Feb 24

Your mobile office, phase one

Posted by: Mo J. Al-Mughrabi 8 Comments »

Tenba - Photo/Laptop backpack

If you are the type of person who like to carry with him everything you own then you definitely need a Tenba bag to help you keep up with this lifestyle.

I've been searching the web for a bag to help me carry my laptop with me all the time. Off course, I was hoping to find someone big enough, perhaps I could squeeze my dSLR camera some where. but, then I found the Tenba brand which is dream come true to me. Tenba was designed to fit your dSLR camera, 2-3 lenses, flash & 17 inch laptop for the large one and 15 inch laptop for the small one.

Not only that, It offers you several models to choose from if you like shoulder bags, backpack or even sling bags and much more. Most bags would come in different sizes which means more capacity of holding bigger laptops or more lenses and dSLR bodies. Too bad Tenba are not delivering directly to Kuwait not from their website nor amazon but I just managed to place an order for the Photo/Laptop backpack (Large) on my Aramex address & hopefully I'll be writing a full review about that particular bag when arriving.

I was trying hard to find similar products which as professional as Tenba presenting and I did find some other brands like Kata or Lowepro but both brands are specialist in camera bags & they had one little section for laptop and dSLR bags & its definitely not as good as what you see on Tenba.

Here is list of youtube video's showing a tutorial about each bag
- Tenba Messenger
- Tenba Gen3 Messenger
- Tenba Photo/laptop Backpack
- Tenba Sling Bag

Hopefully, phase two will be reviewing the bag & writing about all the little details and exact cost of purchase & shipping to your door in Kuwait.

Have a good day everyone,

Feb 18

Leopard, Share a screen

Posted by: Mo J. Al-Mughrabi 2 Comments »

Finder, Share Screen
One of the things I truly enjoyed with leopard is the Screen share option built within leopard itself. Share screen will allow you to remote access desktop's within your network or even over the internet through iChat. I've tested both options & to be frank sharing a screen over the internet require a very high speed connection at both parties. Although, the LAN (Local Area Network) sharing was streaming very fast.

If you have a Leopard on two of your machines you can try out screen cast by going to Finder and looking up the other machine from your SHARED drop down list. Once, you choose the machine then click on "Share Screen..." on the top right corner of your Finder as showing in the image above. Write your login details and you will be in.

On the other hand, you must make sure that sharing screen is enabled from the system preferences. You can see a screen shot here of how sharing a desktop looks like from one end.

Have a good day every one,

Feb 18

EyeTV Hybird

Posted by: Mo J. Al-Mughrabi 11 Comments »

eyeTV Hybird

Few days back I received my eyeTV Hybird from amazon & only today I started playing with it a little. My plans were to record some of the local events and publish them online specially that I'll be releasing KwtBlog soon & its will be dedicated for Kuwait gossips & events. Any ways, I faced few problems hooking the eyeTV on and luckily it runs on multiple configuration.

eyeTV will allow you to stream TV directly on your Mac screen & makes it so easy to record, view and edit live tv. eyeTV Hybird gives you two method of streaming either through video/audio out which you can use on a satellite receiver or DVD player, the other method is scanning channels directly from your satellite LNB-IN which am having difficulties with right now. Here I was unable to scan the ArabSAT & NileSAT channels but am in touch with eyeTV support & hopefully they will provide me with a solution.

Off course, eyeTV comes with a brilliant software which is called eyeTV very easy to use & friendly. Through the software you can view, record and edit videos also you can import videos to iTunes.

Update: here is a screen shot of how eyeTV looks like running on your desktop.

Feb 13

Dot Mac releases new updates

Posted by: Mo J. Al-Mughrabi 2 Comments »

.Mac
Its been a while since last I've posted anything this was due to a very recharging vacation. Well, I just got a very fresh news from .Mac in my inbox and it says that a new update was released for iPhoto to give users more options when it comes to publishing, this will include

  • Full-size JPEG downloads from your online gallery
  • Standalone photo album
  • Password-protected movies
  • Web gallery subscriptions
  • Aperture support