Baron’s Blog

Dieter must must be happy like a little girl.

Ah, for all those ponying up their money for an iPhone 3G on the Big Island, guess what. According to the AT&T coverage map there’s no 3G network coverage on our island. Sure Oahu, Maui and Kauai have 3G coverage but according to the map the Big Island has none. Source: http://www.wireless.att.com/coverageviewer/

So are you still going to get an iPhone 3G? Or is there someone at AT&T willing to say, ‘heck that’s an old map, we’ve got 3G on the Big Island.’ The map is dated 5/31/08.

*UPDATE*

AT&T got it together and does have pretty good 3G coverage on the Big Island according to this just released map. Guess they needed to spur on those iPhone sales, not that they needed any help since they sold out of their supply in a just half a day.

This new map is dated 6/30/08.

I made it and it shall be known as Frogasurus.

Make your own via the creature creator from http://www.spore.com

You’ll need a pretty hefty graphics card and cpu to have fun with the trial app.

Mike gets a bit closer to photograph Mana`o Company at the Dolphin Days Brew Fest at the Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort.

Well, I finally got the graphics bug I’ve seen mentioned online for my MacBook Pro. After updating to Mac OS 10.5.3 I’ve got the attack of the white blocks in graphics. This is a low level problem as you can see from the video above I can actually screen capture a movie of the problem occurring (click on the image above to see the problem). Supposedly Apple knows this to be a software problem and hopefully they’ll get this solved. I’ll have to submit a feedback on their website about the problem since I’m still under warranty (not that it’ll be fixed via warranty). Hopefully Apple releases a new graphics update.

Apple Insider talks about the glitch here.

There’s a new online utility out called Evernote. It allows you to get rid of all those scraps of paper stuck into your wallet (or purse for the ladies) with handwritten or other notes on them. Just use your cameraphone, take a photo of your note and send it to your Evernote account. The image is not only kept in your private account, but it actually has character recognition to convert your writing or text in the note to searchable text. Very cool stuff. I’ve done some tests and when the writing is clear enough the search does work.

There’s also a desktop client for Evernote and I tried that and saw that there was an iSight note button so you can probably jot a live note to yourself. Well I clicked the button and the graphics went wacko. I mean really wacko. Check the screenshots below, the 2nd screenshot was when I moved the mouse around and the block graphics changed. Eventually I couldn’t read the computer screen and had to reboot. I guess that’s why it’s in beta.

But Evernote still looks like a cool app. If you want to give it a try just shoot me an email as I have some invites available to give out for free accounts.

*UPDATE* They have a new desktop client and the iSight Note feature now works fine.

John McCain doesn’t know how to use a computer? WTF? Well maybe we won’t have to worry about him pushing the button. Well, maybe we do, if the Amish can figure-out buttons surely McCain can, but zippers, no.