Blog from the Loft

I switch between mac desktop, windows desktop, my smartphone, and pure web when reading and writing emails all day. Using IMAP, everything stays in sync — one of the few wonders of the Internet. However, on the mac running Mail.App, I couldn’t get my sent mail to store on the IMAP server for other to [...]

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Marble runs are always fun. There are lots of different styles out there. Most are either the blocked based like cuboro, or rail based like quercetti, or combination of both like haba.
Now there is a new kid on the “block”. Q-Ba-Maze. It’s a plastic cube based system with a different. See the interview, and check [...]

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Hot off the announcement press. Finally we have the complete solution to a great home movie setup. The new Panasonic video recorders are great, but until now you cannot edit the movies. Upgrade to iMove 2008 and you can.
The HDC-SD1, for SD card, and the HDC-DX1, for record directly onto DVD, are video recorder with [...]

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I live on my palm Treo. I realized that the one non Palm application that I use the most is — Handy Shopper. A freeware shopping list manager. It is a little quirky. But it does the job. It is the perfect app for a PDA. Go try it out.
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I mentioned earlier that I was testing out BlogJet, a commercial blogging client for Windows with a 30 days trial. It’s 30 days. I liked the product, it is very simple to use. It does not support Amazon associate product linking. If it did I might have paid for it. $39.95 is not cheap for [...]

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Movies are a great source for finding good music. The Devil Wears Prada (Widescreen Edition) is a nice little movie. The The Devil Wears Prada soundtrackis even better. The song at the beginning, Suddenly I See hooked me. A little research turned out a very nice Scottish/Chinese/Irish singer songwriter, KT Tunstall. Fortunately, this song is [...]

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News from International Herald Tribune – Ford Sells Aston Martin. Maybe it’s growing up with James Bond, but Aston Martin will always be one of my fav brand. Has anyone notice the inside joke in Casino Royale, when James Bond first arrived, he drove a — Ford. Only after his first little success he got [...]

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Blogging online directly sometimes deter writing longer posts. After some research I am going to give BlogJet a try. First thing first, configuration is not as easy as it seems. I have my own server installation of wordpress. BlogJet will not auto detect my server. I need to manually configure the account by specifying:

select “WordPress” [...]

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I rented Transporter 2 because I liked Transporter 1. The first one has a great premise, and started one of my fav Chinese Actress Shu Qi. A guy, a girl, tricked out Audi. What more do you want? I really did not expect too much from Transporter 2, but minutes into the movie, the fight [...]

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