Category: Science & Geeks
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Cheap backup on Windows
One of the most important and still one of the most poorly applied tasks of computer calysthenics in the world is data backup. Usually, it’s only when you discover that you lost your important data that you remember that you should have been backing things up. A little too late… Requirement What are the qualities…
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NeoOffice: OpenOffice for Mac
NeoOffice is a OS X port of OppenOffice.org by a group of developers who have thought from the beginning that the Main OO.o team was taking the wrong tack in offering X-11 support on the Mac. Aqua-native, includes both PPC and Intel binaries, allows Spotlight to index both content and metadata of OpenOffice and OpenDocument…
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A Vista workaround for PDF Creator
As I reported previously PDF Creator, the free PDF producing tool, happens not to work for Vista. However, it has been published a possible workaround (unconfirmed officially) to this problem. Install pdfcreator in ‘server mode’ as ‘xp compatible’ and then tell it to ‘render output on client’ machine, and set the sharing to the default…
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Safari and sensor dust – the converter solution
While we are talking about dust and cleaning the sensor of the Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) cameras, I wanted to show a slightly different direction, some sort of think-different solution that can be used in some cases. I intend to leave soon for a safari in South Africa. My Konica-Minolta Dynax/Maxxum 7D will come…
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Lighted bras, a new fashion?
We previously had some fun with Japanese bras convertible into a small bag in 10 seconds. We were more or less assuming that weird ideas like that had to come from Japan. But the virus has spread much more than initially expected. Here is a company that sells bras that need electrical power because they…
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Saturn and its satellites, latest film stars of the solar system
NASA astronomers conscientiously collected hundreds of photos taken by the wide angle camera and the planetary camera of the Hubble telescope in 1995 and 2003. By filling the gaps with the help of a computer program, they produced an amazing video where we clearly see the cloudy planet and several of its satellites moving in…