August 27, 2009 by David.

Interesting NaturalNews article on batteries, their life & capacity, and how some manufacturers actually put an AA battery inside a D battery!

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August 22, 2009 by David.

Good green or blue chroma keying isn’t easily done if you want really clean edges, retain all the strands of a person’s hair, and things like that. I just ran into PhotoKey on TubeTape.net, thanks to a YouTube video by IceflowStudio. Although I haven’t used it personally yet, it looks very promising (read: better than what is in Adobe’s products).

Check it out if you are in the market for chroma products.

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August 22, 2009 by David.

We may be moving into a place that doesn’t have broadband availability from any land sources so I’ve started checking out satellite and all satellite providers have comparatively low bandwidth caps, so I thought I should start monitoring my usage. I came across Net Meter by Hoo Technology on CNet’s site. It is $20 after a 30 day free trial. I am finding it simple to install and use and it has very informative reports - just what I was looking for. Here’s how CNet describes it:

“Net Meter monitors network traffic through all network connections on the computer it’s installed on, and displays real-time graphical and numerical downloading and uploading speeds. The software supports to display transfer rates of multiple network connections at the same time. It also logs network traffic and provides daily, weekly, monthly, and summary traffic reports. And start days of week and month are customizable. The program allows you to setup a notification to get an alert when you exceed a certain amount of bandwidth usage. And, traffic stopwatch enables you to test bandwidth speed of connections. You can also record transfer rates of connections. Net Meter works with the majority network connections including phone modems, DSL, cable modem, LAN, satellite, wireless, and VPN.”

I also tried a free bandwidth monitor from CNet on my laptop but it is like a toy compared to Net Meter.

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August 12, 2009 by David.

For $3.00/user/month myOneLogin will allow others to sign into many applications using your password but not seeing what it is. When you want to end their access, you just delete their myOneLogin account and access is immediately removed from all programs you set them up to access. By extension, this means you can set up “single sign-on” so each person only has one password to remember. Pretty slick. There is a free trial too. 

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August 12, 2009 by David.

Recently I dropped AccessLine eFax service because of on-going phone line connection difficulties and signed up for MyFax instead. So far they are working fine.

MyFax offers a free eFaxing service. I am using the paid service as I need a consistent FAX number to give people, but for some the free computer-based service will be all they need. Max of two faxes per day up to 10 pages each without even setting up an account. You can also send MS Word, PDFs and 175 other file formats.

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August 3, 2009 by David.

Then try what Trina Thompson did - sue the college for the tuition costs because three months later in a down economy and barely adequate grades you haven’t landed a job! Let’s see, IF an employer actually looked seriously at you, most will do an Internet search and guess what pops up for Trina Thompson - a suit against her alma mater. Hello? What better way to say, “Run the other way as fast as you can” to a potential employer.

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