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Continue reading →: Nextgen Gallery
With a hoster that provides a nominal 1.5TB in storage, it sure is tempting to put some photos up. In experimenting, Nextgen Gallery seems popular with WordPress and it seems to work (unlike Gallery which doesn’t). Here are some photos. Main thing I haven’t figured out is how password protection…
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Continue reading →: Apple ships 802.11n Airport Express and 1Gb Ethernet notebooks
!<http://images.macrumors.com/article/2008/03/15/162634-803.png! “Macrumors.com”://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=454621 says the $99 Airport Express is going to get 802.11n networking. This is a very nice piece of hardware that complements the Time Capsule mainly. You can use it to add a printer to your network (in essence, it converts a USB printer into a network printer), you…
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Continue reading →: Mac Games
Well, why not, let’s see if we can’t get some games going for those long trips. “Inside Mac Games”:http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/ has the most comprehensive reviews.
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Continue reading →: PSP Firmware
Darn it, we upgraded our PSP to 3.51 and it turns out that “PSP-Vault.com”:http://psp-vault.com says you can’t go back now and run homebrew above this release without addition hardware. Amazingly there is a special “Pandora’s Battery”:http://www.psp-vault.com/Article1124.psp which unbricks and resets PSPs. You have to run a program on an already…
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Continue reading →: WP Spam Free error
Well, watch out for the WP Spam Free utility, in the latest release, it blew out my comments. I thought it was the main module, but “whoami”:http://wordpress.org/support/topic/153402 figured it out. The error said reenable cookies and by searching the text, he figure out what it was.
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Continue reading →: Mac Open Source Software
“Darwin Ports”:http://darwinports.com/ automatically downloads open source projects over the Internet and compiles and installs them on your Mac. Means the whole world of 40 years of unix tools is available with a single command line on your computer. (BTW, Darwin is the name of the core operating system under Mac…
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Continue reading →: Camcoder recommendations
I’ve told people that if they can, they should wait on buying a camcorder, the move to HD is happening in fits and starts with the usual teething problems. Right now, it looks like the third generation camcorders may finally get it right. There are two leading contenders: * “Canon…
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Continue reading →: mp3 tagger
OK, I use Tritag for making my mp3s have nice tags, but it doesn’t have either lyric finding or artwork finding. “Mactags.blogspot.com”:http://mactags.blogspot.com if you can believe it actually has a review of all Mac based MP3 taggers (talk about narrowcasting). Here are some good recommendations: “MP3-Info”:http://mactags.blogspot.com/2007/02/important-mp3-renamer-i-forgot-to.html. This lets you right…
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Continue reading →: Mac Flac Converter
“Flac”:http://flac.sourceforge.net is an format that is lossless, so you get the original quality of the recording. I almost never see it, but if you do, use “xACT”:http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21952 to convert it to AIFF, the Apple lossless format or to MP3 with Lame, the best encoder.
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Continue reading →: Sun Valley
I’ve never been there, but its a fabled mountain. Like most it is really big and it is great to get a “guide”:http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/travel/escapes/22sun-valley.html so you don’t waste lots of time. The season lasts trhough the third week of April so there is plenty of spring skiing left. Some suggestions from…
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