Products
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Visual Word associations
Just discovered from Adam Pash’s excellent Lifehacker feed this tool for visualizing word meanings. As the Visuwords website says “Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.” Here is the visual word map for Cambridge clearly showing the…
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Wrestling with a Leopard
This so called upgrade to the iMac operating is causing me real problems:- The brand new Lexmark X4580 printer failed to work with the 10.5 OS. Fortunately the user forums suggested removing the printers PDE directory. I then discovered that Leopard doesn’t work with Firefox or at least not the drop down menus on the…
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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…
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Silva Pedometer / Step counter Instruction Setup
For those that are like me and can never find instruction manuals. Here is the setup sheet for the Silva Step Counter (56012) , Pedometer (56013) and Pedometer Plus (56014). Click on the image to get the full size. I’m now on my third one. The internal pendulum seems to only last a million steps,…
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Self Charging Smoke Alarm
Here is a really neat product:- “Never worry about changing batteries again. This unique smoke detector screws into any ceiling light fixture and operates off your home electricity. Reinstall the light bulb into the alarm, and now you’ve got a light source and smoke alarm in one! Recharges itself every time you turn the light…