- During lunch today, I wrote about the Dog Days of summer. Arf!
- Home on the Go with NetInfo describes part of the magic needed to put you Mac OS X home directory on a removable device. Automounting Sharepoints at Startup has some more of the magic using nfs, but only tells how to do it with no authentication (which seems a bit dangerous), plus nfs isn’t exactly known for its security. Mac OS X Local User Account & Network Login Account gets closer, but where the heck is the Apple documentation that will tell me how to do this easily? Readers? Anyone have an idea? If you know of a link, please send it in and I’ll tell everyone how cool you are. I don’t especially want to have to figure this out myself and write it up.
- Security Spy looks like just the software to turn an iSight and a spare Mac into a home security system. I think I may have found a use for that iBook I was thinking about selling after all. Now I just need to find the time to set it up.
- P800 / Sidekick Comparison. Two cool phones, one being run into the ground by T-Mobile’s ineptitude, the other, not quite as spiffy, but sold by carriers with at least a little clue. I’m going to think about this pretty hard when it comes time to renew my T-Mobile contract.
- Digital Photography Review has a Nikon D2H Preview. Here’s another camera that inspires hardware lust in me. At $3500, I think I’ll probably be able to resist the temptation, but this is the kind of digital camera I really want. It’s got the equivalent of ISO 1600 sensitivity, and you can push that a couple extra stops if you don’t mind added sensor noise (there’s fairly strong evidence I don’t — I shot Tri-X at 6400 during high-school when I had access to the school’s lab so I could push-process my own film using some swell developer that worked slow but kept the grain and contrast from getting completely out of hand). The D2H can shoot 8 frames a second for up to five seconds before you have to wait for things to spool to the CF card. Shutter-lag is down to 37msec, which is pretty darned good. There’s manual mode so I can decide how to take the picture if I want, or full-auto, so I can let the camera think for me. And there are a handful of other features that sound tempting. Now if the smart guys at Nikon can just take the new sensor technology they’ve come up with and jam a 2-4 megapixel sensor into a compact enough camera that I can stuff into a pocket, and sell it for under a grand, I’ll be sold in a heartbeat. [gizmodo]