Techno rants

Apple have been pushing this new thunderbolt port from intel, it combines PCIe and display port technology, thus we are seeing a ranger of connectors from apple to go from thunderbolt to HDMI, DVI etc. also we have seen the introduction of the new apple cinema display which as apple are have named the thunderbolt display since it connects through thunderbolt I/O technology with 10 Gbits/sec speed why only apple pushing this port? well there is usb 3.0 though not as fast it is more widely used as most laptops are coming with at least one usb 3.0 port and many peripheral 's are making the switch as well as the fact that its backward compatible, thunderbolt we should not count it out yet, thunderbolt or light peak as it was called has the ability to add extra hardware components such as graphics cards. the best example of this sort of implementation is with 2011 vaio z, it has a core i7 processor and is made to compete with the macbook air though is no where near the same price, but

If any of you out there would want and video screen capture on your mac, it is quite easy and apple has already provided the tools for the job. Though it is not sophisticated as many third party applications it works fine and is more stable than many of them which I have used. Quciktime 10 has the ability to make video screen capture and export them as .mov First open Quciktime 10 Then under File open New screen recording or alt + command + N Finally this should be self explanatory press the record button and click the screen

the battey life on my new macbook pro 13" has been a mixed result, while I have tested it running at half brightness settings and the keyboard backlight off I was able to run the machine from 100 - 0% for approximately 5 hours, during this time I was actively using the computer using the web browser (chrome since its the best). An interesting thing which I found out was that the running of multiple desktops and the number of widgets running on the dashboard affects battery life. after adding an extra desktop that is a change in 36 minutes of battery life, so if you don't have access to a power outlet keep your desktops to a minimum

Lion hit the shelves, pardon me it hit the online store. apple are not offering disks for this version of the operating system neither are they providing the cool usb's holding the software well not yet anyway. sorry for sounding a bit stuck up, but by offering a new operating system only through their application store, it pushes all of you who are on the fence whether the idea of digital distribution. when i bought my new macbook pro the day after lion launched, I had to go to the mac app store app put in a code then download lion and install, apple a company who prides themselves in being usable right out of the box is not exactly scoring pretty high here. but after everything was installed and the setup completed lion feels like a new os and is very nice using it as well.  Some people may be put off by the weird scrolling an almage to iOS but once you get accustomed to it, the saying goes "a piece of cake". There are multiple gesture to get used to as well, where as