Taking off the shorts!

Well, it’s the time of the year again, when I get that moment of sadness realizing summer is over. So it’s off with the shorts and on with long pants . Oh well; who knows, if we keep it up, Sweden may have summer all …

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Dinosaur cancels TV

So we once had a nice Sony 29″ Trinitron TV. So I wished I could keep it going for another two to three years and patiently wait for the next generation LCD TV:s to arrive. So Sony didn’t take the DINO FACTOR into account when …

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How Microsoft Lost the API War

I just stumbled across a really good article; good in the sense that it made me feel interested and glued to its contents, also good in the sense that it took its time in describing why the author thought this or that. It’s related to …

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Building with Kapla

So Alexander has gotten into his Kapla building sticks again. He forgets them from time to time, and then he remembers he has them and can’t get enough of them. It’s odd how most things he builds are symmetrical in shape. Don’t know Kapla building …

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Canon to unleash the EOS 5D!

There’s a lot of hot stuff cooking at Canon! Last in a number of recent product announcements comes the not-so-unexpected (it seems Canon enjoys “pre-releasing” aka leaking, quite a bit) announcement of the EOS 5D D-SLR camera. The biggest news? It sports a 12.8 megapixel …

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Joshua is back!

Want to play with the computer that let Joshua communicate with Mathew Broderick in the 1984 movie WarGames? Well, now you can! The Fischer-Freitas Company, formed by a couple of IMSAI employees, have decided to release a vintage IMSAI, able to supply some more “up …

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Canon Powershot Pro 1

It has been clear for some time, but I haven’t found a good enough replacement yet. That may have changed today. Janet has been using a Digital Ixus 400 from Canon, and while it’s an awesome piece of work considering the size of the box …

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Gigapixels next?

Is the analog world catching up to the digital world? I’m not sure, but it feels like many digital camera manufacturers are trying to zero in on a large number of consumers who have now begun to replace their old compact cameras with the digital …

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My new light saber; XFCE

So I’ve been curious about XFCE for some time now, but I never seem to find the time to install it for a test-drive. So today I decided to go for it, while waiting for some other things to finish. I grabbed the SuSE 9.3 …

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Negative vibes

So I finally got around to testing our newly acquired “toy”, the Epson Perfection 4990 scanner. It’s an A4-sized flatbed scanner with a ton of accessories intended to make negative and photo scanning easier. The scanner is reasonably priced considering the output produced. I personally …

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