The Brooks Review

Category: Free

  • Sublime Text 2.0

    It’s out and it truly is a very nice text editor. I may have to give it a go in place of TextMate — may.

  • ‘Can Cisco Re-Invent the Router?’ Probably Not.

    Cisco is pimping a new router that has iOS apps that interact with it, and easy traffic priority. The first is a “finally” feature. The latter is completely useless to all but the most advanced users — who aren’t going to want this router any way.

    Cisco needs to focus on making a router [that is better than what Apple offers](https://brooksreview.net/2012/06/wifi-routers/), because until then no one will care — and why should they? Who wants to spend time deciding which media device gets priority over the other? Not me, I have better things to complain about.

  • Damn the TSA

    TheIndyChannel.com reporting on the latest TSA outrage, when a TSA agent inspected (by hand) the cremated remains of the a man’s grandfather — John Gross, was carrying the remains through the TSA checkpoint and said that after she spilled some of the remains on the ground, this is what happened:

    >”She didn’t apologize. She started laughing. I was on my hands and knees picking up bone fragments. I couldn’t pick up all, everything that was lost. I mean, there was a long line behind me.”

    That just pisses me the fuck off. If this TSA agent isn’t fired, then everyone in the TSA with the power to fire her should be fired.

    Oh and in case you are wondering, here’s the TSA’s own rules on screening cremated remains:

    >But the agency’s own website says human remains are to be opened under, “no circumstances.”

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  • Encrypted OmniFocus Syncing

    What a fantastic solution — I had no idea that one could encrypt this data, but I just switched over to this. ((Don’t act surprised, and if you are: read this site more.))

  • ‘How Microsoft and Apple Are Fighting the Prejudice That Tablets Are Not for Creating’

    Shawn Blanc:
    >Microsoft needs a compelling reason for customers to see the Surface as a legitimate computing device. And since they don’t (yet?) have a gangbusters App Store, they built keyboard cover instead.

    Not only do I think Shawn is spot on, I think this is very Microsoftian too. Well said.

  • Retina MacBook Pro Heatmap

    The post isn’t in English (though there are others who have re-written the post, I figure you guys are savvy enough to know how to translate it), but shows some great images of where the heat on the new retina MacBook Pro is centered.

    This jives with what I recorded and noticed, again I never was able to get the machine hot enough to warrant even a slight discomfort — then again I steered clear of Flash and Adobe in general.

  • Apple Reportedly Replacing “Ghosting” Retina MacBook Pros

    After I posted my retina MacBook Pro review this weekend, a couple of readers pointed out some articles talking about ghosting issues. I haven’t seen it, but it sounds like some are and that some are getting replacements from Apple. As McCarty notes in the linked post, this is a common problem with IPS displays.

    *(Here’s hoping my early adopter nature doesn’t come back to bite me in the ass.)*

  • Speaking of Privacy

    Jeffrey Rosen reporting on “the right to be forgotten” on the web:
    >But the right to be forgotten also gives people the right to demand the removal of embarrassing information that others post about them, regardless of its source, unless Google or Facebook can prove to a European regulator that the information is part of a legitimate journalistic, literary, or artistic exercise.

    The paranoid, privacy nut, side of me is very happy about this. The blogger side of me is very worried about the implications of: “legitimate journalistic, literary, or artistic exercise”. Beyond that: how is this even enforceable — practically speaking…