Archive for February, 2008

SONY GPS-CS1 - Easily Add Locations to your Photos

The SONY GPS-CS1 is a new device from Sony that will track your photographs via GPS and then let you create maps with your photos already loaded on them.

Clip the small GPS to your self or camera strap and the SONY GPS-CS1monitors and records your location and stores it. When you get back to [...]

links for 2008-02-24

Sunset from space
Really cool NASA image.
(tags: space sunset nasa pacific ocean)

links for 2008-02-23

Universe Today » Ulysses Spacecraft Dying of Natural Causes
The Ulysses spacecraft has been heroically studying our sun for more than 17 years, almost four times its expected lifetime. But now, the mission might be finally succumbing to the harsh environment of space.
(tags: space ulysses spacecraft nasa sun)

14 “OTHER” Ways to Use RSS Feeds
Undeniably RSS is [...]

Review of Lenovo ThinkPad X300

Personal Technology columnist Walt Mossberg reviews Lenovo’s new super-slim ThinkPad X300, which is being positioned as the Windows competitor to the Apple MacBook Air.
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links for 2008-02-22

Get 5GB of Free Online Storage from SkyDrive
Upload and share up to 5GB of data to Windows Live SkyDrive, an online storage solution from Microsoft that’s just graduated from beta.
(tags: microsoft skydrive online backup)

Turn Your Favorite RSS Feeds into a Newspaper with FeedJournal
Web application FeedJournal turns your RSS feed(s) of choice into a newspaper-formatted PDF.
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links for 2008-02-21

Simpsons Panorama
“Hidden” scene in the Simpsons intro made into a panorama
(tags: simpsons photo panorama picture)

doubleTwist | Home Page
doubleTwist desktop enables you to easily share media with friends and sync with popular devices.

(tags: doubletwist utility itunes drm sync software how-to howto)

How-To Convert Your HD DVDs to Blu-Ray

Just because one media-storage format suffers a merciless death, it doesn’t mean the media itself still can’t be enjoyed in some other form. Follow Wired’s How-To Wiki guide to rip, convert and burn your now-obsolote HD DVDs to the Blu-ray format.

Go to:
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Convert_Your_HD_DVDs_to_Blu-Ray

links for 2008-02-20

Exclusive: The Biggest Star Wars Collection in the Galaxy
(tags: star wars collection)

Feature: Use Your Wii as a Media Center
(tags: wii media center remote mce)

GLOBE at Night
Global campaign during 25 February - 8 March 2008, to observe and record the magnitude of visible stars as a means of measuring light pollution in a given location.
(tags: stars [...]

Total Lunar Exclipse 20Feb08

The last total lunar eclipse until late 2010 will be visible in the Western Hemisphere on February 20th. In the video below, NASA explains what to look for.
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Strange things afoot at the bottom of the ocean

Scientists collecting specimens off Antarctica find strange creatures, including organisms looking like slender glass and giant spiders living deep in the ocean.
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