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Continue reading →: iPhone and iPod downloading
Now that there are so many devices and I’m using a laptop with a small hard drive (80GB), it is really hard to keep iTunes synced because you need to use half disk just to keep music, so you really want to have iPod or iPhone have its own libary…
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Continue reading →: Importing MovableType 3.32 entries into 4.1
OK, here are some gotchas when you have 3000 entries like me: # My hoster, Bluehost.com, seems to have some sort of limit. Or maybe it is MT that does, so only about 2,000 entries actually import properly. Unlike WordPress, you need to specify ahead of time what is the…
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Continue reading →: Mac Scanning
OK, now I’m going to retire our old ASUS laptop I use for scanning images with an old Minolta DiImage 5400 (now discontinued, but still very functional as a 5400 dpi slide and film scanner). Fortunately, the really great “VueScan”:http://www.hamerick.com is available in a Macintosh version, so I don’t lose…
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Continue reading →: Old tongfamily links back up
OK, it took some time to realize that my backup of the original tongfamily.com on MovableType were incomplete. I didn’t get anything from the old root directory that was past index.php (strange since I don’t recall deleting anything from the original share, but somehow all kinds of things are missing).…
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Continue reading →: More Mac Utilities
OK, just catching up as I finish the install of the new office and home networks. Here are some more super useful Mac utilities: * “Wireshark”:http://wireshark.org. This is a protocol analyzer that used to be called Ethereal before trademark problems. You use it to get really deep information about what…
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Continue reading →: HD Camcorders
Well, time for another look, Jim asked me about camcorders once again. Six months ago, the tradeoff was really great HD quality but only on miniDV tape with the Canon HV20 (now updated to the “HV30”:http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Canon-HV30-Camcorder-Review-34401.htm) or you could go with the convenience of a hard disk in standard definition…
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Continue reading →: Fritz Chess Program and online Chess
“Fritz”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Fritz I’m learning is really an essential chess program for learning. The latest version is Fritz 11 which was reportedly released in November, but no one seems to be selling it. The main feature is that you can input a game you played during a tournament and it shows you…
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Continue reading →: Sitemeter widget for WordPress
Sitemeter widget for WordPress | Ring Of Blogs If you want to add a Sitemeter widget to WordPress sidebar you can use this plugin. True, you can just paste the sitemeter code into a text widget but when you are using WordPress MU that will not work. WordPress MU will…
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