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Scratch
Another useful program for teaching programming is from MIT. It’s called “scratch”:http://scratch.mit.edu. Powered by ScribeFire.
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Terragen
!http://www.planetside.co.uk/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24&g2_serialNumber=2!:http://www.planetside.co.uk/gallery/v/tg09gallery/CraterLake_aerial.jpg.html Alex showed me a photo and I asked where was it taken, he said, I made it with “Terragen”:http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/. This is another amazing free program that creates photorealistic landscapes. Kind of amazing how fast a computer can be and hold realistic things are. Powered by ScribeFire.
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Macbook Air Rocks
As “Gizmodo”:http://gizmodo.com/348753/macbook-air-review says, power users are going to hate it, but those of us who like simplicity and functionality love the Macbook Air. Yes, it doesn’t have enough USB ports for the true power user, but it makes up for it with three things that are hard to describe but really important (at least to…
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Macbook Air SSD vs. Conventional
Well “Ludwig”:http://www.theludwigs.com has one, so I have to have one too, the first solid state drive Macbook Air’s are arriving and the question is how do they perform. “Macrumors”:http://www.macrumors.com/2008/02/01/macbook-air-1-6ghz-hdd-vs-1-8gh-sdd-benchmarks/ shows that there is nothing too unexpected. The CPU is pretty slow at 1.8GHz but is way faster than the pokey 4200 rpm 80GB hard drive…
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iPhone downgrade to 1.1.1 then upgrade to 1.1.2
OK, I had some trouble getting an iPhone (jailbroken, but locked) to work and now it is always in recovery mode. After much searching, “iphone.unlock.no”:http://iphone.unlock.no/#recovery-restore-mode seems to have the answer, which is to downgrade to 1.1.1. The biggest problem is that I forgot that you have to recover the firmware back to the 1.1.1 version.…
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Old versions of itunes
When hacking away at iPhone software many times, you need old versions of iTunes. “Filehippo”:http://filehippo.com/download_itunes/ keeps track of all old versions. Very handy! In general, they have a great “list”:http://filehippo.com of common freeware likeAd Aware, etc.
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Best Civil Rights and Protest Songs
Alex was asking about the classic “Civil Rights”:http://folkmusic.about.com/od/toptens/tp/CivilRightsSong.htm songs and of course _We Shall Overcome_ comes to mind. I didn’t realize that it was actually a relatively recent song that Pete Seeger adapted from a traditional gospel song and was originally from a melody called “No More Auction Block for Me” and the famous version…
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Digital SLR Recommendations
I’m biased. While, the small handheld cameras are nice, for really great image quality, you do need a nice dSLR because of lense quality. Right now, the leaders are Nikon, Canon and Sony is coming on strong. All have shipped new cameras at the entry level now with the Canon EOS 450D. “Cameralabs”:http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Canon_EOS_450D_Digital_Rebel_XSi/verdict.shtml has a…
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iPhone 1.1.3 unlock and jailbreak
Well, “iphone.unlock.no”:http://iphone.unlock.no seems to have the best advice for what to do and it is a great FAQ. In short: # If you have 1.1.2 unlocked and jailbroken, then there is now an official 1.1.3 jailbreak. You don’t need to re-unlock since 1.1.3 didn’t change the baseband firmware. Main thing is _DO NOT USE ITUNES_…
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MacBook Air Reviews
Well, the Macbook Air shipped today and everyone from “Engadget”:http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/macbook-air-review/ and on are running reviews. Not much new to report except that folks love the keyboard, the screen and the thinness and folks really don’t like: # Battery life is only 2.5 hours. I only get about 2.5 hours with my MacBook Pro, but it…