The other day I commented over on the Mashable site that I’d read about a sub-$10k rp device … or 3D scanner. I couldn’t remember which. More I think about it, the more it seems I was recalling a scanner. Not that it matters now. The new opening price point is… get this … US $2,495. Don’t believe me? Go see for yourself (Link).
It’s going to be a wild and crazy year at this pace.
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This site contains registry fixes, scripts, Troubleshooting Guides and freeware utilities to resolve problems in Windows XP. The resources available in this site should help you learn, diagnose and troubleshoot the common problems you face in Windows XP. Additionally, there is a section for Internet Explorer, addressing the Frequently Asked Questions in IE.
We have a mirror site at Winhelponline.com
Adobe Photoshop Album 3.0 Starter Edition - photo organizing
EXIF Image Viewer - view EXIF info
Exposure calculator - calculates exposure settings for various scenes. Excel spreadsheet.
Art Plus Digital Photo Recovery - recover lost images from digital camera memory cards
Art Plus Memory Card Safe Eraser - erases data from memory cards
FastStone image viewer - image browser, viewer, converter and editor
FilterSIM - photo filter simulator
FuturePaint (Mac) - full-featured image editing program
Gimp - (Windows, Mac, Unix) - photo retouching (installers available)
Hello - instant photo sharing and chat - integrates with Picasa2
Irfanview - image viewer and converter
Jalbum - web photo album generator
Neat Image - digital image noise reduction
PhotoFiltre - image editing and filter program
PhotoPlus - image editing software offering layers
Photo Story 3 - add motion, effects, music and more to digital photos. Windows XP only.
PIXresizer - image resizer
Picasa2 - photo organizing
VicMan's Photo Editor - image editing
ViewEXIF - view EXIF info via Internet Explorer
virtualPhotographer - apply photographic styles to images
So you want to dabble with HDTV but aren't too keen on spending the money for a new television? This HDTV Tuner will turn your laptop or PC into an HDTV and will let you record HDTV shows directly to your computer! Pause, fast forward, and rewind live HDTV and setup scheduled recordings with the electronic program guide. You can even backup your favorite episodes to DVD and watch your recorded shows over your home network. If it works as well as it sounds, this could be the perfect solution HDTV solution for those who want HDTV but don't want to shell out several grand for an HDTV set. |
The data retention plans of the EU - to store all telephone and internet traffic data - are massively invading privacy and therefore the freedom of people in Europe, while at the same time lacking necessity for police investigation and leaving lots of possibilities for malicious people to sneak around this surveillance method. It's an invasive tool that effects every citizen, and lacks the improvement of security, with which its implementation is argued. Read the details on the campaign of European privacy activists and sign "Data rentention is no solution!"
Read more...New PVR Can Record 11 Shows At Onceby Richard Baguley If you don’t think you watch enough TV, this could be the answer. The people behind BeyondTV (a personal video recorder program) built a PC that can record up to 11 TV shows at once. The appropriately named Godzilla PVR has 4 digital and 7 analog TV tuners, which should be enough for the most ardent TV watcher. It also has a terabyte of storage space and a 3.2GHz dual-core CPU. But it ain’t cheap: the total cost for this setup was a monstrous $4284.90, which means it would have been a lot cheaper to buy 4 or 5 TiVos. But I guess that’s not the point... [Via PVR Blog] |
While you type on your computer keyboard, your fingers could be grazing over potentially harmful bacteria...Bacteria Can Quietly Thrive on Computer Keyboards April 11, 2005 -- It's enough to make you want to scrub your hands and hose down...
KeyForum will apply the concept of P2P to forums, and is developed (in perl) to give the possibility to everyone to make a serverless forum, pretty anonimous and free, thanks to the absence of a central server.
Secure distributed communication and file sharing for small trusted groups
Backup your favorite DVD to VCD, SVCD, AVI, or DIVX
via fileForumBut as cheap as memory is, loading up on it can still stress a budget. Tom's Hardware has a typically thorough article showing just how much memory you really need, based on your usage.
Writers Jon Kullberg and Patrick Schmid combined benchmarks and file-transfer tests to show what happens when you take the real speed killer -- hard disk access -- out of the equation. They use popular games for benchmarking -- Quake 4, Doom 3, Far Cry, etc. -- to make their point.
Their conclusions are here. The executive summary: 512 MB is the bare minimum, really good only for those who don't ask their Windows XP computers to multitask. A gigabyte of RAM is the sweet spot, the optimum amount for most users. And 2 GB is recommended for gamers and power users.
I recently bumped my system up to 2 GB, and I'll agree with their findings. I think I'll also tweak my recommended PC specs pages to reflect this, as well.
Updated: I made the changes to my PC Specs pages, and here are my new minimum recommendations for desktop system memory:
• Budget/novices -- Still 512 MB, but get a gigabyte if it's within your budget.
The TraxCatcher is a MP3 player that sits on top of a FM radio dock. From there, it will tune into your favorite FM radio station and record songs from the radio into "near perfectly cut" high-quality MP3 files.
| "Mushroom Networks, which was started at the University of California, San Diego, and WiBoost Inc., based in Seattle, have built prototypes of simple wireless systems that make it possible for groups of neighbors to share their D.S.L. or cable Internet... |
| E-zine dedicated to information about storage over the internet. Provides news, experts, and discussion of IP SANs, NAS (Network attached storage), RAID, ... |
via HPU blog from Homepage Universe, an excellent low-cost hosting service.SNARF was built around the notion that social network information that is already available to the computer system can be usefully reflected to the user: a message from a manager might be seen differently than a message from a stranger, for example. SNARF applies this idea to email triage: handling the flow of messages when time is short and mail is long.
The SNARF UI is designed to provide a quick overview of unread mail, organized by its importance. The UI shows a series of different panes with unread mail in them; each pane shows a list of authors of messages. Clicking on a name shows all messages involving that person.
Download it and play around. Its pretty nifty.
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Why Firewalls Suck
01 Apr, 2002
Despite the date I filed this on, I'm not joking.
Proxy Servers for Beginners Part 1
16 Jan, 2002
What is a proxy server?
Proxy Servers for Beginners pt2
16 Jan, 2002
Advantages and Disadvantages of Proxy Servers.
Proxy Servers for Beginners pt3
16 Jan, 2002
Breakdown of the parts of a good proxy server.
Proxy Servers for Beginners pt4
16 Jan, 2002
Proxy Server - best practice.
Back to Basics - What Security really means.
20 Jul, 2003
| Fred Langa outlines his top decision points when purchasing new desktop hardware and discusses factors like the influence of your OS choice, bus types, hard drives, and external ports. |
Open Retrospect Express manually by opening the Start menu on the bottom-left corner of your desktop.
Left-click on your Programs menu and select Retrospect and then Retrospect 6.5.
Retrospect Express will open.Expand the Automate menu on the left side of the screen by left-clicking once on the plus sign to the left of the word Automate.
Left-click on Manage Scripts and click the New button.
Select Backup and click OK.
Enter a simple name for this new script that will be easy for you to remember and click New.
Click on Sources and select the drive or folder you'd like to backup and click OK twice.
Click on Destinations and the Create New Backup Set wizard should open if you do not have a backup set already created.
Click Next, make sure Disk is selected, and click Next.
Type in a name for your backup set and click the Select button.
Highlight the drive letter that corresponds to your Media Center drive and click OK and click Next.
Select None for the backup set security and click Next.
Click the Browse button and choose a place to save the catalog file that goes with your backup set. It is important that you remember exactly where you save this file, as it will be needed to restore from the backup in the future should you need to.
Click Next and Finish.
Click OK until you are back at the Scripts window.
Find the WD Automatic Backup (Duplicate) script and highlight it and then click Edit.
Change the name of the script by pressing Control and R at the same time to open the edit screen and type in the new name and then click Rename and OK.
Highlight the new backup script you created earlier and click Edit.
Press the Control and R keys again to open the rename window.
Type in the name WD Automatic Backup and then click Rename and OK.
Why doesn't the Button Manager icon appear in the system tray when a Media
Center, Dual-option Combo, Dual-option USB external hard drive is connected to a
PC?
Squeak is a modern, open source, highly portable, fast and full-featured implementation of the powerful Smalltalk programming language and environment.
When Smalltalk was created more than 35 years ago it defined the term object orientation and is the first language in which everything is built from objects. Smalltalk is deeply inspired by ideas from especially Simula, Sketchpad and Lisp and even today Smalltalk sets the bar for object oriented dynamically strongly typed interactive languages and environments.
You may be familiar with other open source languages like Ruby or Python, but Squeak takes these concepts much, much further offering a true uniform fully reflective environment - real live objects.
"The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas." - Alan KayLook through the features to find those which interest you the most.
So while I knew I had the full broadband goods, the Windows installation on my main machine wasn't taking advantage of them. I switched to one of my other computers and it too was getting 14Mbps plus, so I felt easier about it. What I needed to do was fine-tune a slew of Registry settings for the new faster connection. Having been through this several times in past, I knew just what to do: Download the latest version of Speedguide.net's TCP Optimizer tool (version 2.03).
TCP Optimizer is the best of its ilk, and I've praised it in the past. It's only gotten better since I last made extensive use of it. For one thing, it's now designed for connection rates up to around 20Mbps, which was just what I needed. It's also got an intuitive interface, it automatically suggests optimal settings, and it automatically saves a backup of your pre-existing settings.
The beauty of TCP Optimizer is that, while it may not get every setting 110% right for your specific Internet connection, it's definitely close enough for government work. Or let me put it another way, after I ran it once and restarted my main machine, I was seeing just under 15Mbps download speed with Speakeasy's test. Any utility that wins me 8Mbps of broadband performance in less than 10 minutes, well, that's definitely a Scot's Newsletter Top Product. So I've added it to the Scot's Newsletter Reviews list.
"I still remember the excitement I got waiting for the OQO to be shipped to me, and will be the proud owner of the smallest device in the world that runs windows XP. That excitement is already worth the money. The bonus I got after getting the device in my hand, is that it is very usable, and I got more excitement trying to figure out how I am going to use it to help on my work."
If you haven't heard of Gtalkr, you should definitely check it out.
Gtalkr brings the power of Google Talk into your browser, but it does even more than that. (I blogged about Gtalkr back in December.) GTalkr also integrates Yahoo Maps, Gmail (but of course!), offers a downloadable notifier, and now you can even add RSS feeds that you can view on your Gtalkr page. What's nice about services like Gtalkr is that you can use the Google Talk service without having to download the app itself. Any upgrades to Google Talk will be available in Gtalkr as well...and since Google is now best friends with AOL, mabye we will see AIM integration soon?
So, what does the future hold with Gtalkr? Well, I had an interesting conversation (via Gtalkr, of course) with one of the developers. Nice guy.He tells me that they are working on some other extensions for the service, with del.icio.us being high on that list -- yes!. Additionally, they are working on integrating libjingle. Here's what he had to say: "Well, the straightforward benefit from integrating libjingle would be to get audio in Gtalkr. However, we're more interested in the file transfer aspect of the p2p sessions negotiated using libjigle. Libjingle is a generic platform for negotiating p2p and there's a lot of power in that...file transfer and file sharing...Video would be the next step after voice."
Video, guys! Video! Even though Google is getting into the commercial video service space, they haven't integrated video into Google Talk. Gtalkr may beat them to the punch! Very cool stuff.
You know what's another nice feature of Gtalkr is? The ability to view a log of your entire conversation with one of your contacts...and to search those logs by keyword. Nice. (Not to worry - I made sure that it was okay to post from our chat before doing so!)
