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Cordless Desktop S 530 Laser for Mac mini
Vintage Mac Mini Mod
Mac mini - iPod Video Future Culture a Light Sharing!
Mac mini's - Dual Pairing a new Heart of a Modular iHome?
"Mac mini - iPod Video - Modules of a Form within an iHome!"
An iHome iHearth based on Mac mini's - an 'i' Milestone
Cordless Desktop S 530 Laser for Mac mini
Logitech has released the Cordless Desktop S 530 Laser - a cordless keyboard and mouse combo designed especially for the Mac mini.
Logitech Cordless Desktop S 530 Laser for Mac Features:
• USB
• Cordless
• Multimedia Control
• Zero Degree Tilt
• Scroll wheel
• Internet Forward/Back
• Audio Control
• Right-Handed Comfort Grip
• Laser Technology
Designed specifically for your Mac, the Cordless Desktop S 530 Laser includes a comfortable ultra-flat keyboard and a high-performance laser mouse. The stylish white and silver design perfectly matches both consumer and pro Macs.
Dedicated One-Touch Controls for Your Mac
The one-touch controls on the Cordless Desktop® S 530 Mac have been specifically designed to work with iTunes and iPhoto, giving you instant access to your music and photos. Dedicated keys launch Safari, Mail, Spotlight, or any other application with a single press. And all direct-access keys can be easily reprogrammed with the included software.
Ergonomic Low-Profile, Zero-Degree Tilt Design
The great styling of the keyboard is matched by the outstanding quality and feel of the Logitech typing experience. Delivering maximum comfort through unique design, this ultra-flat keyboard is less than 3/4" (19 mm) high to minimize wrist extension, and the built-in palm rest provides added convenience.
Sculpted Laser Mouse for Superior Comfort and Precision
The sculpted right-handed mouse follows the natural shape of your hand and delivers outstanding comfort. Logitech´s High Performance Laser tracking delivers pixel-precise navigation on virtually any surface. The innovative Tilt Wheel lets you scroll pages top-to-bottom or side-to-side. Five re-programmable buttons let you control volume and web browser back and forward without taking your hand off the mouse.
Extended Battery Life
Sophisticated battery management technologies mean that batteries last up to 6 months, or even longer! Both keyboard and mouse include convenient LED battery level indicators. When flashing, the LED gives approximately ten days´ notice before batteries need changing. Additionally, the mouse features an on/off switch to further extend battery life.
USB Mini-Receiver for Added Flexibility
The USB mini-receiver plugs easily into any Mac with a USB port, eliminating clutter on your desk. If you use a PowerBook or iBook, you also have the option of easily taking the mouse and mini-receiver with you when you´re on the go!
Included USB stand
For improved range or better accessibility, the included USB stand sits neatly on your desktop.
System Requirements
• Mac OS X 10.2.8 or above
• 1 available USB port
• CD-ROM drive
• Logitech S 530 cordless keyboard for Mac
• Logitech MX 600 cordless laser mouse
• USB mini-receiver
• USB desk stand
• 2 AAA (keyboard) and 2 AA (mouse) batteries
• CD with software, comfort guidelines, and help center
• Quick Start Guide
• Five-year limited hardware warranty
$99.99
For more information, visit:
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=2162,CONTENTID=11420
Vintage Mac Mini Mod
Gizmodo reports:
Thanks to the Mac Mini, Apples are no longer getting the cold shoulder by case modders. A Japanese fellow put a Mac Mini inside of an old-school Macintosh SE/30. Best of all, he managed to get the grayscale monitor to work with the Mini’s DVI connection.....
For the full report, visit here.
http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/vintage-mac-mini-mod-153321.php
Mac mini - iPod Video Future Culture a Light Sharing!
Mini Ture_MacJournal says:
Mac mini's - Dual Pairing a new Heart of a Modular iHome?
It is my assertion that the functional centration of the home hearth tradition now the the iHearth concept has been somewhat modified by changing technology and specifically the emerging, home affecting communications and home computer technology. In what could be regarded as a home with iHome characteristics we have an enormous impact on our day to day lives which for many years has had its functional centre in the way we lived normally and traditionally. Now that has changed forever.
PAIRING TWO Mac mini's
With 1 Monitor. (Case 1)
This is a kind of Mac to Mac switching.
A form of operation where one may remain virtually headless but operating.
My attention has turned to the use of a Belkin KMV switch with two Mac mini's of one monitor so that one Mac min could be used to run the intelligent automation of the home and the twin in the switching situation could be used for multi media docking and syncing with iPods.
You can check it out at:
http://dbatrium.blogspot.com/2006/02/mac-mini-ipod-video-future-culture.html
"Mac mini - iPod Video - Modules of a Form within an iHome!"
http://dbatrium.blogspot.com/2006/02/mac-mini-ipod-video-modules-of-form.html
Does a Mac digital media iHub need to be a faster Mac mini?
Well a faster Mac mini which has the same miser profile and the latest OSX iLife and digital media management with at least 2 to 4 GB of Memory would be great for one specific iHub for part of iHome Theatre but I would suppose that a dual modular pairing would also assist in many way the operation of an iHome domicile.
The functions I could be considering:-
With such arrays of dual modular Mac mini use.
Speed and more memory is really desirable but much may already be done with existing 1.42 GHz Mac mini's in a paired array with simple KMV switching or other like pairing.
The now old G4 resides in a huge array of machines and they would most likely not be immediately obsolete because of faster Mac's with (Intel). The operation of existing low wattage devices may for quite some years provide excellent service.
Of course a Mac mini (Intel) I believe will capture a huge marketplace because it would perhaps as an iAppliance and small form even if slightly taller, could render many who are with old systems finally take the plunge and buy.
Mac mini's - Dual Pairing a new Heart of a Modular iHome?
http://dbatrium.blogspot.com/2006/02/mac-minis-dual-pairing-new-heart-of.html
An iHome iHearth based on Mac mini's - an 'i' Milestone.
I have taken a brief look at some structures of human to human and human to device interactivity. To me in detailed observation there seem to me that there are some distinctive types of structure in interactivity. The 'Connector' and the 'Connectee' (or Connected) have event based linkages which may or may not exhibit a certain type of interactivity. Yet we have the characteristic of the connected recipient of the first action of the interconnected event.
A connector polls or seeks by arrangement an engagement of source to reply creating an activity.
When we interact with an appliance what becomes obvious is the richness of the connectedness where with a Mac mini or another Mac once we link to a server or the internet or an intranet, a whole set of interactive structures are possible.
With a household appliance the linkages for a simple appliance is normally one to one, binary, human to appliance and the activity response of the appliance is say, singular or multiple event wise.
With an iAppliance the linkages of human to iAppliance may be considered potentially trinary, because the human to iAppliance also includes the interconnectivity of that appliance to other appliances within a specified net of appliances where we may have intelligent agency in operations as we have in the LG set of interactive appliances now available here on sale in Australia.
An example of the human - idevice interactivity is where a person operates say, on a Mac mini headless as an iHome controller and accesses the software from emails. Alternatively the person to the Mac mini iHome controller using intelligent software with a screen may modify and select certain environmental or information system scenes and life style settings or presets. Also with the modification of the presets, either from a screen or a remote mobile phone or PDA, for preferences and selectables.
An iHome iHearth based on Mac mini's - an 'i' Milestone
http://dbatrium.blogspot.com/2006/01/ihome-ihearth-based-on-mac-minis-i.html
An iHome Secure iHearth Mac mini's - a Theory
"Whose rights to privacy are perhaps in danger of being trampled into a digital media delivery mire of inequality?"
With emerging technology, bio technology and robotics, which may well enable neural net scanning and the mapping of emotions and thought centres perhaps less than a decade away, we may well need to establish the inviolable rights of domiciles and the limits of the domains for invasive technology. Be it now rather than later because the rights to privacy and a privacy of lifestyle truly needs to be precisely ensured and enshrined in guaranteed clearly defined enforceable national and international laws throughout the world.
Today we have many excellent entities and trans-national corporations who daily act responsibly and proactively but in any barrel there is the inevitability of the bad fruit. There are always 'BottomLiners' who only look at the bottom line of the balance sheet and forget the old adage of the "customers rights and care first."
It was in the traditions of the recent past Century that a customer if happy with a product brand purchase stays loyal, and I have been to Apple now since 1980 when I bought my first Apple product and then continued on till now and am still creatively content.
"An iHome Secure iHearth Mac mini's - a Theory 1."
http://dbatrium.blogspot.com/2006/01/ihome-secure-ihearth-mac-minis-theory.html
"Whatever happens in our home so many of us live different unique lifestyles even though we may have different digital multi media and environmental sustainability priorities."
THE DIGITAL iHEARTH A THEORY
For months now I have been examining the meaning of the traditional hearth of a home. The place of assembly around a warm fire on a cold day. Once the assembly was around the old TV set, sometimes, or cocktails, or a family get together, but now it has changed forever.
The iHome iDwelling has this connected assembly place called the home theatre or home entertainments area. In some cases the home office and shared living environment.
Yesterday I broadly covered the topic of a theory in the emerging tenets of security and the invasivness and pervasive nature of modern digital data delivery and acquisition.
Today I am again looking at the modern heart the iHearth, the interactive, intelligent, digital media hubs of congregation.
The surfaces of each wall floor and presentable surface may now have a readable interface display and this is the area that a paper I wrote in 2004 briefly mentioned.
We are in an environmental hearth where almost all the traditional rules of lifestyle digital interaction are having to be re-evaluated and new theories proposed to deal with actual inventions which allow many a new way of dealing with digital media creation, exchange and delivery.
I have family members who now congregate around the nearest screen showing the latest family slideshow and inevitably the choice of music emerges which has to be adjusted for the generations and tastes of those within this new digital interactive hearth.
So with this new social interconnectivity through wireless and cable plug and play what changes are taking place in the iHeart of our contemporary homes.
The need for digital media has suddenly become the driving force in the re-arrangement of many a home in the wider world. When someone says life needs creative digital interactivity what do they turn to now, but the iPod and the OSX iLIfe software along with so many other great software titles from Apple.
So do we have one central hub or many decentral hubs in an iHome domicile? I would say the latter condition would most likely prevail in the majority of cases based on one simple fact, life style convenience.
Yes of course we may be looking at central issues in any domicile but with a family iHearth there are many individual layers of precise and unique need of specificity in the way some lifestyles are configured. Each instance may well be quite different. Something I learned over thirty years as an Architect that mostly each home I designed was on the basis of very specific widely varying needs and now one house has ever been other than a unique experience of different life style profiles and preferences and that is the true diversity of human functional expression. Each hearth bears a mark of non conformity out of a need for individual expression.
"The iHearth with Mac mini's, iPod Video's - a Theory 2.
http://dbatrium.blogspot.com/2006/02/ihearth-with-mac-minis-ipod-videos.html
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Charles W. Moore
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