You almost have to expect results like these for things like security software and such – though Norton is WAY over the top. But why in the world should Yahoo Instant Messenger make such a hit on boot time?
Check out this new digital camera by Seitz: The Seitz 6×17 D3 digital scan back.
Here’s what you could do with this camera:
You could easily make a 12′ by 4′ print. That’s 12 FEET by 4 FEET.
If your car battery dies you could use your digital camera to give yourself a jump.
You’d have a really good excuse to get that terabit flash card.
If you wanted to take a group portrait of EVERYONE - 6,649,000,000 people - and each person got just one pixel then you would only need to take 42 photos to get everyone in the photo.
If you could take photos continually, 1/sec, for just 2 hours and 42 minutes you would have a digital collection roughly the size of the Library of Congress - 10 terabytes.
You would need 8 Apple Cinema Displays ( 2560×1600 px ) walled together to see every pixel.
It is estimated that if you had a Dell XPS 700, with a dual core 3.73 Intel chip, 4Gig DDR2 RAM, and a 1TB RAID 0 it would take 2.58 times the current age of the universe to stitch together the aforementioned group photo. (or you could wait a couple of years and get a top of the line desktop running Ubuntu and get the job done in an afternoon.)
I just took a quiz over at QuizFarm to see which crew I would best fit in with. Looks like I’m most like Mal, which isn’t half bad. 
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| You scored as Babylon 5 (Babylon 5)
The universe is erupting into war and your government picks the wrong side. How much worse could things get? It doesn’t matter, because no matter what you have your friends and you’ll do the right thing. In the end that will be all that matters. Now if only the Psi Cops would leave you alone.
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I just took a quiz over at QuizFarm about which crew I would most fit in with on a SciFi spaceship. It looks like I’m most like Mal, which isn’t half bad.
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| You scored as Babylon 5 (Babylon 5)
The universe is erupting into war and your government picks the wrong side. How much worse could things get? It doesn’t matter, because no matter what you have your friends and you’ll do the right thing. In the end that will be all that matters. Now if only the Psi Cops would leave you alone.
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If you’re a designer or coder or both you have to ask the question, “how many monitors are enough?”
Two? Ha, two is suffecent but come on, not enough, not nearly enough.
Three? Now we’re talking. I can have code, outputs, panels/pallettes, open and have room for some DVD/TV output. I could multi-task and multi-slack at the same time.
Four? Yum.
Five? I like it.
Six? Pixel-gasm!
If you need to see that many pixels, and you have a spare wall in your house. Then check this place out. Besides the bridge of the Enterprise this might be best wall of monitors I’ve seen.
And if I ever win the lottery I’m putting in an order for the Stratosphere Elite system with the Zenview Arena Ultra HD.
It’s bad enough that people talk on their cellphone while driving. Now, it’s about to get much worse. I can see it now, people - guys - stuck in traffic and surfing through porn on their cellphone. Yeah, that’s a volatile mix.
Many of us who work from home and work but don’t have a VPN have to deal with moving files back and forth. For me the only thing I could do was transport files back and forth with a USB drive. So I did some searching and found the web app FolderShare.
First off, I don’t have to pay anything. That’s an important feature. After a short setup from both work and home I can go to my secure page at FolderShare.com and access my files. There is a mirror function but I don’t use it. I just do everything manually so I’m not sure how well that feature works. I’ve moved some 2+ meg files through here as well with no problems. The only problem I can think of is that sometimes my requested file won’t download. But if I click it a few times it eventually works.
FolderShare started out as a private company and was bought by Microsoft. MS plans to wrap it into Live.com services. One thing that I noticed however, and this is sort of comical, is that the files are PHPs. I’m sure that’s a legacy thing held over from the company who started this project. And I’m sure that MS is working hard to convert all this to .Net code before it’s out of beta. Then again, maybe not.
Here’s a list of the Extensions I use:
All-in-One Gestures
This extension allows you to execute common commands using mouse gestures, rocker navigation, scroll wheel navigation and page scrolling.
Answers
Alt+click on any word or term for quick info (Definitions, up-to-the-minute reference, and more). No selection necessary
Better Gmail
A compilation of the best Greasemonkey Gmail enhancements in one extension.
ColorZilla
Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies
Copy Plain Text
Copies text without formatting
CountdownClock
Displayes a clock that counts down to a target date.
CustomizeGoogle
Enhance Google search results and remove ads and spam.
CuteMenus - Crystal SVG
Adds icons to all menus.
Flash Switcher
Switch between various Flash plugins or remove current plugin
Forecastfox
Get international weather forecasts and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable extension.
FoxClocks
Displays local times around the world in the statusbar/toolbar.
Get directions from Google Maps
Select addresses on a web page, right click the mouse, and choose “Locate on Google Map” menu item, to see the location at Google Maps and find the directions.
Gmail Notifier
A notifier for Gmail accounts.
Gmail Skins
Skins and other extra features for Gmail.
Google Calendar Notifier
This extension provides robust notifications and display of your Google Calendars for today, as well as showing any upcoming all day events for tomorrow.
Google Notebook
Allows notetaking while browsing.
Google Toolbar for Firefox
Take the power of Google with you anywhere on the Web!
Html Validator
Adds HTML validation to the View Page Source of the browser. The validation is done by Tidy from W3C.
IE View Lite
Cut down version of IE View.
MeasureIt
Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.
MR Tech Local Install
Local Install power tools for all users.
PermaTabs
Create permanent tabs that don’t close, and stick around between sessions.
QuickJava
Allaws quick enable and disable of Java and Javascript from statusbar.
TargetAlert
Provides visual cues for the destinations of hyperlinks.
Toolbar Buttons
Adds toolbar buttons
ViewSourceWith
View page source with external application
Web Developer
Adds a menu and toolbar with various web developer tools.
Got a little off topic and started watching funny dinosaur videos at youTube.
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