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Archive for August, 2004
Windows XP Game Advisor
Thursday, August 19th, 2004Car care products – ‘Paul’s picks’
Tuesday, August 10th, 2004A list of products the author highly recommends.
CanadianDriver: Product review – Car care products – ‘Paul’s picks’
DVD copiers
Tuesday, August 10th, 2004Now that 123 Studios has been shut down by the MPAA lawyers, you have to look further to exercise your fair use rights. Here are some possibilities.
and my previous post: Copying DVDs with ease
Japanese get first mobile wallets
Tuesday, August 10th, 2004Looks like the power and usefulness of a cellphone is constantly increasing. Of course there will be transaction charges associated with the airtime used, so the telcos love it.
StoryPlace – The Children’s Digital Library
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004An interesting resource for children’s books and activities.
Digital memories survive extremes
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004They put 6 formats of memory cards through the wringer, and they survived. Good to know that you can do most anything to the card, and have it survive.
They were dipped into cola, put through a washing machine, dunked in coffee, trampled by a skateboard, run over by a child’s toy car and given to a six-year-old boy to destroy.
Perhaps surprisingly, all the cards survived these six tests
Most of them did fail to get through two additional tests – being smashed by a sledgehammer and being nailed to a tree.
Even then, data experts Ontrack Data Recovery were able to retrieve photos from the xD and Smartmedia cards.