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Quotes
Hat tip to Matt for this quote! I’ve been collecting bunches and now with Mac OS X Mail, you’ll get them rotated: Benjamin Franklin Quotes Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.Benjamin Franklin QuoteGallery.com Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy…
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WikkaWiki hacking
Well, back to making the igncap wiki work. Here are some obscure notes: # Already talked about how get invite code to work by editing wikka.config.php # To make sure only registered users can edit a page, you go to “Edit ACL” at the bottom of a page and click on it. Then change the…
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Mac Office 2008 somewhat faster
This corresponds to what I’ve seen, you’d expect that Office 2008 being a native Intel application would be much faster than Office 2004 which is PowerPC and runs in emulation on Intel. Well, the results are a little confusing. It is faster, but not much in many things: | | Excel Open | Word Scroll…
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Mac marketshare 66% of computers above $1,000 at retail
Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About eWeek first reported on an interesting breakdown of Apple’s retail marketshare. According to numbers from the NPD Group, Apple’s Q1 2008 retail (brick and mortar) reached 14%. Note that by limiting it to retail, they’ve excluded online sales and institutional/enterprise sales. !http://images.macrumors.com/article/2008/05/19/234608-macq108_400.jpg! Chart from eWeek…
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MacBook, iPhone and Blackberry updates coming
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DSLR Recommendations
Well, the photo world is shaking up again. The new cameras are just so amazingly good and they are improving not so much in resolution. The megapixel wars are ending, but in providing great images at high ISOs. This means two things: a) available light shooting is much more natural and easier for everyone and…
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Do Not Upgrade to your TomTom to 7.481
I just updated to the latest version of the firmware and now the TomTom hangs when search for a POI. “Tomtom Forums”:http://www.tomtomforums.com/showthread.php?s=85c58a2c63c0f09ae1ed4748c4fcfe4d&t=8710 reports lots of these problems. Basically, when searching a POI, it hangs on “Wait a moment…” amd then when you try to Find, you get a grey screen. The above was for the…
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Schultzy’s
Here is what I learned from Bruce about restaurants. He knows the folks are “Schultzy’s”:http://www.yelp.com/biz/shultzys-sausage-seattle for quite a while now. He’s a smart guy: * Its a cash business. So if you aren’t there everyday, it is really easy for a liquor bottle to disappear or for an order not to get rung up and…
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Snipes
Had a chance to look at a Snipe. Its a two person 15 1/2 foot long racing sailboat. The class started in 1931 and it is a nice one to race and hang out with. The folks at “Snipe444”:http://snipe444.org are great and there is a “boat”:http://www.snipe444.org/classifieds.html for sale. It is boat 26752, I guess they…
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Cathy Pacific Business Class
Wow, fully flat seats in business class on Cathay. Sign me up! And a flast screen TV too. That is great for the Vancouver to Hong Kong leg that I take sometimes.
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Solid State Drives
Drool, drool, solid state drives are on the way. They are as fast as traditional hard disks. They are about $1,000 per 64GB drive which is still expensive but coming down fast. Think about it as the logical upgrade for your current notebook. AnandTech: 64GB SSD on the Desktop: Samsung and OCZ go mainstream new…
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Movies from Video Games
Video games are so advanced now that you can make really good animated features from them. One of my favorite games, “Call of Duty 4”:http://codhq.com has been used for a really amazing series called “Retaliation”:http://www.machinima.com/film/view&id=25388. You have to see it to believe how good it is.
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Buying Guides
Dave asked me what review sites I use as he uses “Consumersearch.com”:http://consumersearch.com, I use a different site for each specialty area. And some notes on what’s the right buys… 1. Camcorders.info. The best reviews on video cameras. Canon HF-10 looks like the winner as HD camcorder2. Dcviews.com. An overview site with links to the very…
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Soros on the economy
Minds over Money: The godfather of global investors – May. 14, 2008 Where is your money now? A. Mostly in my endowment fund, a good portion of which I had farmed out to other money managers. When I saw what I considered the most serious financial crisis of my lifetime, I came out of retirement…
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Darrell is a genius
Here are some of the things he has selected…for us. He’s great and some good choices for others that are thinking about small business applications: * “Fonality”:http://fonality.com. IP PBX and also a PC Magazine editors choce. They sell a hardware box. $1000 is the software charge for standard. Professional is $2K with the main additional…
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Webcams
Dave was asking me about webcams. Since we use Macs mainly, I haven’t really studied the PC market (all Macs have iSight webcams which are decent, but most importantly built in). “Cowboyfrank.net”:http://cowboyfrank.net has an amazing number of webcam reviews. He likes the “Creative Notebook Pro”:http://cowboyfrank.net/webcams/Creative/NotebookPro2007/Description.htm, but the top rated notebook one is the “Logitech Quick…
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Password protect WordPress
This is an old post, but “cre8d design”:http://www.cre8d-design.com/blog/2006/08/10/password-protecting-your-wordpress-blog/ explains how to password protect your blog. The simplest way is the “registered only”:http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/registered-only/trunk/ plugin. With this plugin, only registered users can actually see your blog.
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Instant PhD in biotech
Ok, so here is a primer, also known as PhD in a blog entry: Plasmid – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A plasmid is an extra-chromosomal DNA molecule separate from the chromosomal DNA which is capable of replicating independently of the chromosomal DNA.[1] In many cases, it is circular and double-stranded. Plasmids usually occur naturally in…
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Age of Empire Asian Dynasty Error 1305
Rebuilding Age of Empires and got error 1305 it is a little confusing, but it turned out the CD was dirty with junk. So if you get this, it is either a real problem or clean your CD! FAQ_General 1305This is an error that results from trying to read from a file and may also…
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Seattle to Beijing Nonstops
Hurray at last, you don’t have to go down to San Francisco and then fly by Seattle. The best routings now to Shanghai are: # United to ANA. This leaves 1PM and arrives in Shanghai via Narita at 9PM. There is a long layover in Narita # Air Canada. Go up to Vancouver and then…
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Cool sites from Alex…Blackle.com
!>http://www.blackle.com/logo.jpg! Hey instead of white which burns LEDs, go to a “Blackle”:http://blackle.com which has saved lots of power just by turning down Google with a black screen! Says you can save 750 MWhr/Year if everyone used it.
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Free iPhone Wifi at Starbucks
Hey a big incentive to learn how to make iPhone’s a proxy server for your laptop! AT&T Officially Lists Wi-Fi Hotspot Access with iPhone Plans – Mac Rumors AT&T’s iPhone website (under ‘Plans’ tab) has been updated to reveal that each iPhone plan now includes access to their “more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hotspots, including Starbucks…
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Color Printer selection
OK, so what we are making sure that we understand it. What are we doing thanks to Rennie’s excellent suggestion is to get a midrange printer first rather than buy a low mix 2840 and a high mix ImageClass: “Xerox Phaser 8860MFP”:http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2199136,00.asp. This is a PC Editors Choice at $2,500 and 3 cents per page.…
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Entourage 2008 and Hosted Exchange 2003
As we struggle to get Entourage working with hosted Exchange 2003 at Applix.com, here are the problems we have and the solutions aren’t simple and aren’t documented. Fortunately, someone at Applix.com helpdesk knows what they are doing # The good news is that basic email and blackberry seem to work great. Unlike our experience with…
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Metrohispeed Fax Admin Interface Quirks
After trying efax and a couple of others thanks to a great efax review site, we are giving Metrohispeed.com a try. They are $13/month for 1000 pages per month, so a decent deal at Internet Email Fax Services by MetroFax. Here are some notes about using them: They do allow corporate accounts although no corporate…
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Apple Airport Client Performance
Apple – Support – Downloads – AirPort Utility 5.3.1 for Leopard. Wow, incredibly hard to find, but the Airport Utility let’s you look at individual client performance. Very cool, but impossible to find but it shows you the nominal bit rate of the link I think that is active and changes over time. !<https://richtong.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/airport.jpg! here…