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The Google Voice service transcribes voice mail messages ( by machine ) which can be somewhat off: “This is James a catholic area calling let you know that your car needs 8 number is that it is not opening and closing properly parts and labor to your place with them. That is about 481. Give [...]

The only way in is with the cutting wheel or chisel pry tool or hacksaw. The Apple power adapter (brick) wasn’t intended to be disassembled. The case is glue bonded. However with the power supply inop due to a separated output wire, what was there to lose by attempting a repair. A simple splice and [...]

If you’d have asked me if people would actually read (and enjoy) books on a 2 X 3 inch screen, I would have ____________.?! Well, it is not as horrible as one might think. Of course, if I have deep and permanent squint marks afterward then you’ll know better. (Font Aa size adjustable) The jurors [...]

WordPress is a great CMS apparatus which can be further enhanced with Plugins. A Routes extension, just installed, solved a need for a way to display a collection of jog tracks that I’ve built upon over the years. This plugin features an aggregate function which displays them all on a central map index. Routes has [...]

Browsing the Strombotne.com Google search query log shows “how old is lenord decarario” [sp] returning this site with a #4 page rank. Even better: “cogsley cogs” is number one! Can’t imagine that folks would be getting definitive answers to these topics from this layman.

Left the NJ Turnpike an exit too soon and was deposited in a ghetto of Elizabeth Port with no easy way out. Mean streets. Felt a bit like Chevy Chase in his Vacation movie about to ask for directions as he tries to get on with gangsters in Harlem. Lucky the Maps Google app on [...]

Didn’t want to brave the lines so popped into the Apple Store a day late (hoping that they’d have exhausted inventory and thus my CC would be safe) for a hands on demo. Surprise! Not only did they have several on the display table (w/finger prints and smudge marks) to handle but the cashier was [...]

Google has enhanced its Maps API and MapsGoogle will now display EarthGoogle KML files. Here is an example. The KML file is appended to the maps dot google URL. Use a web service like Gmaps Pedometer to build trace routes. Use Gmap to GPX and create a GPX file. This file can be imported into [...]

With the Cover View feature on the new iTunes 7 release, I was motivated to catalog my misc music files. Improperly tagged files will not pull the album art. Correct file name standardization helps but also one must be sure that the meta data gybes. I discovered several utilities that assist. Picard and Magic MP3 [...]

I do have some windowz only apps and didn’t want to mess with emulation or be without so I’ve committed sacrilege and installed the Microsoft OS on my new Apple notebook using virtual machine software called Parallels. SMS thinks that I am going to go to hell for doing that