A goal of HardwareMap is to make it obvious what device is selected in this case it is the webcam behind the Fanta bottle
the burn disk image button was pressed a dialogue appears allowing the user to select an image to burn
then the disk image and the disk drive are passed to Brasero so it can burn the disk
The test playback button makes the remote speaker beep This helps you figure out which speaker it actually is.
hardware2 uses gudev (hardware uses HAL). To get the hardware2 tab install python-gudev
Cheap webcam with infrared filter disabled. The webcam is pointed at the screen.
old screenshot nearly everything I can enable has been enabled on my iMac- notice the disk name
old screenshot taken at university- notice how many computers (mostly Macs) show up
as well as network (avahi) I do hardware admittedly hardware hasn't had as much attention paid to it as the network here the user has selected the webcam
click advanced to see everything NetworkMap knows about a service