Monthly Archives: January 2006

Progress is sometimes a matter of perspective

2006-01-29 – 18:40

Yesterday, after Joe and Scott helped me pick up a huge piece of furniture Andrea had bought at the Weinberger’s warehouse sale, she and Elizabeth headed to Columbia for a baby shower for one of my first cousins, of whom I have twenty-five. On the way, Andrea figured they would take advantage of the shopping […]

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Seashore Open Source Image Editor

2006-01-28 – 09:58

Thanks to a post on the DPReview Forums, I’ve got a link to an Open Source image editor for Mac OS X. According to their website, Seashore is substantially based on the GIMP, but clearly doesn’t include all of the GIMP’s features. What it does offer is very smooth user interaction, something the GIMP just […]

By frank | Posted in Geek, Photography | Comments (0)

Dual 500 G4 can’t handle HDTV

2006-01-25 – 22:00

I’ve been researching hardware and software for this idea of HDTV through the mac, and thanks to a review of the Elgato EyeTV 500 by the EFF, I fired up my favorite BitTorrent client to receive a five-minute clip of Fellowship of the Rings that they recorded in HD from the WB, may it rest […]

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Time for TV downstairs?

2006-01-25 – 07:23

The set-up in our house is pretty standard, with a main living area that includes kitchen, dining room, and living room, with a separate den area that contains the television and related gadgets. The difference is, that room is upstairs, not even in hearing distance of the kitchen. Andrea recently said she would sometimes like […]

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The easy part of hacking my old 1G ipod

2006-01-23 – 08:08

Several months after the first ipod was released on the world by an unsuspecting Apple, whose stock price was at the time teasing the lower teens and sparking talks of a buy-out by various parties, I bought one brand-new on ebay. It’s been a great device until recently! Now, whenever the hard drive spins up, […]

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