I just received my new MacBook Air 13.3″ (MC965LL/A) and I heard that they put in 2 different SSD’s in each one. I found the best way to check which drive you have, and which is technically ‘better’.
Go to : Apple Menu > About This Mac > More Info > System Report > Serial-ATA.
You should see something called APPLE SSD :
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If it is TS it is a Toshiba and probably a bit slower. If it is SM, it is a Samsung drive and faster.
Not only are there different SSD’s in the new (MC965LL/A) MacBook air’s, but they also seem to have different LCD’s. Everyone seems to think the Samsung is better looking, but here is how to check
Launch the Terminal Applications – > Utilities
Copy and paste the following command onto a single line and hit return:
ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed "/[^<]*
If it starts with LP, it is LG, if it is anything else, it is Samsung. Like mine, it is Samsung :
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My girlfriend works at Whole Foods, and always sends me these hilarious pictures of boxes, which are cut out to look like faces…hilarious….I dub these – boxes with faces!
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I actually found this one on the net, hilarious.
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I used to use calibre for syncing up books that I downloaded (epub, mobi, and PDF). It was a little clunky, but worked great.
I now see they have the option for personal storage! Which takes almost any format (see footer for formats they take), and allows you to upload to your kindle directly! One feature I love that this opens up is the archive feature, because I wanted a way to get rid of my books, but still be able to download them from the kindle itself, and not have to sync up to calibre.
All you need to do is email your username@kindle.com address, the file and it will upload to your documents!
tidbits for emailing files: you can have multiple attachments/files, you can also leave the subject and body blank or fill with data, doesn't matter.
To find what your @kindle.com address is, click here to log in, and click on manage devices, which will look like this :
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If you want to see what files you have uploaded and ready to sync you can ‘push’ from this area :
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Now if you want to sync uploaded files, you just hover over actions :
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tidbits for file conversions : some files require conversion to azk, which will happen on Amazon’s end, and can take up to 4 hours I have been told. I generally saw my files come up within about an hour though.
This is an awesome feature, I hope you all enjoy it, I know i’ll be dumping all of my books on here shortly!
Format kindle personal documents takes (as of this post 12-27-2011) :
Supported File Types
Kindle Personal Documents Service supports multiple file types, including:
Microsoft Word (.DOC, .DOCX)
HTML (.HTML, .HTM)
RTF (.RTF)
JPEG (.JPEG, .JPG)
Kindle Format (.MOBI, .AZW)
GIF (.GIF)
PNG (.PNG)
BMP (.BMP)
PDF (.PDF); is supported in our experimental category. See below for details.
The above file types can also be combined in a compressed ZIP (.ZIP) file. ZIP files are automatically opened up by the conversion service, converted to the Kindle format if needed, and sent to your and stored in your Kindle library. Some complex PDF files might not format correctly on your Kindle.
If you prefer to have your personal PDF documents converted to the Kindle format so you can take advantage of Kindle functionality such as variable font size, annotation, Text-to-Speech, etc., type “Convert” in the subject of the e-mail when you submit your personal document to your Send-to-Kindle e-mail address.
Ever have issues with duplicate lineups? Duplicate channel listings in your guide? Or just overall quirky issues with your media center? I found a quick and simple way to reset it to default.
All you need to do is go to the C/ProgramData/Microsoft/eHome folder and rename or delete (I would advise rename) mcepg2-0.db and the folder mcepg2-0. Then just restart your Windows Media Center services. The way I went about it was through safe mode, as I could not do it while the system was running within windows itself. Once you do that, reboot, and you have a fresh Windows Media Center copy. If you need to re import your recordings, now is a good time.
I needed to reformat my DVR computer, and I wanted to keep my subscriptions, and recording lineup, etc. So I needed to find out how and where Media Center stores this information, so I could easily restore it.
What to back up :
I backed up this folder : C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\eHome , the folder you are really after is the one called mcepgX-X-X, mine was called mcepg2-0. I was backing up that entire directory (C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\eHome) because I was unsure if they would ever change that directory for some odd reason. So I figured better be safe then sorry. I just had a robocopy script that did this nightly for me.
This is what my directory looks like :
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How to restore
Open a command prompt windows and run this C:\Windows\ehome\loadmxf.exe –i locationofbackupfiles
This is what mine command looked like :
C:\Windows\ehome>loadmxf.exe -i "C:\Users\1337sk33t\Desktop\Media Center Backup
backup\recordings\20151022_214547"
Loading... 100%
C:\Windows\ehome>
You noticed I pointed it to the files without extensions themselves. I did the recordings, I wasn’t sure what the subscriptions or lineup were so I skipped them. I then went to download the latest TV Guide and everything popped right up!
Tasks > Settings > TV > Guide > Get Latest Guide Listings
Enjoy, please test your back up, make sure you have a reliable back up. Something like SugarSync/DropBOX are pretty reliable, and free sources of backing up.
I was looking to change my favicon on my website, and found a great way to generate new favicons on the web, without installing any software on your computer. Just go to http://www.genfavicon.com/ and follow his VERY easy steps.
If you would like to add your favicon to your wordpress website, you can follow this tutorial I made here
If you just want to use it on a relatively simple website, just upload it to your root directory (usually www, or public_html folder).
If you want to add your favicon to your wordpress blog, follow this link here : click!
Coming from my previous post about creating favicons (found here), I found a great way to make your wordpress blog use your newly made favicon!
With an FTP Client, upload the new favicon.ico file into your current theme’s main folder.
Upload another copy of your favicon.ico file to the main directory of your site (ie. http://example.com/favicon.ico). This will display the favicon in your subscribers’ feedreaders.
In order for your favicon to show up in some older browsers, you will need to edit your page header.
Go to your WordPress Administration Panel.
Click on Design (called Presentation in WordPress 2.3.x and below, and Appearance in WordPress 2.7+).
Click on Theme Editor.
Select the file called Header or header.php to edit the file.
Search for the line of code that begins with . Overwrite it, if it exists, or add the following code below the
Save the changes.
To see your new favicon, clear your browser’s cache (hold shift, and press F5). You may need to restart your browser in order to see the new favicon.
Someone sent me these in a chain email, it was horribly formatted. I also do not know who made the comments, or how accurate they are. I take zero credit in the pictures, I just wanted to compile them nicely for all to see.
The world’s highest chained carousel, located in Vienna, the height of 117 meters.
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Thor’s Well – “the gates of the dungeon.” CapePerpetua, Oregon. At moderate tide and strong surf, flowing water creates a fantastic landscape
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Emerald Lake in the crater of an extinct volcano. Tongariro National Park – NewZealand
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Restaurant on a cliff on the east coast of Zanzibar.Depending on the tide the restaurant can be reached both on foot and by boat.
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Office of Selgas Cano in Madrid
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Desert with Phacelia (Scorpion Weed). Flowering once in several years.
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Balloons in Cappadocia, Turkey.
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Dubai. The view from the skyscraper BurjKhalifa. The height of buildings is 828 m (163 floors).
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And this is the view down
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These trees grow in the forest near Gryfino, Poland. The cause of the curvature is unknown
EDIT : kc0tma from expedition portal actually has a good reasoning behind this :
The reason for these trees being bendy actually is known. We've got a lot of trees like this around my parts and are locally known as "pistol butts". What happens is you have smaller, younger trees, and they get a heavy snow load on them that bends them over. Then when the snow starts melting part of the tree goes back upwards while the weight of the snow keeps the rest bent over. Its kind of like when you soak a piece of lumber in water and then put it in traction and once it dries it stays bent.
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The border between Belgium and the Netherlands in a cafe
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Twice a year in the Gulf of Mexico rays migrate. About 10 thousand stingrays swim from the Yucatan Peninsula to Florida in the spring and back in the fall.
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In the resort town of Skagen you can watch an amazing natural phenomenon. This city is the northernmost point of Denmark, where the Baltic and North Seas meet. The two opposing tides in this place can not merge because they have different densities.
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In the Chinese province of Shandong is a bridge across the Gulf of Jiaozhou. The bridge length over 36 km is calculated for eight car lanes, and is the longest sea bridge in the world.
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Day and night. The monument in Kaunas, Lithuania
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An unusual tunnel in California’s Sequoia National Park
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This statue, created by Bruno Catalano, is located in France
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Family photo
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The longest traffic jam in the world recorded in China. Its length is 260 kilometers
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Paris computer games store. In fact, the floor is absolutely flat.
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Marcus Levine – slaughtering an artist in the literal sense. He creates his paintings by nailing a white wooden panel. At his latest series of paintings exhibited in a gallery in London, Marcus has spent more than 50 000 pieces of iron.
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In the city of Buford (USA) lives just one person. He works as a janitor and as a mayor.
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Autumn camouflage
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Haus Rizzi – Germany.
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Lena Pillars. Russia, the Lena River.
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Banpo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea
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Favelas of Brazil. The boundary between wealth and poverty.
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Lost paradise in the Indian Ocean. Isle of Lamu.
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Balcony of floor 103 in Chicago.
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From the outside it looks like
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View of the sunset from inside the wave.
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This is a unique geological phenomenon known as Danxia landform. These phenomena can be observed in several places in China. This example is located in Zhangye, Province of Gansu. The color is the result of an accumulation for millions of years of red sandstone and other rocks.
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In northwestern Montana, USA. The water is so transparent that it seems that this is a quite shallow lake. In fact, it’s very deep.
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Airport in the Maldives is located on an artificial island in the middle of the Indian Ocean
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unconfirmed light house location, but here is a cool video to go along with it : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fapXUqagiFQ
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Photo of storm in Montana, USA, 2010
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Skyscraper-Crescent Crescent Moon Tower (Dubai)
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Heavy fog in Sydney, which enveloped the whole city
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The river above the river: Magdeburg Water Bridge, Germany.
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Morning Glory – kind of clouds observed in the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia
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Gibraltar Airport is one of the most extraordinary airports around the world
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I am doing a second round of tests on my Corsair flash drives, first round was here : Link
Same hardware as the test rig :
Asus P8P67 PRO
i5 2500k
16gb ddr3
Corsair 600T case
Test devices :
Corsair Flash Voyager 32GB USB 3 (CMFVY3S-32GB)
Corsair Flash Voyager 16GB USB 3 (CMFVY3-16GB)
Corsair Flash Voyager 1GB USB 2 (CMFUSB2.0-1GB)
The newest one being the CMFVY3S-32GB. I also took a picture of them, as usual, nice and weak iphone 4 photo :
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Right to Left (16GB USB3, 1GB USB2, 32GB USB3)
First test is the CMFVY3S-32GB
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Second is the older generation USB 3, CMFVY3-16GB
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And the third is my 6 year old USB 2, CMFUSB2.0-1GB
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overall, very similar speeds, in a smaller device, when comparing the two usb3 drives. The old style is a bit bigger, and the new one is the same size as the old usb2 drives, which people will like. The newer drive has about double the writes as the old drive, but the old drive seems to have higher 4K and 4KQD32 compared to the new drive, almost double!
I like them both, they’re high capacity, but I would probably go with the newer one based on size alone, and speed bump in the write arena.