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Get Wavy…..
Yep, google has taken the giant step for mankind and introduced their collaboration platform….Wave. This is absolutely amazing. A mixture of Email, IM, Bulletin Boards, Versioning System, Wiki with a dash of google magic…..Man I can’t wait for my account…..Oh and did I mention it’s Free and Open Source. Yes, google is giving it away…
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Free online video course for Iphone Application Programming…..
YES…FREE…..brought to you by the very nice people at Stanford University. Just follow this link into the ITunes University (you need ITunes app installed) and start learning something today…..It’s free.
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Quick tool to check URL and/or username availability…..
Namechk allows you to check to see if your desired username or vanity url is still available at dozens of popular Social Networking and Social Bookmarking websites.
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Tell Google When You’ve Moved your Site
If you’re changing from one domain to another for your website, it’s good practice to use a permanent redirect header for all the old pages. Added to that, you can now let Google know of the move in a new Webmaster Tools section called “Change of address”.
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OSX 10.5: How to create a public share folder…..
This problem has been around (I think) ever since the introduction of POSIX permissions. In pre-10.5 versions you could sorta do something like this by changing the default umask on the system, but that was system wide and applied to all folders/files a user created on the entire filesystem…..not nice. The real question is how…
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OSX 10.5: How to delete user accounts from Command Line….
I ran into this problem a little while back and thought I should document it. It’s kinda similar to the “How to get Admin rights in OSX Leopard using single user mode…” document from earlier this year. Here is the procedure: Boot into single user mode. Hold Command-s at startup. Check the filesystem: /sbin/fsck -fy…
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Red Rocket plays back 4K Red codec files in realtime….
RED has just announced a realtime 4k/5k debayer PCI-E card for your Mac or PC (OSX/Linux/Windows). You get 30fps at 4k and 25fps at 5k. RED Rocket board with Quad DVI and Dual Link HD-SDI- $4750 Decode and debayer 4K R3D files realtime. Hyper-accelerated transcode to any system codec. Specs to be posted upon completion…
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DesktopOK saves your desktop icon positions and your sanity
Yeah, it happens to everyone. Either you go do a presentation and/or you play a game that resizes your Windows desktop and all hell breaks loose…..ICONS EVERYWHERE…..YUCK. Well since windows (as usual) comes up short in this area, some smart soul has programmed DesktopOK to save our collective sanity :-). DesktopOK saves and restores your…
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Nvidia delivers 2 Teraflops in 1U GPU-powered server
Yep, just leave it to Nvidia to do all the cool stuff…..I wonder how long it will be before a GPU centric OS (Ninux/Nubuntu anyone?) comes out that will squeeze that GPU for all it´s worth. Intel should be worried :-). NVIDIA Corporation and Supermicro today announced the immediate availability of a new class of…
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Flowers, People, Skaters and BMXers…..
Well, I finally got around to edit last weeks outdoor shoot in the backyard. I used strobes on some of the shots, played around with my new/old Lensbaby Composer and my Zeiss Jena 135mm Sonnar lens…. Next in the queue were the shots from the Toronto Flickr meetup group. The meeting was happening (I guess…