November 12th, 2006
He was the alpha leader, a well disciplined watch dog. He wasn’t really all that playful but here he lets off a rare smile. When i first saw him he tried to bite me, he was a very tempermental dog, so it took a day or two to win his trust. Once he knew me things were all cool. Magila got sick early last week and died before we can get him to a vet, he will be missed.
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November 10th, 2006
There are several YouTube video downloading sites but I found this one to be simple and straightforward : YouTube Video Download Tool
After downloading the file, and changing the extension to .flv, you can play the video in QuickTime by installing the Perian plug-in.
With QuickTime pro, you can save it as a QuickTime file to your Movies folder, then open up iDVD, drag and drop the movies into your iDVD template and create a DVD of the videos complete with menus and your own soundtrack.
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November 8th, 2006
Truly fascinating documentary about the band that brought synth-pop into the mainstream. Love the footage of the early concerts with the original lineup.
This is only part one, there are more parts to this video which I linked below:
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November 7th, 2006
Capture The Moment a narrated image slideshow. Watch and learn the story behind some of the greatest photographs ever.
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November 6th, 2006
Ok, I’m still learning how to integrate flickr albums into this site. There are formatting errors I’m trying to fix. Just click on the image above to get to the album page.
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November 6th, 2006
Here’s a good list of Personal Finance Tips
If anything the first set of tips should get you in pretty good financial shape.
The Painfully Obvious But Rarely Followed Tips
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November 5th, 2006
Perhaps the easiest TV capture device I’ve seen so far. Just plug in your USB drive to iRecord and it does the rest. You can encode music too and transfer them directly to iPods and flash drives. The only negative thing I see here is the lack of Firewire port to connect your video camera or to your computer. I hope the next version of iRecord will include it. Just the thought of transferring files through an older USB 1.1 device would be pretty painful.
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November 3rd, 2006
Now through January 7, 2007 at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. A chance to see the works of 3 masters up close.
Pioneers of Philippine Art: Luna, Amorsolo, Zóbel chronicles 100 years of Philippine painting, from the late-nineteenth to the late-twentieth century, in 38 artworks of three ground-breaking artists:
Juan Luna (1857–1899)
Fernando Amorsolo (1892–1972)
Fernando Zóbel (1924–1984)
Pioneers of Philippine Art—the first exhibition of Filipino art at the Asian Art Museum’s Civic Center facility—provides American audiences with a broader understanding of these three important artists and their place in Philippine history and society, and in turn, the rich artistic heritage of the Philippines.
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November 1st, 2006
Fascinating video on one of the most important and almost forgotten scientists of all time. He is well known for his contributions to the discipline of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th century. Tesla’s patents and theoretical work form the basis of modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution.
Nikola Tesla, always visualizes his inventions before attempting to work them out. He did not rush to embody them in form and then spend his time in correcting defects. Having first built up the idea in his imagination, he held it there as a mental picture, to be reconstructed and improved by his thought.
“In this way, I am enabled to rapidly develop and perfect a conception without touching anything. When I have gone so far as to embody in the invention every possible improvement I can think of, and see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete, the product of my brain. Invariably my devise it should; in twenty years there has not been a single exception.”
It’s also fascinating how he viewed all matter and energy:
“Long ago he recognized that all perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the Akasha or luminiferous ether, acted upon by the life giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never ending cycles all things and phenomena. The primary substance, thrown into infinitesimal whirls of prodigious velocity, becomes gross matter; the force subsiding, the motion ceases and matter disappears, reverting to the primary substance.”
I believe he was on to something.
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November 1st, 2006
PicturePopPro 2.0 is a contextual menu plugin that shows pictures and QuickTime files directly from the Finder. It allows one to look at all the images in a directory with a nice little pop up window or in fullscreen images. It’s fast, easy to use and stays out of the way. I always felt that OS X lacked an image viewer that’s lightweight and speedy this fits the role pretty nicely. Best of all it’s free!
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