Slick iPad app for Mac users

July 5th, 2010 § 0

If you’d like to add an extra display to your laptop while you’re on the road, there haven’t been any options available other than carrying an actual monitor around with you. Not too practical, of course.

But if you’re an Apple laptop user and have an iPad, you’re now in luck. A company called Avatron has released Air Display, a $10 iPad app that, combined with a utility and driver for the Mac’s OS X, lets you use your iPad as an external display.

My iPad/MacBook Pro setup in Carmel

The screen is refreshing over WiFi, so it cannot handle video or other fast-moving windows (too slow a refresh rate), but it works great for an occasional second screen to hold your calendar, task manager, IM window, etc.

Note that the Avatron web page says that a Windows version of the accompanying utility software is on the way.

Hat tip to Wired’s Gadget Lab blog for alerting me to this app.

“USA” chants in Honduras

July 5th, 2010 § 0

[Whoops, I've had this post sitting in my draft folder since October 2009. Might as well post it now...]

Why? Because the US tied Costa Rica today in the last minute of their final World Cup qualifier in the North and Central America (CONCACAF) group, which, when combined with Honduras’ victory in their own qualifying match today, means that Honduras has qualified for the World Cup. Big news in a small, soccer-mad country, dealing with the aftermath of a military coup earlier this year. The video below is pretty great; check out the “USA! USA” chants at the end (and a guy in a devil mask wearing a US flag as a cape, on a scooter). HT to Grant Wahl (SI soccer writer) via his Twitter feed.

Delicious links now in a different spot

July 5th, 2010 § 0

For some time, I have been saving links of interest to Delicious, which has then auto-published a nightly post containing all of my saved links. FYI, I have turned off that auto-posting feature, as the links can now be found in the right-hand column on my blog, under the heading “Links of Interest?” I’m trying to

A note on Gmail setup under iOS 4

July 5th, 2010 § 1

A nice feature add by Apple in iOS 4 (the latest software rev for iPhones and iPod touches) is enhanced Gmail support. Beyond the threaded conversation feature, which supports all types of mail accounts, the Gmail account type (found when you go to set up a new account in Settings) now supports archiving under Gmail, such that “deleting” a message (air quotes because the icon in Mail has not changed) now removes the Inbox label from the message and leaves it in the All Mail folder. In addition, a horizontal swipe of a message or bulk editing of messages has a revised “Archive” text label, rather than saying “Delete.” Note that this archiving feature can be turned off.

You also get a nifty Gmail icon for your inbox now. Macworld has a nice article up on these revisions.

I previously set up this behavior myself using an “Other”-type mail account (as the prior Gmail preset available when you created a new account did not support IMAP), combined with a few tweaks of the trash can location.

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