Category: 656: Skype + iPhone, Introducing RapCap, iBook HD Replacement Video, Identifying Chipsets

Speaking of Skype, Chill Pill Audio, the makers of the Chill Pill mobile speakers, are about to release a tiny microphone called the RapCap™. It’s the perfect addition to your iPod touch using Skype. Of course, it’s great for use with much more than Skype. RapCap allows you to easily record crisp, clear audio on…

Customers are asking all the time these days which FireWire controller is installed in particular Macs they’re thinking of buying. I figured that information would be available in System Profiler, and was amazed when I learned that it wasn’t. I was intrigued. How do you determine which chip is used without opening up the machine…

A few months ago I was sent a challenge over email: to make a video of a hard drive replacement on a 14″ iBook. Now, for most technicians they wouldn’t consider a hard drive replacement to be a “challenge,” as hard drives tend to be the easiest thing to replace on computers. That said, it…

With the introduction of the iTunes App Store some time ago, the iPhone and iPod touch became even more useful devices. Anyone could be an iPhone developer and get their software onto the App store, and thousands of people have done just that. My iPod touch has five pages of Apps ranging from Pandora, for…

*High Resolution Icons* Last week’s article regarding the high resolution icons often seen in this newsletter works only under Leopard. I apologize to the many thousands of Tiger-using Tech Tails readers for whom this won’t work. *-Matt* “matt@smalldog.com”:mailto:matt@smalldog.com ************* *Get in Character* Last week, in my tip, “Get in Character,” I featured the keyboard symbol…

Happy Tuesday, With warmer temperatures and signs of spring everywhere I look, I took my yearly March swim in the Mad River on Sunday. Owen doesn’t mind the cold water, and swam whenever the river wasn’t ice-covered through the winter, but to me the water seemed much colder than usual this year. With Spring comes…