Apple’s Secret →
Sounds plausible.
It costs just $1.36 to charge an iPad for a year →
The annual cost to charge an iPad is just $1.36, according to the Electric Power Research Institute, a non-profit research and development group funded by electric utilities.
By comparison, a 60-watt compact fluorescent bulb costs $1.61, a desktop PC adds up to $28.21 and a refrigerator runs you $65.72.
High Summer by jj
High Summer is the new EP from jj. You can download it for free.
Where has all the money in the world gone? →
otherwiseyep:
Now, what happens if another wildfire hits your orchard? Those twelve loddars are destroyed, they are gone, the shoe-maker is twelve loddars poorer, without spending it and without anyone else getting twelve loddars richer.
The money that bought your deer and my shoes has simply vanished from the economy, as though it never existed, despite the fact that it bought stuff with genuine economic utility and value.
Reddit user otherwiseyep explains in great details and easy to understand how the monetary and financial system works.
Surface vs. iPad: Microsoft’s Getting Rusty Stealing from Apple →
Microsoft’s Surface presentation compared to Apple’s iPad presentation.
The Dirty Tricks of Food Photographers →
Haje Jan Kamps:
Food is among the more difficult of subjects for photographers. The laws of nature guarantee it: Hot foods cool, moist foods dry out, frozen foods melt especially fast under hot lights, vegetables wilt, and fruit turns brown. But determined food photographers rise to these challenges with their extraordinarily inventive bag of tricks.
And yes, that includes motor oil, spray deodorant and and brown shoe polish…
In addition to the burger photography video from McDonalds (via Christoph Boecken).
Why do burgers in an ad look different than in the restaurant?
Interesting look behind the scenes of a McDonalds photo shoot.
Tvst
Currently I have a lot to do, however I try to invest as much time as possible in my new side project: Tvst. This is just a small preview. Stay tuned.
Automatically reconnect to VPN when disconnected
Since Austria introduced data retention some months ago I always try to be connected with the VPN of my university. Therefore, I use the VPN tool, built into Mac OS X Lion. However, whenever I restart my notebook or even if I only close it for some seconds, OS X looses the connection and I have to manually activate it again.
Today it bothered me enough that I started to search if there is a way to automatically reconnect to a VPN when the connection is lost. On Ask Different I found a small AppleScript which does exactly what I want.
First of all you need to open AppleScript Editor (you can find it in the /Applications/Utilities directory or simply open it using Spotlight) and paste the following script:
on idle
tell application "System Events"
tell current location of network preferences
set myConnection to the service "TU Wien VPN"
if myConnection is not null then
if current configuration of myConnection is not connected then
connect myConnection
end if
end if
end tell
return 30
end tell
end idleThere is one variable you have to change and one you can change. First of all you need to change TU Wien VPN (line 4) to the name of your VPN connection. And you can change the interval the scripts waits until it checks again if the connection is lost. I configured the script to wait 30 seconds, but you can change the value if you want (line 11).
Next you need to save the script as application. You can do this by in the Save As dialog where you also have to set the option that the script stays open. Save the script somewhere where you can find it again. I choose the /Applications folder.
Find the newly created application in Finder, right-click it and select Show Package Contents. Navigate in the Contents folder and open Info.plist in some text editor (right click, Open With, Other). For example, you could use TextEdit. Scroll down to the bottom of the file and before the last insert:
<key>LSUIElement</key>
<true/>
You can now start the script with a double click. If you want to automatically start the script every time you start your Mac you can add it to the startup items. To do this open the System Preferences, select your user and click on Login Items. You can add the script by clicking on the plus button.
Source: Ask Different user iskra