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Recently, I got the chance to play with the Accell UltraAV USB 2.0 to HDMI Adapter and try it on my HDTV. All in all, I was pretty impressed. The software was an easy install (needed a reboot though) and once I plugged in the little adapter, my TV was detected and came up as another monitor in the OS. The color was pretty good although I think the black and white levels were a bit crushed but not too bad. I instantly wanted to try some of the more performance related tasks on the TV so I popped in to iTunes and loaded up a movie. The movie was watchable but it was pretty jumpy and the video skipped a bit but honestly, I knew I couldn’t expect too much from a USB 2.0 adapter. Amongst the other USB adapters I have tried, this one handled the refresh the best that I have seen. I also love the size of this thing. It’s super compact and fits in my laptop bag easily. I had hoped that it would send audio too but oh well. For some reason I couldn’t get it to do widescreen. It was only able to send 4:3 to my TV but I’ll give that one to my TV not being the newest on the block
Quick summary: I like it, it works, it’s small and pretty fast. If this is something you have been needing in your arsenal of adapters, I recommend it!
Over the Christmas break I got a chance to play with the Azend Zippy BT-500 bluetooth keyboard. I went through a series of emotions about this little thing. Initially, I was not too impressed with how cheap it felt in my hands (like a dollar store toy for my daughter). Mainly, that was just because [...]
The Akitio SK-3501 Super-S3 hard drive enclosure is a one stop shop for your extra storage needs. This 4-port enclosure is speedy, stackable, capable of handling drives up to 3TB and works with Mac OS 10.2 and up. I am a huge consumer of hard drive space. Between graphic design, web projects, print, branding, UX and [...]
Last night I noticed that my MacBook Pro was acting a little strange so I decided to take it in to the Apple store for a check up. I started to go about the traditional method of booking a genius bar appointment. > Go to Apple.com… <wait> <wait> <wait> > Go to APPLE.COM!! At that [...]
Recently I was contracted to re-design an iPad application. This was a fairly typical UX/UI redesign project where we had to look through an existing application and do the best we could in a fairly short timeframe to restructure the UX and re-design the UI in a manner that could be pulled off by the [...]