This is the wireless internet speed at the 5th Avenue Apple Store in New York City. How do I get this piped into my home?
Mythbusters shoots rocket at 650mph toward car
April 13, 2009 @ 1:52 pm
You really have to watch this video to fully grasp just how fast this rocket-sled is going before it literally pancakes the car at the end of the track. [via]
Did you know?
December 22, 2008 @ 3:24 pm
This is a fantastic remixed video of the original Did You Know? presentation by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Bronman. This video adds new music and some better typography and visualizations to further drive home the point about the speed at which technology is advancing. [via]
I believe I posted this before, but here’s the original video with a bit more facts.
Back to Parallels
November 19, 2008 @ 11:44 pm
It was a short stint I guess, but after only a week or so of playing around with VMware Fusion on my Mac, I’ve gone and run back to Parallels.
Parallels recently released version 4 of their desktop software and it’s basically the best of both virtual machine worlds.
One gripe I had while running VMware Fusion was that access to my Mac desktop via shared folders was incredibly slow. It took forever for a folder to open and when it finally did, accessing its contents wasn’t exactly what I would call immediate. On top of that, the speed and performance issues with VMware Fusion while running simultaneous applications in Windows and in Mac was just too slow and frustrating to deal with.
Parallels handles speed and performance a lot better in version 4 and I’m glad I switched back. Parallels also made the virtual machines easier to handle and easier to configure individually.
So why did I switch to Parallels? So that I could run Windows with AnyDVD on it and rip Wall-E to my harddrive. Yay. And it worked. Flawlessly.
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