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From: Geoff Berrow on 28 Feb 2010 09:26
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:24:34 +0000, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com>
wrote:

>Customers who bought this also bought a nose hair trimmer...

Heh, you spotted it too...
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From: Ian McCall on 28 Feb 2010 14:29
On 2010-02-28 13:30:43 +0000, Adrian C <email(a)here.invalid> said:

> On 28/02/2010 13:26, Adrian C wrote:
>> On 28/02/2010 12:58, Ian McCall wrote:
>>> Compare and contrast - the UK:
>>> <http://www.amazon.com/Griffin-Simplifi
>>
>
> Hmmm. As a product, looks a bit impotent :-(
>
> "A connection to your computer is required for the Simplifi to utilize
> its card readers, iPod/iPhone dock, and USB hub. While the all of these
> components are combined into one convenient device, the Simplifi does
> not allow direct communication between them."

Yeah, it's a consolidation thing. Not especially powerful if you
consider purely function, but vaguely useful to have a few things in
just one spot.

What I'm -actually- looking for is a decent 7 port to 10 port USB hub.
In fact, scratch that, what I'm -really- actually looking for is
something like the recent uBoard that cropped up on various RSS feeds,
only more geared to what I actually want to do with it:
<http://www.techfresh.net/u-board/>

These days I have lots of Stuff(tm). Four bits of music hardware (Kore
2 controller, M-Audio Trigger Finder, Behringer BFC-2000 mixer control
surface, M-Audio controller keyboard), an iPhone to sync/charge and an
external mouse/keyboard to plug-in. Sometimes the camera too, also the
odd flash drive and possibly card reader. That's a lot of stuff.
Something like that uBoard would allow me to put the majority of the
music kit on top of it, something like the Simplifi would allow me to
consolidate a fair amount of it.

Where the uBoard doesn't work for me though is that it's been designed,
as per the picture, to sit at monitor height level. The music kit would
start obscuring things then - their picture shows it fine with an iMac
but the straight cinema display sits lower. Also in use I'd want the
Mac keyboard to sit higher with the controller music keyboard
underneath and slightly forward, and the fixed sides prevent me from
doing that.

Ah well. Next up, a new house to put the stuff in.

Cheers,

From: Gwynne Harper on 28 Feb 2010 17:41
Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:

> Yeah, it's a consolidation thing. Not especially powerful if you
> consider purely function, but vaguely useful to have a few things in
> just one spot.

I got a couple of these:

<http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=400970>


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From: Ian McCall on 28 Feb 2010 18:42
On 2010-02-28 22:41:42 +0000, g.harper(a)gmx.line (Gwynne Harper) said:

> Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, it's a consolidation thing. Not especially powerful if you
>> consider purely function, but vaguely useful to have a few things in
>> just one spot.
>
> I got a couple of these:
>
> <http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=400970>

Interesting - I'll measure my desk tomorrow* and have a second look.


Cheers,
Ian


*ah, what a glamorous life I lead

From: SM on 28 Feb 2010 19:07
Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:

> > <http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=400970>
>
> Interesting - I'll measure my desk tomorrow* and have a second look.

I like Belkin's tip:

Note: If your desk does not have a pre-drilled hole in it, you can drill
one yourself

Stuart
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