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After I made my Webcam Cart and blogged about it a package I'd forgotten about arrived. It was a cheap " Zeikos ZE-WA37S 37mm 0.45X Wide Angle Lens ." Only $10. I've looked all over for wide-angle webcams and they just don't exist. Over the
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The Wife and I travelled all over the world before we had kids (and all over the world after, actually...both boys have been on three continents) and amassed a huge pile of Video Tapes of our travels. I started with a Sony Digital 8 camera that recorded
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I'm afraid I'm a utilitarian gift giver. I can't imagine not being this way. I basically look at a person's life-workflow and I look for ways to make some tiny thing slightly easier. Like a teacup with your name on it if yours keeps getting pinched at
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While I (really) unplugged in December of 2009, you can access a nice calendar of all my 2009 posts (as well as other years) at this link . In 2008 I published a Greatest Hits post that I will keep updated, but here's a list of links to the posts I most
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Wow, this was the longest time I've ever gone without blogging. It was very interesting being (reasonably) unplugged. I was even more unplugged this time than last year when we spent Christmas in South Africa (where I was blogging near-daily over a cell
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I just can't say enough about multiple monitors. I've had two monitors since 2003 and three since later that same year and have been hooked ever since. If you're working on a computer I'm convinced you need to fill your field of vision with the work at
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There's been jokes for years asking if I sleep . I do tend to stay up late and I get a lot done between 2am and 5am, but I sleep quite nicely, thank you. However, I've always been fascinated by sleep. How long does it take me to fall asleep and how deep
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My one-hundred-and-eighty-ninth podcast is up . It's the day after Thanksgiving (in the US) and we're making our way deep into the holiday season. Scott chats with Richard Campbell and they each share their best gadget gifts for the geek in your life.
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I love my Kindle. I've talked about this before in my quest for the perfect ebook reader: 2006: Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle - Will eBooks happen this time? 2008: Amazon Kindle 2009: A year with an Amazon Kindle (and new Kindle Cases) Late 2009: Amazon
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There are few issues that divide computer people like that thousand-year-old question: How many icons should you have on your desktop? Some folks say, "Load 'em up! Make those pixels work for you." Others say, "I like a fresh bowl desktop
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I installed a PILE of new drivers tonight from Lenovo using their most awesome System Update 4.0 . Included was a Bluetooth Stack update . On a whim, I tried to pair my Jawbone Bluetooth Headset , something that has never worked before, and it worked!
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Somewhere around 2002, Microsoft Research started trying to figure out how to virtualize a WiFi adapter so one physical adapter could act as multiple virtual adapters. This functionality is actually baked into Windows 7, so if you've got 7, you've got
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My one-hundred-and-eighty-third podcast is up . This wacky episode of Hanselminutes was recorded at 3am on a sad, sad Saturday morning with an intrepid group of UStream and Twitter users who watched Scott chat about gadgets and technology and ultimate
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As a remote worker, I really need decent internet when I'm not in my home office. Sometimes I'll be at the local coffee shop, but more and more restaurants with Wi-Fi are kicking folks out who are leaching their bandwidth. I probably, in aggregate, waste
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I've owned just about every Microsoft LifeCam there Microsoft makes. My first was the LifeCam NX-6000 and I've been upgrading ever since. I have been using a VX-7000 for the last year and it's a fine webcam. Best I've used, really, until now. I just picked
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