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Continue reading â: Simple Phone
Jon and my parents have both asked me about a simple phone that isn’t complicated or smart like an iPhone or a Blackberry, my two current recommendations. In looking at this, the main criteria are: # Big screen. So you can see the numbers you are dialing (most folks at…
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Continue reading â: Ben Graham’s Net Net and other factoids
Peter taught me this rule, that a famous investor Ben Graham showed you can invest in “net net’s”:http://www.allbusiness.com/accounting-reporting/reports-statements/367332-1.html which are true value-oriented stocks. That is, invest in stocks that are trading at 65% of net curretn asset value (NCAV = current assets minus all liabilities include long term debt and…
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Continue reading â: Time Capsule Archive
In the 7.3.1 firmware, you can now connect a USB Drive to a Time Capsule and then archive the 1TB disk itself. That is a backup of the backup. This is supposed to be fast. However, this is a one time copy so if you don’t have enough space on…
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Entourage and iCal Duplicate Removal
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Continue reading â: Entourage and iCal Duplicate RemovalApparently, these are well know problems with Entourage putting duplicates everywhere. There is even a FAQ topics on “duplicates”:http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/duplicates.html thanks to “Joe”:http://bigmountaindesign.com for the pointer. Now maybe I can get rid of the 30 entries for St. Patricks Day in my calendar. There is a simlar set of utilities of…
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WordPress not displaying Chinese correctly
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Continue reading â: WordPress not displaying Chinese correctlyI thought it was Scribefire, but it looks like “WordPress”:http://wordpress.org/support/topic/124544 has a configuration problem in displaying Chinese correctly. Apparently, with “Fantastico”:http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended#Special_note_for_Fantastico_Upgrades there are two lines int he wp-config.php file for DB_CHARSET and DB_COLLATE that have to be removed. This seems to apply to WordPress 2.2 but my new WordPress 2.5…
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Continue reading â: Kerio vs. Exchange for Entourage, Mac OS X, iPhone and Blackberry
Well we’ve narrowed down choices to two choices, two hosters against one of three desktop and two mobile clients. Here are the parameters: Support for either of, in order: * Mac OS X application. That is Mail, iCal and Address Book that are native to OS X and which is…
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Continue reading â: Google Apps
We’ve been trying to figure out the right way to do email and synchronize Calendars. Maybe Google is the right way to do it on the backend? The candidates are: * Exchange. This is trusty and reliable. The main issue is do we have to run our own Exchange and…
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Continue reading â: Rosewill RC-605 problems
I got this Rosewill eSATA so I could plug fast drives into my MacBook Pro. Well, like lots of third party stuff it doesn’t really work. It is faster though, but you can only plug one drive in. At least for me. There are lots of issues with the driver…
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Continue reading â: Home by Bus
Hey Seattle has this really cool application “Tripplanner.metrokc.com”:http://tripplanner.metrokc.com, you just type in any two street addresses adn it tells you what the best way. Takes into account when you leave so you’ll catch the bus right. Cool! I tried this and it really does work. Got home in 30 minutes…
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Continue reading â: Seattle Best Restaurants
Every since the Seattle Weekly stopped doing their best restaurants and just has an unsorted “listing”:ttp://www.seattleweekly.com/listings/dining/, the new “Seattle Magazine”:http://seattlemag.com/ME2/Audiences/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=3E1DA341B2834604B64A1EB3BA74CCFB&tier=4&id=8F2C7CC3E6DA41C6BE7DD9FB6EAC669B has been filling the void. Main issue is that they don’t publish everything on the web. Really sad since they don’t get web advertising yet obviously in the 21st century!…
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