Mar 26

…Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney believes Apple has ordered 10 million 3G iPhones. The piece also said that Dulaney believes Apple will use an Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display in the new iPhone. The piece also said that Dulaney believes Apple didn’t do as well as it expected in Europe with the first version of the iPhone.

courtesy Tech Trader Daily

This would be a big shock… 3G iPhones so soon after the early February iPhone storage bump (to 16GB). This rumor has powered AAPL from the low $120s to $144 as of this writing.

Mar 14

Bought it a week ago from Amazon (buy it from Amazon with this link). I’d like to turn this into a pro-looking review, but there’s really not much to say about it: it just works. My test 13×19 print from my Epson 2200 was very similar to the image on my two displays (MacBook and older VGA NEC 17″ LCD). And subjective spot checks seem dead on too.

Pantone Huey Pro

It’s Cold Here Today

As for the COLD… well, my displays are “cold” now that I’ve calibrated them. At the end of the calibration, the Huey software of course activates the profile it just created, and bam you get the corrected profiile and a dialog box asking if you want to keep it. The sudden shift to blue-green shocked me at first, so I re-ran the process. But nothing veered from the first profile: same blue-green cast. Then I did my two other displays, and they too had this cast. Ok, I’m starting to think, maybe this is “neutral”, and my displays have simply been really warm all this time. My images on the web were never that off, really close to a nice skintone consistency accross displays, but a little cold. And that makes sense if my displays were always a little warm.

I used to calibrate (or should I say “calibrate”?) my displays entirely with software using the built-in System Preferences -> Displays -> Color -> Calibrate. But now I can see that was generating a very warm cast. When I go back to those profiles I’m shocked by how much magenta is in them.

Process

So what’s the process like? Pretty simple:

  • Install the Pantone software
  • Plug in the calibrator
  • Run the software
  • Follow directions
  • Four minutes later your’re done

The calibrator has tiny suction cups that keep it attached to your display while the software runs its color test loop. Just pop the Huey Pro in the center of the screen and watch the pretty colors cycle.

Noteables

  • The Huey has an ambient light monitor that can be used a) only when calibration is run, or b) always, as long as the USB calibrator is attached to the Mac/PC. This option gives you a constantly-correct calibration, despite changing light in the room.
  • The Huey Pro comes, oddly, in REALLY nice packaging. I say oddly because really nice packaging is usually the domain of high-end equipment. By nice packaging, I don’t mean leather-bound felt-lined boxes or anything, but the presentation was kinda reassuring, saying “Yes, Matt, you made the right choice here.” Very Apple-like.
Mar 12

REALLY low price here folks. Note it’s the model before the recently-discontinued MBP 2.2 and 2.4GHz LED-backlight set.

So this isn’t the last generation, but the one before it. But for $1300? Absurdly low price.

Refurbished MacBook Pro 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
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1GB memory
120GB hard drive
6x SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 128MB of GDDR3 memory
Built-in iSight camera
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Mar 10

Refurbished 8GB iPhones are $349 at the Apple Store.

Jump on it. You can go AT&T month-to-month, or T-Mobile. I did it, and it’s easy.

The device is just freaking amazing. I’ll have a full review up soon.

Mar 07

Email Quick Delete

If you know an email is junk before opening it, just swipe sideways across it and you’ll get a delete button.

Easy Web Zooming

Double tap in a web page to zoom into the size of the containing box. Thus, if you double tap the column of text that’s created by a table cell, the result will be a zoomed in view to the width of the cell. It’s a great way to quickly make text as big as it can get, without getting too tight.

Toungue Nav

In a pinch, your tongue will register a “touch” or “tap” on the iPhone. For instance, if you’re wearing gloves and need to tap a button, give it a little lick. Just don’t come home with lipstick on your iPhone.

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