Technology

LED Throwies

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As I wrote to Stefan, We’re not spending our time as wisely as these folks when we could be making little magnetic LEDs to throw and stick on metallic surfaces. Via boingboing.

Get a Human On the Phone

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IVR Cheat Sheet™ by Paul English How to navigate voice-mail hell to get a human as quickly as possible. [Update: the response to Paul English’s efforts overwhelmed his blog; an expanded get-a-human database has moved to gethuman.com.

Blog Torrent – Simplified bittorrent by Downhill Battle

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Blog Torrent is free, open-source software from Downhill Battle that provides an easy way to share large files on your website without large storage or bandwidth costs. I don’t know if TextDrive, my host, supports this. I wonder what the server hit would be. It’s not that I have a bunch of large files I … Read more

iPod Tips From Small Dog Electronics

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This came as part of Small Dog Electronics’ Kibbles and Bytes enewsletter. I’m keeping it here – below the fold – as a reference for me and for anyone who might find it useful. Thanks to Small Dog!

For iPod Newbies
Ed@Smalldog.com

A very good, very clever friend of mine was delighted to receive his first iPod this Christmas. He ripped open the package, turned the iPod on, and immediately set the language to Chinese. He does not read or speak Chinese. Rather than read the fine print in the manual, he called me to learn how to reset the iPod. He also had lots of other questions about how the iPod works – the same questions we hear everyday at Small Dog Electronics. Because many people will be receiving the iPod this holiday season, I decided to dedicate this article to answering six of these very common questions. If you are the person that all your friends call when they have ANY computer problem, hang on to this article for them!

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DV for Teachers is Back!

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DV for Teachers is back! With the help of Jason Levine of www.queso.com and his Manila-to-Movable Type script, I now have all my archives and images from the old site (gone in a week or so) at the new one. There’s still housekeeping to do – several of the post titles have too much HTML … Read more

Same site, new host

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I’ve moved the site to TextDrive, which doesn’t change what you see, but changes a little how I put it up here. Just a little plug for them.

iPod Wired Into a Civic Hybrid?

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O’Reilly: Hacking Your Car: How to Get Clean Audio and Video Signals into Your Car Manufacturers There are only a handful of primary manufacturers in the “12V” accessory market (as they call it.) There are also a large number of one-off products designed and manufactured to solve a specific vehicle and model need, such as … Read more