Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Bose SoundDock for iPod



With an IR remote to boot. This might fit in the kitchen!

Microdoc - Parts - iBooks - including the little plastic feet

Microdoc - Parts - iBooks

Six feet for $5.00! A bargain. (kw: rubber, screw covers, base, Mac, feet, foot)

Hit TV: 2006 - Unreality TV

TheSims2.com - Home

TV takes a new direction in 2006. A role playing virtual reality community game is displayed in real time on TV. No player knows when he or she will be on TV.

You read it here first. (Ok, maybe not first.)

RyncX & RsyncXCD for OS X

macosxlabs.org - Documentation
RsyncXCD_v2.1 has been released. It is based on the latest release of bootCD. This CD allows you to pull down from your network server a loadset image folder to a machine that has only its hard drive and CDROM as possible boot sources. This CD will let you connect to your server as an Mac OS X client, and cleanly install your image folder onto a volume that later you will boot from. For best results with older machines, burning at 4x or slower speeds is recommended.


Rsync is a tool of legendary power. This may make it very useful for the rest of us. Especially handy for backups across a wireless LAN.

macosxhints - Create bootable OS X clones via the command line and using rsync

macosxhints - Create bootable clones via the command line

Very esoteric -- but likely to be a useful reference at some point. I use Carbon Copy Cloner.

Cocoal.icio.us: A Cocoa del.icio.us Client for Mac OS X

Cocoal.icio.us: A Cocoa del.icio.us Client for Mac OS X

Reports to follow Del.icio.us is very fashionable. And quite fascinating.

Portraits and Prints for iPhoto

Econ Technologies:Portraits and Prints

Now that I have an outstanding Canon Pixma iP4000 printer, this $20 shareware app has become very interesting. iPhoto does NOT do a fantastic job with printing. I'll try it and report back.

Monday, September 20, 2004

Powers of 10 -- updated version of the old demo

Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Secret Worlds: The Universe Within - Interactive Java Tutorial

This version of the old powers of 10 demo goes from 10 million light years (10**23 meters) to 100 attometers (10 ** -16). It stops at quarks -- too bad -- it would be interesting to continue to the Planck length.

I'm struck again by how self-similar the views are until we drop down to a terrestrial scale.

how to add an Airport express to extend (WDS) an Airport Extreme network

macosxhints - Airport Express WDS with third party NAT / DHCP: "This hint describes how to add an Airport express to extend (WDS) an Airport Extreme network that uses some other (wired) host (e.g. a broadband router) to provide DHCP and NAT. The Airport Express Assistant will let you set up WDS automatically, but it insists that the master airport uses NAT and DHCP, and has a static IP address, which means you have to form a separate subnet for the wireless portion of your network. "

Sunday, September 19, 2004

Anthony J Faughnan's CaringBridge web site

CaringBridge.org - aj

Son of Joe and Joyce Faughnan (friends, presumably distant relatives too!)

43 Folders: OSX inventories, tips & hack collections

43 Folders: OSX inventories, tips & hack collections

Nice intro to an interesting set of OSX fans -- their favorite products and tips.

EXIF editor for Windows

RoboPhoto v3.1 - EXIF Editor.

Exif Jpeg header parser and thumbnail remover (OS X)

Exif Jpeg header parser and thumbnail remover

The only program I've heard of that can attach an EXIF header to an existing JPEG. I wonder if it can fix duplicate rotation tags!?

They reference this article -- one of the very few anywhere on the EXIF file format

http://park2.wakwak.com/~tsuruzoh/Computer/Digicams/exif-e.html

I liked the explanation of the EXIF orientation tag from the reference:

The orientation of the camera relative to the scene, when the image was captured. The relation of the '0th row' and '0th column' to visual position is shown as right.

0x0112 unsigned short 1

Value 0th Row 0th Column
1 top left side
2 top right side
3 bottom right side
4 bottom left side
5 left side top
6 right side top
7 right side bottom
8 left side bottom