• Well I’ve been struggling for days to figure out how to get PowerPoint to show a DVD fragment in slideshow mode. I just couldn’t get it to work. The movie would embed properly, but would not playback in place. You would have to launch a standalone viewer. This is one…

    Continue reading →: Making MPEG-2 Work in PowerPoint
  • Ken Kelley

    !{float: left; margin-right: 10px;}http://k2bioventures.com/templates/34/img/user/masked/K2BIOVENTURES.COM.jpg!:http://k2bioventures.com Ken Kelley, an old buddy from business school dropped me a line. What did we do in the days before the Internet, I don’t know. Anyway, he’s got his virtual shingle out and is helping bio-tech firms make it. Another example of the cyber world that…

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  • _A comment Jeff wanted to post, but my site wasn’t quite configured right_ I have been following your posts on color management, and I wanted to offer you a few thoughts. I have been implementing a color managed workflow since April of this year, and I have climbed the same…

    Continue reading →: Jeff Ort on Color Management
  • Art Classes

    “Brett”:http://purenetworks.com has started an Art School in Seattle (Ravenna) and is opening a new location in Madison in September. Check out the “Drawing School”:http://www.drawingschool.com

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  • !{float: left; margin-right: 10px;}http://www.sonystyle.com/intershoproot/eCS/Store/en/imagesProducts/180×180/VGNT150L.jpg!:http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_BrowseCatalog-Start;sid=vnu0O_r5gG-0DruV1Aq-MLX3-QBirtIQz8s=?CategoryName=cpu_VAIONotebookComputers_TSeries&Dept=cpu_VAIONotebookComputers The new Sony T-series is finally here. Its an ultra portable with a smaller screen so you have some chance of fitting in when you are on the airplane. Weighs 3 pounds *and* it has a CD/DVD drive, so you can watch movies and things. A…

    Continue reading →: Coolest Ultralight Notebook
  • I just love all these add-ons that are being done in the browser world by “Opera”:http;//opera.com, “Firefox”:http://firefox.com and “Maxthon”:http://maxthon.com. Also, there are an amazing number of add-ons that you can add to Outlook and can anyone have enough IE toolbars. All this leave me wondering what the new “Office” is…

    Continue reading →: What is Personal Productivity
  • I thought it was my NSLU2 that was the problem, but now when I try to use my USB 2.0 Hard Drive against Windows XP, I get delayed write failed. Here’s the diagnostic from “viaarena”:http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.cfm?catid=16&threadid=50469 _I tried the same thing with a Maxtor complete system and it didn’t fail, so…

    Continue reading →: USB 2.0 Hard Drive Problems
  • Someone was asking me how they can edit DVDs that are already created. As Jeff said, if you have a TIVO you can now make DVDs of the stuff you create there, but what happens if you want to edit it down. There are actually two ways. One way is…

    Continue reading →: Editable Movies from DVDs
  • Firefox Rocks

    “Brad”:http://www.ignitionpartners.com/about/brad_s.asp asked me the other day what browser do I use. Got me thingking quite a bit. I actually like “Maxthon”:http://maxthon.com an awful lot mainly because it is built on Internet Explorer, so it is very compatible (even Microsoft pages like hotmail, outlook web access) render correctly with it. I’ve…

    Continue reading →: Firefox Rocks
  • mozdev.org – enigmail: index. One of the amazing things about both Firefox and Thunderbird is how open they are. They leave lots of room for developers to add features. Enigmail is a great example. For once there is a usable secure mail system using PGP.

    Continue reading →: PGP comes to Thunderbird

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