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$4.23 a day: On the timing of a Black Friday iPad 2 purchase | Crave – CNET
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It appears that waiting until March next year to buy an IPAD3 is a good idea.
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SOFTWARE: POSTBOX has space management issues
Sunday, November 27, 2011From: Postbox Support <noreply@postbox.zendesk.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Subject: Archive messages under subfolders named after year received
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Jeff Gehlhaar
I agree with James. On the Mac, where Time Machine does my backups, this is a big issue. These per year mailboxes quickly get HUGE. This is a feature which is already part of the Thunderbird base code and it would seem straightforward to port the core logic. In talking with customer support, they said this feature is not on the roadmap as it runs counter to the direction they want to move the product.
For my part, if this feature were on board and some of my favorite plugins were supported (or their functionality supported natively), I’d probably jump in and buy postbox, but for now, I’m going to stick to Thunderbird.
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This is what I experienced with POSTBOX. Almost immediately after installing and using it I had space problems. Since almost all of my email accounts were defined as IMAP, I was at a loss as to why I was always “out of space”.
I bet this software was making hidden backups.
Argh!
I’m gonna eventually have to wipe and upgrade to Lion.
WINDOZE has the same problems that require a clean reinstall to restart with a clean slate. This was the exact problem that I was hoping to avoid with the MACBOOKAIR.
Clearly there’s still much improvement need in computing appliances needed.
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SERVICE: FACEBOOK and LINKEDIN don’t clean
Saturday, November 26, 2011http://nicholasnigro.blogspot.com/2011/11/destined-to-be-crossed-out.html
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Destined to Be Crossed Out…
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Slightly off-topic—but nonetheless inspired by my perusing this physical phone and address book—I cast my eyes to the future and ponder what, for instance, people’s Facebook friends list might look like in ten, twenty, and thirty years. Of course, I conduct this speculative endeavor of mine in a metaphorical laboratory. Foremost, I assume that all things remain equal—i.e., pretty much as they are now on the Facebook frontier in, say, 2020, 2030, and 2040—which is highly unlikely. I also presume an unfathomable reservoir of long-term patience for inappropriate behavior, the bane of countless people’s Facebook walls, and not a bountiful human trait.
Okay, it’s the year 2035, and that guy with 1,263 friends in 2011 is down to 347. He hasn’t heard a peep from at least 163 of his remaining friends for more than a few years, and 42 of them have only recently disappeared from sight and sound, seemingly vanishing from both the virtual ether and face of the earth. And since Facebook doesn’t comb through obituaries and the Social Security Death Index, nor readily delete accounts, many of these missing in action friends are very possibly deceased, and more than a few are living in assisted living homes or—worse still—in nursing homes sans any access to Wi-Fi. Who would have thought that a Facebook page enduring long after one’s death might be an individual’s best chance at immortality? Life is full of surprises…and so is death…especially now in the Information Age…
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It’s well know that FACEBOOK and LINKEDIN don’t clean out the “dead”. Including in that, the accounts that are never logged on to.
Argh!
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HARDWARE: Meet Wu and Kong
Sunday, November 20, 2011http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vkk8kMm08cA
Ping pong robots
Written by Lucy Black
Friday, 11 November 2011 13:00
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Meet Wu and Kong – the latest in ping pong playing robots. They may not achieve exciting matches at the moment, but the fact that they can do the job at all is an indication of how fast things are moving.
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Hmm, seems like their nerds are ahead of our nerds. Except that they have a nerd girl!
Guess one should NOT plan to specialize in anything a robot can do!
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HARDWARE: VERIZON DVR and EAS incompatible
Thursday, November 17, 2011In a recent test of the Emergency Alert System, the Verizon DVR stupidly assumed that there was a new recording of a series. So I lost LMAD and VARNEY. The test was at 1053. SO I now have a few minutes of recording of each show. I only save one on the theory of if I don’t watch it within a day, I won’t get to it. Except for power failures and EASs. Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: The Vikings mysterious crystal
Saturday, November 12, 2011Sunstone satnav: How Vikings used mysterious crystal to guide them to America
Norse warriors located sun through clouds with Iceland spar crystal
By SIMON TOMLINSON
Last updated at 12:44 PM on 2nd November 2011
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Ancient legends of Viking mariners using mysterious sunstones to reveal the position of the sun on a cloudy day may well be true, according to a new study.
Before the invention of the compass, Norse adventurers travelled thousands of kilometres across the oceans toward Greenland and most likely as far as North America centuries ahead of Christopher Columbus.
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Fascinating stuff. And, that the knowledge and wisdom was lost for centuries.
Why?
That’s even the better story.
And, what else have we lost?
Also, could this “trick” be useful today? It’s not like no gets lost.
How else can we use it? How did these “primitives” explain it to themselves and what does that tell us?
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TECHNOLOGY: $7k car with 80 mile range?
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“A consortium of eighty companies and developers have developed the StreetScooter, a modular electric vehicle developed in a year using open-source methodologies. With a top speed of 74mph and an 80-mile range, the vehicle is expected to cost $7000 and be available in Germany in 2013.”
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And, apparently no Gooferment money involved?
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SERVICE: LISTSERV shutting down
Saturday, November 5, 2011AOL To Discontinue LISTSERV
by Soulskill
alphadogg writes “On December 1, AOL will shut down its free LISTSERV-based mailing-list hosting operations, the company has told mailing list administrators. ‘If your list is still actively used, please make arrangements to find another service prior to the shutdown date and notify your list members of the transition details,’ an email notice sent out by AOL stated. At the peak of the service’s popularity in the late 1990s, AOL was the third-largest provider of mailing lists, serving more than a million users.”
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TECHNOLOGY: Email isn’t always needed?
Sunday, October 30, 2011Irishman sent a message in a bottle as the Titanic sunk
Jeremiah Burke from Co. Cork sent his family a note of farewell
By JORDANA KOZUPSKY, IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
Published Saturday, October 29, 2011, 10:41 AMUpdated Saturday, October 29, 2011, 10:41 AM
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And the message wound up on a beach near his home and it got through.
Amazing?
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TECHNOLOGY: Yet Another “Digital Public Library of America”
Saturday, October 29, 2011The DPLA Steering Committee is leading the first concrete steps toward the realization of a large-scale digital public library that will make the cultural and scientific record available to all.
About | Elements of the DPLA | Secretariat | Steering Committee
The DPLA planning initiative grew out of an October 2010 meeting at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, which brought together over 40 representatives from foundations, research institutions, cultural organizations, government, and libraries to discuss best approaches to building a national digital library. In December 2010, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, generously supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, convened leading experts in libraries, technology, law, and education to begin work on this problem; a two-year process of intense grassroots community organization, beginning in October 2011 and hosted at the Berkman Center, will result in a realistic and detailed workplan for launching the DPLA, as well as unveiling of a prototype of the system with specially digitized materials.
The vision of a national digital library has been circulating among librarians, scholars, educators, and private industry representatives since the early 1990s, but it has not yet materialized. Efforts led by a range of organizations, including the Library of Congress, HathiTrust, and the Internet Archive, have successfully built resources that provide books, images, historical records, and audiovisual materials to anyone with Internet access. Many universities, public libraries, and other public-spirited organizations have digitized materials that could be brought together under the frame of the DPLA, but these digital collections often exist in silos. Compounding this problem are disparate technical standards, disorganized and incomplete metadata, and a host of legal issues. No project has yet succeeded in bringing these different viewpoints, experiences, and collections together with leading technical experts and the best of private industry to find solutions to these complex challenges. Users have neither coherent access to these materials nor tools to use them in new and exciting ways, and institutions have no clear blueprint for creating a shared infrastructure to serve the public good. The time is right to launch an ambitious project to realize the great promise of the Internet for the advancement of sharing information and of using technology to enable new knowledge and discoveries in the United States.
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What about the Internet Archive, Google’s book capture, and the myriad of other such efforts?
I guess time will sort it all out.
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