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SeisMac
Living in San Francisco is great; the weather is fantastic, the people are friendly, and I challenge you to find a city with a higher concentration of geeks. However, one does have to keep in mind that although this town may seem perfect, a deadly force lies dormant beneath my feet, waiting to unleash its fury upon this techie metropolis in a few seconds of violent earth shaking. In plainer words; this here is earthquake country. Lucky for those of us who spend working hours staring at our 'Books, Suitable Systems has released SeisMac, a new program which takes data from the motion sensor in your later model PowerBook, MacBook, or MacBook Pro, and presents it as a fancy-shmancy scientific seismograph. SeisMac is available as a free download.
Via Infinite Loop
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jason said 8:09PM on 7-05-2006
Wouldn't this tell you only the obvious—that an earthquake is happening right now? Would you really be watching your laptop to see it working at this point? Seems like great gag software. :)
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Chris said 9:00PM on 7-05-2006
Doesn't work for me (last of the last 17" powerbooks)
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Rob Erekson said 9:09PM on 7-05-2006
Fantastic weather my ***. I was out there last weekend and it was freezing (I'm from Vegas, mind you).
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TR said 11:50PM on 7-05-2006
Works on PB G4 15". Seems to be very senitive... will've to try it with bass, I will. ;)
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Macster said 11:53PM on 7-05-2006
" Fantastic weather my ***. I was out there last weekend and it was freezing (I'm from Vegas, mind you)."
I'm looking out my window right now at someone in a shorts and a "San Francisco" sweatshirt (billion dollar industry here in the summer I bet), heh, tourists. It makes no sense, but summer is our cold season, come back in October or November when it will be a nice 75 to 80 out (which is as hot as it ever gets here).
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Justin Wong said 12:32AM on 7-06-2006
so what happens if we decide to shake it up a few times just for the hey of it?
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Oscar Vernis said 1:41AM on 7-06-2006
cool, but i don't see the utility
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Henry said 4:35AM on 7-06-2006
Too bad you can't save the graphs or change how many seconds the entire window displays, or the sensitivity. Cool, but it's a bit too simple.
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Roberto said 12:48PM on 7-06-2006
If left active indefinitely, will this app prevent the hard disk parking function (the designed purpose of the Sudden Motion Sensor)?
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slee said 12:49PM on 7-06-2006
"Living in San Francisco is great; the weather is fantastic"
LOL...i just had guests from SF this weekend (i live in Santa Cruz), and one of them said to be as we where sitting in the sun. "I love the weather here. We get days like this only a few times a year."
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chris said 3:02PM on 7-06-2006
the weather in sf is highly over rated unless you like 62 and fog
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Daniel said 5:10PM on 7-06-2006
"I challenge you to find a city with a higher concentration of geeks."
I like San Fran, but Seattle definitely has a higher concentration of geeks. Seattle and San Fran are the tech capitals of America.
Of course, Seattle is also an earthquake town
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Jonathan said 8:54PM on 7-06-2006
August 6th, 2007 - enough said
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jorellh said 11:27PM on 7-06-2006
I was in Vegas about a month ago it was friggin 117º outside. I'm from Miami so I can take the heat, but going outside was like opening a preheated oven, dang. I'm just glad it wasn't humid as well.
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web design uk said 4:42AM on 7-07-2006
I can't wait to give it a try!
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