| August 26, 2008 | Cool Sites | Nasa Images | This site is where Nasa is starting to consolidate all of their media. Lots of neat images here, and much easier to find that it used to be! |
| June 25, 2008 | Cool Sites | Hawaii Food Resources | A good site to know, you can see which restaurants use more local foods, what brands of food are island-grown, etc. |
| June 24, 2008 | News | Information | This is a good little article about education in foreign countries, and the advantages it could have over using bombs. As I write this I am in the Philippines, 2 days ago my friend and I installed 3 ceiling fans in a local school. Within 5 minutes of being in the room we were drenched with sweat, when we were done the cool area was like paradise. I know those kids will have a much better time studying, it's hard to learn if you are very uncomfortable. Oh ya, and the kids here are super polite, they have very few problems, more like the US schools maybe 50 years ago. At $30 a pop, these fans would do a lot of good here! |
| June 23, 2008 | Information | What happens in your body when you drink soda | An interesting rundown on what actually happens inside you when you drink a coke. |
| June 22, 2008 | Shopping | AirWater Machine | This machine extracts water from air, up to 5 gallons of water per day. It also cleans that water, so this is a water cooler than you never need to refill! Not yet available, but it looks pretty cool! |
| June 21, 2008 | Cool Sites | Translate to L33t! | h3R3 1Z 4 k3Wl s173 7H47 l37z J00 7r4nSl473 73x7 1n70 L337. J00 k4n S3nd S0M3 73X7 wh1CH 1z Kw173 4 817 h4Rd3R 70 r34d 7H4N n0rM4l 73X7, 1 Uz3 17 n0w 4nd 7h3n Ph0R 1M 0r S3nD1N' 3M41lZ. l07z 0f pHun! ***TRANSLATION*** Here is a cool site that lets you translate text into L33t. You can send some text which is quite a bit harder to read than normal text, I use it now and then for IM or sending EMails. Lots of fun! |
| June 20, 2008 | Cool Videos | Glass | Shattering the strongest glass, it also describes how Tempered Glass works. |
| June 19, 2008 | Cool Videos | Airplane getting hit by lightning | This is a ver nice video to watch, considering in a few days I'm going to fly into a city that the weather forecast has Thunderstorms predicted. :) |
| June 18, 2008 | News | North Pole without Ice? | Interesting, the North Polar Icecap may melt this summer? That's big news! |
| June 17, 2008 | Cool Sites | GoogleTalk to real Phones | This FREE service lets you call people in about 30 countries and talk as much as you want for FREE. You also get a virtual number that they can use to call you. You do have to add their phone numbers to your list before you can call them or they can call you, but this is free international phone calls to landline or cell phones! Very cool. |
| June 16, 2008 | Cool Videos | Balloon Mime | Funny. |
| June 15, 2008 | Cool Videos | Jerome Murat | A cool video of a French Mime doing his thing. |
| June 14, 2008 | Cool Videos | Not a happy cat | This doesn't look like a happy cat. |
| June 13, 2008 | Interesting | Pets afraid of Washing Machine? | Keep reading on the page, lots of people have posted their stories. I've been reading them all. I've had a lot of laughs (some of which I feel a little guilty about it). I recommend you read them. |
| June 12, 2008 | Cool Videos | Case Tape 347 | Alien craft crashlands... fake? :) |
| June 11, 2008 | Cool Videos | Girl Spins on Escelator | Funny little clip. |
| June 10, 2008 | Technical | Quick and easy access to SysInternals programs | Microsoft bought SysInternals, since many of their utilities are much better than Microsoft's for tracking down problems. This site lets you download them very quickly and easily. procexp.exe is great for seeing what's running, much more information than Task Manager, and it lets you track down what a process is actually doing and where it's running from... |
| June 9, 2008 | Cool Videos | Christmas Crab Invasion | This is a cool video showing millions of crabs in their annual migration. I would love to see this in person.
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| June 8, 2008 | Cool Sites | Rasterbator | This site lets you upload an image, or link to one on the web, and it will slice it up and let you download it as a PDF sliced into as many pages as you want. You can then print them and you have a poster size from a few feet wide to wall-sized. A pretty neat program. There is an online version AND a downloadable version. |
| June 7, 2008 | Cool Sites | PicLens | This is a very interesting plugin for your webbrowser... it lets you view certain sites in 3D, such as YouTube... no ads, no distractions, just videos. And you can see dozens and dozens, just click one to start it playing... pretty cool! Looks like it's compatible with IE, Firefox, and Safari. |
| June 6, 2008 | Cool Sites | Bored? Watch grass grow! | You might have to be pretty bored to find this interesting... |
| June 5, 2008 | Cool Sites | Rifflet.com | This site lets people upload their ideas for songs. You can choose from several different licenses. An interesting idea. |
| June 4, 2008 | Cool Videos | Samsung Commercial - Optical Illusions | There are some interesting effects in this... |
| June 3, 2008 | Cool Videos | More slow-motion videos... | I love these slow motion videos... someday I will have a camera which can do it! |
| June 2, 2008 | Cool Videos | Kate Nicholas And Gin on Britain's Got Talent | This is a very talented dog! |
| June 1, 2008 | Cool Sites | Roz Savage | She is attempting to ROW ACROSS THE PACIFIC! She left San Francisco days ago and is on her way to Hawaii and then to Asia. How crazy is that? There is a GPS feature so you can track her progress as she rows and rows and rows.... |
| May 31, 2008 | Cool Sites | ReadTheWords.com | This is an interesting site... You can type (or paste) text and it will create an MP3 file you can either download or embed on a webpage. You can pick from some different voices. A very interesting site, my tests have been fun, but the voice isn't perfect (by any stretch). It's still fun! |
| May 30, 2008 | News | Tomato of the Sea | Growing tomatoes in salt water? Cool! |
| May 29, 2008 | Misc | Phone My Phone | This site lets you call your phone now or schedule it for whatever time you want in the future. You can do this to have a wakeup call. I haven't used it much and don't know how reliable it is, but it seems to work well. If you misplace your cell phone and don't have another phone to call it with you can use this. Don't use it for prank calls! |
| May 28, 2008 | Shopping | Hack your Canon Camera | This is interesting, this is a project that makes an alternate OS for many Canon cameras. It adds quite a few features, looks like it would be very nice. The only problem is I have an Olympus camera, not a Canon... I almost want to go search eBay for a good deal on a supported camera just to try it out... |
| May 27, 2008 | Shopping | Combyo | This is a deal aggregater, it searches many other deal sites. I've barely used it yet but like what I see. Great for hi-tech stuff, ok for lots of other things too. |
| May 26, 2008 | Cool Links | How to remove most of the seeds when cutting up a watermelon | Just what everyone should know... |
| May 25, 2008 | Shopping | eBay - Ghost Hunt/Hunter/Hunting 5 MP Digital Camera Infrared! | This camera has been modified to see ghosts... A few months from now this ebay link will not work any more, but search eBay for "infrared ghost" and you can find a similar one. |
| May 25, 2008 | Cool Sites | Google Translate | This site lets you translate websites or text from one language to another... They just added an auto-detect-language feature so you don't need to know the source language (which is handy). It works pretty good, but it's not perfect. |
| May 24, 2008 | News | Mars landing very dangerous | A story about the Nasa Phoenix on it's mission to Mars... |
| May 23, 2008 | Cool Sites | Amazon's DVD Release Schedule | This page shows you what movies come out every week on DVD, and easy way to see recent releases and see when the next good movie comes out. |
| May 22, 2008 | Cool Videos | Seeing Sound Waves | Turn your speakers down a bit, this gets kinda loud... Pretty cool. |
| May 21, 2008 | Shopping | SomethingStore | A good place to buy something, $10 with free shipping. You don't pick it out, it's a randomly selected item... Great birthday presents (well, 50% of the time they probably are). |
| May 20, 2008 | Shopping | Double Lidded Jar | Hmmm. A jar with a lid at both ends. Strange. |
| May 19, 2008 | Cool Videos | An Engineers guide to Cats | Funny video. |
| May 18, 2008 | Technical | drop.io / fax | Free fax service online! You can send and receive faxes for free online on this site. I haven't tried it yet but will be testing it in the near future, it looks like a cool system. |
| May 17, 2008 | Cool Sites | FontStruct | This is an interesting website, you can create your own font, for free, and download it. I played with it and it's kinda fun! |
| May 16, 2008 | Shopping | Infinity Goldfish Aquarium | This aquarium is a big loop so fish can swim around and around and around... if Goldfish really do have a short-term memory then they might have a lot of fun with this, always swimming into the unknown... |
| May 15, 2008 | News | Winter the dolphin gets a prosthetic tail | Not just for Humans anymore! |
| May 14, 2008 | Cool Videos | Magnets are fun! | I do love magnets... |
| May 13, 2008 | Cool Videos | Invisible Ink Printer | This is a cool hack, now you can print on paper with invisible ink... All you need is a UV (blacklight) to see the ink! |
| May 12, 2008 | Technical | Boolify Search | This site lets you build a Google Search, using AND, NOT, and OR. You build the search visually, and you can click the link More Results to see the full Google Search. If you are new to Boolean logic, this can help you understand it. |
| May 11, 2008 | Fun Stuff | Convert FLV to MP3 | This site lets you specify a link to a FLV file (such as a YouTube video), it will then let you save the audio as an MP3. You could find a documentary on there and save the MP3 and listen to it... some people (so I hear), do this to music videos to save the music...
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| May 10, 2008 | Shopping | Power Strip with Wattage Meter | This is a neat power strip which monitors power usage. You can check it and see how much power you used (in devices plugged into it) in the last hour, day, week, month, etc. You can plug your Refrigerator into it and see see how much power it uses in a week, etc. I don't have this, I use the Kill-A-Watt meter myself, it's a bit cheaper but only has one outlet and isn't a surge protector. Pretty cool.
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| May 9, 2008 | Cool Videos | Macbook Air / Lenovo Video | Here's a neat commercial for a Lenovo laptop... It could be called a Parody of the Mac Book Air. |
| May 8, 2008 | Cool Videos | Self Reassembling Robot | A neat video clip of several robot clusters that join and work together. Someday they will work better, thankfully it will be some years yet before Skynet activates... |
| May 7, 2008 | Technical | Windows XP Service Configuration and Optimization | This page lists all services installed in XP by default, and which ones you can safely turn off. You can save well over a hundred megabytes of memory and speed a computer up quite a bit with this info. |
| May 6, 2008 | Fun Stuff | Home Simpson - drawn using CSS | This is an interesting demo of a program someone wrote. You can give it a jpeg photo and it will generate the CSS code to show it on a webpage, not in an image, using CSS code. OK, so this may be more interesting to Techie people like me, but still... There is a Bush example up there too... |
| May 5, 2008 | Humor | Computers and Cars | This isn't true, but it's still funny.
At a recent computer expo,Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this part):
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh! would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive -- but would run on only five percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in unt i l you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.
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| May 4, 2008 | Technical | Google Search with Date Limiter | This link opens up a Google Search with Date Limiter box. You can search for items Google has found in the last day, week, month, etc. Google hides the date box by default, but this link forces it to be displayed. Pretty cool if you need more recent searches. |
| May 3, 2008 | Cool Videos | Super Water Slide Stunts | Cool video clip. |
| May 2, 2008 | Cool Videos | Transparent Laptop Screen | This is a cool video clip, showing a prototype transparent display for a laptop... |
| May 1, 2008 | Cool Videos | Slow Motion Videos | Some video clips of animals in ssslllooowww motion.... |
| April 30, 2008 | Shopping | Gold Plated Macintosh Laptop | Very nice looking, but a little out of my budget.... |
| April 29, 2008 | Cool Videos | If my nose was running money.... | A funny little song... funny... :) |
| April 28, 2008 | Cool Videos | Bubble City | An interesting video clip... |
| April 27, 2008 | Cool Videos | Nailed at 9 | This first little part of this clip is very good... the rest is just an advertisement for the show. |
| April 26, 2008 | Cool Videos | Robotic Restaurant | This place has no waiting staff, you order on a computer and and your food follows tracks down to you. Neat little video. |
| April 25, 2008 | Cool Sites | MapJack | This is a cool street view mapping service. They only have images of San Francisco at the moment... They have some cooler features than Google. This link takes you to the performance area of Pier 39, I was there in December of 2006 and watched a juggler do a little show on the stage. Enjoy. Click and drag the image to move it around. |
| April 24, 2008 | News | China's Instant Cities | A nice National Geographic article about Chinas booming cities. |
| April 23, 2008 | Cool Videos | No Pedals on this Tricycle | Heres a tricycle that you have to run to make it go (or use the magical force of gravity). |
| April 22, 2008 | Technical | Sony XP Drivers for Vista Laptops | This page has many XP drivers for laptops that only come with Vista. Sony doesn't support XP on new computers, but if you need XP, this page might help you achieve it. |
| April 21, 2008 | Cool Sites | April Fools! | If I worked in a cubicle environment, this would be a good joke! |
| April 20, 2008 | Cool Pictures | A very cool looking modded car... | This car looks pretty cool. |
| April 20, 2008 | Shopping | Casio EXILIM Pro Digital Camera | This has to be the best camera ever made. It has a feature where you can click the shutter button and it will capture 60 pictures in the next second so you will get that perfect action shot. It has another feature which is lets you go back in time a second or two (if you missed the perfect shot just rewind and it has it!). It also has high speed video capture (1200 fps). This means you can take one second of video and stretch it out to 40 seconds of smooth video... you can drop a knife on a water balloon and watch the water drops slowly fall... I want this camera. I can't afford it, but someday I will have a camera with these features! |
| April 19, 2008 | Cool Videos | Pigs Bladder Poweder will Regrow Fingers? | This is an interesting video clip... True or false? |
| April 19, 2008 | Cool Videos | Cat and a Crow | Wow, who would have thought they would have ever seen this? |
| April 19, 2008 | Cool Sites | Robot Name | Create your own robot name on this site. Airin stands for Artificial Intelligent Repair and Infiltration Neohuman. |
| April 18, 2008 | Cool Games | Twins | An interesting version of Bejeweled... |
| April 17, 2008 | Cool Games | Bubble Shooter | Bubble Shooter. Fun. |
| April 16, 2008 | Cool Games | 3D Frogger | Remember this old game? Here is a partial 3D version... |
| April 15, 2008 | Cool Games | Balloon Target Practice | Target the baloons.... |
| April 14, 2008 | Cool Games | Bejeweled | This is a fun little game, line up 3 jewels in a row to score... |
| April 13, 2008 | Shopping | Cell Phone Retransmitter | These devices pick up and retransmit cellular signals, acting like a micro cell tower themselves. You could set up the building model and you and your neighbors would have much better cell phone reception. Pretty cool. |
| April 12, 2008 | Cool Videos | Dogs best friend | An automatic Tennis Ball Shooter. A dogs best friend. |
| April 11, 2008 | Cool Sites | Bellavista's Biodigesting Treehouses Are Endor on Earth | This is a very interesting project. In Costa Rica they are building a village entirely in trees. They do have high speed wireless internet, and some very cool looking houses. It looks like some are still for sale, too bad they are out of my price range. |
| April 11, 2008 | Cool Games | Daeda Game | An interesting little game, I used to have a somewhat similar board game... |
| April 11, 2008 | Cool Games | GlopJS | A fun little game... This version allows you to rotate the blocks to put them back together... try to get as many of a single color next to each other before clicking on them. |
| April 10, 2008 | Cool Sites | Open Source 3D printer that replicates? | It can print itself? AWESOME! Well, sorta, but a 3D printer would be very cool to have. |
| April 9, 2008 | Cool Info | Plastic Tote Bag | Have a lot of extra plastic grocery bags, and lots of free time? Make one (or more) of these! |
| April 8, 2008 | Cool Videos | Mini RC Mico Aircraft | It hovers, flies around indoors, it looks like a lot of fun! |
| April 7, 2008 | Cool Sites | UFO House | This is a cool looking house. |
| April 6, 2008 | News | Solar Roof Tiles Soon | These look like these would be a good idea, especially here in Hawaii where electricity costs almost 5 times as much as Idaho... |
| April 5, 2008 | Shopping | IP Hardware KVM | Every Techies dream. Using a few of these, I could plug computers I'm working on into it at my shop and control them from home, EVEN if Windows won't boot. Very cool. Most other people don't need it, but it's still cool. Need to control a computer at a remote location? Works with any PC based system (Windows, Linux, not sure about Mac?) with a USB keyboard and/or mouse. |
| April 4, 2008 | Cool Videos | Microsoft's MySong | A neat program Microsoft is working on, you sing a little tune to the computer and it generates your musical backup. |
| April 3, 2008 | Cool Sites | Google predicts the future | Googles new search technology aims to predict internet content, stock prices, and more, about 24 hours in advance. Very cool stuff! |
| April 2, 2008 | Cool Sites | Life in the 1500's | This page tells about life in the 1500's, and how some of our common phrases started back then. A fun thing to read, it's only a couple pages. |
| April 1, 2008 | Cool Sites | Paper Lampshade | Ever wanted to make a paper lampshade? This site has all the instructions you need! |
| March 31, 2008 | Cool Games | 3 Player Chess? | This looks cool. I've always liked chess, and am pretty good at it. Anyone want to challenge me (in a normal 2 player game?) |
| March 31, 2008 | Cool Pictures | Bonfante Gardens | These are some of the coolest trees I have ever seen. You have to see them. |
| March 30, 2008 | Cool Videos | Super Water Filter | By the inventor or the Segway scooter, looks promising! |
| March 29, 2008 | Local | Hilo average temperatures and rainfall | This graph shows the average temperatures and rainfall month by month. |
| March 28, 2008 | Shopping | Slash-Proof Armored Tee | Interesting... clothing that looks pretty normal, and yet can protect you against a knife? Pretty cool. It's sad that something like this had to be developed, but for anyone at high risk, it may be a wise investment. |
| March 27, 2008 | News | $18,000 Shower? Only in first-class on an airplane... | Well, I supposed at that price I will have to limit myself to a couple showers per flight... Oh well. Crazy rich people. |
| March 26, 2008 | Cool Videos | ABB FlexPicker Robots | This machine is very fast and accurate, odds are something you have eaten was moved by one of these... |
| March 25, 2008 | Games | Computer is psychic? | The computer can guess your number... can you figure this out? It's all math, with a touch of mythology thrown in... If you want to know how they do it send me an email and I'll give you some hints... |
| March 24, 2008 | Cool Videos | Pancakes for your face | A cool stop-action video clip, this must have taken a long time to make! |
| March 23, 2008 | Technical | DoNotReply.com | This is an interesting site... Apparently a lot of people have put in fake return email addresses in their email client, and include something like myname@donotreply.com . This means that if your email bounces OR the recipient replies then it is sent to whoever has myname on the domain name donotreply.com will RECEIVE that message. This may not be a big deal for personal mail, but when a big company like Capital One and dozens of other banks do it, they are willfully sending very private information to this domain name. Any IT person who enters ON PURPOSE a reply domain that they don't control (or at least an email address under their control) should be FIRED immediately, no if's, and's, or but's. That would be like Bank of America sending out financial notices and putting NeverReplyToThis@airinscomputers.com as their FROM address. My email is a catch-all so I WOULD receive all bounced mail or any reply a customer sends (and usually they don't remove the included text so I could read it all). Bank of America would never use NeverReplyToThis@airinscomputers.com as their FROM line, but dozens of other supposedly secure financial institutions and hundreds of other websites have. Check out the blog on this site to read about some stuff he receives... |
| March 22, 2008 | Cool Videos | BIG DOG Robot | This is a very neat robot, it has very lifelike movements. Very cool. I could see this as being the template for a new Mars and Moon rover, it could cover a lot of area pretty quickly. Be sure to watch this! |
| March 22, 2008 | Cool Sites | You are Pre-Approved! | Tired of getting Credit Card offers in the mail? I sure am. Thanks to Popular Science, I found this site which lets you opt-out! |
| March 21, 2008 | Cool Sites | Google Moon | You can zoom into the moon, see craters, where our ships have landed (or, if you are one of THOSE people, where Nasa SAYS they landed... not that there is anything wrong with that, and I've read some compelling evidence, but I've seen more evidence showing we did land on the moon so that is my current belief). Anyways, enjoy! |
| March 20, 2008 | Cool Sites | Google Sky | This is very cool, you can explore the sky, stars, and planets using the Google Maps interface. Lots of fun. Enjoy! |
| March 19, 2008 | News | An AI 4-Year Old in Second Life | Interesting... If you haven't heard of Second Life, it's an online 3d virtual world. I've played in it a little but didn't find it very fun. |
| March 18, 2008 | Cool Sites | Aviary | An interesting site which has online image editing... It has some cool features, is very interactive. It allows you to create patterns, and has some other very interesting stuff. There are some cool videos showing it in action. It's currently by invite only, it took me about 4 days before I received my invitation. I have several invitations available so if anyone wants one send me a request. Aloha! |
| March 17, 2008 | News | Casino insider tells about security | Very interesting... I've stayed in Las Vegas a couple times, lost some money gambling (just a little), it's definitely an experience... |
| March 16, 2008 | Technical | Firefox 3 Beta 4 | This is the beta 4 version of the new Firefox... It has some neat new features, I am using this version full-time now and I do like it. It has some good improvements over Firefox 2.x. Check it out. |
| March 15, 2008 | News | MacBook Air confuses Airport Security | When I'm traveling I like to carry as little as possible, and so an ultralight laptop has great appeal. This can cause issues if the people in charge of security don't know how to determine what new devices really are.... |
| March 14, 2008 | Ideas | Extra Credit: Save the World | Kids write in with their ideas on how to 'Save the World'. |
| March 13, 2008 | Cool Videos | Homemade Slime in 5 minutes | This looks like a fun project. Maybe not all that useful, but lots of fun. |
| March 12, 2008 | Cool Videos | Etch-A-Sketch Clock | The title says it all. |
| March 11, 2008 | News | High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas | Trying to save a tipped ship and it's contents. A nice story, rather long. |
| March 10, 2008 | Cool Videos | Russian Jet fighter SU-30 | This jet seems to be VERY maneuvers in ways I haven't seen jets do before... |
| March 9, 2008 | Cool Videos | Animator vs Animation | OK, so it might not technically be a video, more of an animation, but it is still funny. And it shows a little of the hard work that people go through to make these kinds of things, an animation like this isn't something you make in a couple days, it takes lots of time. Enjoy! |
| March 8, 2008 | Cool Videos | Lightning in a Block | This Popular Science article shows how they make a lightning sculpture in a block of Acrylic. The Video clip is very cool. Check it out. |
| March 7, 2008 | Cool Videos | Minesweeper: The Movie | A funny spoof of the game minesweeper... (which if you don't know is a simple logic game which Microsoft includes with Windows) |
| March 6, 2008 | Cool Videos | Almost all 2008 Superbowl Ads | Some of these are quite funny... |
| March 6, 2008 | Cool Sites | Encyclopedia of Life | I've been watching this project for many months, and just found out it is now live. It's goal is to be a single resource for lots of information about all types of life found on our planet. Very cool. |
| March 5, 2008 | Cool Videos | Magic Trick - Cups and Balls | These guys (Penn and Teller) show you how it's done... |
| March 4, 2008 | Cool Videos | Star wars according to a 3 year old | A quick description of the movie... |
| March 3, 2008 | Shopping | Propane bottle refill kit | This lets you refill your little Coleman propane tanks for stoves. You can save a lot of money compared to buying new tanks for every use. And it's just a good idea to recycle anyways. |
| March 2, 2008 | Cool Pictures | Yummy Fruits | These look very good... well, some of them. |
| March 1, 2008 | News | 100 MPG Air Powered Car in US next year | This will be very cool if it does come out... |
| February 29, 2008 | News | Confessions of a BART Fartist | PG-13 - Hmm.. What else can I say? I don't (currently) condone or practice his methods. But I still couldn't stop reading. Oh well. |
| February 28, 2008 | News | Star Wars Guide to the Candidates | A StarWars guide to the current political US Candidates... |
| February 27, 2008 | Games | Spore | I've been watching this game for about 2 years now, I'm happy it is getting close to release. It comes out in early September. I will be preordering it, stop by my shop and give it a go when I get it! |
| February 26, 2008 | Technical | Use iPod to copy music from your Desktop to Laptop | Here are the instructions from Apple. I've had quite a few people ask me how to do this so I thought I'd post a link to the official instructions. This will show you how to copy your music collection to your ipod and then retrieve it on a different computer, you usually use this if you have your music on your desktop and now want to move it to your laptop. Uh huh. |
| February 25, 2008 | News | Go Airlines | Asleep at the wheel? Both the pilot and copilot fell asleep? And drove, err, FLEW, right by their destination? Hey, they are on Hawaiian Time! |
| February 24, 2008 | Fun Stuff | Google Earth | This is a neat program which lets you explore the globe with satellite photos. They have VERY RECENTLY added high quality imagery here on the Big Island, it seems to be about 1.5 years old here in Upper Puna (much better than Microsoft's maps, which are about 3.5 years old). This new imagery isn't yet available on GoogleMaps, when it does show up I will modify my Satellite Maps page to use Google by default since it will have higher resolution. |
| February 23, 2008 | Shopping | Pizza Hut Coupons | In this URL is an embedded zipcode at the end... Apparently, you can change it to other zip codes and find better or worse deals, any coupon you print seems to work at any store... Click here to see the post where I found out about it at, it has links to lots of good codes... |
| February 22, 2008 | Cool Videos | iBand | First iPhone band? |
| February 21, 2008 | Cool Videos | Youngest Baby Beatles Show - Hey Jude | Cute. He can sing better than I can. Very good considering he probably doesn't know english. |
| February 20, 2008 | Cool Videos | Little Girl Giant | This is... well, just a little bit creepy... |
| February 19, 2008 | Local | Unworthy | A local band that a friend of mine is in. They play here on the Big Island. Hi John! |
| February 18, 2008 | Information | Letter to College Board Asking For Clarification/Corrections | Here is a post from Michael Robertson, where he raises some serious questions about the overall financial future of College graduates VS High School graduates. Interesting, informative, enlightening, etc. |
| February 17, 2008 | Cool Videos | Hawaii Chair | Interesting... Only about $300, looks like fun... |
| February 16, 2008 | Cool Pictures | Topiary Sculpture Art | Some neat artwork... |
| February 15, 2008 | Cool Pictures | Pencil Art | Very cool sculptures, if a little too sharp. |
| February 14, 2008 | Google | Google Reader | This site lets you aggregate data from many websites into it. I use it to keep updated on news, technical stuff, funny pictures, etc. All the important stuff. If I get a couple requests for it, I will provide a RSS feed of my Link of the Day and Pic of the day, so that you can get them delivered automagically in your Google Reader. Send me a note if you want me to do this, as of now, nobody has requested it. |
| February 13, 2008 | Cool Photos | Dubai artificial islands | Wow, these are some big islands... The Southernmost one, from the South West side to the far North East side is about 5 miles... |
| February 12, 2008 | Cool Videos | How It's Made - Snack Cakes | Yummy. |
| February 11, 2008 | Cool Sites | 10 Sci-Fi Technologies we could build | If they weren't so expensive. |
| February 10, 2008 | Technical | TrueCrypt | TrueCrypt has now released version 5, which fully supports Windows, Mac, and Linux. It also offers full disk encryption, meaning if you computer is stolen nobody can recover your information without your password. I've been using a version of it on my laptop for years, I'm going to be upgrading to this new full disk encryption in the near future. If you have sensitive data on your computer (which I would define as something you wouldn't want a thief to know), I would highly suggest encryption. Don't forget to secure your backups also. I've worked with several people, helping them to secure their computers using encryption, I can help you out also. Don't wait until you have a data leak before you start protecting yourself, by then it may be too late. |
| February 9, 2008 | Cool Pictures | Sharkbelly Pictures - Cave | Some neat pictures of a cave in Fern Acres. |
| February 8, 2008 | Cool Videos | Google Maps is Evil | Very cool... |
| February 7, 2008 | Cool Sites | Dealipedia | A site which tells about deals with companies, who made the money, etc. Interesting... It's very new, so not very complete yet, but is getting better. |
| February 6, 2008 | Cool Videos | Magic Sand | This videos shows what Magic Sand is and how to make it... Looks like an interesting experiment. |
| February 5, 2008 | Cool Videos | KDE 4.0 Preview | This is one of the main GUI's for Linux, this shows some of the new features which are available... |
| February 4, 2008 | Cool Pics | Lots more cool pictures | This site has lots of more pictures, click Fresh Pics at the top, then you can pick a category on the next page. |
| February 3, 2008 | Cool Pics | Amazing Hand Painting Art | Some very cool hand painting here.... |
| February 2, 2008 | Gadgets | Super Flashlight | This flashlight is so bright it can burn paper, fry an egg... Warning: Don't look at the light! Very expensive, but if you need a REAL flashlight, this is it. |
| February 1, 2008 | Cool Videos | Megatech Avion RC Plane | A neat little remote controlled plane you can fly inside your house... Pretty cool, I want one! |
| January 31, 2008 | News | Cutting back on the Internet | One of the few ways to slow down the internet is to cut the cables... |
| January 30, 2008 | Cool Sites | Cmabrigde Uinervtisy | Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. |
| January 29, 2008 | Cool Videos | Star Wars 3 - A Lost Hope | This is a Parody of Star Wars... (WARNING: I would rate it at PG-14, has a little bad language in it), I've always been a star wars fan so it was still entertaining for 7 minutes. |
| January 28, 2008 | Cool Sites | Facebook - Airin | And this is my Facebook page. I don't have many links or friends on here yet, if you are on Facebook add me as a friend. Like my photo? |
| January 28, 2008 | Cool Sites | Myspace - AirinsComputers | OK, this is my myspace page. I haven't used Myspace much yet, but if anyone else here uses it, add me as a friend so it doesn't look sad that I only have 2 friends on there so far... I have posted a couple entries in the blog there, one describing a strange dream I had awhile back... |
| January 27, 2008 | Cool Videos | Dolphin plays with bubble rings | This is a pretty cool looking video... |
| January 26, 2008 | Cool Videos | Top Ten Superbowl Commercials for 2008 | I wonder what 2008 will bring... I don't really watch the football game, but it's interesting to see what many many Millions of dollars in ads brings... |
| January 25, 2008 | Cool Videos | Survivorman - Off The Grid | This guy talkes about how he built his house completely off the grid. This is the same guy who has a show on the Discovery channel where he shows how to survive in many different environments, I've watched quite a few of them. Interesting. Very long (over an hour long), but interesting. |
| January 24, 2008 | Local | Kea'au Natural Foods | Our local health food store. Lots of good stuff, including my favorite yogurt, Brown Cow brand Cherry-Vanilla, you have to try it! Cream at the top, fruit at the bottom, but start eating a bit before you mix it up... |
| January 23, 2008 | Cool Sites | I'mInLikeWithYou | This is kinda a strange site... it's mostly a social networking site, but I've always like the game Tetris and these guys have the game Blockles which is interactive (play with other people live online!) and also addicting... very addicting... You do need to create an account to be able to create or select a game to play... or send me a chat message and I'll make a game and invite you (then you don't need an account). It also has special items you can use, such as adding lines or removing lines or clearing the screen... You choose to use them on yourself or someone else. |
| January 22, 2008 | News | MacBook Air - Alternatives | Have you seen the new Macbook Air laptop? It's very cool. I'm going to post a link to a Google Video today describing it. It is a very nice thin laptop. This news article shows some PC alternatives. Good stuff. |
| January 22, 2008 | News | Buried Volcano discovered in Antarctica | Interesting... |
| January 22, 2008 | Shopping | MacBook Air | A video clip showing off the new MacBook Air laptop. A super thin and light laptop. Very nice. Thanks Apple! |
| January 21, 2008 | Shopping | Coolest Gadgets | This site has thousands of gadgets on it. This link takes you to the card that can run underwater... Pretty cool. Be sure to check out the other categories they have also, they have some neat stuff (category list is on the left hand side of the page). {Coolest-Gadgets, car, underwater, drive} |
| January 20, 2008 | News | Walmarts Bad FlipFlops | This page documents how someone bought some cheap flip flops at Walmart and for months lives in agony with chemical burns on their feet... Kinda scary. |
| January 20, 2008 | Information | Polyphasic Sleep | This is a very interesting subject. Polyphasic sleep is basically sleeping more than once per 24 hour, usually of a much shorter duration. This guy is doing 6 naps of 25 minutes each evenly spread throughout the day. I've been reading all of his blog entries on it (be sure to read Days 8-11, 19-20, 21, and 23-24. And ESPECIALLY day 60). I've mostly decided I am going to attempt this in the near future. If I do this, I will need to close my shop for half an hour around noon, so if I do that soon then you know why. {sleeping, polyphasic, naps} |
| January 19, 2008 | Shopping | Gelaskins | Some very cool gel coverings for laptops, phones, ipods, etc. Some very cool designs... |
| January 18, 2008 | News | Huge New Palm Found -- "Flowers Itself to Death" | Interesting article about a plant which spends all it's energy in making flowers to propagate... Like most species I guess, except for some humans... |
| January 18, 2008 | Cool Games | Scrabulous | This is basically online Scrabble. You can play by yourself, or find some other people online to play with. If I was a bit better it would be more fun, but I did get stuck and had to cheat to continue playing.. |
| January 17, 2008 | Cool Videos | Sand Fantasy - Love 2008 | A very cool sand art video. I wish I could draw like that. A very talented artist. |
| January 16, 2008 | Shopping | MagicJack | This is a cool device, you have a computer with high speed internet and plug this into it. You then get unlimited phone calls in the USA (and parts of Canada and Europe) for the great price of $20 per YEAR. It costs $40 for the first year including the hardware. I have not tested this yet, but I will be buying one soon. You can't beat that price. It has a phone jack on on the side so you just plug in any normal telephone into it, you could even wire it into your house wiring so all phones in your house use it instead of the local phone company. Again, I haven't tried it so don't know how reliable it is yet. If anyone has tried it, let me know what you think. |
| January 16, 2008 | Cool Videos | Whopper Freakout | This is a neat video showing how angry people get when told that Burger King discontinued the Whopper. I found it interesting, even though I am a vegetarian and have never ate a whopper before. |
| January 15, 2008 | Shopping | $2500 Tato Nano Car | A $2500 car? Now that's a deal. Looks cool too, I hope they start selling them here in the US. |
| January 15, 2008 | Technical | Computer Memory Guide | This guide tells you how to tell the difference between many types of memory. There are some tricky factors so a guide like this is invaluable. |
| January 14, 2008 | Cool Sites | Kona Webcam | This is a neat webcam that someone put up. You can control it with pan/tilt/zoom. It zooms way in, I saw people standing on a ship in the harbor. Very cool. |
| January 14, 2008 | Cool Pictures | Pyramids | These photos are of Leo Laporte's family trip to Egypt. Leo is an excellent podcast creator, he has lots of podcasts that I listen to every week. His 12 Megapixel images of the Pyramids are some of the best I have ever seen. |
| January 13, 2008 | Technical | ChangeDetection | This site lets you specify a webpage, and they will e-mail you everytime that page is updated. This very handy, I use it to watch some sites which are infrequently updated so I know when there's something new and it is time to revisit. |
| January 13, 2008 | Local | Facebook | Here's the multi-million dollar website Facebook. I haven't used it much yet, or any other online social network. For anyone who wants to check it out, here's the link to the local Hawaii group. If you join, add me to your Friends list. Direct link to my profile. |
| January 12, 2008 | Cool Sites | Something Awful | This site has lots of Parody, Comedy, and... something else. This link takes you to the Photoshop section, where people have modified images... There are some cool ones in there. Site has lots more stuff like news, movies, games, etc. Just about anyone can find some part of this site to waste an hour exploring.. |
| January 11, 2008 | Photographs | Photo.net | This site has tons of nice photos people have uploaded. |
| January 10, 2008 | Cool Videos | What song is this? | You have to listen to it all, you will be able to figure it out about half way through... That took some time to memorize that song... Pretty cool, or a big waste of time? |
| January 10, 2008 | Cool Sites | OddCast Text to Speech | This is a neat site, you can type some text and the computer animation will speak it, all online. You can pick from several languages and voices. |
| January 10, 2008 | Technical | Circuits for the Hobbyist | This is a neat little site, they have diagrams for lots of neat simple electronic circuits you can make. I've only made one of the ones found here but it works great (I made the Dark/Light Activated Relay) |
| January 9, 2008 | Cool Videos | Will It Blend? | This is an interesting site... They use their industrial strength blenders to blend all kinds of stuff (marbles, iPhone, dolls, toilet plunger, rake handle, glowsticks, etc). It satisfies that urge to blend stuff in your blender. |
| January 9, 2008 | Technical | Synergy | This is an interesting little program. You install it on multiple computers next to each other, and you can move your mouse from one to the next. Your one keyboard can work with multiple computers at once, even when the other computers run DIFFERENT OPERATING SYSTEMS! You can have, say, XP, Vista, and Mac OSX. Very cool. Freeware! |
| January 8, 2008 | Cool Sites | Shoe Lacing Methods | This site shows you lots of different methods for tying your shoes. Some very cool looking lace styles here... {shoes, lace, lacing, tie, knots} |
| January 7, 2008 | Cool Sites | Random Picture Finder | This site lets you view random images via Google Images. It makes up a common filename cameras use and searches Google for you. You can see all kinds of random images people have put online. |
| January 7, 2008 | Technical | MDGx Max Speed - Windows tricks and secrets | This site has TONS of tricks and info about all versions of Windows. There is so much it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. It's not very easy to find what you want, but there is a lot of good info here! |
| January 7, 2008 | Technical | Computer Zen | This page has a list of TONS of very good programs for power users. Lots of them are freeware, and the ones I really like I will add links to my site. |
| January 6, 2008 | Shopping | Get A Human when calling on the phone | This site tells you what buttons to press when you call a company's phone system and get trapped in the computer voice prompts. Especially good for those people who get really frustrated with the annoying voice telling you everything about stuff you don't care about. |
| January 5, 2008 | Fun Stuff | World Clock | This is a neat page, it shows approximate world population, births, deaths, and lots of other stuff. Check it out. |
| January 4, 2008 | Cool Pictures | Dark Roasted Blend | Some interesting and strange pictures... This site has lots more stuff like this on it... Good for a few smiles. |
| January 3, 2008 | Technical | Vector Magic | This is a cool service, you can take a picture (which is a Raster image) and this site ONLINE converts it to a vector image. You have some control over the conversion. The output quality is EXCELLENT! I used it to take a photo of my sign (Airin's Computers), the size of which wasn't very big. I then vectorized it, and it looks pretty crisp and clear at 10x bigger than the raster image. Lets see, a clearer way to put it... You can take a little picture of something (things like logos or signs with less than hundreds of colors) can be changed so they are clear when they are much larger. |
| January 3, 2008 | Shopping | CTR-350 Cellular Travel Router | This router connects to a Verizon USB Cellular Wireless Internet device. It then broadcasts internet via 802.11b Hotspot. Using this, and the Verizon service (somewhere around $60 per month), you can share the internet connection with multiple computers. I helped set this up for a customer here and it works flawlessly, he has been using it for a couple months with no problems. If you are using the Verizon wireless service, and need to use it on more than one computer, this is the way! |
| January 2, 2008 | Shopping | Inverters R Us | Here in Hawaii many people live off grid. If you have a serious system, you probably have a big inverter like a Trace. If you have a smaller system, then a smaller inverter may be what you need, these guys have them. They also have Full Sine Wave inverters, which give very high quality power. |
| January 1, 2008 | Technical | Scriblink | This site lets you doodle online (drawing stuff), and you can invite other people to collaborate with. I've used it a few times to draw some sketches while on the phone with someone, it helps to see what each other really are thinking about. |
| December 31, 2007 | Cool Videos | Tenori-On Synthesizer | This is a very cool device which lets you make music. I think I could make some music on it that wouldn't make everyones ears bleed, and it looks like it would be lots of fun. Too bad it's $1200 now, but that should come down with time. Very cool. |
| December 31, 2007 | Weird | Destroy my website | I recently found out about this site, it lets you apply some fun effects to a website (Thanks to Leo Laporte for mentioning it on your tech podcast). You can click through and see it on my site, but at the top of the page you can type in the URL to any site to see the effects on other sites.. |
| December 30, 2007 | Cool Videos | A normal day for a very lucky guy... | A neat video clip, what if your day had dozens of one-in-a-million things happen to you... |
| December 30, 2007 | Education | Periodic Table | I've always liked Science, this site has an awesome Periodic Table. Someday I want to get one of these posters. I have a printout I made of the Periodic Chart on my wall, but it's just a black and white one I printed, this is a very nice poster. |
| December 29, 2007 | Shopping | Inkjet Printers | Is your printer lying about when it's ink cartridge is empty? At close to $8,000 per gallon, every drop counts! Click here to visit the Slashdot article which has lots more interesting commentary on this. |
| December 28, 2007 | Cool Videos | Water Vortex | Need I say more? This is just cool! And the fact that they use magnets (I love magnets) makes it all that much cooler! |
| December 28, 2007 | News | 30 Years of Star Wars Christmas Cards | Some of these are pretty cool... Then Again, I've always been a Star Wars fan, I've read most of the books (even the kid ones!). |
| December 27, 2007 | Cool Flash | Amazing Expanding Universe | A song with some info about the dimensions of the universe... |
| December 26, 2007 | Search | Google Suggest | I've been using Google Suggest as my home page for a couple years now, I love it. You have to try it to experience it, but as you type it shows similar things other people search for. As a Tech it's great for typing in error messages, but it also helps you spell hard to spell words. I recommend it to everyone for your homepage! |
| December 25, 2007 | News | Cheap Solar Panels | Looks like cheaper solar panels are coming, this company (Nanosolar) is planning on $1 per watt solar panels.... Here in Hawaii, current prices are more like $6 per watt. At $1 per watt, a lot more people could afford to use them. |
| December 25, 2007 | News | 12 Year Glow Paint | This is some cool paint, it glows for 12 years (actually longer). It looks like it's glowing because of Tritium. I used to have some Tritium 3 in some glass tubes, and yes, it does glow, not as bright as a glowstick but then again it glows for years without recharging. It is radioactive, but they are only Alpha particles, which means the glass or even a piece of paper stops them. It still could be dangerous if ingested... Anyways, it's still cool! |
| December 24, 2007 | Technical | Firefox 3.0 Beta | The new version of Firefox is getting closer to being released... I think it might be close enough that I might start using it now. Right now I'm running with Firefox 2.0.11 (currently the latest version). If you are still using Internet Explorer I would recommend you switch! |
| December 24, 2007 | Technical | Tech Support Nightmares | Here are some technical support nightmares, be sure to read "Come Again?" |
| December 23, 2007 | Weird | Airin as an Elf | This video clip will probably stop working in the first week of January... Thankfully. I'm just putting it here so I have a link to it, I don't think anyone would actually want to watch me dance around dressed up as an elf making a fool of myself, just skip this link and go to the next one. |
| December 22, 2007 | Cool Videos | Hulu | This site lets you watch some TV shows online, legally. You do need high speed internet. I've just watched some old Doogie Howser, and I might try to catch up on the Pretender (I always liked that show). Lots more there too. You do have to get an invitation, it took me about 2 weeks before my invitation came. Quality is pretty good (great compared to most other online video), only a few 15 seconds commercials per half hour show, much less than real TV. Nothing to download, all online. Pretty cool! |
| December 21, 2007 | Shopping | Super-Bright 24 LED Tap Light | A 2-pack for $9... Not sure what shipping is, but I've ordered lots of stuff from this company and shipping has always been reasonable (to us here in Paradise AKA Hawaii). Looks like a cool light, I wonder if it really works... |
| December 20, 2007 | Weird | Gas Blender | Gas Blender? Interesting... |
| December 19, 2007 | Cool Videos | IM Fight | These guys are having a high tech gradeschool fight... A bit funny... and sad... |
| December 18, 2007 | Cool Videos | Robin Williams plays new computer game 'Spore'. | This looks like a very cool game, I think I will be purchasing it when it comes out (March 3rd, 2008). And Robin Williams is always funny, combined, you have a hit. |
| December 17, 2007 | Cool Videos | My name is Lisa | Quote: "My Name is Lisa" is a short film about the Alzheimer's Disease, which is one of many serious and scary diseases still without a cure. Alzheimer's causes gradual memory loss. : Endquote |
| December 16, 2007 | Cool Videos | Train Snow Plowing | Very cool, well, cold. As neat as this looks, I think I want to stay in the tropics in the winter. I spent about 18 hours on a train last December, traveling through snow country, although I don't think we were plowing the snow... |
| December 15, 2007 | Cool Videos | Skyscraper Laser Graffiti | How about writing on buildings with a laser... |
| December 14, 2007 | Cool Pictures | Worth 1000 | This site is very cool, I've spent more than a couple hours here in the past few years... Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cool pictures, most modified... Check out "Sliced and diced", "Supersize It", "Unauthorized Far Side Tribute", "Animal Crossbreed", "Animal Mix & Match", "Animal Proportions", and "Bad Medicine 2" is pretty good too...) |
| December 14, 2007 | Cool Pictures | Bugs with Saws? | Need I say more? This is almost worth1000... |
| December 13, 2007 | Cool Videos | Mini RC Helicopter | Now this looks like fun, I'd love to get this for Christmas! |
| December 12, 2007 | Shopping | Swiss Army Knives on sale | Amazon has some pretty good deals on Swiss Army Knives... I pretty much only deal with a few brands for pocket knives, Victorinox, Wenger, and Leatherman. I have about a hundred of various models I bought used, and it's rare to find me without one in my pocket... Even so, I see a couple models here I could use... One thing I do like about Amazon is many of their products have free shipping if shipped from them directly and your order is over $25. I buy lots of stuff from them. |
| December 12, 2007 | News | Basking in the moonlight | What if you had tons of mirrors to reflect the moonlight into a smaller area, where you could enjoy the reflected light.... These people made it a reality! |
| December 11, 2007 | Cool Videos | Complaint Choir | Like to hear people sing about things people complain about? Here's your choir! |
| December 10, 2007 | Cool Videos | Octopus eating a shark | Hmm.... |
| December 10, 2007 | Cool Videos | Smart Car Crash | Crashing a car on purpose to test it's 'survivability'... |
| December 9, 2007 | Cool Videos | Octopus escaping through a 1 inch hole | This is very cool... |
| December 9, 2007 | Cool Videos | Stop Motion Video Effects | This video shows an example of stop motion video effects... about 5 minutes long, it takes a lot of editing to make this kind of video! |
| December 8, 2007 | Cool Videos | Julian Beever Sidewalk Art Video | How he does it! His Sidewalk art is amazing... |
| December 7, 2007 | Cool Videos | The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes | This kid is totally blind, but he uses Echolocation about as well as Dolphins and Bats.... simply amazing how well his sense of hearing is. |
| December 6, 2007 | Cool Videos | Amazing RC Helicopter Flying | This guy is incredible, at first I thought it had a fake blade and they were controlling it like a string puppet, well worth watching! |
| December 6, 2007 | Cool Videos | Kids Ride A Zip Line To School | Now this is amazing, it does look like fun, maybe not for 7 year old kids though... |
| December 5, 2007 | Cool Videos | Water power? | Now THIS is very interesting... a water powered car, torch, and more? |
| December 5, 2007 | Cool Videos | Card Trick | Pretty good, I wish I could do that... |
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