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- Holy crap, our company just gave each dev on our team their own iPad in appreciation for our work on the last software release! Awesome! =D 13 hours ago
- Just picked up my new Rebel T2i today...very impressed with it. =) http://bit.ly/9xHJHC 17 hours ago
- I kinda thought this would just be a one-hit-wonder artist, but the La Roux album is really really good: http://www.last.fm/music/La+Roux 2 days ago
- Taco Truck. LOL. http://yfrog.com/0mfdyrj 3 days ago
- Anyone have a suggestion for a *good* Windows desktop feed reader that syncs with Google Reader? (AIR clients are OK too...) 3 days ago
- @sophiestication Uh, yes. Double yes. =) 4 days ago
- iOS4 Google Sync problems? Try this URL to choose calendars (instead of m.google.com/sync): http://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect 4 days ago
- http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos550d/ (Canon EOS 550D = Canon Rebel T2i) 5 days ago
- "[T]the 550D has more in common with the prosumer EOS 7D, and - perhaps even more confusingly - it out-specifies the EOS 50D in many areas." 5 days ago
- Started looking for a new DSLR to replace my stolen 30D; originally wanted the 7D, but the Rebel T2i is almost the same camera for $1k less! 5 days ago
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Creative Sparks Customer Revolt When It Tries To Silence Third-Party Programmer
Creative’s executive team will be coming in to quite a mess Monday morning, thanks to its VP of Screw Ups, Phil O’Shaughnessy. Friday morning, he posted a warning on the Creative customer forums that told programmer Daniel_K to stop writing … Continue reading
N95 display Jitters, goes blank, moves, changes color
Here’s another issue listed from asimag.wordpress.com: My N95 got problem yesterday. It display went blank or jitters and comes back after few seconds when you press keys on the display (green, red, multimedia etc). The keys on the keypad below … Continue reading
Nokia N95 Display Problems. =(
My N95-1 has been rock solid until just recently when it started doing this… Any ideas on this one?
Canon RAW Codec for Vista release
Canon has released their RAW codec for Windows Vista. To download it: Visit http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=DownloadIndexAct Category = “EOS (SLR) Camera Systems”, Product Type = “Digital EOS Cameras” and then choose your camera model from the third dropdown Click Go Click the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cameras, canon, Canon, codec, Downloads, microsoft, Photo Editing, Photography, raw, vista, Windows
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Base64 Valid Character Set
I found this on a forum post, and just wanted to verify that this information is correct: for base64 the valid charset is: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx yz0123456789+/ the = is used as filler for the last bytes, as the length must be … Continue reading
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Tagged base64, bytes, C#/ASP.NET, forum, Programming, Technology, thescripts.com, valid character set, Visual Studio 2008
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Paper Is Out, Cellphones Are In
This sounds really cool; one step closer to getting back a fraction of the time wasted by the ridiculous Orwellian security procedures in place at airports around the U.S. =P First came the kiosk, a strange addition to airport terminals … Continue reading
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Tagged airline, airport, alaska, cellphone, contintental, convenience, mobile, New York Times, paper, service, ticket
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Lifehacker: Copy and Paste Without Switching Windows
Here’s a great tip from Lifehacker about how to set up an AutoHotkey script to copy/paste without manually switching windows: I have one very simple AutoHotkey script which I use when I need to do some massive copying and pasting … Continue reading
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Tagged autohotkey, convenience, copy, howto, Lifehacker, paste, tutorial
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True-Color GIF Example
The mistaken belief that GIF has a limit of 256 colors probably comes from the way GIF was first used when it came out. In the late 1980′s, PC video cards generally supported no more than 256 colors. Image exchanges … Continue reading
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Tagged (Other Blogs), 256 colors, BBS, color, design, example, Fascinations, gif, graphics, Technology, true color
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GooSync – Nokia N73 Configuration
Here’s a post I found at the GooSync forum about how to manually configure GooSync on a Nokia N73, which should also work the same way on the Nokia N95: To manually configure your Nokia N73 device please use the … Continue reading
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 Refresh
Another great post/link from Lifehacker.com today about how to obtain Windows XP Service Pack 3: Brief Description Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 Refresh is available to the public. Specific registry settings will allow you to be offered … Continue reading
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Tagged download, Downloads, Lifehacker, service pack 3, Service Packs, sp3, update, Utilities, windows xp
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Reasons to Trash or Rewrite Your Resume
Lifehacker.com has a great post today on rewriting your resume. Here are some excerpts: Having a resume begs for you to go into that big machine that looks for relevant keywords, and begs for you to get a job as … Continue reading
PNG transparency test
Examine the test images in the left column below. To determine how your browser handles PNG transparency, find the images on the right that look the most similar. Not all possible results are shown; there are too many combinations of … Continue reading
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Tagged (Other Blogs), alpha transparency, design, png, test, test page, transparency, Web Design
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Nice little about:mozilla page in Flock. Quite clever. Blogged with the Flock Browser
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Tagged about:, about:mozilla, easter egg, Easter Eggs, Fascinations, firefox, flock
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Flock: Extensions Compatibility
So far so good… this one might be a keeper! Blogged with the Flock Browser
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Tagged browser, Downloads, extensions, firefox, Firefox 3, flock, mozilla, web browser
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Flock, Again?
So far, I’m as wildly impressed by Flock as I was the first time I installed it, back in version 0.7, as I recall. It’s made leaps and bounds since then, of course, but I’m curious to see if it … Continue reading
Facebook Adds Privacy Controls
Just because your Uncle Joe joined Facebook and you added him as a friend doesn’t mean you can’t upload photos from the keg party. Facebook just added finer privacy controls to the network which let you expand access to your … Continue reading
What’s the best beta? IE 8 vs Opera 9.5 vs Safari vs Firefox 3
What’s new? Firefox 2 suffers massive problems with memory usage, so much so that it’s not unheard of for the browser to use half a gigabyte of RAM on a well-specced machine. On slower machines this kind of overhead can … Continue reading
