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Category Archives: Software
Buy the Album, Guys. [EVE 6 – Speak in Code: Audio Quality]
One of my favorite bands, EVE 6, recently got back together after a multi-year hiatus and put out a new album. “Speak in Code” came out a few weeks ago. I caught the band on their tour through Seattle just … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Music, Software, Technology
Tagged album, analysis, audio, audio quality, bittorrent, buy, CD, collectible, download, dropcards.com, eve 6, fearless records, fft, Inner Sanctum, lossless, mp3, PCM, quality, record, show, speak in code, spectrogram, uncompressed, victoria, vinyl
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Google just killed Google Reader – and they don’t even understand why.
Yesterday, Google officially rolled out the “much anticipated” (by them, perhaps) revisions to Google Reader which removed most of its compelling functionality and added integration with their social network Google+. We hope you’ll like the new Reader (and Google+) as … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Internet, Software
Tagged commentary, comments, desperate, discussions, failing, failure, google, google reader, inefficient, internet, killed, sharing, slow, strong-arm, UI, usability
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October Projects
September was a good month for projects. I accomplished all the things I set out to do and more: I’ve finished the Hornyphon radio for my customer Repaired and began using the Hallicrafters Got the broken ViewSonic monitor going again … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Electronics, Internet, Projects, Radios and Tubes, Software
Tagged antique radio, EICO 460, GE LF-116, oscilloscope, pre-war FM, projects, quality, repair, Sanyo 2050, Security, Telepresence
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Microsoft Word
Wouldn’t it be neat if Outlook were smart enough to download a GAL when connected to an Exchange server, then add all of the names to the spell-check dictionary so they’re not flagged?
On the pervasiveness of communication.
We’re living in an age where we’re inundated with communication and information all the time. Smartphones are expected to exceed 50% of all cell phones in circulation this year and with that, millions of people will join the already large ranks of … Continue reading
Government Censorship on the Internet
It’s important that speech on the Internet be afforded the same protections offered to speech in other venues. Freedom of speech is protected by our Constitution, and includes the right to publish software that is in compliance with the law. … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Internet, Software
Tagged department of homeland security, Firefox, freedom of speech, MAFIAA Fire, Mozilla
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Bing vs. Google on Downloading WinRAR [Winner: Google]
I’m fighting with the beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, a Microsoft utility for managing cloud computing resources. It’s a fight I shouldn’t have to engage in as Microsoft requires a pre-requisite that can’t actually be opened by … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Internet, Software, Technology
Tagged bing, bing sucks, bing vs google, google, microsoft, scvmm, search, winrar
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Use WinDbg to Solve Blue Screen Crashes
Everyone has experienced a Blue Screen crash at some point or another. Windows Vista and Windows 7 greatly reduced the frequency of this happening, and now it’s pretty rare. I’ve only seen one on my home computer in several years, … Continue reading
Posted in Software, Technology
Tagged blue screen, crash dump, debugging, debugging tools for windows, ultramon, WinDbg, windows 7
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Google Chrome-to-Phone Usability Feedback
Google offers an interesting extension called Chrome to Phone that works with Android 2.2+ devices to remove some of the barriers between computing. A small screen isn’t the best place for planning a trip or seeing transit data from multiple … Continue reading
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Tagged android, chrome to phone, google, usability
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Spotty GPS is Interesting
I’ve just returned from Whistler, BC for the season-ending weekend on the downhill mountain bike park, and wanted to track my progress using Google’s free My Tracks application which records your GPS position on the map for review later. I’ve … Continue reading →