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Apple's MagicTrackpad? I'll stick with the mouse.

Yesterday I bought one of the new Apple Magic Trackpad's. After using it for a few hours, I'm back to using a mouse. The Magic Trackpad just seems to be more work, and somehow slows up my computer too. No thanks.

Korg KDM-2 power adapter hack

The Korg KDM-2 is a very nice digital metronome with one drawback, batteries only. After going through several sets of AAA batteries (four at a time!), I finally decided I'd had enough of the hazardous waste and so off I went to the local electronics store to see if I could hack the thing to use a power supply instead. The guy there knew exactly how to do it and within a few minutes, had the thing wired. Works great! :-)

The KDM-2 says 6v on the back, but we got away with using an old 5v D-Link power supply just fine (Model No. AF 1205-B). Here's some photos

Korg KDM-2 Digital Metronome (front)

Korg KDM-2 Digital Metronome (back)

D-Link Model No. AF 1205-B

Missing, invisible, disappearing mouse – Ubuntu 10.04

Changing the screen resolution from 60hz to 76hz causes the mouse cursor/pointer to disappear. Anybody know the fix for this? Thanks!

Honestly… I'm not prepared, I really am not prepared at all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBRyjMHO_Ew&feature=youtube_gdata

Facebook – Import Failed We couldn't find a feed using the URL you provided.

The RSS feed import to notes in Facebook has never worked right. Rather than update automatically (like it should!), feeds have to be manually re-entered in order to get the latest posts to show. Now it's even worse, now it doesn't work at all: "Import Failed We couldn't find a feed using the URL you provided."
Yeah right. :-|

Please wait while we access your AT&T account information.

Unable to reserve iPhone 4 on the Apple site for over forty minutes now! Servers keep locking up. "Please wait while we access your AT&T account information." :-|

UPDATE: Finally got through after over an hour of trying numerous browsers and refreshes. No luck using Firefox or Chrome, order placed using Safari. Yay.

Quotes in your code all messed up in WordPress? Try this plugin!

http://www.semiologic.com/software/unfancy-quote/

Reversed WordPress title tags

Replace existing title tags in header.php with:

<title> <?php wp_title(' | ',true,'right'); ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?> </title>

Yahoo! Mail – now with USPS Tracking!

Here's something I hadn't seen before in my Yahoo! Mail. I shipped a package USPS Priority Mail today and then emailed the Delivery Confirmation number to the recipient. I just checked my Sent email folder to see if the number had posted yet and much to my surprise Yahoo! is showing it as a Shortcut – no posting of URL necessary, wow!

Chuck Sher – One World Band

Chuck Sher – One World Band
Sunday May 23, 2010 from 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Backyard Jazz
Brush Creek area of Rincon Valley
Santa Rosa, California

Jazz

Marc van Wageningen, bass
Art Khu, piano
Randy Vincent, guitar
Kendrick Freeman, drums
Bob Afifi, flute

On Upcoming
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/5743456/