for you, but, if you are looking for a robust copy tool, chances are you can handle the command line anyway.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here's something to get you started on Robocopy:</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">robocopy source destination /S</span></div><div><br /></div><div>By default robocopy won't copy files that appear the same so it always performs a merge and that's what this command line will to. The /S says to be recursive but don't copy empty directories.</div><div><br /></div><div>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy">Wikipedia entry on Robocopy</a> covers all the optional parameters.</div>Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-62934646778766510892009-08-25T19:21:00.001-07:002009-08-26T19:48:31.354-07:00Fixing Printer Sharing in Mac OS X<div style="text-align: left;">Ok, so an odd thing happened trying to print the other day. I share a USB printer from my Mac to other computers on the network. After unplugging the USB cable from my Mac at one point to move some stuff on my desk and then plugging it back into the same Mac, printer sharing for this printer no longer worked.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Symptoms:</div><div>I could print fine from the computer connected directly to the printer via the USB port. I share it with three other computers and none of them could print to the printer, although they could see it on the network.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>When I tried to print from a networked printer the document would simply never print. When I opened the printer queue on the computer I was trying to print from it said: </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWq8CpyUr6jt5CzlKQr3enzIYQgJVHaKofxpw73P_K7qKO1lfdJ6rt_oGRq7fP9IeBySOn8rkGj3oCRkG0c9JTWeK-sKZHWMwvQegJZaQyItXa9ReLQXXkizfDRYUaykk2SiA/s400/pic1.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374466811803875090" />Unable to get printer status (Forbidden)!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Also if I tried to add the printer to a computer that wasn't using it previously, although the computer could see the printer, it could never choose the correct printer driver.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 384px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu3i8gkVKX6ZLIaATr8X96WtAfxuBWnWDieN7Z5K0mxZkBa9bD89AaZAY0iikl8x8iTNxBth4QD9TmHEslhwOF8ANFB-ZPVjASZawpIK8ph1Cb8CHYP5vjvQ1vY-FrliEaHpc/s400/pic3.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374467427490170898" /></div><div><br /></div><div>Here’s the fix:</div><div>On the computer sharing the printer (the one the printer is connected to) you have to reset the printing system. Just open Print & Fax in System Preferences and right click in the list of printers and chose “Reset printing system…” </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKHeV3MiDmejl50Uz23GDlf7rAiVyY6VdVihnFZp3ZTAQ6Qm6BaO4wtHsoE2YbpacXIx5kGbxTW3dbN5qXSj-V9L6BIO0RRFqnskld3Uc_rjOGFCzQPAnYhCLffNgXbtYjIfU/s1600-h/pic_fix2.png"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKHeV3MiDmejl50Uz23GDlf7rAiVyY6VdVihnFZp3ZTAQ6Qm6BaO4wtHsoE2YbpacXIx5kGbxTW3dbN5qXSj-V9L6BIO0RRFqnskld3Uc_rjOGFCzQPAnYhCLffNgXbtYjIfU/s400/pic_fix2.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374467872277217426" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 325px; " /></a></div><div>It will ask you if you are sure, and you’ll have to supply an administrator password. That will remove all your printers. </div><div><br /></div><div>Then you can click the + button and add them manually, however, I found it was easier to power cycle my printer and it was automatically added to the list. Make sure to check Share this printer and you may have to turn on Printer Sharing in the Sharing control panel too. The Print & Fax control panel should notify you if Printer Sharing is not enabled. </div><div><br /></div><div>You may have to remove and re-add the shared printer on any of your networked computers you wish to print from. Two of my computers started printing to the printer with no problems, but one of them had selected the wrong driver (a generic postscript driver.) You could tell it was wrong because the printer icon didn’t match the one on the computer that the printer is connected to. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgXBbPBblQsPuPEQT0lFnicAMxzCThSTHR_AQvawUefZ8fdJmT53ele5xjqZ1xx_m7IH6d-9HBoEF5nsaq1A3tT6NHrU9wCrLMBSFL1Kewhi0T1gRrmatrJpfsgjzXYNQ04Ug/s1600-h/pic6.png"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgXBbPBblQsPuPEQT0lFnicAMxzCThSTHR_AQvawUefZ8fdJmT53ele5xjqZ1xx_m7IH6d-9HBoEF5nsaq1A3tT6NHrU9wCrLMBSFL1Kewhi0T1gRrmatrJpfsgjzXYNQ04Ug/s400/pic6.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374468464458429378" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 274px; " /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>It could still print ok with the wrong driver but it couldn’t access any of the printer’s settings such as paper type or print quality.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here’s things I tried that didn’t work:</div><div><ol><li>Turning off and on printer sharing.</li><li>Deleting the printer from the computer I wanted to print from and re-adding it.</li><li>Repairing permissions on the computer sharing the printer</li><li>Printing from another computer that could see the shared printer. It behaved the same from three different computers.</li></ol></div><div><br /></div>Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-9079396609854795852009-06-22T14:37:00.011-07:002009-06-23T06:41:23.386-07:00iPhone 3GS, 3G, and original iPhone ComparisonA lot of people are talking about "new" features of the iPhone 3G S, however, many sites listing new features are listing items that exist for previous generation iPhones as well. Also, several sites are only comparing the new 3G S to last years 3G and not even including the original Edge only iPhone in their comparisons. So I felt the need to put together this table.<div><br /></div><div>Hardware Differences</div><div><table class="MsoTableGrid" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;border:none;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook:480;mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-border-insideh: .5pt solid windowtext;mso-border-insidev:.5pt solid windowtextcolor:WHITE;"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes"> <td width="288" valign="top" style="width:3.0in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;background:black;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4ptcolor:WHITE;" border=""> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Original</span><o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="264" valign="top" style="width:2.75in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left:none;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;background:black;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">3G</span><o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="499" valign="top" style="width:5.2in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left:none;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;background:black;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">3G S</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:1"> <td width="288" valign="top" style="width:3.0in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Metal back<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="763" colspan="2" valign="top" style="width:7.95in;border-top:none; border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">plastic back, more curved shape<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:2"> <td width="288" valign="top" style="width:3.0in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Recessed headphone jack<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="763" colspan="2" valign="top" style="width:7.95in;border-top:none; border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">standard headphone jack<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:9"> <td width="288" valign="top" style="width:3.0in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">No stereo Bluetooth headphone support<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="763" colspan="2" valign="top" style="width:7.95in;border-top:none; border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Stereo Bluetooth headphone support<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:3"> <td width="288" valign="top" style="width:3.0in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Edge<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="264" valign="top" style="width:2.75in;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">3G (3.6Mb/s HSDPA)*<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="499" valign="top" style="width:5.2in;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">3GS (faster 7.2Mb/s HSDPA)**<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:4"> <td width="288" valign="top" style="width:3.0in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">No GPS (simulates using triangulation=very inaccurate and often unavailable)<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="264" valign="top" style="width:2.75in;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">GPS<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="499" valign="top" style="width:5.2in;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">GPS + Compass (should allow turn by turn directions in future software)<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:5"> <td width="552" colspan="2" valign="top" style="width:5.75in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">No video<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="499" valign="top" style="width:5.2in;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">640x480 30fps video (fixed focus during recording)<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:6"> <td width="552" colspan="2" valign="top" style="width:5.75in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">2MP fixed focus Camera<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="499" valign="top" style="width:5.2in;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">3MP auto focus camera<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:7"> <td width="552" colspan="2" valign="top" style="width:5.75in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Original CPU<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="499" valign="top" style="width:5.2in;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Faster CPU<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:8"> <td width="552" colspan="2" valign="top" style="width:5.75in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Original graphics<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="499" valign="top" style="width:5.2in;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Faster 3D graphics<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:9"> <td width="288" valign="top" style="width:3.0in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Powered by old iPod chargers****<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="763" colspan="2" valign="top" style="width:7.95in;border-top:none; border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Powered only by newer chargers****<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:10"> <td width="552" colspan="2" valign="top" style="width:5.75in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Supports 1 button inline headphone remote<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="499" valign="top" style="width:5.2in;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Supports 3 button inline headphone remote including volume control<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:11"> <td width="552" colspan="2" valign="top" style="width:5.75in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">No voice dialing<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="499" valign="top" style="width:5.2in;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Voice Control<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:12"> <td width="288" valign="top" style="width:3.0in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">No tethering<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="763" colspan="2" valign="top" style="width:7.95in;border-top:none; border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Tethering**<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:13"> <td width="288" valign="top" style="width:3.0in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">No MMS<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="763" colspan="2" valign="top" style="width:7.95in;border-top:none; border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">MMS**<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:14;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td width="552" colspan="2" valign="top" style="width:5.75in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">No Nike + iPod<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="499" valign="top" style="width:5.2in;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Nike + iPod built in<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr></tbody></table></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>New features added with the free 3.0 software update to all iPhones</div><div><table class="MsoTableGrid" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;border:none;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook:480;mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-border-insideh: .5pt solid windowtext;mso-border-insidev:.5pt solid windowtextcolor:WHITE;"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes"> <td width="288" valign="top" style="width:3.0in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;background:black;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Original</span><o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="264" valign="top" style="width:2.75in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left:none;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;background:black;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">3G</span><o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="499" valign="top" style="width:5.2in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left:none;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;background:black;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">3G S</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:2"> <td width="288" valign="top" style="width:3.0in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Cut, Copy and Paste<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="264" valign="top" style="width:2.75in;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">same<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="499" valign="top" style="width:5.2in;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">same<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:3"> <td width="288" valign="top" style="width:3.0in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Global Search<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="264" valign="top" style="width:2.75in;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">same<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="499" valign="top" style="width:5.2in;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">same<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:4"> <td width="288" valign="top" style="width:3.0in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Horizontal keyboard in most apps<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="264" valign="top" style="width:2.75in;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">same<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="499" valign="top" style="width:5.2in;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">same<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:5"> <td width="288" valign="top" style="width:3.0in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Voice memos<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="264" valign="top" style="width:2.75in;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">same<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="499" valign="top" style="width:5.2in;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">same<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:6;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td width="288" valign="top" style="width:3.0in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Notes sync with Mail/Outlook<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="264" valign="top" style="width:2.75in;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">same<o:p></o:p></p> </td> <td width="499" valign="top" style="width:5.2in;border-top:none;border-left:none; border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">same<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr></tbody></table></div><div><br /></div><div>Notes:</div><div>* Some reports state that AT&T artificially limits 3G access to 1.4 Mbps instead of allowing the full 3.6Mbps HSDPA speed.</div><div>** Not available in the US with AT&T yet.</div><div>**** The original iPhone supported the 12 volt charging (as did older iPods) and many car chargers only supplied that voltage. The 3G and 3G S require newer chargers that do not rely on the old specification.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12079827.post-14268033000785679042009-04-29T17:02:00.002-07:002009-04-30T13:51:20.794-07:00How UPnP failed me and Bonjour for Windows saved me.Today I am working in an entirely Windows XP environment. Not a Mac to be found. However, it was Apple software that saved me.<br /><br />It might seem strange to be extolling the virtues of Apple software on Windows, and believe me, if the Windows UPnP software worked as it is supposed to, I probably wouldn't be doing this, but if you find yourself in the same situation this article might help you.<br /><br />We just got a new Axis Q1755 network camera. It supports Universal Plug and Play or UPnP. It also supports Bonjour which it turns out is very lucky for me. I connected the camera to our network. At that point, as a UPnP device it is supposed to show up on my Windows XP computer inside My Network Places. I opened My Network Places, and it wasn't there.<br /><br />I found an article that said Windows Firewall can interfere with UPnP devices. However, since I'm on an internal network, I have my Firewall turned off.<br /><br />I found another article that mentioned that by default Windows XP might not have all the needed UPnP software installed. I went into Control Panels->Add or Remove Programs. I clicked the Add/Remove Windows Components button. I clicked Networking Services. Then I clicked Details… I saw that UPnP User Interface was not checked, so I checked it to install it. Clicked OK, then Next, then Finish which installed the UPnP components. Opened My Network Places again, but still nothing.<br /><br />I found yet another article that said I might need to enable the UPnP discovery service. So I went into Control Panels->Administration Tools->Services and looked for the SSDP Discovery Service. Sure enough, it was disabled. I enabled it and started it. I verified its status changed to Started. Closed the Services control panel. Opened My Network Places again, and still nothing.<br /><br />Now I've already wasted 10 minutes on something that was supposed to be Plug and Play. Then I noticed in the setup manual of the camera it also supports Bonjour for Mac OS X. Hmmm I know Apple released Bonjour for Windows too. It can't work any worse then this, and if it takes less then 10 minutes it's a more efficient use of my time. So I go to the Apple website and download Bonjour for Windows. It installs a new button on the Explorer Bar in Internet Explorer. I click that button and it immediately finds three devices on my network. Two printers, and my new Axis camera. I click on the camera and have full access to it.<br /><br />So I gotta' say, I'm liking <a href="http://support.apple.com/downloads/Bonjour_for_Windows">Bonjour for Windows.</a>Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06349808589965033115noreply@blogger.com1