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Nissan Altima Hybrid review

Paul Westbrook | 30 June, 2007 21:56

Here is a review of the 2007 Nissan Altima Hybrid.

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Paul Westbrook | 29 June, 2007 02:23

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Paul Westbrook | 25 June, 2007 02:22

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Binary marble adding machine

Paul Westbrook | 23 June, 2007 00:11

Now this is cool.  This is a 6-bit binary wooden adding machine counts using marbles.  The video is pretty amazing.  A lot of work was put into this.

[via MAKE: Blog]

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More iApp annoyance

Paul Westbrook | 22 June, 2007 23:00

I have been starting to have frustrating experiences with Apple's iApps.  In this post, I mentioned my frustrations with iTunes and FrontRow.  Now I am having a frustrating time with iPhoto, where it is not doing exactly what I want.

Last night I wanted to upload some photos to our gallery.  The complication arrises because we have a couple of coputers.  My wife uses her computer to load the photos from the camera.  I was trying to upload the photos from my computer.

I use unison to upload the iPhoto library to an external server.  Then I use unison on my laptop and our Mac mini to copy the photos back down.  This worked fine until we upgraded our camera.  Now the large photo size of our 5 mega-pixel camera swamps our upload bandwidth.

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iPhone Walkthrough

Paul Westbrook | 22 June, 2007 15:34

Apple has posted an iPhone guided tour video on their web site.  I like it a lot, but I am still unsure of the usability with out any tactile feedback.  Also I am concerned about the screen getting scratched.  In addition to those two concerns, I don't want to switch to AT&T for cell service.

[via The Macalope]

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Paul Westbrook | 22 June, 2007 02:24

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Paul Westbrook | 21 June, 2007 02:28

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Crystal Weather Station

Paul Westbrook | 20 June, 2007 23:56

Crystal Weather StationThis is a cool looking weather station.  The Crystal Weather Station has laser engraved 3D icons in crystal.  One of the coolest things about this clock is that you can switch between temperature and clock mode by waving you hand over the clock.

[via Engadget]

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autoHideStatusbar

Paul Westbrook | 20 June, 2007 23:40

autoHideStatusbar is a pretty simple Firefox extension, that... automatically hides the status bar.  This is an easy way to squeeze a little screen area for your browser window. 

You can configure it to automatically show the status bar when you hover the mouse over the the status bar area, or over a link (to see the destination url).

[via Lifehacker]

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Mac Media Center

Paul Westbrook | 18 June, 2007 00:21

I really like the Mac Mini and FrontRow as a way to play media.  The interface is great.  The one part of this solution that I am getting frustrated with is how to copy tracks to it.  Since FrontRow uses iTunes to play audio tracks, they need to be copied to the iTunes library.

I wrote this AppleScript to copy newly added tracks to the hard drive on the Mac mini and then add them to the iTunes library.  This works fine, if you want to keep the content on the computer itself.  I now want to keep my content on my Network Attached Storage. 

Copying content to the NAS works perfectly for video content, as FrontRow will make videos available that are on a remove file system, when you add an alias to the remote directory on the local hard drive.  This doesn't work for audio, as you not only want to make the content playable, but you want to have it indexed by the meta data.

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Eclipse Area Shot GPS

Paul Westbrook | 17 June, 2007 22:42

Eclipse Cd5100As I have written before (1, 2, 3, 4) , I am would like to get a single-DIN GPS head unit that is able to control an iPod, satellite radio tuner and can be used for hands free phone calls.  Yesterday, I was just browsing around and I found The Eclipse CD5100.

This head unit has some pretty cool features:

  1. HD radio ready (with an external tuner)
  2. iPod control capable (with iPod adapter cable)
  3. Satellite radio ready (with an external tuner)
  4. USB port, to allow playback of WMA and MP3 files.

The one feature that I wasn't sure of is called Area Shot GPS.  After looking into it, I know that I wouldn't want this head unit.

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Paul Westbrook | 17 June, 2007 02:22

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Paul Westbrook | 12 June, 2007 02:28

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Paul Westbrook | 11 June, 2007 02:23

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