SciTech
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Upgrading to Mac OS X Leopard
Since December 2006, we have been running our home server system on a Mac Mini, running MacOS X (Tiger). Recently, said system become unacceptably slow. We decided t upgrade the hardware and. at the same time, the OS. This article documents the problems and solutions we encountered during our recent home server migration from Mac… Continue reading
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Macbook Air
This week, Apple introduced the Macbook Air. I’ve been reading some of the articles, as well as the whining comments. Continue reading
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XO Connected
Rich and I took our XO laptop along to diner last night. One of the other attendees had just picked his XO up at the Post Office that very day, so there were two at the table. Continue reading
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XO Laptop – First Impressions
Educational. Fun. Technically Cool. Charitable. Deductible. What’s not to like? My XO Laptop arrived on Thursday. I ordered through the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) “Give One, Get One” program. We opened the box when we got home on Thursday evening, popped in the battery, and fired it up. Here are my early impressions. Continue reading
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Pleo: Out of the Box
I am now the proud owner of one of the first Pleos – the little robotic dinosaur from Ugobe. I first learned of Pleo nearly a year ago when I read an article by Clive Thompson in Wired magazine. Continue reading
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Study Illuminates How Babies Learn to Speak
A high-tech machine that monitors infants’ brain cells as they listen to speech reveals a key element in how babies go from hearing sounds to speaking them. Continue reading
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Lighting Up The Future
A research team from Kennedy & Violich Architecture in Boston has designed solar-powered lamps composed of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) woven into colorful swaths of fabric. The lights are undergoing field testing in a remote mountain community of Mexico's Sierra Madre, Continue reading
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Smart Glasses
I've been nearsighted since I was 4 or 5. I've worn glasses since the third grade. When I hit 40, my accommodation went to Presbyopia in a handbasket. I wear progressive bifocals. Rich has four different pairs of glasses — intermediate, distance, reading, and computer. I sit a little bit farther away from the computer… Continue reading
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Lost and Found
The Journal of Robert Hooke A manuscript "charting the birth of modern science" and misplaced for more than 200 years, has been found, sold to a private party, and will be housed at Britain’s Royal Society. Continue reading
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