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BlueMic works on Vista!

I bought a laptop a few weeks back and it was preinstalled with Vista.  Vista was the only supported OS on the laptop (no XP drivers wouldn’t work).  I quickly found out that my Blue Mic Snowball USB mic would not work in Vista. Since I noticed the mic wouldn’t work with Vista I’ve been [...]

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Fri, October 19 2007 » Programming » Comments Off

Anatomy of the iTunes library

I’ve been thinking of backing up my computer to do a fresh installation of OS X. I do this frequenty to ensure that the speed of my 6 year old PowerBook stays up to par with my current demand. I’ve been noticing lately that the price of external hard drives have been dropping and I’ve [...]

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Sun, September 30 2007 » Programming » Comments Off

Installing Apache on Vista

Like Digg but can never get on the the front page?  Try AddPile, user powered news site with a weekly podcast.  So I picked up a laptop the other week and like any other technogeek I wanted to see if Apache would run on the version of Vista on the new computer. This version was [...]

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Thu, September 13 2007 » Programming » Comments Off

The sad truth about Campcaster – Linux Radio Automation

A few months ago I thought I would be able to get a radio automation system up and running. After some initial trouble with some bad CD burns I was able to order a CD from the nice folks at Ubuntu. Campcaster was my first radio automation system of choice. There seemed to be plenty [...]

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Sun, August 12 2007 » automation » Comments Off

How your mouse really works

This is how your mouse really works on your computer, not matter your operating system.  The animation explains it in fine detail.

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Thu, April 12 2007 » Programming, the relay » Comments Off