Archive for January, 2007
Hot scoop on the next iPhone announcement. This’ll be the easiest phone to use, evah. (0 comments)
In a world where spam subject lines are becoming increasingly abstruse, euphemistic and misspelt, this one stood out like a breath of fresh air:
Vitamins for your penis
What are you selling? Vitamins.
What are they for? Your penis.
Beautiful.
I have a problem with the built-in camera on my MacBook Pro. If I angle the screen so that the camera is pointing at my face, the screen is uncomfortable to look at. Allow me to explain.
Normally I arrange myself and my laptop like this:
The screen is angled so that it is roughly perpendicular to my line-of-sight, and my eyes are slightly higher than the top of the lid. This provides a lovely, expansive computing experience, approximately like this:
However, the iSight camera is positioned at the top of the screen, and stares straight out:
This means that the resulting camera image is centered too high:
Of course, I can adjust the angle of the lid downwards so that the camera image is centered on my beautiful fizzog:
But if I do that, the arrangement now looks like this:
The camera is perfectly aligned, but I’m having to stare down at my screen at an angle:
(Angle in photo slightly exaggerated for dramatic effect.) It feels cramped and wrong and I can’t stand it for long.
Mac users are usually pretty obsessive about their computers, and are quick to whine about perceived design faults, but I haven’t heard a peep from anyone else about this situation. Am I really the only person who has this problem? Am I using my laptop in a completely non-standard position? Am I nuts?