Apparently the iPad supports the ability to undo and redo text input natively. The feature is activated by shaking the iPad while a tex editing area is active, and up pops this little menu (or rather bounces in from the side).
Neat!
Tag Archive: Technology
So, I’ve been running Snow Leopard for a couple of weeks now, mostly in 64-bit mode, which contrary to my initial expectations hasn’t caused any real problems with any software or hardware. The entire OS seems very stable and snappy, and I’m oh so happy. I have noticed a few weird quirks, though.
For one, it seems that whenever I try to run something in Quartz Composer, or just launching a Quartz composition in Quicktime, it will utterly fail to render properly. Everything is either garbles of what looks like old video memory (Safari windows, random images, multicolored visual noise) or just plain nothing. I came to think that this might be some kind of memory addressing issue, so i booted up in 32-bit mode, and presto, no problems at all.
That, on the other hand caused my Citrix Metaframe connection to one of my clients to stop working. Whenever I try to connect to the presentation server, I will get a Java exception thrown at me (a null-pointer one to be specific, which again might point at some kind of memory issue). Weirdness!
So to recap, the only issues I’ve experienced with Snow Leopard is Quartz not working in 64-bit mode, and the Citrix Java client not working in 32-bit mode.
Update: Seems I was wrong on the Citrix client only working in 64-bit mode. It seems that it has a bit of its own life, suddenly deciding not to be cooperative in any way, regardless of bitness. On the light side of things, opening up Java preferences (Applications > Utilities > Java-preferences) and clearing the applet cache does seem to resolve the problems, at least for some time.
Turns out to double nicely as a headset for your Mac! How sweet! Just got myself the in-ear iPhone headset today, and plugged it into my Macbook to listen to some music. I accidentally fiddled with the controls on the headset cord, and lo-and-behold, they actually worked for adjusting volume and play/pause/skip controls. Turns out, the little microphone in the headset is also recognized and connected to the Mac when plugged in, so it doubles as a full headset for Skype/iChat/whatever, even though it’s only plugged into the headphone port. Pure genius.
I get a lot of traffic to this page each day, so now that you’re here, why not take a look around at all the other stuff i keep here? Maybe you’ll find something interesting. Be my guest, please 
Update: Unfortunately, it seems the fine folks at Newark have fixed this little glitch. It was nice while it lasted!
This will show you how to get free wifi from the Boingo hotspots in Newark airport. It’ll probably also work on other Boingo hotspots, but I haven’t tried it yet. If it works, please post a comment, would be nice to know. Now, read on and I’ll tell you how to do this in-between all my ramblings.
So, I’m sitting here in Newark Liberty International Airport (what a long name), and having a few hours to waste before my flight, I figured i’d try to find some open wireless networks, and have a little surfin’ fun. Unfortunately, as I expected, no networks accidentally left open was to be found, so another route had to be taken. I need my internet fix. So here’s how it works:
Boingo is kind enough to offer free wifi in all of Newark airport, with a little tricking that is. Trying their network from my iPhone, I noticed i had the option to get 15-minutes of free internet time, if I watched a 15-second ad, that is. Nice deal! Worked painlessly and let me browse the interwebs from my iPhone, but when I pulled out my laptop to write some email, I found that the offer wasn’t available when using a laptop. Doh!
So, what to do? All it requires is a little URL trickery. When you first connect to the Boingo network and open a browser, you will be presented with a Boingo “buy-some-access-time-now-you-rich-person-in-need-of-internet-access-for-the-outrageous-price-of-24.99-dollars” kind of page. We won’t do that. Please notice the unholy URL in your address bar. It’ll be something like:
https://www.boingo.aero/(S(j0vp4xi5o1h6fre12cg5hx55))/Home.aspx
Beautiful. To get your nice and free access, just change the “Home.aspx” part of the url to “FreeOfferAdMobile.aspx”, so the URL will look something like this:
https://www.boingo.aero/(S(j0vp4xi5o1h6fre12cg5hx55))/FreeOfferAdMobile.aspx
Hit enter, wait for the little “connecting” bar to finish, and of you go! Enjoy your free wireless internet access!
