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Gizmos Grabowski http://www.worldcadaccess.com/gizmos/ Hands-on experiences with technology from the publisher of upFront.eZine en-US 2013-04-18T11:38:57-07:00 Gizmos Grabowski blog merged with WorldCAD Access http://www.worldcadaccess.com/gizmos/2013/04/gizmos-grabowski-blog-merged-with-worldcad-access.html I've decided to collapse all my blogs into one. Last year, I merged my photography blog into Gizmos Grabowski, and this year I've now merged Gizmos Grabowski with WorldCAD Access. I figure that anything written here would also be of...
I've decided to collapse all my blogs into one. Last year, I merged my photography blog into Gizmos Grabowski, and this year I've now merged Gizmos Grabowski with WorldCAD Access.

I figure that anything written here would also be of interest to CAD users. The tag line for WorldCAD Access is changed from "Talking about computer-aided design" to reading "Talking about computers and design."

I'm keeping this Gizmos Grabowski blog in its current state until next March, 2014. Any new gizmos-related posts that might appear here will now be posted over on WorldCAD Access.

Thank you for reading!

 Ralph Grabowski 2013-04-18T11:38:57-07:00 When your computer's hard drive fills up prematurely, blame Google and Picasa http://www.worldcadaccess.com/gizmos/2013/03/when-your-computers-hard-drive-fills-up-blame-picasa.html Waking up my computer this morning, I was surprised that my email software had problems overnight downloading my email. It complained the disk was full. Odd, because the hard drive is a 1TB drive. I emptied the Recycle Bin, moved...
 Waking up my computer this morning, I was surprised that my email software had problems overnight downloading my email. It complained the disk was full. Odd, because the hard drive is a 1TB drive.

I emptied the Recycle Bin, moved some movie files to another drive, and uninstalled some software, but this freed up a mere 15GB. I needed to pinpoint what what causing the drive to fill up. I found Folder Size by MindGems, downloaded it, installed it, and started it up. The software shows you the largest folders, and then lets me quickly drill down to find the largest subfolders.

Looking at the results, I found a very large folder named "Screen Captures." It held 105GB of files, 11% of the hard drive's capacity. Examining further, I determined it was created by Picasa. Now this was strange, because I don't use Picasa for screen grabs,  nor did I know it even had the function.

Checking online, I found out from LifeHacker that whenever I take a screen grab while Picasa is running, Picasa unhelpfully keeps a copy in the  C:\Users\<username>\Pictures\Picasa\Screen Captures folder. (You can also get to the folder through Libraries | Pictures | My Pictures | Picasa | Screen Captures.) As a technical writer, I take hundreds of screen grabs (using WinSnap) and so this folder held 18,415 files, starting in April 2009.

Worse, Picasa saves the screen grabs in BMP format, meaning they are uncompressed, meaning each file takes up  the most amount of space it can -- rather than in a compressed format. Most files are 6MB.

Worse, Picasa creepily determines which app was being screen-grabbed, and so labels the filename, such as Print Configuration Manager 3162013 64432 PM.bmp and ÖBB travel portal Fare - Opera 3162013 51431 PM.bmp.

Worse, I took a single screen grab with WinSnap and watched the folder as Picasa made copy after copy. Within seconds, there were two dozen files in the folder of one screen grab. No wonder the hard drive filled up! Quickly, I exited Picasa, and erased the newly added files. Clearly, there is a serious bug in a seriously bad feature.

And then it gets really worse. The really bad news is that there is no way to turn off this unnecessary function in Picasa. LifeHacker provides two workarounds: make sure Picasa is not running when doing screen grabs, or change the folder so that Picasa cannot save files to it. Here are the steps, which I updated for Windows 7:

1. Right-click the folder name, and then choose Properties.

2. Select the Security tab.

3. Click Advanced.

4. Click Change Permissions.

5. Uncheck the "Include inheritable permissions from this objects parent" option.

6. Windows asks if you are sure. Click Remove.

7. Exit the dialog boxes by clicking OK.

After doing these steps, I checked the folder as I took a screengrab with Picasa running. No files appeared.

I was in a mad dash yesterday to finish updating an ebook, taking screen grabs like crazy, working from 9am through to 8pm. I am only glad that the full disk problem occurred after I completed the project, and not during it.

Google is evil, after all.

Thank you MindGems for helping me find the problem quickly.

 Google Ralph Grabowski 2013-03-17T07:54:48-07:00 Printing large images on small printers http://www.worldcadaccess.com/gizmos/2013/03/printing-large-images-on-small-printers.html My daughter wanted this image printed 11"x17", but our largest printer is the typical 8.5x11" one. Fortunately, the printer does do borderless prints, and so here is how I printed the image on two sheets of paper: 1. In the...
My daughter wanted this image printed 11"x17", but our largest printer is the typical 8.5x11" one.

Fortunately, the printer does do borderless prints, and so here is how I printed the image on two sheets of paper:

1. In the printer driver, I turned on the Borderless option (found under Resizing Options for the HP PhotoSmart series).

2. I opened the image file in Adobe Acrobat, because it does a good job of handling multi-page prints.

3. In the Print dialog box, I set the following options:

Print Scaling   Tile All Pages

Tile Scale          72% (or whatever it takes to fit the image to two sheets)

Overlap            0.25" (have to play with this one)

 4. And then I clicked OK and waited for the printer to output the two pages.
 Digital Photography Ralph Grabowski 2013-03-03T10:14:06-08:00 Intel wishes it could do what Androids already do http://www.worldcadaccess.com/gizmos/2013/02/intel-wishes-it-could-do-what-androids-already-do.html I had to chuckle reading an interview on the Verge, titled Ultrabook, round two: can Intel control the future of the laptop? (The text of the URL, however, reads, "intel-on-all-day-battery-life-we-really-mean-it-this-time.") The interview is with Intel consumer PC head Kirk Skaugen,...
I had to chuckle reading an interview on the Verge, titled Ultrabook, round two: can Intel control the future of the laptop? (The text of the URL, however, reads, "intel-on-all-day-battery-life-we-really-mean-it-this-time.") The interview is with Intel consumer PC head Kirk Skaugen, and just about every promise he makes for future PCs is already established on Android tablets and hybrids, like the ASUS TF101 with keyboard dock that I currently enjoy.

All-day battery life

12-16 hours on Android tablets with dual batteries

Intel founded the Mobile PC Extended Battery Life Working Group -- in 2002!

Touch

Found on all Android tablets

Found on very few Windows PCs and on no Macs at all

Connected Standby

When my ASUS Android is sleeping, it is still connected to the Internet; when I wake it, email, RSS feeds, updates, and so on are ready for me to peruse.

This is a new feature in some Macs, and apparently soon on Windows PC. "Even on the world's fastest tablets today, you power it on and you have to wait for your email, wait for Facebook to update. This will give you instantaneous access," Intel says. Notice how they leave out mention of Android tablets.

High Resolution

My ASUS has a screen resolution of 1280x800, which I find ideal: high enough to see any Web page, yet low enough to enable accurate touching.

I feel that the drive towards ultra-high screen resolution is as pointless as high pixel counts for digital cameras. As the resolution increase, the touch experience decreases as UI elements become too small to touch accurately. Intel's silly solution is to dynamically change the resolution when the screen senses it is being touched.

This is a case of Intel pedalling furiously from behind, and probably not catching up.

 Hardware Ralph Grabowski 2013-02-12T10:21:56-08:00 The future of computing http://www.worldcadaccess.com/gizmos/2013/02/the-future-of-computing.html The dystopian future of computing:
The dystopian future of computing:

 Impractical Ralph Grabowski 2013-02-06T09:53:01-08:00 Adding RAM to Acer's ZS600 all-in-one computer is tough; here's how to do it http://www.worldcadaccess.com/gizmos/2013/01/adding-ram-to-acers-zs600-all-in-one-computer-is-tough-heres-how-to-do-it.html From the specs provided by Acer, I know that my all-in-one ZS600 touchscreen computer had just 4GB RAM, but could take 8GB. Even better, one slot was empty. (Usually both slots are filled for better memory performance.) But adding the...
From the specs provided by Acer, I know that my all-in-one ZS600 touchscreen computer had just 4GB RAM, but could take 8GB. Even better, one slot was empty. (Usually both slots are filled for better memory performance.)

But adding the RAM is not just a case of undoing a couple of screws and sliding a panel. Fortunately, I found the repair manual online. Here are photos I took that show you how to remove the back of the computer.

You will need:

pliers

phillips screwdriver (I use a cordless screwdriver)

jewelers screwdrivers: phillips and flat

optionally, a magnet. (My pliers are magnetic)

box in which to place the 22 screws (my screwdriver box has compartments)

1. Remove the plastic cover covering the hinge of the stand. Here is where I used the pliers to squeeze the cover until it popped loose. See figure below.

2. Remove the three screws holding the stand to the body. The middle screw is a tight fit, and so I used a jewellers screwdriver, which was thin enough to get between the hinge springs.

Once the stand is removed, there are two more screws to remove.

3. Use a paperclip to open the DVD drive.

4. Remove the plastic bezel (front) of the DVD drive with your hand. It is merely clipped onto the drive. (In a later step, you use the opening of the DVD drive to start removing the cover.)

5. Close the drive by pushing it back into the body.

6. Remove the two phillips screws that are visible in the main body.

7. Along the back of the stand are five more screws. Remove the rubber coverups (they are glued in) with a small flat screwdriver, and then remove the five screws. The photo below shows one of the main body screws, and two of the stand screws.

8. Now it is time to remove the cover, which is clipped in. Begin where the DVD drive is: reach in and pull away the cover.

Repeat on the opposite side of the case. Repeat where the case becomes the back of the stand. I found the stand part the toughest, but mild force works eventually.

9. Remove the 12 screws that hold the metal shielding over the motherboard. Here is where the magnet comes handy, for some of these screws might fall into crevices.

Also covered by separate metal shielding is the hard drive (near the top of the photo), the DVD drive (near the bottom), and the fan (in the center.) At this point you could replace the hard drive, if you wish.

10. You now see the RAM slots. This computer uses notebook RAM: DDR3-1600/PC3-12800. Touch some metal before adding the new RAM card.

The mother board has a spare PCI slot (at the bottom of the photo), and I suspect that this is where the nVidia graphics board would go. I haven't investigated what kind of special connector would be needed to connect it to the built-in LCD screen; maybe another time.

There are two more slots available: a spare SATI connector for a third drive, but there is no obvious place inside the case to locate the drive. And a MiniCard2 slot (another form of PCI slot).

12. Reassemble the computer.

Bonus Tip

In an earlier posting, I complained that this computer's USB v3 port did not provide power when the computer was turned off. It turns out that there are two USB v3 ports, and that only one provides power at all times -- the one located closer to the SD Card slot.
 Hardware Ralph Grabowski 2013-01-27T07:40:14-08:00 The Steve Jobs myth of the Mac UI http://www.worldcadaccess.com/gizmos/2013/01/the-steve-jobs-myth-of-the-mac-ui.html One of the on-going myths of Steve Jobs is that he was a visionary because he saw what a research lab run by Xerox had done, and then turned the idea into the Lisa computer first, and then the Mac....
One of the on-going myths of Steve Jobs is that he was a visionary because he saw what a research lab run by Xerox had done, and then turned the idea into the Lisa computer first, and then the Mac.

He gets credit for commercializing it, but not for dreaming about it. The engineering office in which I worked in the early 1980s had two IBM DisplayWriter word processing systems that used the Xerox monitor and printer. These were dedicated word processors, at which two secretaries turned our hand-written engineering report into beautiful pages that looked like they were typeset.

The DisplayWriter computers featured a white-screen monitor in portrait orientation, using WYSIWYG to make the screen look like the printed page. I remember seeing them and thinking, wow! Wouldn't it be great to have that on the desktop.

This was around the time that IBM launched its PC in 1981, which came with either a green text-only screen or very-low res graphics; but it was good enough. Apple launched the Lisa a few years later, in 1983. The base model was $10,000, and eventually it failed in the market place due to its high price and failing hardware.
 Hardware Ralph Grabowski 2013-01-18T10:21:07-08:00 Another reason why Windows 8 is so much better than Windows 7 http://www.worldcadaccess.com/gizmos/2013/01/another-reason-why-windows-8-is-so-much-better-than-windows-7.html Microsoft is desperate that your computer runs Windows 8 so that it can spread its monopoly from desktop to laptop to tablet to phone and to XBox. The Gatesian fantasy of "a [Windows] PC on every desktop" is no longer...
Microsoft is desperate that your computer runs Windows 8 so that it can spread its monopoly from desktop to laptop to tablet to phone and to XBox. The Gatesian fantasy of "a [Windows] PC on every desktop" is no longer enough.

Here is another reason to switch to Windows 8. Sometimes, you have to set the default printer in the operating system, because in certain instances the application cannot do it itself. Here are the steps to doing this in Windows 7:

1. On the Windows taskbar, click the Start button.
2. Choose Devices and Printers.
3. In the Devices and Printers dialog box, click on the icon of the printer you wish to make the default.
4. Right-click the printer icon, and then choose Set as Default Printer from the shortcut menu.

So, four steps. That's pretty cumbersome. Let's switch over to Windows 8, the one that Microsoft boasts is so much faster and better-est. Here are the steps for doing the same thing in Windows 8, as listed by the Microsoft support site:

1. Swipe horizontally from the right edge of the screen.
2. Choose Search. (Choosing Devices does not work!)
3. In the search field, type "Devices and Printers."
4. Press Enter.
5. Select Settings.
6. Select Devices and Printers.
7. From here, the process is the same as with Windows 7: In the Windows 7-like Devices and Printers dialog box, click on the icon of the printer you wish to make the default.
8. Right-click the printer icon, and then choose Set as Default Printer from the shortcut menu.

So, changing the default printer uses the identical dialog box as in Windows 7, but it takes four more steps, plus doing a bunch of typing. The power user, of course, would install Start button replacement or drag the Devices and Printers item into the Windows 7-like desktop as a shortcut.

The aspect that boggles my mind is that there is a Devices option listed when you do the swiping thing. But Devices doesn't do anything except list the name of printers -- and lets you remove them. Which explains why Microsoft has to have the smartest people in the world working for them.

 The Microsoft Chronicles Ralph Grabowski 2013-01-13T16:12:52-08:00 The AZS600 touch screen all-in-one computer from Acer http://www.worldcadaccess.com/gizmos/2012/12/the-azs600-touch-screen-all-in-one-computer-from-asus.html My dad didn't like the all-in-one Acer desktop computer with 23" screen and Windows 8 that I got him a couple of weeks ago. So he gave it to me, and I've had a chance to explore it. Windows 8...
My dad didn't like the all-in-one Acer desktop computer with 23" screen and Windows 8 that I got him a couple of weeks ago. So he gave it to me, and I've had a chance to explore it.

Windows 8 is alright, so long as I ignore the metro UI junk, and stick to the Windows 7 look-alike part.I can't always ignore metro, as Windows 8 sometimes insists on shoving it back onto the screen. A real productivity killer. Thanks, Steve and Steve.

I described my experience with using AutoCAD and the touch screen over on my WorldCAD Access blog. (Summary: I now see why Autodesk does not trumpet AutoCAD running on Windows 8; touching it doesn't work great.)

Specs about this computer:

At $800, the cheapest desktop computer with a touch screen in Canada

23" 1920x1080 touch screen; but the screen is so shiny it acts like a mirror. I have positioned it to minimize the glare.

Six USB ports, including one USB3; this USB 3 port, however, loses its power when the computer goes to sleep, negating the spec it is supposed to follow.

a/b/g/n WiFi and 1Gbit Ethernet; I hook it up using ethernet for faster speed and greater security

Digital audio output port, plus mic and headphone ports; decent built-in speakers but no bass

Webcam, with a bright LED that is supposed to light you up when the room is too dark, but all it does is irritate the eyes; one of the first things I hunted down was how to keep that light off!

Sturdily built, with a tiltstand on the back, and well-rubberized feet

1TB hard drive; DVD-RW drive; SD memory card slot

HDMI in and HDMI out ports

Comes with a wireless keyboard and mouse, and a unifying receiver; but the mouse buttons are so stiff that I cannot double-click, so I am using my own mouse

2.8GHz dual-core Pentium with 4GB RAM (expandable to 8GB); no discrete graphics; I added an 8GB ReadyBoost memory stick

A slot under the monitor lets me store the keyboard out of the way.

The computer runs silently, no fan.

The nice thing about this all-in-one is that it has an HDMI in port, and an HDMI switch button. This lets me use the computer (as a secondary computer) on my side desk together with my Apple Mac Mini. Pushing the button switches between the Windows 8 display and the OS X Mountain Lion display.

But then I ran into a perpetual motion machine: the first evening after I hooked everything up, I put Windows 8 to sleep. The monitor noticed there was no PC display, and so switched automatically to the Mac display. Nice, I thought.

But not for long. I put the Mac to sleep. The monitor noticed the signal from the Mac disappeared, and so woke up the PC. I put Windows 8 back to sleep, and the signal switched back to the Mac, waking it up.

Back and forth things went before I set Windows 8 to hibernation mode.I hope Acer will fix some of the problems I found.

 Hardware Ralph Grabowski 2012-12-31T08:10:00-08:00 Fixing a screwed-up memory card http://www.worldcadaccess.com/gizmos/2012/12/fixing-a-screwed-up-memory-card-.html Using a bad memory card reader can screw up memory cards, such as SD cards. There is little sign that there is a problem, except that Windows is hesitant to recognize it. Windows won't fix the card, whether through formatting...
Using a bad memory card reader can screw up memory cards, such as SD cards. There is little sign that there is a problem, except that Windows is hesitant to recognize it.

Windows won't fix the card, whether through formatting it, running ChkDsk, or whatever. I have found a solution involving your digital camera.

Digital cameras can format memory cards, and they seem less fussy than Windows. When a poor-quality memory card reader "wrecked" a 16GB SD card of mine, I did the following:

1. I stuck the card into my digital camera.

2. The camera complained that it was not suitable. It asked if I wanted to format it. (If the camera does not offer to format the memory card, then do so manually.)

3. After the card was formatted (with FAT32, in the case of my Samsung EX2F camera), I removed the card from the camera.

4. I plugged the memory card back into my Windows computer, and ran ChkDsk on it, asking the utility to fix all problems.

5. After ChkDsk found and corrected problems, I reformatted the SD card with NTFS for use with my computer.

The card now worked correctly.
 Hardware Ralph Grabowski 2012-12-27T15:39:20-08:00 I unbricked my All Winner A10-based Android tablet, and I don't know how http://www.worldcadaccess.com/gizmos/2012/12/i-unbricked-my-all-winner-a10-based-android-tablet-and-i-dont-know-how.html After bricking one Android tablet (an ASUS TF101), and bricked a second one, a MOMO8 based on the Chinese-made All Winner A10 CPU. After some fiddling around, I last night unbricked it. But I don't remember the exact sequence of...
After bricking one Android tablet (an ASUS TF101), and bricked a second one, a MOMO8 based on the Chinese-made All Winner A10 CPU.

After some fiddling around, I last night unbricked it. But I don't remember the exact sequence of steps. I followed the instructions given at www.androidtablets.net/forum/ployer-momo-tablets/39857-ployer-momo8-probably-bricked-help-much-needed.html, but I didn't use the LiveSuit software mentioned.

What is fascinating about this method of unbricking is that it involves hardware: taking apart the unit, and then shorting out pins #7 and #8 on a 48-pin IC, more specifically. The pins of the NAND memory chip are so tiny that two of them are as wide as the end of a paperclip.

While shorting out the two pins, I pushed a variety of hardware buttons -- Power, Sound +, and so on. Suddenly, the MOMO8 jumped back to life.
 Android Ralph Grabowski 2012-12-21T10:46:13-08:00 Three computer repairs this week, two successful http://www.worldcadaccess.com/gizmos/2012/12/three-computer-repairs-two-successful.html I have been working this week on fixing three computers. MacBook Hard Drive Replacement Daughter #1's Macbook has a small 250GB hard drive, and because she takes many photos, the drive quickly filled up. I read on the Internet that...
I have been working this week on fixing three computers.

MacBook Hard Drive Replacement

Daughter #1's Macbook has a small 250GB hard drive, and because she takes many photos, the drive quickly filled up.

I read on the Internet that it is easy to switch drives and move the data on Macs (not so for Windows PCs!). I removed the 640GB hard drive from my daughter-in-law's old, broken computer. It took about 3.5 hours to move the data from MacBook hard drive to the external one, and then another ten minutes to physically swap the drives. Well, that and a few more steps, as outlined in http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2012/12/how-to-replace-the-hard-drive-in-your-macbook.html

I didn't mention in that blog posting that Apple uses proprietary bolts to mount the hard drive in this model of MacBook. Fortunately, a pair of narrow-nose pliers became the effective alternative to removing them.

(The daughter-in-law's old computer was my dad's new laptop from a few years ago. So, that PC's hard drive now runs in a MacBook.)

PC Laptop Hard Drive Replacement

Daughter #2's computer broke down while she was in Germany, and now that she is back home, I examined it. Sure enough, the hard drive had suffered a catastrophic hardware failure inside. No data access software I tried could access the data on it, it just went clunk, clunk, clunk. So, she lost it all -- including her computer's copy of Windows.

A new drive is about $80, and a fresh copy of Windows 7 is $250. But you can get a entirely brand new laptop for $380!  For me, the economics did not work out.

However, I had a spare 500GB hard drive laying around, and put it into her computer. So that cost nothing.

Then I found that it is legal to download a full copy of Windows free, if (a) you need it for a computer whose hard drive is gone, and (b) the computer still has the Windows activation sticker.

This worked, but because the version of Windows made available for these situations is a bare bones version, I had to also download files specific to the computer, so that the networking and sound work, so that the resolution is correct on the screen, and so on.

Fortunately, the laptop manufacturer, Acer, makes these additional files available on their Web site. I downloaded about a dozen driver files to my desktop, copied them over via USB thumbdrive, and then installed them. Sometimes it was a bit tricky; for example, Acer has drivers for ATI (AMD), Intel, and nVidia graphics boards; a bare bone Windows won't tell you what the hardware is. It was a matter of trying one 500MB driver, being told no such hardware existed, and then on to the next.

(Funny story: for a while, Windows said it could not find the drivers I had downloaded. I tried over and over again. Finally I realized that while I was telling Windows to look in the laptop's C: drive, the files were still on the USB thumbdrive.)

Finally, I hunted around my backup drives for any copies of daughter #2's materials I might have. (She had failed to back up her laptop.) I found about 8,000 photographs, a bunch of her music, and dozens of documents (which she had emailed me for checking or printing). So, we were able to get back some of her stuff she thought she had lost.

A Tablet Bricked Hard

Last of all, I did not have success with my tablet. I managed to brick it last week in trying to upgrade Android to Cyanogen v4.2. ("Bricking" means that it won't start up, and so it acts like a brick.) I spent a few days, on and off, trying various tactics to resuscitate it, from instructions I gleaned off the Internet, such as EasyFlasher, NvFlashTf, and the Universal Naked Driver -- plus countless videos on YouTube.

The fundamental problem is that the APX driver disconnects just when flashing software starts flashing the OS back onto the tablet. I could find no solution to this problem.

Finally, I contacted the maker, ASUS, and they gave me authorization to ship it to their repair facility in North Bay, Ontario. I will mail it today, and we will see if they fix it for free. (It is still under warranty.)

So, two successful computer repairs that cost me nothing, but time!
 Android Hardware Impractical Ralph Grabowski 2012-12-20T09:17:59-08:00 How to replace the hard drive in your MacBook http://www.worldcadaccess.com/gizmos/2012/12/how-to-replace-the-hard-drive-in-your-macbook.html My daughter's MacBook has a miserably small hard drive, just 250GB. Being a semi-professional photographer, all those RAW files filled up the drive in no time. I figured she should replace the hard drive, and then we came into a...
My daughter's MacBook has a miserably small hard drive, just 250GB. Being a semi-professional photographer, all those RAW files filled up the drive in no time.

I figured she should replace the hard drive, and then we came into a spare one after my daughter-in-law's HP laptop went bye-bye. The CPU was shot, but the 640GB hard drive was fine. After I got all the files off the drive and safely to my daughter-in-law, I realized I had the ideal drive for my daughter. It was ideal because the drive was (a) the right kind, (b) 400GB more capacity than her existing one, and (c) free!

The drive that your MacBook will probably use is any 2.5" SATA drive commonly used by just about any notebook computer today, Windows or Mac. You can tell if it is the right drive if (a) it is about 2.5" wide and (b) if its connector matches the one in the MacBook.

I looked into what it would take to replace the drive, and it was laughable easy:

1.    Download  SuperDuper! free from Shirt-Pocket Software: http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper.

2.    Attach the new drive to the MacBook. (I got an empty external drive box for $18 from the local geek computer store.) USB is better than FireWire, for some FireWire drives do not allow booting. If necessary, use the MacBook's DiskUtility software to (a) erase and then (b) format the external drive with "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)."

3.    Run the software, copying all files from the MacBook to the external drive.

4.    Check that the external drive will boot: restart the MacBook while holding down the Options key. You are presented with the option of which drive to boot from: pick the external one.

5.    If the MacBook boots successfully, you can shut it down, remove the old drive, and insert the new one.

I won't give you instructions in how to pull the old drive, because different generations of MacBook have different ways of accessing the hard drive.

(The only hiccough was that after rebooting, Dropbox wanted me to sign in, even thought I didn't need to.)

I say it is laughable easy, because this would not be as simple with a Windows computer.

 Hardware Ralph Grabowski 2012-12-17T18:16:33-08:00 My failed toy: LaCie network drive http://www.worldcadaccess.com/gizmos/2012/12/my-failed-toy-lacie-network-drive.html I've written before about the dreadful state of LaCie and its line of hard drives. I am slowly getting rid of the ones I have. At one time, I thought that a network drive would solve the problem created by...
I've written before about the dreadful state of LaCie and its line of hard drives. I am slowly getting rid of the ones I have.

At one time, I thought that a network drive would solve the problem created by Microsoft, in which they make it difficult to access data on networked computers. Since networked printers had worked well in our office, I got LaCie's Network Drive so that data could be easily stored and shared among multiple computers.

Short story: didn't work.

The LaCie Network Drive is a beautiful beast outwardly, but inside it is a nasty beast. Because of its minimalist design, it lacks even a serial number stamped on its black bottom, should one want tech support from LaCie. No serial number,  no support. (Remember to cut the serial number from the cardboard box and then clumsily scotch-tape it to the drive.)

Installing a network drive is tough, software-wise. It is not plug'n play. As one of LaCie's troubleshooting pages admits:

IP Configurator and Network Assistant [software] use a less common protocol called ARP to find an Ethernet Disk. As this isn't often used by computer users, many firewall and security programs will interfere with it.

This is not a sentence you often read in pre-purchase marketing materials.

Anyhow, I got the drive set up and operating. It appears in the network section of Windows Explorer, with two primary folders: one private (needs a password to access it) and one public. That was fine, but often Windows could not find the drive, as LaCie explains to you only post-purchase (see quote above).

More irritatingly, the drive's heads constantly moved, making this scratching noise that never ever stopped. LaCie tech support explained to me that this was a bug, in which the drive continuously updates its index of files found on the drive. They sent me an update, which fixed the problem.

The difficulty that Windows had in reliably finding the drive, however, made me give up on using it. Because I could not use it for every-day use, I thought I would use the drive just as a backup for files that I don't need frequent updates, such as my collections of photographs, videos, book projects, and software.

Fine, but then last week I needed some files from the drive, and for the first time in a couple of years I reconnected it to my computer. This was the start of about a week spent battling the drive to get it to give up its files to me.

Windows saw the drive, but copying files took, well, centuries it would have been. I don't think a single file was fully copied the first day.  I went to the LaCie site and got a software update, although I was not sure if it was the right one, because of the drive being devoid of markings.

The LaCie utility software for applying the update to the drive didn't think it saw the drive. In any case, it spun its spinner for a day or so.

Even the simple act of turning off the drive meant eventually pulling the power plug, because it would not shut down. (BTW, network drives have tiny Linux computers inside, just like routers and other network devices.)

At one point, I took apart the drive, and installed it in my desktop computer. But while the computer recognized it as hardware (Windows installed the correct drivers),  Windows did not see the drive at the software level. I think this is because it is a network drive, and is not meant to be installed directly in computers.

At one other point, LaCie's software complained that Bonjour was not installed on my computer (which it is), which it needs to operate. Bonjour is installed, so this was another irritant LaCie provides customers.

Eventually, I came across this page at LaCie's site -- http://www.lacie.com/support/support_manifest.htm?id=10300&guideid=10596 -- and I did the following things to get my files back.

Moved the network cable from a router (that had had a spare port) to the router which more directly accessed my desktop computer. The link between the computer and the drive was now more direct.

Reset the drive by turning it off, turning it back on for 3 seconds, then off and on again. I had to do this a few times before the drive was reset.

The reset process is safe: no files are destroyed. But it does remove all updates, and so this drive is back to its annoying, relentless indexing.

Never mind, Windows now was able to copy my backup files. The 77GB of photos were copied in about six hours. I was surprised at how slowly the drive delivers its data. The final black mark.

I'll get a few more files off it drive, and then junk it.

 Hardware Impractical Ralph Grabowski 2012-12-08T08:37:40-08:00 My new toy: An Optoma projector that plays back BluRay but not DVD discs http://www.worldcadaccess.com/gizmos/2012/12/my-optoma-projector-plays-back-bluray-but-not-dvd-discs.html I got a new Optoma HD66 home theatre projector for our entertainment room. Since it was refurbished from a place that specializes in projectors, I got it for pretty much half-price. The image is stunning, compared to my previous projector...
I got a new Optoma HD66 home theatre projector for our entertainment room. Since it was refurbished from a place that specializes in projectors, I got it for pretty much half-price. The image is stunning, compared to my previous projector (Benq MX511, which was suffering from a massive wave of dead pixels after just two years of use.)

But after I hooked it up to my Sony BluRay player, I discovered curious problems.

The projector showed a blue screen (along with the HDMI Signal Searching message) when the Sony player was not showing a movie; the projector should be showing the options screen of my BluRay player.

The projector also showed the blue screen when I tried to play a regular DVD disc.

Only when I inserted a BluRay disc did the projector show the movie. Curious.

I called Optoma tech support, but the woman answering insisted that projectors only display what they receive -- kind of like loud speakers only playback what they get from the amplifier.

But this is not true for components that use HDMI connections, where a lot more goes through the wires than just video and audio signals. For example, handshaking takes place so that the BluRay player and the projector can exchange information regarding the security of the video content.

Together with the tech support person, I thought of a few solutions, such as swapping DVD players or not using the HDMI cable. But after I hung up, I thought I should first search online to see if anyone else had the problem. They did!

Fortunately, by the fourth or fifth forum I read the solution from a member named "kkellycpa": In the Sony BluRay player, turn off HDMI Deep Color Output, like this:

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(The option might be in a different location on your player.)

I called back Optoma tech support to tell them I found the solution, but the techie I spoke with was disinterested. He insisted that projectors only play back what is sent to them. When I persisted by describing the solution to the problem, he claimed I was the first ever to experience the problem. I told him that the problem and its solution was posted nearly three years ago (Feb 2010) -- specific to Optoma HDMI and Sony BluRay.

When I suggested he could record the solution and post it to their Web site, he sounded patronizing, saying "yes, yes," and that was pretty much the end of the conversation.

(The HDMI communications problem is much more common than than you might suspect. It is not uncommon for devices to fail to fully communicate over HDMI connections. My son's first LCD tv had a problem where the screen would flash white for a second every so often while showing movies over HDMI. My daughter's first BluRay movie would not play, because my son's BluRay player was incompatible with the disc version-wise.)

Update: Speaking with the seller of the projector, Consignia.ca told me that they had heard of the problem before.
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The release of Windows 8 failed to give Microsoft and hardware makers the boost they were expecting. We knew there was a problem early, when no CAD vendor made a fuss at the launch, and that most haven't bothered certifying their software to run on the crazed-hybrid operating system. You could say 8 is the anti-XP.

There are two reason for 8's failure to ignite sales:

The touch interface is a FAIL on non-touch computers, and Microsoft's advice to memorize lots of keyboard shortcuts is no solution for those users who haven't even mastered Ctl+C/Ctrl+V.

(My neighbour last week got a free laptop from his cable company for signing up with their fiber optic service. "I hate Windows 8," he yelled at me across the lawn.)

The market has shifted to portable devices. You know, this is the one Microsoft has been championing since 1992, when it released Windows for Pen Computing; except that the market skipped past Microsoft's sumo-wrestler-weight operating system and on to iPads, Androids, and ebook readers.

Mary Meeker does an annual overview of the tech industry, and here is the slide that illustrates the problem for Microsoft (who has essentially no presence in mobile) and the wonderful news for everyone else:

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 The Microsoft Chronicles Ralph Grabowski 2012-12-04T08:38:13-08:00 About that blue USB connector on your new computer http://www.worldcadaccess.com/gizmos/2012/12/about-that-blue-usb-connector-on-your-new-computer.html My daughter-in-law got a new computer, a 15" Acer laptop with touchscreen. I wrote to her about the special capability of the blue USB plug on her computer: The blue signifies it is a USB 3.0 port, which means that...
My daughter-in-law got a new computer, a 15" Acer laptop with touchscreen. I wrote to her about the special capability of the blue USB plug on her computer:

The blue signifies it is a USB 3.0 port, which means that it communicates with other USB 3.0 devices much faster than the older USB 2.0 -- but it is still compatible with 2.0. The main feature is that it is always powered on, even when the computer is turned off. This makes it useful to recharge your phone, etc. I use it on business trips to charge my phone.

Some other facts about USB 3:

It delivers 0.9 amps of power, instead of the 0.1A on USB 2. This means it will charge devices faster, and can better handle power-hungry peripherals, like DVD burners.

It is bidirectional because it has twice as many wires, so that data can flow in both directions at the same time; USB 2 is uni-directional.

Because of the extra wires, USB 3 cables are thicker and so not as flexible as USB 2 cables

Maximum transmission speed is 4.8Gbps, some 10x faster than USB 2; the catch is that the computer or the peripheral might be able to handle the speed

The printer-style plug now looks like a T (see figure below).

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Autodesk had some nice give-aways at Autodesk University for the media. At a VIP luncheon, they handed out Nike Fuel bands (worth $150). This is a fat rubber band that you wear around your wrist; it keeps track of your physical activity.

It does not work until you plug it into a Windows or OS X computer. I plugged it into my computer and downloaded the Nike software for it. It takes the date and time from the computer, and then asks me for my age, height, and weight. Also, I needed to input the number of calories I want to burn each day.

As I wear it, it keeps track of my motions through an accelerometer (electronics that sense motion in all three directions). This it translates into calories burned. The band is water resistant, so it will withstand rain and going into the shower; it cannot, unfortunately, be used while swimming.

Spare links are included to make the band bigger. Or, you can order smaller ones, as well as ones in White or Seethru Black color.

It has a single button. When I push the button, it reports the number of calories burned. Pushing the button more times also reports the number of steps I've taken, the current time (so it can be used as an ultra cool watch), and "Fuel," which are points you collect for being active.

There are two displays. One is an array made of 100 white LEDs that report the time, calories, etc. The other is a strip of 20 colored LEDs that act like a bar chart, showing how far in the day you have attained your goal. In the morning, naturally, there is one red dot; by the end of the day, the line of dots are red, yellow and green -- if you've exercised enough!

When the band is snapped apart, one end is a USB connector. Plugging it into any computer or USB charger charges the battery. The battery apparently lasts 4 days, so we'll see.

Bluetooth is built in, to communicate with Nike software running  on iPhones and iPads; no support for Androids yet.

http://www.nike.com/us/en_us/lp/nikeplusfuelband

Link to the user manual: http://support-en-ca.nikeplus.com/ci/fattach/get/254456/0/filename/FuelBand_Manual_Online_ENGv4.pdf
 Reviews Ralph Grabowski 2012-11-29T10:26:47-08:00 My new toy: VMultra drive http://www.worldcadaccess.com/gizmos/2012/11/my-new-toy-vmultra-drive.html Brand-new from Velocity Micro is the VMultra drive. It is a USB-3.0 station that sports: 1 x SD card slot (SD, SDHC, MMC, but not SDXC) 2 x USB 3.0 ports 1 x USB 2.0 port DVD read-write 8x-speed drive...
Brand-new from Velocity Micro is the VMultra drive. It is a USB-3.0 station that sports:

1 x SD card slot (SD, SDHC, MMC, but not SDXC)

2 x USB 3.0 ports

1 x USB 2.0 port

DVD read-write 8x-speed drive (or optional BluRay drive)

500GB hard disk drive (or optional SSD drive, or no drive at all); it is a 7200rpm Western Digital "Black" drive attached with the SATA III connector.

All this comes in a box about the size and twice the height of one of today's external DVD drives.

I found the VMultra interesting, because (a) I wanted a USB-3.0 backup drive; (b) needed an external DVD drive for my notebook computer; (c) would find an extra SD slot useful, because the one in my notebook computer is consumed by the ReadyBoost drive; and (d) extra USB slots are always useful. And here was a unit that had all four functions in one.

So I ordered it. During ordering, I did not realize it could be configured, and so I bought the standard configuration (DVD R/W and hard drive) for $199. You can substitute the DVD with a BluRay drive, change the hard drive for a solid state drive of various sizes, or have no hard drive at all (install your own). http://www.velocitymicro.com/wizard.php?iid=234

(I used to have an external DVD drive that also read BluRay discs, but I found I never used the BluRay function, partly because I have no need for BluRay discs, and partly because I'd have to pay another $80 for software to play back BluRay movies on my computer.)

It arrived yesterday, and here is what I found:

The case is made of rubberized plastic, so it feel like it will not slip from my hand. On the  other hand, this type of plastic is a finger grease magnet.

A door covers the hard drive, allowing me to replace it.

The VMultra attaches using a USB 3.0 cord that has a T-shaped connector at the peripheral end. It provides almost all the power needed, even to burn DVD discs. The unit comes with a spare power supply, needed only if you want to run more than one thing at a time -- according to the documentation.

I can access all drives at the same time: the hard drive, DVD drive, inserted SD card, as well as other storage devices attached to the USB ports.

D:    DVD drive
E:    Hard drive
F:    SD card
G: and so on: other devices attached

I found the DVD drive slightly faster than the one I used to have.

The tiny instruction booklet claimed the hard drive needed to be formatted first, but I found it already had NTFS formatting.

The device has no copy button or other controls, and so I cannot, say, copy files from the DVD drive to the hard drive, or from the SD card to the drive. This means it cannot be used as a portable backup drive for cameras.

The device has no media output ports (neither video or audio), and so it cannot be used as a source for playing back music, display photos or movies on tvs, or doing presentations on projectors.

The documentation does not explain the three lights on the unit. Here they are:

Green light indicates a card is successfully plugged into the SD card reader.

Blue light on the side indicates the hard drive is working (I had to pull the hard drive to figure this one out).

Long blue light on top indicates the unit is plugged into the computer.

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I attached a variety of peripherals to see how well the USB ports acted as a hub. I plugged in my Google Nexus S phone, MOMO8 Android tablet, and Apple iPod Classic. In all these cases, the VMultra charged the device, and the computer recognized its existence (after installing device drivers). This means the VMultra can be used as a charging post for portable devices, as well as to move files back and forth (between attached mobile device and the computer) like a USB hub. Again, files cannot be copied from the mobile devices to the MVultra directly, but can be via the attached computer.

When I attached an external hard drive, it was not recognized, nor was a multi-card reader or digital camera. That does not mean such devices would not work for you; it's just that these particular models did not work for me.

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I plugged the VMultra into my ASUS Android tablet. The tablet recognized the 500GB hard drive, calling it USBdisk1. So I can use it as external storage. But when I put a movie into the DVD drive, the tablet recognized neither. (When I removed the disc, the hard drive again was recognized.)

When I attached the iPad, it was charged and the tablet could read the folders that Apple makes public. But once again, the hard drive disappeared. The hard drive reappeared only after I unplugged and replugged the VMultra to and from the tablet.

It would not recognize my Android phone, but then I can plug the phone directly into one of the tablet's other USB ports.

Bonus Tip: When you have a choice in plugging a peripheral into a USB 2 or USB 3 port, then choose USB 3. I find things work better with USB 3 ports, perhaps because they output more power.

 Hardware Ralph Grabowski 2012-11-26T18:47:00-08:00 iPad users read'n weep: putting 256GB on an Android tablet http://www.worldcadaccess.com/gizmos/2012/11/ipad-users-readn-weep-putting-256gb-on-an-android-tablet.html One of the first questions new ASUS Transformer users have is, how much memory can I load into the two memory card slots. (With the keyboard dock attached, these Android tablets have a microSD slot in the tablet, and a...
One of the first questions new ASUS Transformer users have is, how much memory can I load into the two memory card slots. (With the keyboard dock attached, these Android tablets have a microSD slot in the tablet, and a full-size SD slot in the keyboard.)

The answer is, um, unlimited. But since the largest capacities these days is 128GB, that's what it'll take, so 256GB total.

There are two catches:

1. Memory cards 64GB or larger must be formatted on a Windows PC using exFAT or NTFS. They cannot be formatted on the tablet, because apparently Google pulled the formatting function from Android 3 (due to Microsoft licensing threats, is my guess).

2. I haven't tried this tip myself, unlike all the other tips I leave on this blog. But because I've read similar answers on multiple Android blogs, I assume it is probably true. I don't want to spend several hundred dollars to find out whether it is true, because I don't need a quarter-terrabyte disk space. The 64GB my TF101 currently has are sufficient.

Bonus Tip: If you use a card reader that is not compatible with the special format of high-capacity SD cards, then you might screw up the card. Low-cost card readers are likely incompatible with SDXC.

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Decades of hearing "don't leave home without it" may have convinced American consumers that they won't be replacing their wallets with smartphones anytime soon. A Radius Global Market Research survey found that concerns about fraud, security and network stability hinder electronics manufacturers' ambitions to process credit card transactions with near-field-communications devices.
Conventional wisdom suggests that a growing number of younger Americans may want to carry a single mobile device, capable of initiating merchant payments with most of their active credit card accounts. However, according to Radius spokesman Chip Lister, the next generation of active consumers has already raised the most critical concerns about NFC-based mobile payments solutions.
Security concerns influence resistance to NFC payments
In a statement to reporters, Lister revealed that half of the American consumers represented in the Radius survey admitted that their security fears influenced whether they intended to use smartphone payment solutions in the future. That percentage rises when researchers narrow their sample to just those respondents under the age of 35. When Radius asked only those under-35 consumers who self-identified as "digitally savvy," the percentage of resistance rose to 62 percent.
Too many cooks in the kitchen, consumers say
NFC payment trials rely on partnerships between software developers, handset makers, banks, wireless networks and retailers. For instance, a typical Google Wallet payment requires a smartphone from Motorola or Samsung, connected to a Citibank credit card or debit card account, processed over MasterCard's network, on point-of-sale hardware designed by yet another manufacturer.
Compared to swiping a traditional credit card, a wireless transaction appears even more risky to many of the survey's respondents. "Consumers appear to be very aware of the entire delivery chain associated with mobile payments," said Lister. "In consumers' minds the complete transaction is only as strong as the weakest link, especially as it relates to security." Survey respondents suggested that trusted technology vendors could inspire more NFC transactions by leading marketing efforts, instead of diluting their involvement as members of a coalition.


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Temples tamed by trees
Trees can be treacherous. In Cambodia, the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor Wat is overrun by tree roots that overtake the structures and break through their walls.
By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Friday 28 February 2014
Trees can be treacherous. In Cambodia, the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor Wat is overrun by tree roots that overtake the structures and break through their walls.
By Contributions in News on Thursday 25 July 2013
Child fighters in sport of Muay Thai (Thai Boxing) are commonplace in the martial art's country of origin, and the subject of much attention. However, Born Ready introduces viewers to a group of young champions training together at a gym in Philadelphia. All four, between the ages of 12 and 17, have already secured national […]
By Patch Sinclair in Architecture on Sunday 23 June 2013
Wat Rong Khun (The White Temple) is a contemporary Buddhist temple situated in Chang Rai, Thailand. It is the vision of artist Chalermchai Kositpipat, who has dedicated the rest of his life to completing the sculpturally intricate, mirror embedded sanctuary. He believes the project will take 70 years to complete and he is in the process of passing his aspirations onto his 60 or so helpers.
By Low Lai Chow in Video on Tuesday 15 January 2013
This Thai television commercial is at least six years old, but it's still pretty darn good now that I'm watching this in 2013. Excellent cast and deft direction too. I don't know how the creative agency thought about connecting the product to a bank heist in the first place at all. Thais are just really […]
By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Thursday 10 January 2013
A recent rampage at the local art museum brought me face-to-face with Dow Wasiksiri's work. Born in Thailand, but raised overseas, Wasiksiri aims to 'photograph the Thai way of life with a quizzical eye'. This includes capturing street portraits of people who hang out at Chiang Mai's Kard Luang Market against hand-held photo backdrops. All that colour!
By Francis Andrews in Cool Travel on Thursday 22 November 2012
Even though I've lived in Southeast Asia for nearly four years, the local battles with translations into English still regularly draw a guilty laugh. My collection of massively non-PC toilet signs for the disabled is a work in progress. One day I hope to own a gallery.
By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Thursday 8 November 2012
Thai photographer Benz Thanachart has devised a rather unusual strategy to shoot great candid pictures: shout random phrases like 'fried egg' and 'Tokyo tower' to throw unsuspecting subjects off. Titled Smartphone, the project started when he returned to Thailand after spending a year in New York and noticed how commuters were using their mobile devices to cut off from contact with their surroundings. The looks he captures on his camera are quite priceless.
By Cormack O'Connor in Cool Travel on Thursday 18 October 2012
If you've ever dreamed of having a baby elephant work out all your knots and pains, you can now be massaged by one at Thailand's Bang Tao Beach. The master masseuses, Lucky and Lilly, are 3 and 4 year old beasts with a very beautiful nature. Having actually met the babies in real life, I […]
By Saad Moosajee in New Illustration on Thursday 24 May 2012
The work Thailand-based artist Tarin Yuangtrakul shows a level of skill and maturity far beyond the artist's age of 19. Yuangtrakul's illustrative work is an impressive combination of several mediums and boasts an unbelievable amount of detail.
By Meghan Geliza in New Art on Tuesday 24 April 2012
I met this awesome lady in Thailand, during the Little Lotus Project. Sheryo is a wicked street artist originally from Singapore but now Brooklyn-based. She has traveled the world doing art bombings everywhere she lands: from Korea, to Cambodia, Indonesia, to LA and New York. Her works are gnarly, hilarious and incredible.
By Low Lai Chow in Cool Travel on Saturday 31 March 2012
Why settle for poolside movies when you can watch films in a floating cinema in the middle of the ocean? Specially created for the Film on the Rocks Yao Noi Festival in Thailand, the floating Archipelago Cinema took its construction cue from techniques used by fishermen for floating lobster farms. Just don't get motion sickness […]
By Daniel Schwarz in New Design on Sunday 6 November 2011
During a travel around Thailand and lots of card playing, Berlin-based designer Monja Gentschow decided to give the usual playing cards a new coat and designed the most beautiful deck ever.
By Cody A. Seekins in Cool Travel on Thursday 25 August 2011
When I lived in Bangkok, Thailand, this restaurant was one of the more unique eating establishments I found. In addition to offering delicious authentic Thai cuisine, Cabbages & Condoms is a public awareness campaign presented in a light and humorous way. As they say: 'Our food is guaranteed not to cause pregnancy'.
By Francis Andrews in New Film on Saturday 28 August 2010
I've watched this advert a few times and it still leaves me shell-shocked, despite having lived in Thailand for a while now and acknowledged that there is an undercurrent of xenophobia. And even racism. But this tops anything I've seen or heard, and it still made it onto national TV.
By Andy in New Design on Sunday 30 March 2008
A minimalist design hotel parked on Thailand's Koh Samui island, The Library stole my attention as I wandered down Chewang Beach at sunset.
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President of the U.S., 1989-1993; Former Republican Rep. (TX)
George seemed to have regressed. His 1964 campaign was opposed to everything his father represented: civil rights, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, open housing, Medicare. George called Medicare "socialized medicine" and Martin Luther King Jr. "a militant."
BUSH: We have increased funding for AIDS. We've doubled it. My request for this year was $4.9 billion for AIDS, 10 times as much for AIDS victim as per cancer victim. I think that we're showing the proper compassion and concern. I was a little disappointed in Magic, because he came to me and I said, "Now, if you see something we're not doing, get ahold of me, call me, let me know." He went to one meeting, and then we heard that he was stepping down.
PEROT: If you're going to die, you don't have to go through this 10-year cycle that FDA goes through. People with AIDS are more than willing to take that risk.
CLINTON: We need to put one person in charge of the battle against AIDS to cut across all the agencies. We need to accelerate the drug approval process. The President should lead a national effort to change behavior.
BUSH: Clinton failed to take on the malpractice suit people, these frivolous trial lawyers' lawsuits that are running costs of medical care up by $25 billion to $50 billion. He refuses to put any controls on these crazy lawsuits. If you want to help somebody, don't run the costs up by making doctors have to have 5 or 6 tests where one would do for fear of being sued, or have somebody along the highway not stop to pick up a guy and help him because he's afraid a trial lawyer will come along and sue him. We're suing each other too much and caring for each other too little.
PEROT: We've got plans lying all over the place in Washington. Nobody ever implements them.
BUSH: One thing I will not do is sock every business in the country and, thus, throw some people out of work. I this economic recovery going. What I will do is permit people to buy into Medicaid. I believe that's the answer. I am proud to have been part of an administration that past the first catastrophic health bill.
There isn't any such thing as free out there. It either gets passed along as increased prices or it gets passed along by people being put out of work. So, I think we ought to do it in the Medicaid system. I think we ought to do it by full enforcement of the catastrophic h insurance. I think we ought to do it by everybody doing what they can do out of conscience. It's a terrible problem in terms of flexibility on private insurance. But I just don't want to mandate it and risk setting the recovery back.
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Attend a webinar presenting the findings of six Research Fellowship Award winners. This webinar will be divided into two parts.
SPE Announces International Award Winners for 2014
The SPE Board of Directors approved the 2014 International Award recipients at their recent meeting in Cartagena, Colombia. Seventeen international award committees recommended these winners to the board because of their outstanding and significant technical, professional, and service contributions to SPE and the petroleum industry.
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Adobe have backed down on their previous announcements that there would be special pricing for upgrades to CS6 from Photoshop CS3 and CS4 (and all the other tools in the Creative Suite older than 1 previous version). They will now be offering reduced pricing to upgrade from CS3 or CS4 from the time CS6 arrives until the end of 2012…
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The information in this annual blog post is always informative and might be useful if used in the right way. Keep in mind that rental companies represent a true torture test for photography equipment, so you have to take the information with a grain of salt and use it as relative information rather than absolutes.
- Better Photography Backgrounds – Rise & Tilt
The video is a bit cheezy, but the concept is great. If you want clean backgrounds in your images you need to pay attention to what's behind your subject. If you can't clean it up then get up higher and use the floor or ground instead of whatever cruft is on the walls or in the scenery behind.
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Well, last night at cub recruitment, we had about 20 kids come to see about the 4 packs in our area. We had 2 who wanted to join our group- one mom recognized our cubmaster who is a pediatrician and she was also holding a 1 month old baby boy. And then that kid's friend. Both are currently Kindergarten. So, as soon as our current boys bridge up, we will have 2 Tigers, 1 Bear, 3 Web 1's, 1 Web 2. I also had contact with 2 families who have left our group. One mom wants to sign her kid up for Day Camp only with us, but not commit to the scout year next year. Another wants to rejoin our pack- he would be a Bear as well. And I have high hopes for another boy who left to come back- he will for Day Camp, but his family may be moving at the end of July (military), so I can't count on him to be there beyond that... he would be a Bear at the end of this school year as well.
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Bodies stacked on top of bodies in the Cook County medical examiner's office in 2012.
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It was a house of horrors.
Body parts in plastic bags tossed on a cooler floor.
Corpse-carrying forklifts driven by untrained workers crashing into shelves holding the dead.
Autopsy instruments smeared with bodily fluids strewn haphazardly.
Dead bodies stacked unceremoniously in coolers.
Unrelenting stench.
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◆ Its location: the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, where all Cook County autopsies are conducted; the bodies of indigent vets are housed; and where the poor and slain stay longer than needed.
◆ The grisly conditions were detailed by Sneed sources and in a "damning" preliminary report by the Illinois Department of Labor (DOL) which almost caused Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle's knees to buckle.
"She was jarred ... really jarred," said a top Preckwinkle source.
"Preckwinkle had already dispatched a team from her office to alleviate complaints of body stacking and mismanagement in February, which was able to reduce the body count load from 400 plus to 234," said the Preckwinkle source.
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A source familiar with the report claims Preckwinkle "laid the foundation" for Jones to retire, but "demanded Jackson's resignation."
Sneed is told Jackson, who was originally hired in June 2003 to deal with worker benefits in the Cook County Department of Risk Management, was clouted into the Medical Examiner's executive officer job by Cook County Board President Todd Stroger—AFTER he lost the Democratic primary to Preckwinkle.
Attempts to reach Jackson were unsuccessful.
"It's clear that there was mismanagement and poor administration in this office, and it was time for a new direction," said Kurt Summers, Preckwinkle's chief of staff.
Preckwinkle, who is said to have described the summary DOL report as "damning" and was "furious" when given it ten days ago, will not receive the full report until the end of the month.
The report claims the violations are so serious, "there is a substantial probability that death or serious physical injury could result if not abated."
In fact, no medical examiner employee injury logs were kept, according to the report — which did not include the in-between-the-lines blood and guts details provided to Preckwinkle by her staff — and subsequently given to Sneed by informed sources.
◆The fear: "If an employee was infected with HIV or a communicable disease due to a carelessly placed knife or instrument — or from a body dripping contaminated fluid, they could be walking around with a serious communicable disease," said a source familiar with the report, which lists 21 violations.
Imagine that potential disaster!
Racks in the cooler holding stacked bodies may have a dramatic effect, but, according to the report, failure to ensure the safety of personnel was cited — including lack of eye goggles and eye wash stations — both necessary in case bodily fluids were accidentally released.
The report also cites failures to train employees to deal with exposure to bloodborne contamination or ensure employees were vaccinated against Hepatitis C.
The medical examiner's office didn't even "appropriately segregate laundry exposed to biohazards" and "there was no respiratory protection program," the report stated.
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