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Opps I did it again…..
I think I will declare today (April 23rd, 2008) as the day of SUCKERS….hehehe. This is fantastic and continues to show how damaging proprietory technologies are to your life. If the Sony ATRAC debacle didn’t serve as a warning there’s always this: Microsoft just announced that it will no longer supply authorization keys for songs…
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Proprietary Sucks big
Proprietary technologies suck, no matter how good/neat they sound at the time. Case in point is the Microsoft SPOT (Smart Personal Objects Technology) technology. At a sneak preview of the watches given by Microsoft at COMDEX 2003, Microsoft began referring to the SPOT watches as “Smart Watches with MSN Direct.” The purpose of MSN Direct,…
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RED is the colour of your blood….so is SCARLET
So RED is now hyping their little hand held DCinema Camcorder, or as I call it the “Camcorder for people who drive Hummers and have serious penis envy”. Yeah baby, my Camcorder shoots 3K…much better than your 1080P peeshooter….haha. Okay lets get real here…..what the hell were those RED guys thinking?……fixed lens, auto mode, no…
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Orton Technique……
You can almost immediately tell Orton modified images. They have a dreamy look to them, with soft blurs, hard edges and are well saturated. Michael Orton developed this technique in slide film. Here is a excellent page describing how you can make your own Orton modified images. There is a entire flickr group dedicated to…
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Move over to Gmail…..
Lifehacker has a couple of great articles on how you too can cut those ties holding you back from Gmail heaven and move your Email accounts (and old Emails) to Gmail. So go ahead, head on over to Gmail, create an account, download this utility and start uploading your old Outlook/Outlook express/thunderbird mailboxes from your…
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Stream your Linux/Mac/Windows Desktop as video using VLC (Part II)
A lot of people seem to be having problems (issues) with the original way I had proposed here using command line. So, I figured I make it real simple and do a graphical tutorial with screen shots to boot :-). In this example we first deal with the server (running windows) at IP address 192.168.1.1,…
