Archive for 2009
Blurb’s Booksmart
I came across this question in the blurb forum, which i had to perform myself for one of the albums i was working on.
forums.blurb.com/forums/4/topics/3868
In general How can i update the photos in booksmart to use the latest updated photos that i have edited in photoshop/gimp?
You can delete the files in C:\Documents and Settings\{USER_NAME}\My Documents\BookSmartData\{BOOK_NAME}library.
In booksmart, [...]
Bags
Usually i don’t talk about fashion.
But this is tech fashion
technabob.com/blog/2009/02/03/my-document-folder-laptop-case/
Seeing this reminds me of the laptop casing for Mac Air
People making use of what Steve Jobs used in the keynote as an actual laptop holder
www.applelinks.com/index.php/more/airmail_manila_folder_notebook_sleeve_for_macbook_air/
This is what i call “The Obvious”. But it’s a nice touch.
As i as was making the previous post on keyboard, i started to put lots of picture that was not from my flickr account. It was to be just on the blog. I started hotlinking to those sites that host the pictures, i was thinking…
Hmmmm. i think i better not do that, the webmaster might [...]
Keyboards
Do you have a keyboard that you always loved?
Keyboards for blondes? Something new to me
Interesting feature
1. Color!
The usual suspect
DAS keyboard :
Interesting features are
1. It’s blank!
2. Forces you to touch type.
Pro motion keyboard :
Interesting features are
….Pro-Motion keyboard that slowly adapts and adjusts to your typing style. Smartfish’s proprietary Dynamic Positioning Controller actually studies your [...]
Quick yubikey updates
Like what i mentioned on how to use yubikey on multiple sites? SN 178 supported that idea as well, bascially becoming a poor man’s two factor authentication.
So do remember to use this instead of the plain jane yubikey static password. You won’t want to have people access to your physical key right? For more security, [...]
Booksmart on the penguin
Wanna run booksmart on a linux box?
Check out
clecuret.blogspot.com/2008/04/booksmart-sur-linux-cest-de-nouveau.html
A patch has been made until blurb decided to support this officially.
I’m also in the midst of creating an editor for the template for the booksmart. Anyone interested in using it?
DNS323 firmware update 0.6
DNS323 has been kinda of unstable for me after my replacement on the power supply and the unit. There was frequent disconnect on the mapped drive, and pink/amber colour for the front panel LEDs, it was only stable when i plug in only 1 hdd. I recall when i first recieved my replacement, it was [...]
Yubikey, fake SSL certs.
I was listening to Security Now podcast, and kept hearing uberkey uberkey on i think it was episode 175. The concept of ubery key was pretty interesting, a usb device that can generate a long static password without you entering it. This can be in entering WEP or WPA keys, your normal login password etc.
I [...]
Canon camera firmware
While clearing up my backlog of videocast, revision 3 system ep 083 was talking about camera os.
chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK
Do check this above link if you are a canon powershot use.
Extracted from the site
* RAW – CHDK can record raw files, giving you access to every bit of data the sensor saw, without compression or processing. Raw [...]
Vimperator screencast
My first screencast, took about 1 day plus of fiddling and trying out different software.
1. In the end i used wink for the screen capture and annotation
www.debugmode.com/wink/
2. Camstudio use to capture the output from the swf
camstudio.org/
3. Audicity for trimming and fade out of MP3
audacity.sourceforge.net/
4. Virtualdub for encoding and putting the mp3 together
www.virtualdub.org/
Hope everyone enjoys it, [...]

