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Category Archives: Computers
multimedia
Many of my thoughts end up in email instead of on the blog. Either they are too disjointed, or too personal, to share in this kind of forum. Or perhaps I’m just used to sharing with a directed audience instead … Continue reading
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XBMC — it’s pretty good
I have been looking for a solution for my home media for some time now. I got into the DVD revolution early, and amassed over 600 titles that I have been storing in DVD jukeboxes for years. The jukes work, … Continue reading
Digital media and you
I have over 600 DVDs in my collection. I have been using a constellation of DVD jukeboxes to store and organize them, but this is not a good solution for my family. They are fragile and sometimes hard to access … Continue reading
Partly Cloud-y
I’ve been poking around on “the internet” for quite some time. It occurs to me that things that we do on the ‘net now were laughably impossible just a few years ago. I remember when it was uncommon for a … Continue reading
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CNC – parts is parts
I fired up the CNC machine over the weekend. I was trying to figure out how to cut concentric circles in a piece of plywood, and decided that it would be easiest to do it “in software”. The hardest part … Continue reading
I be Cocoa-in’
It turns out the Mac OSX IDE comes free on Mac OS X install disks. “Interface Builder” and “XCode”. I picked up a copy of the O’Reilly “Learning Cocoa with Objective-C” for$10 at Half-Price Books, and decided to see if … Continue reading
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noisy glow
I like this Photoshop trick to get a noisy glow around the edge of a circle. I use it for icons.
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