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iPads – iWuz iWrong

June 17th, 2010 · iPad

picture of iPad from all sidesWe just recently got back from a Mediterranean cruise and my wife went out to look for computer replacements . She came home with and iPad. If you have seen the my earlier post you’ll notice that I was not a fan of the iPad and I said it was gonna be as successful as the Newton. Well, I have to admit that I was wrong. In fact, I’m glad to have to say it, since I *was* wrong and we now have two of them. It’s really a pretty neat little machine and has a lot more uses and has a lot more significance than I thought it would.

I want to start off by talking about the cons with the iPad before I go into the pros.

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Pisa, Italy and the Baptistry

June 12th, 2010 · Off the Wall

In the last weeks of May, my family and I went on a Disney Cruise in the Med. We embarked at Barcelona, Spain, and went to Malta, Tunis, Naples,  Civitavecchia, Corsica, and Southern France. Although I have been to central Europe, this was my first trip farther south.

One of the stops we wanted to make was at Pisa to see the leaning tower. Once we got there, I was impressed with the care and maintenance of the location. The leaning tower is lovely, the cathedral a little too baroque for my tastes, but the baptistry was the most striking spot we visited there (now that I’m in my 50s I decided not to climb the stairs on the tower, unlike going up the Stature of Liberty when in my 20s….)

The structure of the baptistry is similar on the inside to the capital building in Washington, DC. Both have a special structure in the top that captures sounds and magnifies them. There is a guard on duty there that tolls the time on the hour and half hour. The balding gentleman in the video is the one doing the chanting. The camera was new to me and so I just barely caught the start of the chant and edited the part out (mostly)  where I had the camera misoriented (just pretend you are at sea….)


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Using Amazon S3

May 18th, 2010 · Featured Articles, Videos

Efficient storage for pennies…


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Painless SEO

May 15th, 2010 · SEO, Software

Download PDF version of Painless-SEO slides.

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Article Video Robot at First Glance

May 10th, 2010 · Software, Utilities, Videos

Article Video Robot

I discovered, late in the evening on Sunday, a service that was new to me at ArticleVideoRobot (affiliate link). It will take a text article and turn it into a video for you *and* distribute it.  I was getting ready to go to bed but thought, what the heck, I’ll just see what this does. About thirty minutes later, I had a good feel for the capabilities of the program. Very interesting and I’ll post more on it later.

Video follows =>

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