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Les Gets webcam November
Les Gets webcam November Originally uploaded by geofones Snow has come early to Les Gets this year, the lifts are open this weekend as a treat. Good view of my apartment as well.
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Tonys painting
Try this way of posting posted from iPhoneSlide.com
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Text to Speech conversion
Pretty impressive software from Voz http://vozme.com/index.php?lang=en that converts any text into a mp3 file that you can listen too. To try the software, highlight this text and click the play button in the side column. From http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/vozme/ (This post published by WordPress Dash which doesnt seem to have an easy way of adding links 🙁…
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Now trying Ecto
Here is another post, this time done using Ecto, a bit fiddly to set up as it didn’t like logging into my account. … The import media feature was so quite good – bringing up thumbnails of all the piccys on the mac But the formatting seems a bit awry..
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Test using MarsEdit
THis is posted using MarsEdit on the iMac. Here is an image Gave lots of options including Flickr. However, to get WYSIWYG you have to click on preview which is a bit cumbersome as it shows a new window 🙂 Spelling works ok Although is it US or UK here is colour spelt the UK…
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Using Qumana
First post using Qumana software on the iMac . Spent ages sorting out the problems of it recognizing my blog. Turned out I needed a .htaccess file to allow remote posting. Then it transpired that it needed 664 permissions. All sorted now hopefully. Although I seemed to have destroyed Sally’s blog in the process 🙁…
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Geoff the lazy so & so
Ellee sent me the link to the Texperts tonight, these are folks who you can text any question too 66000 and get an answer. They have a challenge quiz to see if you are suitable as someone to work with them. Here are my results:- Category Percentage Pass General Knowledge – Music 40.00 Fail General…
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Putting your head in a spin.
A cool optical illusion or a computer gimmick. which way is this dancer rotating? The theory is according to Geoff of Geofftech. If you see it spinning clockwise, then you are a ‘right sided’ brain person, who uses feeling, is ‘big picture’ orientated and your imagination rules you. If you see it spinning anti-clockwise, then…
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Free those maps
Last night I was up in London to listen to Steve Coast’s 36th talk on the Open street Map project he created (slide show is on slideshare). This is the Wikipedia of the map world. Currently 15,000 people around the world are using their GPS systems to upload tracks and create maps. The aim of…
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The Leopard and Lexmark
I upgraded my 24″ iMac to Leopard (OSX10.5) all went smoothly. Except for my brand new Lexmark X4580 printer/scanner/reader. The printer refuses to print and even worse crashes the programme that is sending the print. Looking up in Google I found the Apple users forums where another user was having similar problems. Emails to Lexmark…