The built-in iPhone app called ‘Stocks’ can be used to get current and historical exchange rates for various currencies. If you only enter one code it tells you the price in that currency for one US Dollar. The format is the three-character code for that currency followed by =X.…
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I recently switched from iPhoto to Aperture to manage images on my computer. The experience has been mixed. I am really not happy with the performance. I’m hoping that will get better. Another annoyance it the fact that importing images from my iPhone does not prompt me to delete those images off the phone like it does for my camera.…
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This season of Lost started out with a time paradox. The episodes so far have continued on these parallel time lines. This is similar to the 2002 movie Sliding Doors starring Gwyneth Paltrow. In the end of that movie one time line “wins”.…
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Helping Shawn and the gang with their Drupal Site.
A Flash-Heavy site that displays an inventory of Dental Practices for sale. The site also contains a blog of wisdom about professional practice transitions.
Flash work by KeynoteThemePark.com and WallabyWeb.com.
You’ve seen the meme, if the auto industry were like the computer industry our cars would crash for no apparent reason, or something like that. I think there are some parallels to what’s going on in the computer industry today when you compare it to the auto industry of yesteryear.…
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Acrobat Reader has grown from a simple portable document reader to a behemoth. Most of the time you just want to view a PDF. You don’t need all the features of Acrobat when you already have a perfectly good PDF reader in Preview.app.…
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I just finished Stephen King’s new novel Under the Dome. The immediate reaction might be, didn’t
The Simpons’ Movie cover this same topic. Well, yes. But in the author’s note Mr. King claims to have been working on this story for quite a while and did not draw (much) inspiration from the Fox cartoon.…
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When it comes to web browser plug-ins I generally try to avoid them. I have to admit that I have four installed in my Safari browser at the moment. There are many reasons to avoid using plug-ins. If you experience problems its is most likely caused by a plug-in.…
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Sometimes you just want to get away from it all. That’s what the new movie
2012 promises and delivers. This is an incredible movie in both scale and vision. In the tradition of other Roland Emmerich films like The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day we get to see famous landmarks being destroyed while our hero narrowly escapes impossible situations.…
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In philosophy there is a paradox called Buridan’s Ass named after the 14th century French philosopher Jean Buridan. In this paradox there is an ass placed between two perfect stacks of hay. The ass is paralyzed without a way to choose one stack over the other and starves to death.…
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Way back in 1995 GeoCities realized that people would want to get their own content and post it on the web. The tools for doing this were almost non existent. In order to play in this realm you had to understand the technology of HTML and FTP.…
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is based on the Hasbro’s dolls for boys. I don’t think I ever owned a G.I. Action figure. Friends of mine did. They were about a foot tall, had limbs you could move, and you put clothes on them.…
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