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Archives for May 2011

72 degrees F is not 40 degrees C, even if the Mac says it is

72 degrees F is not 40 degrees C, even if the Mac says it is

There seems to be an error in a Unix program on the Mac. Now what do we do?

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Tech Universe Digest for 23 to 27 May 2011

Wireless Hands-On; Print A Part; Wheelchair Sights; Smart Stores; Books Don’t Need Paper; Instant Translation; Spam Choke; Tiny Killer; High Tech Dogs; Hands-Off Touchscreen.

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The Cough that keeps on keeping on

The Cough that keeps on keeping on

Several months of being unwell have hit my work hard. It looks like Whooping Cough! And all I can do is wait it out.

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Tech Universe Digest for 16 to 20 May 2011

Canyon By Jetpack; Another Side To Transistor; Trains That Fly; Software Pirates; Game, Stroke And Match. Home Bot; In The Block Where You Live; Lend Your Eyes; Out Of The Gait; Did You Mean Shopping? Underwater Space; Prize Tricorders; Do You Speak Robot?

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Make a video training library – it’s easy

Make a video training library – it’s easy

Instead of just writing instructions about how to do things when training others, make a screen recording. It’s quick, easy and extremely useful as a reference.

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Save your wrists – dictate long documents

Save your wrists – dictate long documents

These days I do a lot of my writing the easy way: by dictating what I want to say to my computer which transcribes it for me.

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Tech Universe Digest for 09 to 13 May 2011

Human Helicopter; $50 PC. Sticky Current; Super Spy Cam. Satellite Dust; Dolphin Spoken Here; More Talk More Juice; The Stars By Day; Sunny Autoclave.

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Tech Universe Digest for 02 to 06 May 2011

World’s smallest caravan; graphene paper is light but immensely strong; solar powered contact lenses detect glaucoma; smelling cancer; thought-controlled prosthetics.

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Get some send some: try out torrents

How P2P works is that those who download files also send portions of the files to others. It’s a great way to share huge files without carrying the whole burden yourself.

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Share huge files with community power

Share huge files with community power

Torrents are a way of sharing files that truly represents the spirit of community. Instead of each user retrieving an entire file from one server, all users do their part in sending chunks to others too. Here’s what it’s about.

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Tech Universe Digest for 25 to 29 April 2011

GPS jacket; speech spotters; connected fridge; more precise GPS; single electron transistor; goodbye typewriters;

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KnowIt · By Miraz Jordan · @miraz