Speed!

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Timelapse video (Rona bay sunset)

Rona Bay sunset from hindesite on Vimeo.
This is best viewed in HD at Vimeo – start the video, then click on the HD button that is displayed inside the player; then ensure that HD is “on”, Scaling is “off”, and view the video fullscreen.

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Seagate’s Hard Drive Debacle

Background
Mid January brought a small amount of coverage in IT media of widespread issues with Seagate’s SATA hard drives, including Barracuda 7200.11 drives. These are a popular drive series as they offer good performance, low price and a 5 year warranty.
There has been a fairly low level background dissatisfaction with these drives over the past [...]

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tx2500 wallpaper

Just for fun; wallpaper for the HP tx2500 series entertainmet/tabletpc.
Might be fun for those who use the tablet mode extensively – it would be nice if there was some way to automatically change the wallpaper for notevook and tablet mode.

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links for 2008-12-30

30 BENEFITS OF EBOOKS « LEMNISCATE
30 Benefits of Ebooks Copyright © 2008 by Michael Pastore 1. Ebooks promote reading. People are spending more time in front of screens and less time in front of printed books. 2. Ebooks are good for the environment. Ebooks save trees. Ebooks eliminate the need for filling up landfills with [...]

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links for 2008-12-03

Windows Vista: Troubleshooting Network Drives Accessing Slowness
If you’re using Windows Vista in an Network environment, you may have noticed slowness, while browsing of network folders with or without connecting through a domain, when browsing Windows Server 2003 shared folders.
The fix involves changing two settings from the command prompt. You need to run the command prompt [...]

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Hard case for BeBook in Stylz cover

Old VHS hard plastic case makes a great protective case for BeBook in the Stylz cover, and may also fit other readers (Hanlin V3, lBook etc) fitted with similar covers. These PVI E-Ink glass displays may be quite fragile, and these cases have enough room to ensure the front of the BeBook is well protected. [...]

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Ebooks to kill the publishing industry? Yeah, right…

In Publishing Frontier, Joseph J Esposito predicts that ebooks are going to kill publishing. What a crock – this uneducated opinion piece really doesn’t deserve discussion but I’m sure much discussion will ensue anyway.
Esposito makes the absurd claim that (unlike paper books) ebooks are a “just in time” proposition. Oops. My ebook readers (note the [...]

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Tweaked Wordle

Same as below but with a couple of extra words added to weigh the output in their favour.

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Word Count

Above is a Wordle cloud for the text from my diNovo Mini keyboard review, limited to showing 100 words.
Review is at http://hindesite.wordpress.com/articles/logitech-dinovo-mini-keyboard-review/

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