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If I was a judge in a contest for the perfect design for technology products, the Foolography Unleashed would be my pick of 2023. I backed this project two years ago on Kickstarter, it really took two years for it to be developed, but no regrets. Even more: it surprises me in every aspect with the quality and the attention to details. Simply speaking Unleashed is a Bluetooth interface for digital cameras. The Bluetooth interface done right. I ordered the N1 (Nikon) version and it works flawlessly. But even before putting it to work, I was stunned when unboxing - how small (and mechanically well thought it was). Then the initial setup was a complete breeze - it paired with my phone, executed a firmware update in a matter of seconds and was ready. But OK, what is it doing? It has a companion phone app which does full remote control of the camera PLUS can download photos (over Bluetooth, so full resolution takes a few moments, but a low / medium variant is perfect for instant sharing). A...

As promised a quick update after 2 weeks with the iPhone 15. It seems there are many hardware / software features Apple does not talk about. Or people just don't care. The first is - already mentioned - the great keyboard. This is purely an iOS 17 improvement, as after the upgrade the iPad keyboard started behaving the same. Super accurate predictive text and corrections and no need to switch languages anymore. Just type. Like on a BlackBerry :) I make less way typos and errors. Another are camera improvements. I've yet to try them, but supposedly there is some magic when taking long exposure astro photos. When the phone is steady (e.g., on a tripod) and the subject is dark, the night mode shutter can go up to 30 seconds. At 30 seconds you would already see small star trails but they are supposedly being removed . A kind of behind-the-scenes image post-processing AI magic like the keyboard? Maybe... I need to try it. The magsafe system of accessories is yet another great little...

I know I may sound like a broken record, but this situation continues to amaze me. How the airline booking systems are broken. After 30 years of the internet and - I believe - more than 20 years of online presence during the period of the most rapid technology development. And the crown example here is not an obscure third world carrier - it is the flagship, one of the top carriers in the world. Lufthansa. And it is not just me. I'm not doing any evil here. A friend of mine who is much more knowledgeable in web technologies was having very similar experience. And when he opened a debug pane in his browser all he saw was a litany of "500" - server errors. A 500 error typically means something has been seriously wron on the server side. Either a crashed session, a disconnected database, or exhaustion of server resources (typically an out of memory error). So these are not just simple bugs which can be quickly fixed. They are severe architectural problems at the heart of the...

It has happened - I have an iPhone now :D. USB-C was the deciding factor (or - the lack of USB-C previously had been deterring me from buying an iPhone). So thanks the EU! And of course everybody agrees Apple sticking to the lightning port on iPhones for so long was just stupid. My initial thoughts are generally good, some very good, and some surprisingly bad (although the bad ones a just minor, but unexpected...). Probably the worst part was the initial setup. I wanted to move my data over (both from the Android phone and the iOS iPad) and I read about the data transfer bug in factory fresh iPhones, so did as requested and right after unboxing plugged the iPhone to iTunes. That is like time travel. iTunes was never great but now it is exactly the same like it was 20 years ago, so considering the overall progress this is terrible. But the phone was updated and I started setting it up. It recognized the iPad (the "device" nearby) and froze for more than an hour. During that ti...

Source: CNX Software I remember people's faces back in 2011 when responding to "what is your company doing?" question my answer was - software for light bulbs. That was almost two years before Philips Hue came out. Now fast forward 12 years, we have reached the level of elevating that software concept to the global standard level, through Bluetooth NLC. Bluetooth NLC is the standard's body response addressing the needs of universal cross-vendor interoperability in the smart lighting space. Of course they are not exactly "light bulbs", as less and less people make and use them, but rather commercial / industrial grade lighting fixtures and luminaires. With the proliferation of LEDs the bulb form factor has gone away nor there is a need to have them replacable. So the E26/E27/E14 screw standards are gone, but the lights now are intelligent and want to be connected. At a glance the lightbulb functions seem very simple - turn on and turn off. Then there is dimmi...