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Continue Reading June 29th, 2007
Archive for June, 2007
Use a Security Key to Protect PayPal and eBay Accounts
PayPal and eBay have both enjoyed enormous success. Countless buyers and sellers rely on their services daily. This popularity also means these services are targets when it comes to scams and online security issues. Recently, PayPal introduced the PayPal Security Key, which provides another layer of protection for both sites for $5. PayPal is also offering some McAfee security tools with this key such as a 6-month free subscription to SiteAdvisor.
Continue Reading June 28th, 2007
Binary marble adding machine
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]
Continue Reading June 23rd, 2007
More iApp annoyance
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.
So then I tried using iPhoto’s sharing. This “almost” works. I can view the photos. Unfortunately, I could only copy a random subset to my local computer or add them to my library. There didn’t appear to be any indication on which photos could be copied.
So now I want to find a simpler solution. I want to be able to just copy photos to some folder on our Network Attached Storage Device. Then I want this photo viewing/editing program to automatically see these photos.
Continue Reading June 23rd, 2007