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Continue reading →: San Juan Tides and Rosario Strait currents
Everyone seems to use Captain Jack’s as their tide table, but as usual, online, there are a zillion resources. “Saltwatertides.com”:http://saltwatertides.com seems to have a really great list. BTW, for Tuesday, it shows high tide at 3:52AM at +6.7 feet and a low tide of -1.1 at 11:39AM, so basically in…
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Continue reading →: San Juan Islands Marine Forecast
It is amazing how detailed a forecast you can get on the Internet. The actual official “NOAA”:http://www.atmos.washington.edu/data/marine_report.html is reproduced by the University of Washington. (BTW this week, it is going to be not super nice. Showers and such for the inland waters of Western Washington. “Weather Underground”:http://www.wunderground.com/MAR/PZ/133.html has a pretty…
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Continue reading →: Nikon D40X not compatible with Lexar 4GB SDHC Card
Yikes, how could this happen, just beware that not all SDHC cards are created equal. The 4GB cards for SanDisk, Toshiba and Panasonic are compatible, but the Lexar 4GB card is not. One of my friends just lost most of the data on the card for that reason. I’ve no…
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Continue reading →: Sony DCR-SR-100 and Mac iMovie
Well, I’ve been using the hard disk based Sony SR-100 for a while now but never with the Mac. iMovie bundled on the Mac understands DV and also the high definition DV format called cleverly HDV out of the box. Just plug your camcorder in with firewire and you are…
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Continue reading →: TU-95 Bears
!>http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44049000/jpg/_44049227_tupolev_203_bbc.jpg! “BBC”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6938856.stm took me back to the days of Tom Clancy and Hunt for the Red October and Red Storm Rising. The TU-95 Bears were the early warning and ocean hunters of that day. Big slow turboprops with incredible range. Apparently, the Russians visited Guam with just such a plane.…
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Continue reading →: new iMac
Well, the all-in-one “iMac”:http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2007/tc2007087_907463.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_computers got launched last Tuesday. While Apple laptops are 2/3 of sales, I think these iMacs will cause lots of folks to buy. It is exactly what I need at home, a huge screen plus it has all the power features. For $2500, you can get a…
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Continue reading →: Mac Utilities
OK more Mac utilities, this time from a quick read of Mac magazine: * “iStumbler”:http://istumbler.net. This is like a similar utility on Windows, it tells you the strength of various Wifi and Bluetooth devices. Even has a widget for your dashboard * “USB Missile Launcher”:http://thinkgeek.com. OK, its not really a…
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Continue reading →: Share Mac Desktop
I need some help to navigate through a website, so how do I do it. Well, Mac’s allow desktop sharing and it should be pretty easy as long as you can get through some settings. “Softwareareas.com”:http://www.softwareas.com/how-to-share-your-mac-desktop-osx-104-tiger has a good guide for Max OS X 10.4 “Tiger” h2. For the machine…
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Continue reading →: Windows Remixed
“Wired”:http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2005/08/68589 points out there are plenty of remixed Windows that are configured better than the default from Microsoft. I’ve tried “WinXP SP2 Lite Edition” which has a ton of utilities and is way smaller. There is also Super WinPE Ultimate Boot CD 2004 which puts seven versions of XP on…
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