World’s 1st 24k Gold and Sapphire-inlaid MacBook Air. Sheesh.

Here.

There is this great app called PocketTouch 1.2, made by Dr. S.E. Cantu, DFA, for the iPod Touch and the iPhone, which turns the whole device as a simple audio controller for iPod functions while in your pocket. Great when you’re otherwise occupied and don’t have time to take out the thing and look at it.

All you need to do to play/pause to tap the screen, forward and reverse tracks by swiping left or right, and change volume by swiping up and down. You can even get it to randomly pick a song by shaking the device.

Cool concept and I love it - although the instructions could use a bit of improvement.

On the Settings help page of the app (which is actually thorough), the Depth portion says:

DEPTH: Controls the amount of movement that must be registered before the device realizes it has been shooken. The higher the number, the more the device must be moved.

Hee hee.

Find out more about PocketTouch at www.touchrepo.com, or just run Installer on your device.

It’s funny how the Macbook Air is turning to be a finicky little customer. Lotsa little quirks.

This afternoon I found out that even the power cord is a bad thing if used carelessly.

Risky business using an MBA these days in my country, where the temp this summer is starting to hit a hundred fahrenheit. So I used it on my very flat table in the office, eight feet from an air conditioner. No chance of overheating much, right? Wrong.

The outlet was underneath my table, and the cord wasn’t long enough to comfortably and leisurely coil around the environs. So I put it out behind the MBA and let it stretch back and across the rear edge, and down to my power strip.

Soon after, I started getting a core shutdown. Didn’t need the iStatPro widget to tell me that the MBA was overheating; I could feel it on the palmrest.

Apparently I had blocked the air vent out back with the cord of the power adapter and had boxed in the heat. I repositioned the cord and everything went back to normal. Sigh.

It’s a tough life being an Early Adopter.