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2007-10-28
MacOS X 10.5: Leopard Time Machine Problem
The new MacOS X upgrade, Leopard, adds many useful features. Some upgraders who try the new backup system, Time Machine, may experience an excessively long initial backup time. For example, 90 GB on my MacBook Pro laptop could take 2+ days for the initial backup to a USB 2.0 Western Digital Passport drive. I disabled the Norton AntiVirus "Auto Protect" feature, and the backup speeds increased quite ...
2007-10-01
Adobe Share out in beta
Adobe Share service lets you store and share documents online. To test the service, I tried to use the embed feature to share a short story. Unfortunately, my Drupal blog filters some of the crucial tags, even using the "full HTML" setting.
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2007-08-27
Intelligent photo resizing and alteration
Here's some astounding work on photo manipulation by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir: Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing
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2007-06-29
iPhone Mania hits Palo Alto
Steve Jobs said people should queue up at an AT&T store for an iPhone, and he was mostly right. Well past midnight on Thursday, Jenn and I did a tour of the three stores around Palo Alto that will sell the iPhone: the Apple retail stores in Palo Alto and the Stanford Shopping Center, and the AT&T store at Page Mill Rd & El Camino Real. Guess ...
