Tuesday, January 27, 2004
O'Reilly Network: The Ideal Digital Photographer's Workflow, Part 2
O'Reilly Network: The Ideal Digital Photographer's Workflow, Part 2
A great series of articles here, focused on using Adobe PhotoShop Elements with iPhoto! Need to add them to my digital photo page.
A great series of articles here, focused on using Adobe PhotoShop Elements with iPhoto! Need to add them to my digital photo page.
iPhoto 4: iPhoto Unexpectedly Quits - Apple Knowledge Base Article
iPhoto 4: iPhoto Unexpectedly Quits After Updating LibraryLooks like they understand this problem, which strikes people who use more than one local login account on a single machine. Given the severity of the problem a patch should be out soon, hopefully they'll fix the integer overflow problems too.
Sunday, January 25, 2004
The iPhoto/iBook problem: Bridges etc.
For an iBook that can't have 802.11g internally:
MacWireless 11g Ethernet Adapter
D-Link ETHERNET TO WIRELESS BRIDGE ADAPTER 802.11G 54MBPS
MacWireless 11g Ethernet Adapter
D-Link ETHERNET TO WIRELESS BRIDGE ADAPTER 802.11G 54MBPS
Saturday, January 24, 2004
Building a backyard rink - and why Teoma can beat Google
Building a backyard rink
This is a great essay on how to buid a backyard rink (liner style). What's just as interesting is that Google was useless in finding it. Teoma's initial results were just as poor, but the Teoma sidebar picked out a few key links.
Google results nowadays are drowning in retail links, and are vulnerable to ploys designed to alter Google rankings. Teoma is to new and smalltime to game, so its results are often better. Well worth looking at.
This is a great essay on how to buid a backyard rink (liner style). What's just as interesting is that Google was useless in finding it. Teoma's initial results were just as poor, but the Teoma sidebar picked out a few key links.
Google results nowadays are drowning in retail links, and are vulnerable to ploys designed to alter Google rankings. Teoma is to new and smalltime to game, so its results are often better. Well worth looking at.
Thursday, January 22, 2004
Power cellphone via laptop using USB charger - extend speak time
Belkin Universal USB/VPA Charger
The other day I paid about $20 for a widget that allegedly charges my cellphone via my laptop USB port. This is part of a logical trend to using the USB port on a laptop (or a powered USB hub) as a universal slow speed charger for PDAs, iPods (mini only), digital cameras, cellphones, etc [1]. The idea is that you carry a charger for the laptop, or you carry a powered USB hub, and no other chargers.
In practice charging the cellphone via the USB widget is very slow. I'm not sure overnight is long enough! HOWEVER, it does enable one to extend cell phone talk life while traveling. I discovered this while traveling with an almost discharged cellphone. I set my laptop power profile [2] appropriately and plugged the USB adapter into my cellphone. I continued to talk for another 1-2 hours. The cellphone power level stayed flat or increased slightly, so the power input was about equal to digital communications demand.
Caveat! Most cellphones were not designed to charge off a USB port. I've no idea what using one of these devices does to the cellphone LiOn battery. I suspect there's no overcharge protection, so if you left your cellphone plugged in for a few days the battery would probably be damaged. I also suspect, however, that it's probably harmless to use to power a working cellphone as described here.
Belkin sells one of these. I've seen it sold online for about $15.00:
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=1&Product_Id=132105
meta: jfaughnan, jgfaughnan, charger, adaptor, adapter, power adaptor,
power adapter, converter, convertor, USB, mini-B, USB sync,
synchronization, HotSync, laptop, portability, travel, cellular,
mobile phone, sprint, Samsung, portability, efficiency, convergence,
transformer, AC/DC, wall wart
[1]http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=5c0dbfb4.0312121044.6d00220%40posting.google.com
and
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=5c0dbfb4.0401161137.3f143a2c%40posting.google.com]
[2] In XP use a custom power profile for this -- never sleep but do blank screen and spin down drive -- I called my power profile "Cellphone Charger". Similar setup for OS X.
The other day I paid about $20 for a widget that allegedly charges my cellphone via my laptop USB port. This is part of a logical trend to using the USB port on a laptop (or a powered USB hub) as a universal slow speed charger for PDAs, iPods (mini only), digital cameras, cellphones, etc [1]. The idea is that you carry a charger for the laptop, or you carry a powered USB hub, and no other chargers.
In practice charging the cellphone via the USB widget is very slow. I'm not sure overnight is long enough! HOWEVER, it does enable one to extend cell phone talk life while traveling. I discovered this while traveling with an almost discharged cellphone. I set my laptop power profile [2] appropriately and plugged the USB adapter into my cellphone. I continued to talk for another 1-2 hours. The cellphone power level stayed flat or increased slightly, so the power input was about equal to digital communications demand.
Caveat! Most cellphones were not designed to charge off a USB port. I've no idea what using one of these devices does to the cellphone LiOn battery. I suspect there's no overcharge protection, so if you left your cellphone plugged in for a few days the battery would probably be damaged. I also suspect, however, that it's probably harmless to use to power a working cellphone as described here.
Belkin sells one of these. I've seen it sold online for about $15.00:
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=1&Product_Id=132105
meta: jfaughnan, jgfaughnan, charger, adaptor, adapter, power adaptor,
power adapter, converter, convertor, USB, mini-B, USB sync,
synchronization, HotSync, laptop, portability, travel, cellular,
mobile phone, sprint, Samsung, portability, efficiency, convergence,
transformer, AC/DC, wall wart
[1]http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=5c0dbfb4.0312121044.6d00220%40posting.google.com
and
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=5c0dbfb4.0401161137.3f143a2c%40posting.google.com]
[2] In XP use a custom power profile for this -- never sleep but do blank screen and spin down drive -- I called my power profile "Cellphone Charger". Similar setup for OS X.
KODAK: Labeling CD-R Media - Don't use Labels
KODAK: Labeling CD-R Media
Ideally use a water based cd safe permanent marker to label discs. Sharpies and other solvent based markers are probably OK. Don't use any labels of any kind, some may be safe, most result in data loss within two years.
Ideally use a water based cd safe permanent marker to label discs. Sharpies and other solvent based markers are probably OK. Don't use any labels of any kind, some may be safe, most result in data loss within two years.
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