One of my friends had an iMac and late last night we got into a contest regarding the super-powers of an iMac (why do all such experiments have to begin late at night always?).
He said that we could get any device and his iMac will instantly recognize the device and without the need for any drivers to be additionally installed, make the device usable.
The first device we got, as starters was a wireless mouse. We plugged it in, and in a few seconds the mouse was working. Wow! my other friend said while I was still unimpressed.
The real test would be, I declared, if it recognizes and downloads photos from my camera.
I was certain that it was not possible. On my Linux machine, certainly the OS did not recognize the camera and rightly so, 'cause Canon was using a proprietary protocol to download the images. I had googled it up and read elsewhere too, that this was a task still not possible.
I had previously taken a look at gphoto2 and now, from what I recall, it was said that this task was not possible yet.
So, I went and got my camera and with a smile attached it to the iMac's USB port. iPhoto came on, it went into some searching mode, my smile got wider, the iMac owner showed some restlessness and my smile got even wider.
Ha, I said, it is not possible!
It had been a few minutes now, the software had only recognized the camera make and the number of photos in the card.
It is over, I said and started to explain about the proprietary protocol and why definitely there was a need for a driver to be installed.
Lo and behold then, iPhoto started displaying the photos ! (we had clicked on the "import" button by then).
Another late night argument, this one I lost.
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Friday, February 02, 2007
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