jaf1230 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:iPhone garage door opener (Score 1) 281

by jaf1230 on Sunday April 01, 2012 @01:34PM (#39541795) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Shortcuts To a High Tech House

LiftMaster 8550 with MyQ does this: http://www.liftmaster.com/consumerweb/products/liftmastermyqenabledproducts

Comment Re:Sad news... (Score 1) 89

by jaf1230 on Friday February 24, 2012 @10:32PM (#39155433) Attached to: Inventor of the Modern Pinball Machine Dies At 100

I am also a proud owner of an Addams Family pinball machine, though it needs some TLC. It's missing a ball and none of the solenoids powered up last time I turned it on. I am thrilled to own it, and to put the money and effort into restoring it to fully working condition.

Comment Re:Sad (Score 2) 644

by jaf1230 on Monday December 05, 2011 @02:16PM (#38268658) Attached to: Will Firefox Lose Google Funding?

And you think that the Chrome team is that much better about caring for its community? The bug report through the story below basically proves the opposite. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/18/2120255/no-tab-relocation-coming-for-chrome

Comment Standards (Score 2, Interesting) 250

by jaf1230 on Friday September 09, 2011 @11:39AM (#37352048) Attached to: Google To Introduce New Programming Language — Dart

http://xkcd.com/927/ Nuff said.

Pen Still Mightier Than the Laptop For Notetaking? 569

Posted by kdawson on Sunday February 07, 2010 @04:31PM from the highly-evolved-metaphor dept.

theodp writes "While waiting to see if the iPad is a game-changer, this CS student continues to take class notes with pen and paper while her fellow students embrace netbooks and notebooks. Why? In addition to finding the act of writing helps cement the lecture material in her mind, there's also the problem of keeping up with the professor: '[While taking notes on a laptop] every five minutes I found myself cursing at not being able to copy the diagram on the board.' So, when it comes to education or business, do you take notes on a notepad/netbook, or stick with good old-fashioned handwriting? Got any tips for making the transition, or arguments for staying the course?"

Comment Re:iPod Hack (Score 1) 375

by jaf1230 on Tuesday December 14, 2004 @10:27PM (#11089168) Attached to: Toshiba Unveils 80GB 'iPod drive'

In short, no. I was looking into it myself, and the ipod uses a strange formatting. Seems to me you can't even buy a 40gb ipod and take the hard drive out and put that in your 20gb (no point, either). The security Apple uses has not yet been cracked.

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