If you haven’t yet seen it, Steve Wozniak — co-founder of Apple Computer — was seen having a great time on Dancing with the Stars.
It’s great seeing someone so well-known step out of their comfort zone and have fun doing it!
Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
Steve Wozniak “Dancing With The Stars”
Posted in Fun, Hardware on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Basic Computer Skills for Library Staff
Posted in Hardware, Internet, Security, Software on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The October 2008 issue of Computers in Libraries has a great article by Rachel Singer Gordon and Jessamyn West on the basic computer skills needed by every library staff member. Although you may add others, this is a great place to start:
Rebooting
Troubleshoot rebooting problems
Copy/paste
Save/move/copy files
Ask for help
Basic printer troubleshooting
Basic printer options
Printing frames
Basic word processing
Checking electrical [...]
USB 3.0
Posted in Hardware, Standards, Telecommunications on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The next version for USB is available now, but probably won’t be seen by consumers until 2010. USB 3.0, also called “USB SuperSpeed,” is focused on speed — it should be about 10 times faster than the USB 2.0 standard.
To give you an idea of how fast this is, these numbers from from a slide [...]
Microsoft Data Center in San Antonio
Posted in Hardware, Internet, Texas on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In September, Microsoft opened a data center in San Antonio. It is in the Westover Hills area, which is near Sea World and the medical district. This center follows their Environmental Sustainability initiative by making it as eco-friendly as possible.
They learned a great deal when building their last data center in Quincy, Washington and brought [...]
Scented Notebooks
Posted in Fun, Hardware on November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Asus, the maker of the popular Eee PC, has come out with a new line of notebooks — the F6 Notebook Series. Still a compact notebook, their claim to fame is that they are scented, with the covers matching the scent:
Floral Blossom
Musky Black
Morning Dew
Aqua Ocean
The duration of the scent depends on how much you use it. [...]
Earliest Digital Recording
Posted in Fun, Hardware on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As part of the 60th anniversary of Baby, a forerunner of modern computers, the BBC has unearthed what they think is the oldest recording of a computer playing music. The recording is from the fall of 1951 and includes America, Baa Baa Black Sheep, and part of In the Mood:
Link to First Computer Playing Music
If you’re [...]
Chairs Following You in the Library
Posted in Fun, Hardware, Wireless Communications on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yes — a designer created a chair for the Openbare Bibliotheek Endhoven which follows you around. It uses RFID and when a patron scans the card to the chair, the chair will follow, allowing the patron to sit down anywhere in the library. Personally, I see a lot of issues with this, but . . . [...]
Stolen Mac Helps Find Burglars
Posted in Fun, Hardware, Internet, Legal Issues, Money, Security on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Macintosh laptop, as well as other electronics, was stolen from an Apple employee. The Leopard operating system on the Mac has a function called “Back to My Mac,” which allows the owner of a Mac to find it if it shows up on the Internet and also to control or work on it.
Apparently, the [...]
Over 1 Billion Colors
Posted in Hardware, Money, Software on November 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yes, Hewlett-Packard and DreamWorks have collaborated on a monitor that provides over 1 billion colors — the HP DreamColor Display LP2480xz. A result of a 2-year collaboration between the 2 companies, this monitor has a 24″ diagonal, 1920 x 1200 resolution, and sells at only $3,499 — much less than other similar displays.
In a post on [...]
