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Secure remote backups using Rsync…..
While the world was busy trying to figure out how to sync their palm pilots to Windows 98 (or was it 95) Andrew Tridgell was working on his thesis……Rsync. The endall-beall in the world of syncing. You see, if you’ve ever tried any syncing program before you’ll appreciate the ease with which rsync works. You’ll…
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Blue Bottle…..
Here is a flickr set, shot today of a beautiful blue bottle.
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Quicktip for Frontrow users (OSX)
I bet you didn’t know that Frontrow, Apple’s Media Centre software that ships with every Mac, can actually playback those HD trailers from their site. Well here is a quicktip to enable that functionality:defaults write com.apple.frontrow EnableHDMovieTrailers TRUEOnce you type this into terminal, start up Frontrow and note that you get a new option under…
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Evernote….Your personal Pet Elephant to help you remember
And that’s exactly what it does. A fantastic new product from evernote that offers you the opportunity to offload your brain of all those ideas/clippings/musings. Basically this thing is the kitchen sink of organizers….and it does OCR to boot. So head over to evernote.com and sign up for an invite, download whatever method of interface…
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And now a bit of Engineering brought to you by the letter E
As some of you might know I’ve been setting up my OTA (Over The Air) HDTV gear for the past couple of months and learning all about Antenna design, gain, amplification, directionality and such…..Lots of fun/confusing stuff. Well today I came across this article on digitalhome.ca that describes how a bunch of guys got together…
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Cooliris Rocks…..
Okay these guys are my new best friends….Head over to cooliris.com and grab your copy of their cooliris previews extension…..trust me you’ll not be disappointed…..makes browsing faster and more fun. You’ll wonder how you ever got by without it.
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Who needs a Digital Picture Frame…..
Just hop on over to piclens.com and grab their Firefox/IE plugins (OSX, WinXP/Vista) and start enjoying your online pictures again. This little gem works with either browser (and pretty much all the derivatives…..ie: Flock, Bonecho, etc.) and will totally knock your socks off. Just install it, go to a random flickr page (or one of…
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The Guitar….
As promised here are some of the Guitar batch…..more on flickr.
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Coins….
Here is the latest from the weekend shooting extravaganza :-) Up next The Guitar…
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Steve…..Get a life.
Gotta love Steve Ballmer, he’s so clueless, he doesn’t even realize it. This is the same guy who for the longest time slammed Linux and Web technologies, promoted his companies sub par OS as the latest greatest and told us that Web-based apps and the whole web2.0 thing was just a fad. I got 5…