Updated: Using Apple Wireless Keyboard/Magic Mouse under windows 7 x64 (almost for all input devices and also for x86)

Using Apple Wireless Keyboard under windows 7 x64 (almost for all input devices and also for x86)

Update 2013-12-03:

• Download the Bootcamp5.0.5033.zip from apple.com and in windows 7 windows explorer opens the zip file view, i.e. you'll see the folders in it.
• Navigate to BootCamp->Drivers->Apple
• Double click on AppleKeyboardInstaller64.exe and click on Run.

All set!

 This also works for the magic mouse, just choose AppleWirelessMouse64.exe.

Older description based on MSP file:

Get the Boot camp software from Apple that provides the drivers for the right platform. For windows 7 x64 this is http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1336.

Use 7-Zip (does not need to be installed) to open BootCamp_3.1_64-bit.exe. Right click->Open Inside.

Again open .msp with Right click -> Open Inside

Open Folder BootCamp31ToBootCamp303

Extract file Binary.Keyboard_Bin

Rename file, i.e. add .exe extension and execute

In the upcoming installation wizard click next, I accept next,

iPad 3 must have features

Touch and pen.

No more notebooks to write into at meetings etc. Must also be as good as Windows 7 Tablet PC recognition of the handwriting, i.e. display the scribble but in the background store as text (makes search much easier). Did I say multilingual? English, German, French, Italian and whatever else it must just be prepared for sentences that are completely mixed.

Currently I tried Pogo stylus and an notebook app but not practical during daily usage. Nowadays I use my finger to scribble something down.

Other features.
Better screen (resolution, brightness, dailight/glare protection, magic OLED), smart cover with keyboard, wireless sync, pdf and epub central storage with all apps access and pdf annotations, Visio for iPad, new Os that does not rely on the apps selection; today I have 7 pages full of apps and groups with apps, it just takes to long to find the right app and switching between apps is also not good. Get rid of the button for accessing the running apps. Gestures a must.

iPad 2 enthusiast warning: Do not buy! Keep iPad 1

I just had the chance to buy an iPad 2 but before I actually said yes I wanted to test my number 1 features that I use.

1) iBooks -> application is slow on iPad 2, almost the same as on iPad 1

I really hoped for a big surprise there (I have 600 epubs and 1300 pdfs on it) mostly Cisco, Infoblox, Infovista et. al. manuals release notes etc.

It's still a drag and pdf annotations that I miss are also not present, i.e. it was clear since the iBooks is independent of iPad versions.

2) camera sucks, the quality is just awful (it's definitely good enough for facetime)

But I want some crisp snappy pictures and videos, but it is just not good.

3) no display improvement. I read a lot of books on the iPad and many times I believe that I have to clean the screen but then I realize it is the iBooks application that renders sometimes the characters less than optimal. Maybe it's on the application.

Still, buy the iPad 2 if you don't have an iPad and you want to use Apple TV 2 with AirPlay, which is now just awesome, since AirVideo can stream while in the background!

It is disappointing from Apple not to be able to really improve and use their muscle to advance the technology, this time the only play catch up. From what I can see the new Galaxy 10.1 is most probably the best, but the software is lacking.

Importing DV Casettes into iTunes - 62 Minutes = 13.5 GB

Based on this 1 minute footage is 222.9677 MB (or MBpm)

From Quicktime I got the following info after importing:

Resolution:        768 x 576
bitrate:               57.61 Mbit/s
fps:                    25
format:               DV, 720 x 576 (768 x 576), Millions, DV, Stereo, 32.000 kHz

iOS airplay 4.3 update: AirVideo just released an update->play in background!!

AirVideo has an update that says it will airplay in the background, if that's true, that would be perfect. I'll have to test in a few hours, then I'll send an update.

Update:

I'm typing these words in safari, while airvideo client is streaming a movie in the background.

super!!!

The ipad just got a whole lot better.

but there is still one point outstanding: if you accidentially come across another application that streams using airplay and you want to continue the movie, you'll have to start from the beginning and fast forward or try tonposition where you were before. Most probably that's something that airvideo can fix!

Google Chrome Annoyances #930349: How to stop google chrome from trying to open pdf, doc etc in google docs

Somehow my google chrome setting not to open Microsoft Office Documents with Google Docs Viewer is lost and I have to disable it again, so here it is:

chrome://extensions

Untick Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer by Google

If you ask why I even bother doing it: My dayjob environment does not allow me to open these documents online and through our proxy the error message that I get back from google is something linked to bandwidth (but I'm not sure where it fails exactly and I don't bother).

iMovie on iPad 1 is great but...

At each sync with itunes it removes iMovie again and I have to install it with the iphone configuration program again ;(

iOS 4.3 AirPlay for 3rd pary apps is flawed!

It's incredible to be able to stream any kind of video to Apple TV2 but my Ipad is just a brick when using AirPlay.

I cannot switch to any other application or I'll loose the streaming. You have to stay put in the application.

I cannot imaging using my Ipad as a relay for viewing movies and then not being able to do anything.

Air Flick is still the way to go, it would be great to have air Video Server to actually use AirPlay directly and have some remote control to fast forward etc.

Even if you go out and back into Air Video you lost where you were, that means you would have to find the exact same spot to continue.

Please fix this Apple for 1 and AirVideo for 2