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Microsoft EXIF and RAW Image Thumbnailer
“The-Digital-Pictures”:http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Canon-News/ is a great Canon site, but also has two great tips for XP users, first is to download the “Microsoft Photo Info”:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/photoinfo.mspx which allows EXIF information editing and second is “Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer”:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d48e808e-b10d-4ce4-a141-5866fd4a3286&DisplayLang=en that lets you see RAW images from Canon and Nikon. powered by performancing firefox
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Sorry not to have blogged… Performancing bugs
Sorry not to have posted for a while. I gummed up Performancing the blog tool I use in Firefox. And there is no way to logon to ask questions. For those of you using that Firefox add-on, to really reset Performancing, you have to go to c:\documents and settings\rich\Application Data\Mozilla\…\profiles\ and look for the performancing*…
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Xoom
This is a company that Brian mentioned that lets you send money overseas. It seems pretty cool as an idea. Kind of an overseas paypal called “Xoom”:https://www.xoom.com/
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Canon 350D Digital Rebel to Adobe Bridge to Photoshop CS2 to Canon i9900 and Red River Paper
I’m sure I posted before on this, but I always have a hard time finding all the instructions in one place to do this. Here are the steps: # Buy “Red River 68lb Glossy Paper”:http://redrivercatalog.com. It is very good stuff and not expensive. I use the 68lb Glossy that’s precut in 4×6 and 8×10 sizes…
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Adobe font pack
Argh, how strange. Adobe doesn’t use the native fonts of Windows, so you have to download a separate font pack for Adobe to read documents that don’t embed (which is most of them!) at “Adobe Reader 7 and below”:http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrasianfontpack.html or for “Adobe Reader 8.0”:http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?platform=Windows&product=10
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Fuji FinePix F10 Drivers
Fujifilm: Support & Contact Center: FinePix F10 . I have a now old FinePix F10 and an F11, here is where to get the drivers, these guys for some reason need a dedicated USB driver to plug unlike Canon which just looks like a hard drive.
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Lense Filters
Tong Family Blog: good piece on filters was something I needed again, now that got the 10-22 lense and the 100-400, its time to make sure that the lenses stay protected. Fortunately, they all use the same 77mm filter so I can swap. The net of the piece is that you should B+W even though…
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Christmas Gifts and things
Well time to start thinking about Christmas, here are some gifts and some good deals right now: “Altec Lansing IM7”:http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__Altec_Lansing_inMotion_Portable_Speaker_System_for_iPod,__11812335/sort_type=bottomline. I got one of these boomboxes for myself, but now I find that everyone seems to want one. They are expensive, but really work well, the sound is awesome. Right now Pricegrabber shows that J&R…
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DVD43
Well in backing up a DVD, I tried DVD “Decrypter”:http://www.mrbass.org/dvdrip/ but it failed with some structure errors and it is old having been updated March 2005, the other two rippers to try are “DVD43”:http://www.dvd43.com/ which runs in the background and “Smart Ripper”:http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/smartripper.cfm which is now hard to find.
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Turkey Recipes
Happy Turkey Day! Here are some recipes from “Elise”:http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/000037moms_roast_turkey.php that look pretty good. The main issue is how to protect the breast from becoming too dry. Brining really helps (put it in salt water for 12 hours before). powered by performancing firefox
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Biking in China
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Emerald Directions
! Jin Xiu Road –> Hua Mu Road –> Yang Gao Road –> Century Avenue –> Lujiazui Pudong Airport 20 minutes Hu Nan Road –> Outer Ring Road –> Pudong Airport Hongqiao Airport 30 minutes Hu Nan Road –> Outer Ring Road –> Xu Pu Bridge –> Outer Ring Road –> Hongqiao Airport Bund (Wai…
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HD HDD Camcorders
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South Korean National Anthem
Here’s to Duane and Natalie who were asking me to karaoke this next time. S. Korean National “anthem”:http://david.national-anthems.net/kr’.htm Donghae mulgwa Baekdusani mareugo daltorok Haneunimi bo-uhasa uri nara manse CHORUS: Mugunghwa samcheolli hwaryeo gangsan Daehan saram Daehan euro giri bojeonhase Namsan wie jeosonamu cheolgapeul dureundeut Baram seori bulbyeon naneun uri gisang ilse CHORUS Gaeul hanal gonghwal…
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Daniel My Brother
I’ve always loved this song by Elton John and thought it was just about two brothers leaving, but saw being a “Cold Case”:http://www.tv.com/cold-case/show/16989/summary.html mainly because of its great “Soundtrack”:http://www.tv.com/cold-case/the-war-at-home/episode/835342/summary.html?tag=ep_list;title;1 I found out that the song has a missing set of lyrics. Apparently, it was really about a fictional Vietnam vet who has lost his sight…
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Perfect Day in Shanghai
I had the great fortune of hanging out with my buddy Steve for a day in Shanghai. He had never been to China so the challenge was how to show him something so complicated to explain in a day. I’ll call this my
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Canon Lenses
OK, now that the Canon sales are here, I have to decide what lenses I need to complement the EF 24-105mm F4L IS USM lense I have. I have to say that this lense is very nice, but that there are many times I wish for that additional stop to F2.8 that the EF24-70 F2.8L…
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Westin, St. Regis and Four Seasons
Thanks to Duane for the reviews, here are three fine hotels. The ones we like on the Pudong side are the Shangri-la and the Grand Hyatt, but what about Puxi (??? Westin at Bund Center is the best location. It is within walking distance of the Bund, the bars and the nightlife. St. Regis is…
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Smithstuff at Fotki
Adrian and I are moving all our photos over to “Fotki”:http://public.foki.com/smithstuff to see it all. He’s got his new woodworking project there!
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Gmail Java App
Jim pointed out that Google now has a downloadable app for reading Gmail., Get it at “http://gmail.com/app”:http://gmail.com/app from your Java enabled phone. They even have a Blackberry version!
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iFixit disassembles a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo
MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo Disassembly: Installing First Look – MacBook Parts MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo Installing First Look . A pretty interesting inside look at the MacBook
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Acme Bowl
Wow, we had not heard about this place, until we happened to be a Jalisco’s (a great Mexican restaurant on Capital Hill), the waiter said he’s just been to Acme to bowl and it was terrific. We took our kids birthday party in tow and headed down there. Wow, it is way nicer than Sunset…
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Canon Rebates
Well, the fall 2006 “Canon rebates”:http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=PromotionsAct are finally here as expected. They are valid 10-15-2006 through 01-13-2007 so just in time for those of us going on Christmas vacation. Significantly, they aren’t discounting the new Digital Rebel XTi, but some of the tasty hardware I’ve been eyeing include. Also the rebates double if you buy…
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Sony SZ and Apple MacBook Pro
Both Sony and Apple have updated their lines with some amazingly cool laptops. I’m really drooling over them because they both have the ultra fast core duo. Here are the recommendations: !http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/2041/1140/store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/step2_beautyshot_mbp17_060424.jpg!:http://store.apple.com/1-800-780-5009/WebObjects/EducationIndividual.woa/6104004/wo/vitxjoEZiTEo3jHhzH0233YKcbD/17.?p=0 the big news though is that Apple just updated their Macbook Pro line to have the Intel Core Duo 2 chip on it.…
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MovableType Hacking
OK, in cleaning up MovableType I learned quite a bit about how it works. Here are some important notes on: A nonobvious thing is that is a category in a tree, say portfolio is the category and the subcategory is semiconductors, and there is nothing in portfolio, then the category software won’t build an index…
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Small Business Server CAL
I’ve had the rare opportunity to actually buy something based on a pricing scheme I was part of creating. In this case, we use Microsoft Small Business Server at “Qiming”:http://qimingventures.com and now we’ve run out of users. We got the software from the Microsoft Company Store, but it only supports 5 users. I remember all…
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Bicycle Shops
Shanghai actually has a reasonable number of high end shops. There is the Trek store near Thumb Plaza and there is also “Bicycleshop.cn”:http://bicycleshop.cn. The prices are the same as the U.S. it looks like at least from the site. They have two locations one is in Pudong. The new shop is on Zhang Yang Lu…
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W.W. Chan Tailor
On the other hand, suits are much cheaper in China than in Hong Kong. “W.W. Chan”:http://www.wwchan.com/ is in the “Jin Mao Shopping Mall”:http://www.jinmao88.com/en/shopping/item/2004_02/793.shtml. They actually have three locations in Shanghai. You can get the finest Italian material and get it made essentially anyway that you want. A really high end suit with two pairs of…
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Watch Shopping in China
According to Roland, if you want a fancy watch, you should go to Hong Kong. There is a 30% luxury import tax in China, so it makes more sense to go to Hong Kong.
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Trek in China
While driving from the dinner, I saw a “Trek”:http://www.billingsgazette.com/newdex.php?display=rednews/2005/10/13/build/business/54-trek.inc store in China. Apparently late in 2005, they opened a store. Giant (the big Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer is here as well, but only sell low end bicycles), but Trek is going to seel more. Other interesting tidbits are that Trek itself has 35% of the US…