I own a Toshiba T135 laptop. I’m very happy with it except for one detail. Well 2 if you count that it runs Windows 7, but I digress. The speakers are so quiet that you can’t hear anything. But I found a fix. (via)
You can increase sound DRAMATICALLY if you follow this steps:
Go to Control Panel
Select SMART AUDIO
On the lower part, select SMART EQ/3D SETTINGS
Select CUSTOM
Pull the buttons up (i have them still at number 7, quite enough as you will see)
On my flight from San Francisco to India and back in February, I had a LOT of time to watch movies. And it did.
Gi Joe: Rise of Cobra – splosions! Lots of splosions!
The Invention of Lying – a totally awesome and fun one trick pony
Astro Boy – awful
Love Happens – I really enjoyed it! A bit disjointed but I saw through that
All About Steve – a mistake. Poor plot, direction, script. 25 minutes was wayyy enough of that
Imagine That – 30 seconds strongly suggested that it was a bad “hilarity ensues” movie
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs – slapstick comedy for the 5-12 set. Not for grown ups.
Management – I gave it 15 minutes. Feh, it’s another blandly plotted Jennifer aniston movie
District 9 – wholely incomplete :-(. Unhappily amoral. Filled with dumb humans and aliens, pretty much too dumb to be believable.
Terminator Salvation – the first 15 minutes demonstrated poor storytelling. 20 minutes in, they gave a magic skynet shutdown code to only O’Connor, wha??? It’s a total retread but it has enough explosions to make up for it
An acquaintance from Noisebridge built this and first showed it off at Maker Faire last weekend. It is a fantastic example of the evolution (as in evolved just last week!) of soft circuits. I believe soft circuits are going to be BIG.
If you are sending money to someone via Paypal, you can now avoid paying their 3% + $0.30 fee.
It used to be that you had to receive the money at a “Personal” Paypal account to avoid paying fees. I wrote about this in 2008.
Now it’s easier. When you are sending money to your friend or whoever, just be sure to select that you are sending the money as a “Personal” charge and not a “Purchase”. See the image.
As long as you aren’t funding your account with a credit card, there are no fees :-). That’s right, no fees to send and no fees to receive. This is how Paypal was when it first started.
I pay for the Crashplan backup service and I’m quite happy with it. There is an option where you can backup to your friend’s computer for free. I’d like to trade backup space with a friend (you?) “just in case”. My backup is about 250 gig. I would happily trade about 250 gig on my computer with 250 gig on yours. What do you think?
The app runs with very low overhead. It runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Don’t worry, without the secret password I can’t view your data and you can’t view mine (assuming you trust the Crashplan software, which I do)
Black Jack Justice episode 36 “Journeys End” and it was riveting! Great storytelling! Listen to this half-hour radio play and you will become a fan as well!
