Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/22
“We’re barbarians, not bureaucrats!”
Source: Hacking is Important — Medium
On hacking vs processes, being disruptive and how people think. Short stories about Borland, Apple, FaceBook and others.
–jeroen
via: Hacking is Important — Medium – David Berneda – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/04
Her uncle had parkinson. This simple yet innovative solution helped him big time:
she questioned how her uncle walked up and down the stairs. Surprisingly, he was able to do this without any problem, but as soon as he stopped, he had trouble walking again. She decided to apply a “staircase illusion” to the floor by having the illusion of a staircase flowing throughout her uncle’s house. To her surprise, this simple solution was able to help her uncle move around the house faster and easier.
Source: TEDxDelft 2015 | Mileha Soneji | Empathy is the Key to Great Innovation – TEDxDelft
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/25
Sugru is mouldable glue that turns into rubber. We invented it to make fixing and making easy and fun. Do-ers of the world, it’s time to get excited.
Source: FIX THAT THING | Sugru
via: Playing NSA, hardware hackers build USB cable that can attack | Ars Technica
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/24
Fun: The latest innovation from the media | CommitStrip: block visitors that use adblockers.
The real fun: the first comments G+ re-share “The end of the ad-blocking wars (and some media)” are from people that exactly do what’s in the third frame: bye bye adblock-blocker site.
For good reason too: viewing ads has become a clear and present danger to our security and privacy.
I won’t even bother trying ad-blocker-blocker-blockers.
@WIRED and @parool are out for reasons 1 and 3.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/18
At 20160703, we had the highest peak power this year so far: 2424 Watt. It was for just a moment, but still (:
Source: 1060NP71 3.250kW | Live Output
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/14
Resize, shrink, and crop your pictures online for free at [WayBack] PicResize.com. Resize photos before posting them on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, Tumblr, or blog!
Source: [WayBack] Free Online Picture Resizer – Crop and Resize photos, images, or pictures online for FREE!
–jeroen
PS: note there is no TLS available, so https://picresize.com/ fails. I have notified them about that.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/07
Hopefully this keeps working: Cutting the Chai: How to Download Images from Issuu.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/04
So my ScanSnap ix500 has a box too (actually a Leitz Rotho Profiline 10 Schübe drawer). The ix500 scans double sided and takes like 2 seconds per sheet. Works through WiFi (or USB) on both PC and Mac.
This is the process:
This is why I like it over scanning with your mobile phone any time:
My ix500 setup just works.
Now I need to optimise the S510 scanned files. Maybe linux – optimize PDF files (with Ghostscript or other) – Stack Overflow (from the same thread) works.
–jeroen
via: Hey everyone, we are currently preparing the next release.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/29
Reloop has posted the below for DJ controlers (like Contour IE, Jockey 3 ME and Digital Jockey 2 ME), but it also applies to their mixers, for instance my Reloop RMX-40 USB – Reloop (but not limited to Reloop audio equipment) in combination with either of my:
All these machines have USB 3.0 ports. But the workarounds below work:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/19
Because of Repair of #Alulux AKS 2.0 (201237):
All of the parts can be found in [locally archived: Planer_Garagentore.pdf] http://www.fricksonnenschutz.de/uploads/media/Planer_Garagentore.pdf
Alternatives via “Funk, Zubehör und Steuerungen für Rollltore: Handender, Empfangsteile und Steuerungen für Rollltore”
Images below.
In 2019, I found a related repair at these links:
–jeroen
via:
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