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dBpoweramp audible backup
If you want to backup your audible .aa files because you are worried about being away and not activating properly, here is what to do. I had forgotten how to do this but needed to remember because I lost my Windows XP installation: # Find an old copy of the Audible Manager. The one I…
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Blog is formatting is broken
Something is causing a format problem. I’ve got too many plugins. It looks like it doesn’t display Chinese and some other characters correctly. Narrowed that down to the Textile 2 plugin I was using. Tried Text Control and the same issue. I really need Textile 2 because I use its table feature. “Shamuswrites.com”:http://shamuswrites.com/2008/04/23/essential-plugins-for-wordpress-25/ has a…
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Using Puts and Calls to control Yahoo
Deal Journal – WSJ.com : How Icahn Influences Yahoo Without Buying the Stock How Icahn Influences Yahoo Without Buying the StockPosted by Heidi N. Moore Carl Icahn is preparing to wage a proxy fight against Yahoo, using 59 million shares as his club. But Icahn doesn’t really own all those shares. He only bought 9.9…
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Quotes
Hat tip to Matt for this quote! I’ve been collecting bunches and now with Mac OS X Mail, you’ll get them rotated: Benjamin Franklin Quotes Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.Benjamin Franklin QuoteGallery.com Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy…
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WikkaWiki hacking
Well, back to making the igncap wiki work. Here are some obscure notes: # Already talked about how get invite code to work by editing wikka.config.php # To make sure only registered users can edit a page, you go to “Edit ACL” at the bottom of a page and click on it. Then change the…
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Mac Office 2008 somewhat faster
This corresponds to what I’ve seen, you’d expect that Office 2008 being a native Intel application would be much faster than Office 2004 which is PowerPC and runs in emulation on Intel. Well, the results are a little confusing. It is faster, but not much in many things: | | Excel Open | Word Scroll…
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Mac marketshare 66% of computers above $1,000 at retail
Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About eWeek first reported on an interesting breakdown of Apple’s retail marketshare. According to numbers from the NPD Group, Apple’s Q1 2008 retail (brick and mortar) reached 14%. Note that by limiting it to retail, they’ve excluded online sales and institutional/enterprise sales. !http://images.macrumors.com/article/2008/05/19/234608-macq108_400.jpg! Chart from eWeek…
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MacBook, iPhone and Blackberry updates coming
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DSLR Recommendations
Well, the photo world is shaking up again. The new cameras are just so amazingly good and they are improving not so much in resolution. The megapixel wars are ending, but in providing great images at high ISOs. This means two things: a) available light shooting is much more natural and easier for everyone and…