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Entourage 2008
Hey maybe this 12.0.1 fix will help with Entourage and the sync issues we’ve been having. The readme certainly gives some hope: Description of the Office 2008 for Mac 12.0.1 Update Reliability is improved when synchronizing with a server that is running Microsoft Exchange Server. This update improves synchronization support for users of Exchange accounts…
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USB Flash Drives
!http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/ProductImageCompressAll200/20-211-182-01.jpg! It’s shopping day for miscellaneous stuff, so going through flash drives. I’d recommend the PQI i810 or the i220 if you really want small. 2GB is a good size for these little guys to do quick transfers and they fit on a key chain. h2. “USB Flash Drive Reviews”:http://usb-flash-drive-review.toptenreviews.com/ I just lose these all…
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iPhone accessories
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United Promotions
Quick reminder, United has double EQM miles if you sign up by April 21. Also, if you use the “Mileage Plus Mall”:http://mponlinemallcom and use it to buy from Apple, you get one mile for each dollar on top of what your credit card gives you. For instance, with “Hertz”:http://offer.hertz.com/offers/index.jsp?targetPage=uaelite.jsp?id=5964 if you use the Mileage Plus…
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Kiva Rocks!
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Snipe Racing
The summer season snuck in on us. At “Snipe Fleet 444”:http://www.snipe444.org/ they race every Tuesdays April-September, so time to get started with at least the Summer series June 18-July 30. These things are a class of boat, but there are lots of manufacturers and things to consider. “Mike McLaughlin”:http://www.snipe.org/articles/buyused.php did a good overview article on…
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Time Capsule Speeds
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Downtown Seattle Restaurants
!>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/20070330/226rest_30_2.jpg! Well, I said you could spend a year exploring downtown Seattle restaurants for lunch. Here’s a sampling of the latest so far in the definitely go there again. As a sampling of where to find reviews, “Gayot.com”:http://www.gayot.com/restaurants/bestof/bestof/seattle.html and The Stranger I’d add to my list. The “Gayot Top 10”:http://www.gayot.com/restaurants/bestof/se_top10foodratings.html is pretty good. * “Steelhead…
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Time Capsule and Airport Extreme Downgrade to 7.3 and MBA Problems
Well, many folks on “Apple’s discussion”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7026416 are talking about performance issues with 7.3.1. Like me, I now lose the connection to the Time Capsule drive and then Time Machine fails and looks for a password (which should be on the key chain). The other problem is slow network “speeds”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1477962&tstart=-2 where folks are seeeing speed stuck…
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Portable Recording Equipment
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Color All-in-one revisited
OK, we had the Ikon guy in to look at printers that are all-in-one. Confirms some of the initial work we did. There are basically four vendors, HP, Canon, Ricoh and Xerox to consider. And there are two major lines, consumer and business oriented. So it seems to be a you get what you pay…
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Time Machine Slow Initial Backup
We’ve found Time Machine incredibly, incredibly slow on the initial backup. Even with gigabit ethernet, it would backup may 3GB after 2 hours. With the way we use machines at work, it would just start over all the time. “Macrumors.com”:http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=379066 has some advice about what to do: * Turn off Time Machine * If you…
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Wiki markup
Each Wiki has a different shorthand for HTML unfortunately. “Splitbrain”:http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:markup_compare does a good job of comparing them and they aren’t the same at all. Some relevant ones for Wikka Wiki are: notextile.. //italic// __underline__ ##monospace## ++deleted++ ~quoted text %%source code%% —– _Gives you a horizontal rule_ https://richtong.org should work as a URL automatically [[https://richtong.org Tongfamily]]…
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Wikka Wiki Tips
Starting to use Wiki’s and startting with Wikka Wiki. Don’t know if this is the right one, but “Bluehost.com”:http://bluehost.com has it as the first option. They don’t have mediawiki which is what Wikipedia uses. This one is OK except that it by default let’s anyone register and add content. Here is how to turn that…
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Yael Naim
“Yael”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yael_Naim is a great example of how a commercial can make a success. Her song New Soul was picked by Steve Jobs for the introductory Mac Book Air commercial and on the strength of digital sales, she became the first Israeli singer to be an American top 10. Cool!
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American Double Miles
American Airlines is also offering lots of things like double miles and bonus for Chicago/Shanghai. You need to register, so go to http://www.aa.com/apps/netSAAver/ViewAAdvantageAirlineSpecials.jhtml and register away! And as a reminder United’s list is at http://www.united.com/page/middlepage/0,,1249,00.html and remember they have a double miles and most importantly, all flights on United Star Alliance now count towards getting…
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iPhone battery life
Jon has seen really short life on his iPhone. My own iPhone drained in literally two hours yesterday. Here is some advice from “Apple”:http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html on the problem: * You can look at Settings/Usage to see the “Time since last full charge” to get an idea of whether the thing is really charged up* Update to…
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Long Windows Shutdown and Startup Times
Why does XP take so long to shutdown. Apparently, this is because during shutdown, Windows needs to make sure all user sessions are shutdown. They have a fix called “UPHClean”:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en which
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Phone Rates to China
It is amazing how rates have really fallen. Now with AT&T, calling a mobile number in China is $0.16 a minute. With “GlobalPhone”:https://www.gphone.com/myaccount/multirates.asp?glo=globalphone&aid2=GH15 as a low cost check, it is 7.6 cents per minute. That is 1 cent a minute to call a local access number (7038522111) and then 6.6 cents to call China. Wow,…
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Double EQM Miles
United is having a promotion. If you register at http://www.united.com/promoreg?title=Double+EQM+Offer&pcode=MPD288 you get double miles between April and June!
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Administrative Assistants RU us
Wow interesting to see what passes for a job description on Craig’s List these days. Here’s a sampling of admin jobs: OFFICE MANAGER needed for great software company in Fremont!!! OFFICE MANAGER needed for great software company in Fremont!!! (Seattle) Reply to: job-643801913@craigslist.org Date: 2008-04-15, 4:57PM PDT Job Description: Rewarding position as an Office Manager…
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The Forbidden Kingdom (aka the Monkey King retold)
_Sorry for the strange post yesterday, WordPress configuration error in wp_config.php_ “The Forbidden Kingdom”:http://imdb.com/title/tt0865556/ (功夫之王 gong1 fu1 zhi1 wang2 or Kung Fu’s King) is now showing. Its a rip off of the Monkey King (“å™æ‚Ÿç©º”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Wukong sun2 wu3 kong4) from Journey to the West (“西游记”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West xi1 you2 ji4，lit. western travel story). Made me really nostalgic for…
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Simple Phone
Jon and my parents have both asked me about a simple phone that isn’t complicated or smart like an iPhone or a Blackberry, my two current recommendations. In looking at this, the main criteria are: # Big screen. So you can see the numbers you are dialing (most folks at this level won’t be using…
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Ben Graham’s Net Net and other factoids
Peter taught me this rule, that a famous investor Ben Graham showed you can invest in “net net’s”:http://www.allbusiness.com/accounting-reporting/reports-statements/367332-1.html which are true value-oriented stocks. That is, invest in stocks that are trading at 65% of net curretn asset value (NCAV = current assets minus all liabilities include long term debt and preferred). Basically, you are paying…
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Time Capsule Archive
In the 7.3.1 firmware, you can now connect a USB Drive to a Time Capsule and then archive the 1TB disk itself. That is a backup of the backup. This is supposed to be fast. However, this is a one time copy so if you don’t have enough space on your backup USB drive and…
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Entourage and iCal Duplicate Removal
Apparently, these are well know problems with Entourage putting duplicates everywhere. There is even a FAQ topics on “duplicates”:http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/duplicates.html thanks to “Joe”:http://bigmountaindesign.com for the pointer. Now maybe I can get rid of the 30 entries for St. Patricks Day in my calendar. There is a simlar set of utilities of iCal that google:”ical duplicates” and…