A tribute..
CHUCK G
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2011-10-09
Source: stanleychowillustration
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2010-11-11
Here are the Fixed AirPrint Files
Why download 2GBs worth of data when you can have the 3 little files that enable AirPrint in a matter of seconds?
Instructions:
Which files go where?
/usr/libexec/cups/filter/urftopdf
/usr/share/cups/mime/apple.convs
/usr/share/cups/mime/apple.types
-The last 2 files will need to replace the existing ones.
-Reboot
-Delete your printer from Print and Fax settings from System Preferences.
-Add your printer again from Print and Fax settings panel.
-Enable Printer Sharing.
-Enjoy! -
2010-07-15
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Who’s to Blame for iPhone 4’s Faulty Antenna?
Don’t blame Jony Ive, who’s regarded by the design community as the best, period. The responsibility over the iPhone 4’s QA, or lack thereof, falls directly on one man, and one man only: Steve Jobs. He’s intimately involved with the design and engineering process, and prior leaks hinted that Apple had 2 concurrent versions of the iPhone 4 in development: the newly released flat and thinner iPhone, and a less ambitious Plan B design akin to the 3G and 3GS. Somewhere along the testing process, Steve decided to pull the trigger on the thinner enclosure which represented the greatest design revision since the original iPhone, and apparently, a far more complicated undertaking than first imagined.
Because Steve Jobs is such a famously hands-on CEO that micromanages the aesthetic of the company, he deserves to take the heat for giving too much priority to design over engineering.
Solution
My guess is, at this point Apple has most likely settled on a fix, such as the application of a clear nonconductive coating on the stainless steel antenna band, as suspected by iFixit.
My feeling is this is another slap in the face to first-in-line early adopters ($599 iPhone, anyone?) of Apple products.
I assume Apple will avoid issuing a recall of Toyota proportions. The problem is that it’d be pretty difficult to apply a clear coat to the antenna because it’s an integral part that also serves as the device’s chassis.
Best case scenario (in which consumers win): A voluntary recall of affected iPhones with replacement of faulty units. Offering free Bumpers would render the iPhone 4’s extensive thin redesign almost pointless; it’d feel like a cheap and bandaged solution that goes against Apple’s tenets of design.
Devil’s Advocate
The cynic in me can’t help but put out a theory, in which Apple may have known beforehand about the flimsy antenna, and therefore came up with a suspect, convenient, and profitable ‘solution’. Using Apple’s rationale for designing and producing an accessory like its own iPad case (which solved many of the iPad’s innate shortcomings), iPhone Bumpers do make a lot of sense. Why else would Apple have waited until a fourth gen iPhone to release its own case? This only makes Steve look even worse.
After all this, I don’t see Apple avoiding some brand erosion. One cannot help but recommend against any early adoption of future Apple products - at least first batches of technically risky and immature designs. The defective i7 iMacs and 2008 Time Capsules may have flown under the mainstream media’s radar, not so for the best-selling essential product on the lineup.Verdict
Ambitiously overhauling, thinning, and successfully testing the world’s best superphone while trying to maintain a CIA-level of secrecy, has proven to be impossible for Apple this time around. The iPhone 4 has already yielded the most internal leaks and glitches than the original iPhone, which benefitted from a liberating six month timeframe after its unveiling for testing and retooling of its components.
At the end of the day, if anything goes wrong, the Captain of the ship is the party responsible. In Steve Jobs’s case, he’s to blame for not heeding the call of an engineer pointing out the attenuation issue, as much as not having someone knowledgeable of that fact on the Cupertino campus before mass production.
