Very interesting blog post: Why good storytelling helps you design great products | Google Ventures.
–jeroen
Why good storytelling helps you design great products | Google Ventures
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Headless: PC Engines APU System Boards Feature AMD G-Series T40E APU, 3 Gigabit Ethernet Ports
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/10
Interesting for instance for a pfSense router: [Wayback/Archive] PC Engines APU System Boards Feature AMD G-Series T40E APU, 3 Gigabit Ethernet Ports.
–jeroen
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Apple Mouse – some links
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/10
Slowly completing my Apple II collection, I wanted to buy an Apple Mouse.
Well, that turns out to be a tad complex, as there are various models that are more or less compatible with some of the Apple computers from the mid 1980s.
- Apple Mouse – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- View topic – Apple Mice differences? – 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Forums.
- Vintage Hardware for The Apple IIe Apple Mouse | eBay.
- Apple II Mouse Interface Card 670 0030 1983 Works | eBay.
- Vintage Apple Mouse II for IIe with Card | eBay.
Mice aren’t the only problems with old hardware: drives and disks die.
Maybe this is a solution:
–jeroen
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Big Data (via: Twitter / wtrsld)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/09
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Play anything local that is convertible through ffmpeg (via: Mustafa Akın – Google+)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/09
Interesting project on github: [Wayback/Archive] mustafaakin/cast-localvideo.
Via: Mustafa Akın – Google+ – If anyone is interested, I made a local video player on….
–jeroen
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TLDRLegal – Software Licenses Explained in Plain English
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/09
Ilya Grigorik – Google+ (from Google) shared a link to tldrlegal.com/: TLDRLegal – Software Licenses Explained in Plain English.
Very convenient to have all these licenses in one central places, bot for developers and consumers of software.
He also found why on certain devices (for instance Android Nexus 4) you get a security warning when viewing that site:
the www is missing from the certificate, so http://www.tldrlegal.com is not included in it: Qualys SSL Labs – Projects / SSL Server Test / tldrlegal.com.
For those devices apparently, https://tldrlegal.com redirects to https://www.tldrlegal.com giving the security warning.
On most desktop browsers, you see https://tldrlegal.com perfectly fine.
–jeroen
via:
- Ilya Grigorik – Google+ – TL;DR Legal: http://bit.ly/1k5CjzK – brilliant.
- TLDRLegal – Software Licenses Explained in Plain English.
(I tagged this post with .NET and Delphi because that’s what I used most for Software Development, of course it applies to any kind of software development).
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The Apple II europlus (and clones): As seen in Tezza’s classic computer collection. – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/08
For my Apple //e collection.
The Apple II europlus (and clones): As seen in Tezza’s classic computer collection. – YouTube.
The Apple IIe: As seen in Tezza’s classic computer collection – YouTube.
More are at Terry Stewart – YouTube.
–jeroen
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How to Switch Google+ Stream from Multi-Column View to Single Column (via: TechnoDuet)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/08
Subtle, as the “More” button got removed, but the Accessibility setting is still there:
If you also want to see the posts in ‘What’s Hot’ and Communities in single-column, then go to Account Settings -> Google + and select the Accessibility checkbox as shown below:
Enjoy the uncluttered and headache-free single-column layout of Google+ posts!
Now I can enjoy all G+ streams to be in one column format so it is easier to track the order of posts.
–jeroen
via: How to Switch Google+ Stream from Multi-Column View to Single Column – TechnoDuet.
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Remove email address from suggestions in To field on Gmail (via: Web Applications Stack Exchange)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/08
Every once in a while, you have a wrong address in your GMail auto complete list (for instance when someone moved to another provider or you mistyped it).
This is how to delete it:
- Delete his email address from Other Contacts under Gmail Contacts.
- Reload Gmail and search your contacts for the email address to make sure you really got rid of it.
–jeroen
via: Remove email address from suggestions in To field on Gmail – Web Applications Stack Exchange.
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Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 Scanner for PC and Mac (PA03656-B005) (via: Amazon.com: Customer Reviews)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/08
I didn’t have time yet to get one, but the Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 (thanks Olaf Monien for pointing me at this in the first place) is definitely on my list of devices to install soon as a successor to my Fujitsu ScanSnap S510.
The S510 has a few drawbacks:
- Only connects through USB.
- Only has a very old version of Adobe Acrobat which – even worse – has refused to install any security updates for a while now.
- Only scans if your PC is logged on.
- Too often wrinkles paper or multi-feeds (from the beginning, so it wasn’t wear of the rollers).
- Has problems scanning business cards.
- Black&White has rough edges around scanned text.
I wanted a new scanner that gets rid of at least a few of these drawbacks.
The Fujitsu ScanSnap site already lists some compelling iX500 features (like 25 ppm, parallel OCR PDF, paper handling, ultrasonic multi-feed detection), but failed to indicate about some of the other drawbacks.
Most reviews of the iX500 were unclear about that as well, until I read the bottom of this Amazon.com review: Read the rest of this entry »
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