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Continue reading â: Understanding the Great Depression and the 1970s
Well how come the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression has a cool name, but the 1970s do not? Wikipedia as usual has a great analysis that includes how different countries were affect. Particularly relevant now in our interconnected world. But the causes are the big issue Causes of the Great Depression which comes down…
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Continue reading â: Utilities in Seattle
It is amazing how easy it is to setup all your utilities from your coach in Seattle. You literally don’t have to talk with anyone. The only problem is that URLs for signup are so buried in information, As an illustration and what a dashboard should look like to signup…
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Continue reading â: AVI on Mac
AVI is a Microsoft format that Mac OS X doesn’t read, so how do you make it work: Watching AVI Movies in Mac OS X – Mac Guides VLC Player is a cross platform application with a mac version available for download from the VLC website. [I’ve found that mplayer…
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Continue reading â: Top 100 Hits
“Wikipedia”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_number-one_hits_(United_States) is amazing, there is someone who actually keeps track of every top song over the last 50 years for each week. Kind of fascinating to see how culture has changed!
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Continue reading â: Camera recommendations for the Christmas season
Well, the camera market is definitely maturing, so that now across three of the four major segments there are choices that are going to last a while: h3. High-end Prosumer for affordable luxury :0) If you love cameras, then the Canon 5D Mark II looks like the body to drool…
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Continue reading â: What is the Apple Brick?
The ‘Brick’ is… | 9 to 5 Mac The MacBook manufacturing process up to this point has been outsourced to Chinese or Taiwanese manufacturers like Foxconn. Now Apple is in charge. The company has spent the last few years building an entirely new manufacturing process that uses lasers and jets…