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  • Blue Angels Fly at 1:30PM

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    One of the highlights of Seattle, the “Blue Angels”:http://www.seafair.com/events/airshow/ don’t fly until 1:30PM today. A cloudy day like this is a good one for photos and getting the kids on the boat. !

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  • Chart Reading

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    Well, sometimes when you are reading a navigational chart, all those little symbols are so mysterious. NOAA used to print something called Chart 1 which explains what is going on. “Chart 1”:http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/mcd/chart1/chart1hr.htm is now available online so you can figure out mysterious, but important things like obstructions and wrecks when…

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  • TinyXP

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    TinyXP AppzXP Windows XP Pro Lite Âģ Torrentspy.com oala101 presents… Windows TinyXP Rev06 (brought to you by eXPerience), together with some appz. Basically, this is Windows XP Pro SP2, with useless contents removed, for performance’s sake. It runs fast, installs with no trouble, is updatable (passing WGA), and contains the…

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  • Hidden iMovie Files

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    Sometimes the Mac can be too clever for its own good. iMovie has a hidden directory structure for movies and somehow a movie I made is chewing up 50GB of disk, but you can’t see it. “Discussions.apple.com”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5001832 tells us that iMovie keeps its files in something called a pacakge. This…

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  • Small MacBook Pro Adapter MA938LL/A

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    I wish that they had shipped this smaller brick with the initial MacBooks, but at least you can buy a much smaller adapter for $80 in a few weeks… MacNN | Briefly: New MBP adapter, Duke/iPhone solved brief: Apple has begun shipping a new MagSafe power adapter for the MacBook…

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  • iPod Backup

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    So if you’ve got all your files on your iPod, how do you back it up. If you aren’t near your computer, this could be a disaster. “iLounge”:http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-computer/ saves the day with a good overview of the many utilities available. I’ve used a bunch of these are they are so,…

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  • iPhone Video Conversion

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    The Complete Guide to iPod, Apple TV and iPhone Video Formats | iLounge So what are the different resolutions and formats supported by Apple’s video playback devices? The table below provides an outline of the maximum resolutions supported, as well as the output quality of the device itself: !http://www.ilounge.com/assets/images/features_videoguide/table1.jpg! The…

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  • Home NAS

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    I’ve had remarkably good luck with the Buffalo Linkstation Pro 500GB. It’s a 500GB network attached drive. It supports 1GB ethernet and seems reasonably fast and most important very compatible. Works super well with Windows XP and even with Mac OS X which is amazing. The main issue is that…

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  • Mac DVD Backup

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    I normally use DVD Decrypter and then DVD Shrink on the PC to backup the kid’s DVDs which are constantly getting trashed. For Mac OS X, the solutions seem to be “Mac The Ripper”:http://mactheripper.org and then to burn the copy, you can use the included iDVD to get a dual…

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  • Dim Sum in Seattle (??????)

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