A Look Inside T-Mobile’s Emergency Response Teams
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Sputnik at 50
Great article by Vladimir Isachenkov about the origins of Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the Earth. Turns out that the whole thing was an improvised fluke (with exceedingly far-reaching implications): But 50 years later, it emerges that the momentous launch was far from being part of a well-planned strategy to demonstrate communist superiority over ...
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Gruber Is Gonzalez?
This will appeal only to the Mac nerds, but I’ve made the shocking discovery that musician José González is actually Mac pundit John Gruber:
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iMovie 7.1 Fixes a Lot of Annoyances
Looks like Apple has been busy with iLife in the past month, because the just-dropped iMovie 7.1 (and updates for the rest of iLife ’08) just appeared. It’s a 44.6 MB stand-alone update, or you can get it via Software Update. Here’s what has changed: What’s New in this Version This update addresses several areas ...
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Helvetica Coffee Mug
Love love love love love this: (Found via the excellent swiss miss)
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Pogue on Tapeless Camcorders
Sure, not five minutes after I write the previous post, I see that David Pogue’s column for the New York Times talks about the problems of tapeless camcorders: Beware the Tapeless Camcorder. He brings up several good points, including the dreaded storage issue: Suppose, for example, that you buy a hard-drive or memory-card camcorder. And ...
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I think I just became a fan of tapeless camcorders
I’ve always been on the side of the fence that says, “Stick with MiniDV because you get the highest quality video.” But I’ve been playing with a Panasonic HDC-SC1 camcorder, which records in HD and saves it as AVCHD, and I’m pretty impressed. I haven’t really put it through its paces — I haven’t really ...
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Easy Masking in iMovie ’08
Aaron at Unlocking iMovie ’08 has posted what has to be one of the more unexpected iMovie tips I’ve seen: you can easily create a video mask. Karel Gillissen created a few movies demonstrating how to make an image with transparency (he used Photoshop Elements) and then simply drag the image onto the top of ...
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“To Burundi and Beyond for Coffee’s Holy Grail”
I’m a late convert to coffee. Before college, it was this brownish muck that everyone older than me drank. And then at some point I had a mocha, and from then on I was mixing Carnation Hot Cocoa mix and some ground French Press from a can to get me through my classes. It’s only ...
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The January Project
If you’ve been paying attention to my Flickr gallery lately, you may have noticed a recent picture called “Bump”. That’s not just a random belly: Kim and I are going to be parents near the end of January! I know, we’re rushing into this – we’ve only been married 14 years – but we’re excited. ...
Jeff Carlson | Never Enough Coffee Creations 