Recent content by Ken Chan

The immunity and cure are both the MacGuffin in the classic sense, and the premise of the question asked at the end. There's a continuum of how much a given viewer "needs to know" and show does more than the game, especially given that the show doesn't have to follow J&E the whole time. But as...

Bluetooth works well with Apple, since in their wisdom, they've included it as standard on even desktops for years. But "tap with Bluetooth" only works well with hand-held devices. More importantly, what about all those (perhaps older) Windows computers without Bluetooth? You would still need...

It's easy to prove: cast a Youtube video or something that's at least a couple of minutes long. After it starts playing on the TV, put the computer to sleep (close the lid on the laptop, whatever) or disable its network connection (detach the cable, turn off WiFi). The video keeps playing. The...

For its advertised functionality, it is quite simple. You want to watch Netflix or Youtube on your TV? You just hit the button. Future apps will support it the same way. Even for the secondary feature of showing the Facebook page in your Chrome browser on the TV, same thing. The issues are for...

As I mentioned on the first page, if you think of the three things AppleTV does, Chromecast does only two. It does stream via URL sharing. And yes it does mirroring -- however: It is rarely mentioned, but requires decent CPU power. Not a problem for recent "normal computers", but interestingly...

I've read that if your TV has HDMI 1.4 it can provide enough power directly.AppleTV does push from a device through AirPlay (1) with an already encoded stream stored on the decice, sent directly; or (2) with on-the-fly encoding, i.e. mirroring. It can also (3) pull content from the cloud --...

Right now, there are four episodes of Castle available -- three most recent and one more further back. I've been using the ABC app since the beginning, and there have been maybe five at most at any time. On the front page of the CBS app is the list of Full Episodes -- I count sixteen different...

The MyBook Thunderbolt Duo requires Green drives: being slower, they are also cooler; the Duo has no fan.

/me

That was the 2000 Census number. We're well over 300 million now: 314 estimated. Just laying the groundwork for future, less pointless, discussions :)

You can still have Java installed for "desktop" applications. The important thing is to disable the Java plugin in your browser(s), which enables the drive-by malware. Recent versions of OS X disable it automatically, and re-disable it if you haven't used it in a week or two.

I can login to icloud.com and see all my emails, which are also on my Mac and iPhone. But I've been a member since iTools, so maybe I am great-great-great-grandfathered in, or had some setting migrate along the way? Or perhaps it's a setting on her mail clients that is erasing the online copy?

Pretty thorough still frame dissection here.

The monorail station is still there, but everything else has moved. In the original footprint of the hotel is now Downtown Disney, so it's now the Downtown Disney Monorail station. The three towers that comprise the Disneyland Hotel are now further away, to the west. A little farther and...

No need. That (would-have-been-great) moment was spoiled by the weasels that make the commercials.