Most of my good friends are RC nuts.. garages full of half built planes, cars, choppers or boats and enough batteries to power a small suburb. Myself, I never really got into it. However, something like this could be kind of fun or maybe I just want it for the novelty factor and to boast a new “look what I can do on Android” coolism.
Coming soon….
I have always enjoyed watching guys base jump off mountains in wingsuits with GoCam’s attached, the footage is amazing and I can only imagine the rush they must get with descent. I have never really thought about the possibilities of flying next to a jet in a human jet suit though….
Read the article.
I recently had to renew packetaddict.com, mainly because I have so much infrastructure that is tied into the domain that it just couldn’t be avoided. Whilst doing this though I really began to feel guilty about the lack of effort I put into the website these days. So, in an effort to remove some of that guilt I will be doing some work on the site between now and Xmas to try and bring it up to speed ready for a busy 2012 blogging.
Watch this space…
So after updating to MAC OSX Lion on my macbook I have had intermittent issues with my wifi adapter. When going to bring my wifi online and search for access points I am advised that I do not have any wifi adapters installed.. Looking at the network preferences and sure enough Lion does not believe that there is any wifi functionality available to me.
It turns out that this is some sort of conflict with wireless input devices that are connect to the host whilst Lion is booting.
After disabling my Magic Mouse and restarting the macbook my wifi card is available. This fix strangely enough works every time I suffer the issue.
I was always a fan of the Apple Cinema displays. Picture density was fantastic the units themselves were solid and of high quality. I expect the thunderbolt displays are the same… they are just a little on the pricey side considering I just bought two 24″ Acer screens for $180 AUD each. Maybe if I get the new macbook at the end of the year.
The new thunderbolt displays comes with docking capabilities for new generation macbooks allowing users to recharge their battery when connected to the display as well as 3 x USB 2.0 ports and a firewire 800 port. Furthermore a gigabit ethernet adapter is also installed to complete the entire docking environment.
Units are available on the apple store now for a cracking $999 US.
With the Android store and the Apple App store doing so well, and developers really pushing the platforms to their limits with portable hand held gaming titles we are faced with the usual same old concern regarding the interface that we use to play these titles. Touch screens are a great way of keeping a common standard but the problem often being that you trade visibility of the screen and what is occurring in the game by swiping your fingers all over it constantly.
At last, the joysticks over at ThinkGeek seem to be a step in the right direction, and appear to be usable by any platform that shares the standard circular disk in the corners of the screen as the controls.