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http://lifehacker.com/5678555/set-up-your-digital-camera-for-wireless-and-router+free-ipad-tethering Tells how to do it either with a wifi connection (say in a studio or at home) our w/o if you are remote with no connection.

Found a post that describes it: http://lifehacker.com/5678555/set-up-your-digital-camera-for-wireless-and-router+free-ipad-tethering

Limor Fried is also known as Lady Ada, not Jeri Ellsworth.

http://lifehacker.com/5481197/macgyver-of-the-day-limor-ladyada-fried

Oopsie, I forgot to mention, you need a live plus account to be able to change settings at https://account.live.com/ManageSSL . But still visiting https://www.hotmail.com/ should still work for non-paying users. Here is a source if you are interested... http://lifehacker.com/5684326/hotmail-adds-always+on-secure-https-connection-option

Here's an article you won't see written about the iPhone: How Can I Tell If An Android App Is Malware?

Sure you will! Researcher warns of risks from rogue iPhone apps

It "dominates" in the same way Windows dominates PCs...a fractured mess controlled by the carriers, with their own unremovable junkware, their own app stores, and their own differing hardware features.

Here's an article you won't see written about the iPhone: How Can I Tell If An Android App Is Malware?

Personally, I'm not too excited about the idea of Google owning search, advertising, email, chat, documents, phones, netbooks, blogs, etc., all while skirting the edge of privacy. I'm not really interested in replacing one Micorosft with another. Apple is more concerned with being the best in a market, not #1 in a market.

OK, Gawker Media has a whole site dedicated to exactly this kind of thing, surprised no one mentioned it yet: http://lifehacker.com/
Worth perusing to find interesting ways to simplify things.

For myself, I've found:

• short term (daily / weekly): With pen and notepad, write down checklists. If it's written down, it's not taking up space in your brain or causing stress. Cross things out when they're done. (though I don't like deleting them entirely, since it helps to see how much you've accomplished any given day)
• long term: Any outlining tool (I really like Progect for PalmOS, haven't found anything comparable anywhere else yet)

As I've said, I've tried this. Firefox's memory use tops 200 MB after two weeks. Other browsers go over 200 MB in a few days. I'm not attacking you, just stating for the record that I cannot see a problem. Perhaps on your computer that problem exists. Do not assume that every other Firefox user in the world sees the same problem. I do not. If you don't believe me, look at any number of memory tests that show Firefox using less memory than other browsers: 1 2 3 4, and many more!

(Probably linux, because there is no way people could switch to OSX without buying apple hardware...so it would be a less popular choice.)

Uhm.. OS X runs on x86, now...
Google "hackintosh" for more info, including detailed implementation instructions.

Hey, watch them mod points! I didn't say it was legit!

And, for those who don't want to sort through the links, here's one that seems to do the trick, with no additional hardware required other than a spare thumbdrive. I didn't read through it in its entirety, but it certainly looks good - actually made me consider seeing if my brother-in-law (a mac-head) has some spare installation media... who knows? I might find a new OS I like (and $100 for a legit license good for up to 5 systems in the same household sounds a lot better than MSFT's $140 for a single PC license).

you're so full of shit, way to microsoft troll. google encourages people to freely use alternatives.

Meanwhile, if you actually paid attention, this article isn't about google at all. nice job.

iTunes isn't fast at all, and it's about as efficient as the United Nations. We're talking about a ~100MB music player app here. It consumes vast amounts of RAM and disk space, has extremely poor support for formats not officially sanctioned by Apple, and for music players not produced by Apple. For its extreme bloat, it's not very feature rich. Oh, and you have to use it if you want to use Apple's latest gizmos. There's a lot of hatred of iTunes out there, jfgi. I thought it was a Windows only thing, but many Mac users seem to agree. Another thing is that iTunes dominates the Mac platform to such a degree that no one has developed a decent mp3 player for it.

Finder: Just not as good as most of the others. Windows Explorer, Dolphin, Konqueror, possibly even Nautilus. How about doing even the simplest things? Slow, sometimes unresponsive w/spinning beach ball.

The BSD subsystem is just poorly done. There's a reason why many of its userspace utilities are replicated by package collections like Fink: the ones in OS X suck. Is python still compiled without readline support?

Hardware support: Yes, let's stick to buying overpriced crap from Apple only. Like any other cult, Apples don't get to hang with the cool guys.

Obsolescence: Now try running this years software on a five years old Mac. It's obsolete.

I'm a hater, yes, but I hate fanboys, not Apple's products. Many of their products are fine (the laptops especially; I've owned one), I just happen to be fed up with the frauds who advertise them at any opportunity. There are tons of those here on Slashdot, often hovering at +5, insightful just for saying they love Apple products. I'm fed up not with their products, but with how they're supposedly "revolutionary" while doing absolutely nothing new, and few things better.

re: market share, we were talking about Apple's supposedly extreme popularity here, which is effectively debunked by their market share. Their profits are entirely irrelevant. You should ask: who cares about their profits? Their stockholders, and the stockholders only, should be the answer. Customers taking joy from the fact that a big corporation makes a profit on them is absurd, yet you see this all the time ... but only with Apple's customers. Why? Because they're fans, rooting for one corporation as if it were a hockey team. But it's a giant tech corporation, and being a supporter of one of them is simply delusional behaviour.

re: massively overpriced tech stock: the stock market is rarely right when everyone has jumped the same bandwagon.

What options does Linux have for the above case where we need to fine tune network and computer policies on thousands of PCs?

If the hardware is the same then it's easy to set up one PC the way all the others are going to be then cloning the disk. The same used to be doable for Windows as well, Norton Ghost cloned disks, but now that MS has gotten strict with activation and spyware I don't know if people can do it now. A quick google for linux remote administration tools show that remote admin can be done.

Not a sarcastic question as I am not very Linux savvy.

Neither am I, that's why I find Google helpful. I'm about to install Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid, on my MacBook Pro and I've been using Google to map out a strategy to make it a smooth process. Sure, as some say Ubuntu is easy to install however I will be dualbooting and will use the same user files and datastores in both OSes. I'll need to calibrate my monitors, I'll have two of them. I also want to use KDE in Ubuntu and switch between Gnome and KDE.

Falcon

I'm not smoking anything. I'm just describing my personal experience, as well as that of various people who've sat down and meaured this. See for example:

http://cybernetnews.com/browser-comparison-internet-explorer-firefox-chrome-safari-opera/ (search for "memory usage tests" in the page).

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/browser-memory-usage-the-good-the-bad-and-the-down-right-ugly/2024

http://www.favbrowser.com/browser-memory-ram-usage-firefox-35-rc-safari-4-opera-10-beta-google-chrome-30-dev/ (ignore the Chrome bit, because they were adding up memory used by processes that actually have some memory mappings shared)

http://lifehacker.com/5457242/browser-speed-tests-firefox-36-chrome-4-opera-105-and-extensions (seach for "memory use, no extensions" and "Memory use with extensions") as well as the other tests lifehacker has done (e.g. follow the "last batch of browser tests" from that page)

So you tell me, what am I smoking and how did I get the rest of the world to smoke it too?

And here is a newbie guide for installing XBMC on Acer Revo:
http://lifehacker.com/5391308/build-a-silent-standalone-xbmc-media-center-on-the-cheap

Pretty spot-on... these days it's almost like it's more of a battle for mindshare than walletshare. So it isn't all too bad that advertising is becoming more of a form of entertainment than a mantra or jingle.

Take http://woot.com/ as a merchandising paradigm. Or even the first comment at http://lifehacker.com/5620959/best-place-to-buy-cheap-textbooks-amazon from one of the "losers" of the popular vote.

Regarding the "awesome bar" (I really like the functionality, but loathe the name), the sqlite database can get fragmented over time. You might want to try this ever now and then. Can make a world of difference, especially with slower computers/disks.

Some Android phones. And if you have a dev bootloader (ie. the folks you bought your phone from aren't assholes), there aren't any security exploits involved in the process anywhere.

Also, the set of things you can do on an Android phone without root is substantially larger than the set of things you can do on a non-jailbroken iPhone (replacing the built-in apps, for instance).

- Even Google's own Nexus One needs to be rooted.
- Replacing the bootloader similarly isn't easy to begin with and not getting any easier either : "DroidX bootloader locked tight." And it will only get worse now Google itself is out of the handset game.
- The most popular Android phones come with undeletable crapware.

I want to like Android, I really do, but it doesn't help that most of the things people say about it are half-truths at best.

Maybe this will help more:

http://lifehacker.com/5572003/how-to-downgrade-your-iphone-3g%5Bs%5D-from-ios-4-to-ios-313

Downgrade to 3.1.3

http://lifehacker.com/5599406/disable-spotlight-searches-to-improve-iphone-3g-performance-on-ios-4

turn off the parts of spotlight you don't use

I wouldn't say it thrashes it...

http://lifehacker.com/5352195/browser-speed-tests-chrome-40-and-opera-10-take-on-all-challengers

I saw this a while ago and it seemed pretty accurate...

http://lifehacker.com/5344702/tech-support-cheat-sheet-reveals-the-secrets-of-troubleshooting

Don't get me wrong I know a lot of "stuff", but it is simply impossible to know everything. Which seems what people expect. That or magic.

Several alternatives are there:
1. Use different browsers: Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari
2. Use different Firefox profiles ( http://lifehacker.com/231646/geek-to-live--manage-multiple-firefox-profiles )
3. Use the "private browsing" mode in browsers that provide them

Sorry, it's clear you're making it all up. Many tests show Firefox uses less memory than other browsers, and Firefox's usage has never significantly declined. Your post is purely fabrications.

Ok, have fun in fairy tale land... I'll stick with Chrome.

Sorry, it's clear you're making it all up. Many tests show Firefox uses less memory than other browsers, and Firefox's usage has never significantly declined. Your post is purely fabrications.

Actually, if you are fine with the slowdown apparently there is a way to enable iPhone OS 4 features restricted for the 3Gs on a 3G (see http://lifehacker.com/5574507/how-to-enable-multitasking-and-background-wallpaper-on-your-iphone-3g-and-2nd-gen-ipod-touch ) now I haven't used them so I can't vouch for if they work or not so your results may vary, but if you are looking for a way to enable them while waiting for a new phone, that might be a way. I think on that same site there is a link that tells how to downgrade to 3.X also if you want to go that route.

• AT&T free unlimited minutes via Google Voice.
• Beg them for incoming fax handling. That would be HUGE.

I have to admit I like the E-Ink. I read on both my HTC Touch and my DSi and personally I kill my eyes. The E-Ink is just like a book, but much more portable. Besides the light of the other displays makes me feel wired at night, and then I can't sleep. http://lifehacker.com/5524849/ban-portable-electronics-before-bed-for-more-restful-sleep

I started using Chrome because it was an improvement over the other browsers. It was faster, it used less memory...

Faster perhaps, but less memory? Many tests show it uses more memory than other browsers.
http://lifehacker.com/5457242/browser-speed-tests-firefox-36-chrome-4-opera-105-and-extensions http://dotnetperls.com/chrome-memory
http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/browsers/verdict-on-google-chrome-memory-hog/

You need to look into websites, there is no magazine that captures the zeitgeist of the personal computer industry today:

http://www.arstechnica.com/
http://www.lifehacker.com/
http://www.tomshardware.com/

then there are specialty sites that focus on very particular topics, but those are some good, general sites to start with...

To get your John C. Dvorak fill, you could go here:

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/

And Jerry Pournelle is here:

http://www.chaosmanorreviews.com/

Hope that helps

http://lifehacker.com/5060621/block-ads-on-your-jailbroken-iphone-or-ipod-touch

Block all the ad's and dont use up your limited data connection with useless Ad's.

Fring is just a front-end. It coalesces contact in one place and uses any xport layer you desire.

If you want swype capability, how about checking this out?

http://www.shapewriter.com/software.html#android

http://lifehacker.com/5344955/get-a-better-android-keyboard-no-rooting-required

http://lifehacker.com/5518076/hit-stop-+-stop-+-play-and-other-tricks-to-skip-dvd-trailers-and-warnings

Very useful tip, also nice using something like XBMC which doesn't seem to honor a DVD's no-skip wishes and just let's you get to the main menu (almost) any time.

http://lifehacker.com/354513/build-an-attractive-charging-station-on-the-cheap Or modify a bedside cabinet, like I did. Works fine.

Thanks for the suggestion: Vacuum Places Improved. Soon I'll be trying it with Windows 7 64-bit.

Article: "Vacuum Places Improved" Speeds Up Firefox with a Click of Your Mouse

Article partly about "out-of-control memory use" in Firefox: Five Features We Want to See in Firefox.

Thanks for the suggestion: Vacuum Places Improved. Soon I'll be trying it with Windows 7 64-bit.

Article: "Vacuum Places Improved" Speeds Up Firefox with a Click of Your Mouse

Article partly about "out-of-control memory use" in Firefox: Five Features We Want to See in Firefox.

All browsers slowly take up more memory, but Firefox seems to take up less memory than others.

Here are a few ways lifehacker has posted about new options to keychains; http://lifehacker.com/349647/diy-compact-keychain - Pop rivet your keys together, only helpful if you have less than 5 keys or so. http://lifehacker.com/399031/diy-leatherman-key-mod - Might work better with a pocket knife and no blades. Again limited to the number of keys.

Here are a few ways lifehacker has posted about new options to keychains; http://lifehacker.com/349647/diy-compact-keychain - Pop rivet your keys together, only helpful if you have less than 5 keys or so. http://lifehacker.com/399031/diy-leatherman-key-mod - Might work better with a pocket knife and no blades. Again limited to the number of keys.

You might also look at using a cable key ring.
http://lifehacker.com/5302086/use-a-cable-key-ring-for-easy-key-management

And a quick disconnect keychain
http://www.google.com/search?q=Quick+Disconnect+Keychain

And an S Biner clip
http://www.countycomm.com/sbiner.htm

http://lifehacker.com/399031/diy-leatherman-key-mod

i bought a $5 multitool at the hardware store and removed the tools from it. get some copies of your keys made, cut them down to fit, and stick them in place of the tools. the multitool i bought holds eight keys, four in either handle. that just happens to be the number of keys i have too~

I've been using a similar set-up for the last 9 months or so.

- 24/7 Linux box (My main desktop PC)
- t.e.d. (Java-based Torrent Episode Downloader - searches eztv and many other torrent site, using filters to get the shows you define.)
- Deluge (Bittorrent client set to check a folder for new torrents added by ted)
- tvnamer (perl app that renames TV show files to a format you decide, using TVdB for episode names)

String it all together with some scripts and cron jobs (to automate file renaming/moving and to restart java apps nightly)

Attach a device running XBMC with a Logitech remote and you're set. I'm currently using an actual modded Xbox, but plan on upgrading to a $200 Atom-basded nettop for HD output. (Acer AspireRevo)

.... to the right side of the window title bar where they belong? If it's not possible, I will not budge from 9.10 thank you very much.

http://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+move+buttons+back

More than a few...
This one is the original. http://lifehacker.com/5500577/move-ubuntus-window-buttons-back-to-the-right

And this one looks quite easy. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535/move-window-buttons-back-to-the-right-in-ubuntu-10.04/

Now you can upgrade.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but from the sounds of it he wants Readyboost for Linux, which I can't say as I blame him as I have Windows 7 and Readyboost is nice. Now I don't know how well it works, since I am not a Linux guy, but Lifehacker has a DIY Readyboost for Linux. And for those still on XP there is a Readyboost for XP but it costs $40.

Anyway from TFA it sounds like he wants Linux Readyboost. If he tries it he should probably come back here and give us a little review of how it went. After all if you can get a speed boost using a cheap flash stick like you can in Windows 7, hell why not do it?

1) "Is apple going to let me use it:" Sure, you can use it. You'll void your warranty, but once you've bought the hardware, if you want to smash it with a hammer or load something else on it, they're not going to waste time and effort chasing you down.

They may not chase you down for using it, but they may block you from using it in the first place.

My understanding is that with 2GB, the video memory can be increased (via the BIOS) from 256 MB to 512 and that "will help you stream the larger HD videos without hiccups." Of course, I haven't tried it yet myself, being willing to live with the occasional hiccup.

1. Aren't we still talking about today? You're looking to use the iPad with a VNC program.

Not for DAW work. That will require cooperation from the DAW publisher (Logic, I'm looking at you!); but WHEN that happens, watch out!

Rotary control? Drag up or down.

Are you fucking KIDDING!?! That has got to be THE worst UI behavior EVAR!

Do I want to obscure my field of view every time I need to adjust a fader or pot?

You do that every single day, with real-world things you interact with. So?

Do I want to remove my fingerprints from the screen every 10 seconds

I looked at the iPad I was messing with at Best Buy yesterday, and after about 30 minutes of poking, pinching, swiping, etc., I was simply amazed that there really weren't any smudges on the screen. Something about an "oleophobic" coating on the screen...

How about number entry? I do a lot of that in Cubase, because it allows me to reflect more accurately on what I'm actually changing... what took half a second to double-click, hit 3 number keys and then enter, now takes 5 seconds because you have to wait for a virtual keyboard with no tactile feedback whatsoever and find the right keys visually. Same thing with text entry... Renaming 12 drum tracks on the iPad is going to be a pain in the ass ;)

You do know that you can use any bluetooth keyboard with the iPad, right? So, next?

Oh, and what about keyboard shortcuts? I need about 100 of them to use Cubase quickly and efficiently, and having only my fingers (meaning in order to activate something, it needs to be on the screen) to open stuff is, well, pretty slow. I don't know about you, but I can't come up with enough gestures to replace all those shortcuts :P

The "point" (no pun) is, YOU WON'T HAVE TO! The ONLY reason that DAW and NLE users use SO many keyboard shortcuts is that THE MOUSE SUCKS FOR REAL-TIME CONTROL!!! Think about it: How many times have you wished a "real" piece of gear had a "keyboard shortcut"? Answer is "Not very often". Why? Because, when you can simply and INTUITIVELY and DIRECTLY interact with a control, you JUST DO IT.

Sheesh! Are you REALLY that dense?

3. Factor in the inaccuracy of capacitive touchscreens and the fact that these applications are optimized for the pinpoint accuracy of a mouse, and I'd be willing to put money on that ;).

And you'd lose. As for the accuracy of Apple's capacitive touchscreens in general (and relative to the competition), have you seen this little demonstration? As you can see, not all touchscreens are alike, and pin-point accuracy isn't required when the control layout is actually designed for a touch interface. That may not be the case right now, but soon will be.

Don't underestimate the speed of a decent trackpoint (the Thinkpad implementation... not that Toshiba or Dell crap) :D

Used it. Hated it. Feel like I've been forced to play a video game everywhere. Some people love their trackpoints. I am not one of them. Different horses...

All in all, I could imagine having a multitouch monitor or tablet like the iPad as a secondary input method, in addition to my keyboard and mouse and big-ass high resolution monitors, but using it alone for any one task associated with recording, mixing or mastering? I honestly just don't see it...

You will (or at least the rest of the world soon will).

The issue with attacking NNTP has been that those who run NNTP services don't control the content whatsoever. They aren't held responsible for what's uploaded to their servers, and I think this is a fundamental issue with regarding net-neutrality.

What? NNTP servers store the content, while bittorrent servers (both the torrent files repositories and the trackers) never do. In fact, if you decouple the .torrent file sharing from the tracker, you can have trackers that know nothing about the content, not even the torrent name (only some hashes), or even trackerless torrents.

Bittorrent is much harder to stop; the only way to do it is to convince each ISP to implement DPI filters and play cat and mouse with the developers of bittorrent clients, and it'll only end if they basically turn the Internet into TV 2.0.

"Pride comes before a fall"

It is the height of hubris to think mozilla has the power to order around IE, Chrome, Safari, etc, with only ~47% (or is it only 25% and already falling ?)

In fact.....

http://lifehacker.com/5391308/build-a-silent-standalone-xbmc-media-center-on-the-cheap

For a step by step guide.

Super cookies, yes. Maybe you have some? Read:

http://www.imasuper.com/66/technology/flash-cookies-the-silent-privacy-killer/

http://www.fightidentitytheft.com/blog/new-breed-super-cookie-defies-removal-almost

http://lifehacker.com/5245418/betterprivacy-prevents-tracking-by-flash-other-super+cookies

In short, if you don't know any better, Adobe enables web sites to install a cookie that your browser doesn't even know about, let alone manage. And, those cookies persist forever, tracking anything that the website chooses to track.