This is very cool - using mechanical actuators to work a piano's keyboard (a proper piano, not an electronic one) they generate recognisable speech. Make: Online : Mechanical reproduction of digitized speech on a piano.
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Charlie’s Diary: Jeff Bezos Eats Kittens
A post on why the Kindle now being sold worldwide isn't to everyone's liking - this is from the sci-fi author Charlie Stross. Basically, Amazon are screwing down the price on eBooks and it's not Amazon that are hurting from...
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John Nack on Adobe: Image science radness o’ the day
I missed this when it was originally posted, but it's worth checking out as it takes something like Content Aware Scaling to the next level: John Nack on Adobe: Image science radness o' the day. In particular, check out the...
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User Interface Hall of Shame
Here's the first entry in my very own User Interface HALL OF SHAME. (Yes, it's in all caps, as it's in a deep, booming voice with plenty of reverb.) This is one that has bugged me for years, and when...
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Adobe Creative Suite 3 Known Issues with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Here is a list of known issues from Adobe for Creative Suite 3 on Snow Leopard: Adobe Creative Suite 3 Known Issues with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. None of them look like show-stoppers to me, but forewarned is...
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How Mac OS X reports drive capacity
Interesting technote to read from Apple - they are changing the way that Mac OS X 10.6 reports the size of a disk. In the past, they have used 1MB=1024kB and 1GB=1024MB, but now in line with standard SI Units,...
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Adobe Snow Leopard FAQ
The sky isn't falling - Adobe clarify their position on the Creative Suite apps and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Essentially Adobe aren't going to divert development resources away from CS5 to fix any bugs in CS3 that appear...
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Tech Support Cheat Sheet – xkcd
This is pretty well spot-on - print it out and keep it handy to save calling me. xkcd - A Webcomic - Tech Support Cheat Sheet.
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Fast Wireless Data
This is simply incredible A 13-inch-long tube, called a Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier, is making it possible for scientists to receive massive amounts of images and data from the orbiter at an unusually fast rate. It is the first high...
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Weird iCal Server Issue
I had an issue today where a client's iCal Server logs would show lots of: "Unable to find any record with GUID..." events, constantly. iCal was slowing down for everyone, server-based calendars either took ages to update with changes, or...
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