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Or, AT&T service SUCKS in San Francisco I’ve had the iPhone 3GS since it was released a year ago. I held off that long because until then, the iPhone OS didn’t support cut and paste or have a landscape keyboard. When Apple finally added these features (that my Palm Treo had years before), I decided to [...] A few days ago, I bought a new MacBook to replace my aging 12″ PowerBook. I want to use Final Cut Express to edit my own HD videos. Ivan lent me the tutorial book he used to learn it, which comes with a DVD containing about 4 Gb of practice materials. I tried to copy the [...] I’ve decided to make more videos. I did buy an HD video camera last year after all. This means I need to learn how to edit, which means I need video editing software. I downloaded a trial version of Adobe Premier Elements 7.0 for my PC and tried to use it to edit the videos I [...] As promised in my Scope Creep entry from last month, here is the continuation… Chuck’s old PC, which I built for him at Christmas 2004, is all ready to donate. I wiped the hard drives, removed his old almost-10-years-old-now 12 Gb hard drive and put it in my e-waste box, left the new-in-2004 80 Gb one, [...] There’s a concept in system design called scope creep. It basically refers to the addition of new features or functions once the development phase has begun (the scope gets larger and larger). Unchecked, scope creep can get wildly expensive because time is money. You may recall that a month or so ago I built a new [...] Wednesday and Thursday nights, I built a new PC. The one I built 3 years ago was as loud as a jet engine, which Fuad and I both found annoying. Friday night I worked out the bugs in my assembly and installed Windows XP and the 64-bit version of Vista. XP because it is familiar and [...] Sunday night at 8pm, I decided that I just *had* to install two games from the 90′s on my PC: Myst and Riven. I had bought the “Millennium” versions of the games that had been ported to XP a few years back. How hard could it possibly be? Five hours later at 1am, after much pouring [...] Okay, so ya gotta check this out: Download Google Earth and zoom in on Castro and Market Streets in San Francisco. The image they have was taken during the Castro Street Fair. The booths and crowd are clearly visible along Market, Castro and 18th. How cool is that? I can even make out my house and [...] Friday I stopped by the Apple store near Union Square to look at JBL’s On Stage speakers for iPod. I have an extra iPod (gen 3) that Chuck F. gave me for my birthday a few years ago, and since I’m kind of in a corner by myself at work I thought I’d put it [...] I FINALLY made it to the gym today. I met Chuck F. there and we had a light leg workout. It’s the first time I’ve done legs in a few months. I just haven’t had the energy after having the life sucked out of me at work. But today I left at 6, did legs and [...] |
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