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Crazy Rabbit

Paul Westbrook | 17 November, 2004 18:39

Here is page with an pretty cool flash animation.

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Zinio.com

Paul Westbrook | 14 November, 2004 05:27

Zinio.com is a pretty cool service. Instead of having physical magazines delivered to you home, you can not have some magazines delivered to you electronically.

The electronic versions of the magazines are probably rendered from the original source material. Some of the interesting benefits of the electronic versions are:

  1. The urls become true hyperlinks
  2. The content is searchable
  3. It is very easy to retain an archive of the content, without taking a lot of physical space
  4. It is possible to send articles to people you know.

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Added metaWeblog support to plog

Paul Westbrook | 13 November, 2004 20:26

In a previous post, I mentioned how I was having problems getting ecto to work with plog. Since plog only implementsthe Blogger API, this does not have all of the features that I was looking for. I extended the xmlrpc.php file to include a partial metaWeblog support. (More)

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Smart night vision

Paul Westbrook | 12 November, 2004 19:46

Smart night visionAutoblog has a post on Honda's new smart night vision system Not only does it allow the driver to see at night, but it will automatically identify pedestrians that are going to cross the path of the car.

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ecto and pLog

Paul Westbrook | 12 November, 2004 18:24

I have been trying to get ecto to work with pLog, in order to post from my Mac. I have been not been able to get it to work completely. When I load the existing posts, it puts the titles of messages into the body section. Also when creating new messages all of the message body appears in the title section.
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HitMaps

Paul Westbrook | 12 November, 2004 17:59

HitMaps is a web site that will plot the location of the visitors to your web site on a world map. It works by having you include an img link on your web page. Then they map all of the unique ip address requesting the image. Then once a day it regenerates the image.

Here is the map for paulstimesink.com:

Locations of visitors to this page

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Remote for AirPort Express

Paul Westbrook | 10 November, 2004 19:42

Airport Express RemoteKeyspan has come out with a remote for the AirPort Express. It plugs into the USB port of the AirPort Express, and it send the commands to the Mac playing the music. It will go on sale in mid-November for $59.99

Now someone should come out with a USB lcd display. This would show the track information about the playing tracks.
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Hashcash

Paul Westbrook | 10 November, 2004 17:35

Hashcash is an interesting method that can potentially stop spam. Hashcash adds X-Hashcash: headers to email messages. The generation of the headers will take some CPU cycles, so it is not feasible for spammers to put this header into each of their email messages. On the receiving end, it is a very inexpensive algorithm to validate the header.

This has been built into SpamAssassin 3.0, so if people start using these headers SpamAssassin will give these messages a lower spam score. Here are the instructions for SpamAssassin
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FreeiPods.com

Paul Westbrook | 09 November, 2004 18:27

I signed up with FreeiPods.com. They are giving away free iPods if you sign up for an offer, and you get 5 other people to sign up as well. They make their money from the referral fee from the companies that give the offers. There are a couple of web sites that have investigated this, and they have found that this is legit. (Engadget story, Wired News)

Here is the link to sign up.
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Spam Poison

Paul Westbrook | 07 November, 2004 11:31

I found this website yesterday that is supposed to help combat spam. Spam Poison is a web site that you link to from your web pages, it has links to pages that have a bunch of fake email addresses. This is supposed to fight spammer is two ways.

  1. Spam web crawlers will waste time on these web pages
  2. All of these fake email address will waste the resources of the spammers
I am not sure about how effective this web site will be. I would assume that the spammers will just not crawl hosts in the spampoison.com domain.
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DSM-320 MediaLounge

Paul Westbrook | 07 November, 2004 11:16

Dlink DSB-302Dlink has a network media player. The MedialLounge will play music, photos and videos on your TV/entertainment center. It has a pretty good list of media types that it supports (Audio: MP3, WMA, WAV; Image: JPEG, JPEG200, TIFF, GIF, BMP, PNG; Video: MPEG1/2/4, AVI, XviD)

I realy like the form factor, but I don't like the fact that they only have Windows software. Maybe they will release the protocol, and some one will come out with a open source server software.

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Lowrance iWay

Paul Westbrook | 05 November, 2004 18:37

Lowrance GPSLowrance has come out with an auto GPS system. They are known for aviation and boating GPS systems. It has a lot of pretty cool features.

  2. 20Gb hard drive
  3. built-in MP3 player
  4. Adapter for hooking it up to the car stereo

It is listed for around $800, so it is around the same price as the TomTom Go. If this can be mounted on the dash, this would be very cool.
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iCruze

Paul Westbrook | 05 November, 2004 18:16

iCruzeMonster has come out with a iPod to car stereo adapter. It connects the iPod to the CD Changer port of the car stereo. I am assuming that the iCruze represents the playlists as CDs, so changing CDs on the head unit will probably change the playlists on the iPod. This is supposed to show the track titles on the head units that support it. Maybe it is using CD-TEXT for that.

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Mac OS X DAV copies

Paul Westbrook | 05 November, 2004 17:38


I noticed something interesting a couple of days ago, while doing a copy of a large file to a WebDAV server. It looks like the Mac OS X Finder first it caches the file to the local disk, and then during the "Closing file" state, it actually transfers it.DAV copy
I wonder if this is done to help problems with the connection.

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TiVo and Vonage

Paul Westbrook | 03 November, 2004 19:31

I have been having problems getting my TiVos making phone calls over the Vonage phone line. I have changed one of my TiVos to use our ethernet network, but our other one does not have Home Media Option (It is a TiVo/DIRECTV box). Vonage has posted some instructions about how to get this to work. It has been hit and miss for me. Some of calls work and some don't. (More)

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