2007-07-07 04:22:00
In 1765, a 22-year-old British naval officer named James Rennell set out to map the entire Indian subcontinent. Traveling with a small party of soldiers, he used the advanced technologies of the day: a compass and a distance-measuring wheel called a perambulator. During the six-year journey, one soldier was killed by a tiger, five were mauled by a leopard, and Rennell was wounded in an attack by angry locals. He survived, and his detailed maps and atlas, published in the 1780s, defined British understanding of India for generations.Years later, a British geographer wrote that, to Rennell, "blanks on the map of the world were eyesores." More than two centuries later, within the decidedly safer confines of Building 45 on Google 's Mountain View, California, campus, John Hanke clicks the 3-foot image of Earth projected on his office wall and spins it around to India. Hanke, the director of Google Earth and Google Maps , zooms in for a closer look at Bangalore. At first, the city appeared i
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iPhone: Send the current Safari URL to someone by email
2007-07-07 01:33:00
Find a great webpage on your iPhone and want to share it with someone? There is a quick and easy way to do this.While viewing the page you want to send in Safari , tap in the address bar which will expand as though you are going to type in a new URL.Tap the Share button at the top left of the screen and a new email composition will open with the URL included in the body of the email and the page's title as the subject line. Just add the email address and maybe a note in the email and you're ready to send it.
RealPlayer 11: Enable Web Downloading to Grab Internet Videos
2007-06-29 01:30:00
The new RealPlayer makes it easy to download and play videos you view in your web browser, such as those from
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Windows Live Writer: Enable Reminders for Adding Categories and/or Tags
2007-06-29 01:20:00
You get so focused on the content of your blog posting, that you forget to add the categories and tags for it. I usually have to go back and add this afterwards, each time thinking that I'll do better with the next posting. Windows Live Writer can be set to remind you to add categories and/or tags before publishing.Here's how to enable this helpful functionality:1. Open Windows Live Writer.2. Click Tools and select Options.3. Select Preferences from the left pane.4. Under Publishing, check the Remind me to add categories before publishing and/or the Remind me to add tags before publishing checkboxes.5. Click OK.
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OS X - Triple booting XP, Vista, and OSX86
2007-06-28 23:34:00
This tips will explain how to boot your OSX86 install using the Vista bootloader. This tips assumes you have installed XP and Vista prior to OS X.First things first; no i did not figure this out on my own rather have decided to compile the posts i've found and info into a nice and easy recipe. I had originally tried to use WinGRUB to do my booting but had quite a few problems with it so i decided to try this route and got it working!Here's a list of my setup and install notes:Operating Systems installed:-Windows XP Prof (located on my main hd, first partition, c:)-Windows Vista BE (located on my main hd, second partition, d:)-OSX86 10.4.8 JaS w/SSE2/SSE3 AMD_Intel build (located on my second hd, first and only partition; harddrive was marked as active prior to install and formatted as FAT32 and then erased w/disk utility for mac os x)Files you will need:-chain0 (get over here: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Chain0 )Also, basic knowledge of BCDEDIT in Vista will help.Step
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Blackberry: Remove, Move, and Hide Icons
2007-06-28 23:19:00
The first thing most blackberry(bb) owners want to know is how to remove some of the useless icons on the main screen. Hiding these icons is very simple. Here is how to proceed.After I unlocked my blackberry and signed up for a new service, I noticed that I had a ton of duplicated icons. Most blackberry systems have too much installed anyway. Using these techniques, you'll be able to remove icons from the main screen thus increasing your efficiency.Hide an Icon:1. Go to the main screen of your blackberry2. Go to the icon you want to hide3. Press ALT and then press down on your scroll wheel4. Select Hide ApplicationUnhide an Icon:If you ever need to see your hidden icons again, you can alt+scroll wheel on the main screen and select Show All. This will display all the icons including the hidden ones. Hidden icons will have an X over then. alt+scroll wheel over an X-out icon and uncheck Hide Application.Repeat the process and uncheck the Show All to rehide the other icons you have set to
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Adobe Acrobat 7.0 / 8.0 Standard or Prof - Making pdfs searchable / OCRing
2007-06-18 08:53:00
This is a quickie recipe on how
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Windows 2000/XP/Vista: Fix a Window or Application that Opens Offscreen
2007-06-13 07:16:00
Every once in a while, you will run into a situation where a window or application opens somewhere beyond the scope of your monitor. It magically was placed somewhere to the far, far right and you can't get to it to bring it back. I've experienced this with Winamp and IE has done this to me a couple of times. There's a simple solution to get your application or window back on your screen, here's how:The key to this is to change the screen resolution to a lower value, thereby making windows move everything to fit the new resolution. Once this is done, simply return the resolution to its previous setting.To change your screen resolution:1. Right-click your desktop.2. For Window s 2000/XP, Select
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Get Latitude and Longitude values from Google Maps
2007-06-13 07:06:00
Google Maps do no display latitude and longitude values, but there is an easy trick to get these numbers. This technique will provide the latitude and longitude coordinates of the center of the map displayed by Google Maps.Looking up an address in Google Maps will center the map on that address if it was found. Because this trick provides the latitude and longitude of the center of the map, moving the map around manually after that will change the center position and this technique will not work accurately.When the location you want is in the center of the map, copy and paste this code into the location bar of your browser and press enter:javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));A little dialog box will pop up displaying the coordinates which can be copied and pasted for use elsewhere. This code can be bookmarked and then used in the future by selecting the bookmark.
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