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LinkedIn Group Management Problem

May 23, 2010

LinkedIn is one of those sites that you hate but use. It is boring. It has horrible user interface. But it is useful as a secondary professional network — to loosely stay in touch with professional acquaintances.
There is however one ridiculous problem with how it support groups. You can setup a group for managing communications [...]

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Broher MFC 7840W wireless network multiple function printer review

May 2, 2010

For the new office I need a new printer. Specifically the requirements are:

works well with Mac and PC
works well with Linux a plus
need a copier function — we don’t print much these days, but we do have the occasional copy need, copying sketches made in meeting for clients for example
reasonably fast
laser instead of ink — [...]

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My New iPhone 3G

July 11, 2008

Yes. I got one. Spent total of six and a half hours. Worth it? Yes. Weather was nice, a little hot but not too much. Apple staff were very nice. Especially Alex — She worked the line. Gave out (free) water, candy, went to get sunblock and more candy, even picked up a pizza for [...]

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A great scanner for the Mac – ScanSnap S300M

June 29, 2008

Just wrote up a review for this little scanner. Great automatic document feeder. Great scan quality, and speed. Just wish it is cheaper. Read and watch the full review here on the review page.

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Review Extech Digital Multimeter EX330

April 20, 2008

My DMM arrived today from Amazon. First surprise — I came in a blister pack. The good nice is that it is an easy open blister pack. Remove the lone staple at the top and pull open the pack top to bottom. The bilingual (English/Spanish) user manual is tugged inside the backing paper sheet.

The meter [...]

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Snap Circuits SC 300

January 1, 2008

My love of electronics and computers, which defined my career, can be traceback partially to having a electronic building block toy when I was very young. Back then, we do not have Snap Circuits. The toy/kit that I had was more powerful and less user friendly. You can only buy that kit as a specialty [...]

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Infrant NV+ RAID Failure, and replacement Part 2

December 9, 2007

*Updated*: This is the link to the official instructions (too late).
The replacement power supply unit arrived from Infrant. There are no instructions accompanying the unit. So I started to look around the NV+ to see how I can open it up and perform the replacement:
1. Take out the disks after labeling them. I think [...]

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I got a Kindle

December 6, 2007

I have been waiting for a real e-book reader for awhile. The Sony 505 almost is it, but the book store software and collection size, and the price of books just do not do it for me.
It took Amazon, the worlds “bigest book store”, to design a device and an experience that works. Read my [...]

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Reducing Junk Mail, part II

November 25, 2007

I blogged earlier, I decided to give 41pounds.org a try. They will help me reduce my junk postal mail. I got a packet from them. It contains six pre-filled post card addressed to various data services. They even included the stamps. I am to sign the cards and mail them back to those service centers; [...]

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Case for the new iPod

September 10, 2007

So I have my new 3rd gen iPod Nano. I need a case. Not much choice at this point. So it’s time to start a watch list:

Apple iPod Nano Armband. Avail Now. $29.00
Griffin Technology iClear, and Reflect, and others, Coming soon
iSkin, none announced yet.
ifrogz Full Body Shield $19.95, avail Now, see also Screen Shield
ifrogz [...]

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