Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

Category: Products

Interesting statistics…

Just been checking my server stats for the first 14 days of November. It looks like quite a few folks have problems with their Lexmark printers and Apple Leopard software:-

# Hits Search String
1 60 8.46% lexmark leopard
2 37 5.22% geoff
3 33 4.65% geoff jones
4 30 4.23% les gets
5 16 2.26% leopard lexmark
6 16 2.26% stansted flights
7 15 2.12% ceiling rose
8 13 1.83% lexmark and leopard
9 13 1.83% olympus sp560uz
10 12 1.69% lexmark leopard drivers
11 9 1.27% dancing.gif
12 7 0.99% computers internet blog
13 7 0.99% tesco usa
14 6 0.85% airlines flying from stansted
15 6 0.85% leopard and lexmark
16 6 0.85% lexmark x4580 leopard
17 6 0.85% myspace statistics
18 5 0.71% dancer gif
19 5 0.71% les gets apartments
20 5 0.71% lexmark leopard driver

Thats a total of 118 hits for the combination of Leopard and Lexmark on my little website due to this article.

Cameras and Qumana

Here is another post using Qumana. Its a very clean system. However the way of entering images is poor, only using using the standard Mac way – That is pretty hopeless with just the filenames and no thumbnails.

However, it does allow you to insert ads in each post, which given my low readership is, maybe, not that handy 🙁

For this post I selected the word ‘camera’ for the ad keyword.

This is my twitter from this morning:-
GeoffJones impressive demo of olympus SP560UZ by Olympus rep zoom 28 to 420 & 1cm macro about 15 hours ago

The camera was really very good, especially running from 4 AA batteries, so ideal for taking to remote areas. The amazing thing is that John Lewis were selling it for over £340 Amazon had it for £240. So the cost of the demo was over £100

Here is an ad:-

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Visual Word associations

Just discovered from Adam Pash’s excellent Lifehacker feed this tool for visualizing word meanings. As the Visuwords website says “Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.”

Cambridge in Visuword

Here is the visual word map for Cambridge clearly showing the two different Cambridges nodes in the UK and USA but with a nice dotted link identifying both as city urban centres and a seperate link showing the two universities. Pretty cool. (Opera is struggling to bring in the jpg from WordPress)

Wrestling with a Leopard

This so called upgrade to the iMac operating is causing me real problems:-

  • The brand new Lexmark X4580 printer failed to work with the 10.5 OS. Fortunately the user forums suggested removing the printers PDE directory.
  • I then discovered that Leopard doesn’t work with Firefox or at least not the drop down menus on the sites that you visit. No cure as yet 🙁
  • Tonight I discovered that Safari and WordPress connive to remove the paragraph formatting when trying to make posts from within WordPress. Now using Opera 🙂
  • The Airport utility is useless . When I try to change wireless networks it fails to see any of the other neyworks in my house.
  • I’ve yet to get it to connect to my Freecom network hard drive.
  • Time Machine trashed my external hard drive when it failed to notice that the drive was full.
  • The provided mouse scroll button has packed up after 8 weeks.

On the bright side:-

  • Yummy ftp client is brilliant.
  • MacSimpleGPS pulls in the data from my Garmin etrex legend easily.
  • The DVDto MP4 converter worked well.
  • The 24″ screen and audio are brilliant.
  • iMovie works well with Youtube.
  • Grab works well.

Or as Philip Dowsett says in The Guardian . “So what should you do if a leopard gets into your house? “Don’t run. They will chase you down like prey. Try to give them an escape route, make loud noises and wave your hands around. I wouldn’t recommend going for the scruff of its neck”

Addendum: Dave Winer is not happy as well