Mac OS X Hints reports on “a new and seemingly little-mentioned feature” in Mac OS X for Intel Macs: It appears that the ambient noise reduction feature is designed to remove the background noise that the microphone would otherwise pick up. It should make a difference in any app in which you use the microphone, […]
Funny story, actually not so much – I “almost” lost all my data on my main system and a back up drive in a weird flood (water) incident and then a burnt out hard drive on the sole survivor laptop. Using a bunch of tools, hot air gun and coffee I restored about 99% of […]
If you’re building any sort of web interface for geospatial data, take a peek at OpenLayers. OpenLayers implements a (still-developing) JavaScript API for building rich web-based geographic applications, similar to the Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth APIs, with one important difference — OpenLayers is Free Software, developed for and by the Open Source software […]
I didn’t try this out yet (and it scares me a little, it’s an EXE) but if you’re looking to get live RSS feeds and stock quotes -in- Excel, here’s an add-on (and how-to) to do just that… You can easily get Excel to act as a live stock RSS news reader with a free […]
When Parallels first started supporting Vista, it would max out one CPU at nearly 100%, even when the virtual machine was essentially idle. With each release candidate, Parallels has improved greatly, and the CPU usage has dropped to about 40% on my (1st-generation) MacBook Pro. Posting in the Parallels Forum, feuerri has found a simple […]
After playing around with Yahoo! Pipes a bit, I’ve just created my first aggregated feed: a single-subscription roundup of the three sites in the Make family (Makezine.com, Craftzine.com, and Hackszine.com). This simple pipe doesn’t do much more than provide a single RSS feed for the three sites, but it hints at more fine-tuned possibilities. If […]
Here’s an online service that will transcode FLVs for you into several common formats, such as AVI/DivX, MOV/MPEG4, 3GP, etc. I’ve only had a chance to try it on a couple videos, but it seems to work well. You can submit a YouTube URL or a direct link to an FLV and it will kick […]
