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Did I Mention You Should Make a Backup?
It only took 6 short hours to re-install Windows Vista on my Mac. I recommend you backup any virtual disk images for Parallels you have now – because that took FOREVER! It was an oversight of mine from the hard … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, backup, microsoft, parallels, upgrade, vista
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Adonomics Now Values Honesty Box at Over $6M
For those of you who don’t know, for the last 6-7 months I’ve been working on a Facebook application called Honesty Box. Honesty Box lets users on Facebook send each other anonymous messages and replies knowing that there’s a level … Continue reading
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Tagged adonomics, code, facebook, honesty box, opensocial, platform, value
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SimpleDB – Outsourced Database Software
TechCrunch broke this to me this evening. I am very excited about a pay per drink service for relational databases. Amazon has released a product called SimpleDB and it’s going to shake the small to mid-level web hosting realm to … Continue reading
New Apple Ad
Okay, so I’m an Apple fanboy, I admit it. But how couldn’t you be when the ads are just so great! addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Falynfamily.com%2Fwordpress%2F2007%2F12%2F13%2Fnew-apple-ad%2F’; addthis_title = ‘New+Apple+Ad’; addthis_pub = ”;
Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English
I’ve been noticing more and more of the Paper Prototyping style videos making it big for explanations. Paper Prototyping is an excellent way to show technology without spending lots of time building a usable prototype. Designers and developers often use … Continue reading
Laptop Hard Drive Failure :(
When it rains it pours. It seems I’ve been having a bout of technological bad luck this year. Generally I count myself fortunate that technology seems to work for my 98% of the time. However, this last Monday, my luck … Continue reading
Ultra High-End Audio – Another cool toy
With the Christmas holiday quickly approaching, the absurd continues on. I mentioned the Willies Jeep a couple of posts back and saw this one on Crave just the other day. Kharma brings us an audio system 99.999% of people can’t afford. Perhaps I am wrong, are … Continue reading
Posted in Are you nuts?, Technology
Tagged audio, home theater, speakers, Technology, too much
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iWant: iPod Touch >= 32Gb
Wouldn’t this be nice? Continue reading
Free teleconference provider
Yesterday I had the need to host a conference call. Being a one person shop, it’s cost prohibitive for me to pay money to have an on demand conference bridge (especially when most of my clients have their own.) Back … Continue reading
Stirling Engines, way cool desk toy + more!
I was reading Slashdot this afternoon and I stumbled across this gem. Of course, being a gear head, I was curious how an engine might run without fuel. The principle is the known as the Stirling Engine, an external combustion engine that uses any constant … Continue reading
