Sunday, February 28, 2010

Tweet from David J. Seligman (@geeksofdoom)

http://twitter.com/geeksofdoom/status/9795922283

"Look! There's a copy of @neilhimself's SANDMAN: FABLES & REFLECTIONS on the table in BIG BANG THEORY http://twitpic.com/15alaf (via @wilw)"
- David J. Seligman (@geeksofdoom)


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POD

Friday, February 26, 2010

Japenese rose

Portents of spring

Sent from my iPhone by mac

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TinkerTool: Description

TinkerTool

TinkerToolTinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system.

The tool makes sure that preference changes can only affect the current user. You don't need administrative privileges to use the tool. With this design, it is no problem to use TinkerTool in professional networks where users have restricted permissions. The program will never change any component of the operating system, so the integrity of your system is not put at risk, and there will be no negative effect on system updates.

All preference settings changed by TinkerTool can be reset to Apple's defaults, or to the state that existed before using the tool. No dangerous background processes are used for TinkerTool's operation.

TinkerTool is electronically distributed software. You can download the product free of charge.

Utility of the week TinkerTool

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POD on this bitter winter day

Freedom, that consuming goal above doubt or criticism, desired as moths desire the candle or emigrants the distant continent waiting to parch them in its deserts or drive them to madness in its bitter winters!
Richard Adams, "The Plague Dogs"

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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

About Air Video

Video Streaming
Air Video can stream videos in almost any format to your iPhone and iPod touch. You don't need to copy your videos to the device just to watch them.
Live Conversion
If the videos in your collection are not in format supported by iPhone, Air Video will convert them on fly*. You don't need to wait until the entire video is converted. You can start watching it almost immediately!

My fave Iphone app of the week for viewing movie files from my desktop to my Iphone over the network
tres kewl

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Is your bathroom a cause of political radicalism? Boing Boing

Is your bathroom a cause of political radicalism?

By William Gurstelle at 10:01 AM February 23, 2010

Guestblogger William Gurstelle is the author of several books, including Backyard Ballistics and the recently published Absinthe and Flamethrowers. Here's his blog.

bathroom bolsheviks.jpgI've been in some pretty terrible public bathrooms, some of which made me want to do various things, but I can't say they really affected my politics. But back in the 1930s, it was apparent to major paper companies that the best way fight the Red Menace was by eliminating scratchy toilet paper, which is why this poster strikes me as interesting.

<--Try wiping your hands each day on harsh, cheap paper towels and maybe you too, would grumble.
(Personally, I'd prefer even cheap paper towels over electric dryers although the new Xcelerator models are fun because you can make gross noises when you hold your hands just so.)

Well...Yes

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Rolling post-apocalyptic Lego city Boing Boing

Rolling post-apocalyptic Lego city

By Cory Doctorow at 2:10 AM February 23, 2010

maybe I have been away from Legoland for too long

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A midday nap markedly boosts the brain's learning capacity

A midday nap markedly boosts the brain's learning capacity

February 21, 2010 -->

If you see a student dozing in the library or a co-worker catching 40 winks in her cubicle, don't roll your eyes. New research from the University of California, Berkeley, shows that an hour's nap can dramatically boost and restore your brain power. Indeed, the findings suggest that a biphasic sleep schedule not only refreshes the mind, but can make you smarter.

ahhhh science

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The 100 Watt Lightbulb Goes Out: Ronald Howes, Easy Bake Oven Inventor, Dies at 83 Boing Boing

The 100 Watt Lightbulb Goes Out: Ronald Howes, Easy Bake Oven Inventor, Dies at 83

By William Gurstelle at 7:44 AM February 21, 2010

Guestblogger William Gurstelle is the author of several books, including Backyard Ballistics and the recently published Absinthe and Flamethrowers. Here's his blog.

First-Easy-Bake-Oven.jpgThe original EASY-BAKE used a 100 watt bulb as its heat source. (I always loved the fact that you could bake brownies with a lightbulb.) In its first year, over 500,000 pre-pubescent Duncan Hines wanna-be's talked their folks into spending $15.95. By its fifth birthday, the EASY-BAKE Oven was a household name.The toy was invented by Ronald Howes Sr, who died yesterday at age 83. According to his obituary , Howes sounds like my sort of guy.

cooking by light - what a forward leaping miracle

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imgur: The Simple Image Sharer | Upload and Host an Image

looks fine to me

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Friday, February 19, 2010

Swarm of tiny illuminated helicopters as flying display screen? Boing Boing

Swarm of tiny illuminated helicopters as flying display screen?

By David Pescovitz at 8:38 PM February 19, 2010

MIT researchers are exploring whether a swarm of tiny helicopters outfitted with LEDs could self-organize into a massive flying display "screen." The vision for the nascent Flyfire project is that each of the choppers acts as a pixel to form a dynamically-reconfigurable display.

This I like

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Chromakey is everywhere Boing Boing

Chromakey is everywhere

By Cory Doctorow at 7:53 AM February 18, 2010

Alan sez, "A great, but slightly disturbing, look at how pervasive green-screening has become in simply every scene in television these days. Pretty much everything you think is outdoors is faked, at least to some degree. I particularly like the faked ferry fire..."

no schmaybe I'm amazed

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POD

More rain due today

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

The Apples of their eye: Mac Users Group celebrates its machines - ContraCostaTimes.com

DVMUG is featured in our beloved local newspaper

http://www.contracostatimes.com/search/ci_14419349?nclick_check=1

hey its me

I'm in the paper...again

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POD

An Iphone shot of our rare neighborhood fog
or is it my head
or the National Debt
you decide

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

A Whole Lotta Nothing: Streaming iPhone video

Streaming iPhone video

M7 Air Video is an amazing app I have wished for but never thought I'd see actually happen, given the App Store's dodgy rules about approving applications like this.

The other day I had a bit of insomnia, noticed my phone on my nightstand and wondered to myself if there was any hack, any way I could somehow stream videos from my desktop computer downstairs (both downloaded video and iTunes movies/shows). I was just thinking about trying out some media server apps to see if I could make it work when I saw this pop up on Lifehacker today. I've downloaded, installed, and gotten this app to work wonderfully. You can even jump ahead to different parts of a streaming movie and it'll render in just a few seconds.

It's a pretty handy app if you use one desktop computer as a "base" for a media center with other devices (like AppleTV, iPhone, etc) talking to it. Plus, you don't have to take up any space on your iPhone (and I guess iPad eventually) with the movie itself, as it is just streamed in real time. 

I haven't tested remote access outside my network, but if I could stream a new show from home to an iPhone sitting in my hotel room while traveling, I would say we're truly living in the future now.

My Iphone app of the week

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POD (Picture of the Day)

From little Yosemite in Sunol
Remembering summer

+-------------------------------+
Michael Clasen
mclasen@mclasen.com
925.285.5224
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Friday, February 12, 2010

How to use Facebook Chat with iChat - Mac OS X Hints

How to use Facebook Chat with iChat Apps
First, find your Facebook username by going to http://www.facebook.com/your_user/. Next, Open iChat, then select iChat » Preferences and click on the Accounts tab.

Click on the + (plus) sign to add a new account, with these settings:

  • Account Type is Jabber Account
  • Account name is your_user@chat.facebook.com, and enter your password
  • Click the drop-down arrow to reveal Server options. Enter chat.facebook.com as the server name.
  • Enter 5222 as the port and click Done.
Click Done again, and you are good to go.

have to try this

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How My Little Pony turned a little girl into a computer scientist Boing Boing

How My Little Pony turned a little girl into a computer scientist

By Maggie Koerth-Baker at 7:52 AM February 10, 2010

mylittleponymath.jpg

On the drive back from Madison yesterday, I listened to a lecture by MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle on the very personal relationships we have with objects, particularly the objects that help us think. Turkle talked about her 2008 book, Falling for Science, a collection of interviews with MIT students, and established scientists, about the objects that first drew their minds to math, computers, science and technology. Some were what you'd expect: Broken radios, Legos, a computer. But one story, about a My Little Pony, really caught my attention.

dedicated to my favorite My Little Pony fan...

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Beaker (of the Muppets) performs "Dust in the Wind" for mean YouTube commenters Boing Boing

Beaker (of the Muppets) performs "Dust in the Wind" for mean YouTube commenters

By Xeni Jardin at 1:06 PM February 9, 2010

beakerth.jpg The official Muppets Studio channel on YouTube just keeps getting better and better. First "Bohemian Rhapsody," now this: Beaker performing the Kansas prog-rock classic "Dust in the Wind," and being pelted by caustic overlay annotations from anonymous strangers. Video Link: Beaker's Ballad.(via Laughing Squid)

beaker is me me me hero

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Playing with Presets in Aperture 3

Just got SAperture 3 up and running last night
These are Presets, canned filters applied to rejected photos from a recent shoot
There are no bad photos just bad filtering?

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