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Sony DTC-790 blues

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:36:38 +0000

Turned on my old Sony DTC-790 DAT machine and am getting a "CAUTION" message. Googled a bit and found people saying it's because the grease has dried out. Found the manual and inside it says:

"CAUTION" appears and the deck cannot be operated.
-> A safety mechanism is operating because of condensation. Remove the cassette and leave the deck turned on for about an hour. Then turn the deck off, then on again (see page 18).

So I'll give it a try – hope that's all it is!

San Francisco International Flute Festival – not iPhone friendly!

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:00:31 +0000

A friend sent me a link to the San Francisco International Flute Festival yesterday (http://www.sfflutefestival.com/). I was on my iPhone at the time and clicked on their link – this is what I got :-|

p.s. There's no 'Flash Player' for iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and probably never will be. For more info as to why, see Steve Jobs' essay:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

How to make a Google Maps link in php

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:39:14 +0000

echo ''.$result['Address'].'';

AT&T 3G MicroCell is fantastic!

admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:01:17 +0000

Just set up the AT&T 3G MicroCell and am happy to report that it works great! My normally horrid AT&T cell reception here in Sebastopol is now holding between 4 and 5 bars, yay! Also, the call quality on my iPhone for the first time is as good at home as it is when I'm inside the AT&T store. So if you're wondering if the AT&T 3G MicroCell works as advertised, I can safely say the answer is YES! :-)

Facebook RSS feed blues

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:23:11 +0000

If you confirm this import, we'll check the feed every couple of hours for new posts you've made, and add anything we find to your Facebook notes.

Uh, no they won't… only thing that works for me is to manually remove/re-install the feed.

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

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:42:55 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:50:45 +0000

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 contributing to the hazardous waste and so off I went to the local electronics store to see if I could get the thing to somehow use a power supply instead. Turned out 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

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:12:09 +0000

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

admin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:42:39 +0000

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.

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:09:32 +0000

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. :-|