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We just finished watching Finding Nemo (and now I understand why kids in the US started flushing their pet fish down the toilet after watching this movie!).
We both love the modern computer generated animation movies and this wasn't an exception.
It's a great movie with a LOT of action.
There is so much going on in this movie that there really isn't a dull moment throughout the entire film.
But for some odd reason we both liked it less than other similar movies like Shrek and Monsters Inc.
BTW: I also played a bit of Finding Nemo on the PS2 and it's also a pretty cool game, but I'll elaborate more on that on a different occasion....
 
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August 29, 2003
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If you like Xiao Xiao style adventures then check out this site.
It displays a story with 10 great episodes of Xiao style action scenes.
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I needed a way to download binary files from usenet and it turns out that Outlook Express doesn't know how to decode binary files that are encoded with yEnc (which is the standard for encoding binary files in usenet, check out http://www.yenc.org/ for a list of yEnc-friendly utilities)!
So, as usual, I started searching for a free news reader that can download yEnc binaries from usenet.
At first I tried Xnews but it was way too complicated and really drove me crazy.
Then I discovered GrabIt and gave it a run.
GrabIt is a great, free, newsreader that specializes in downloading binaries from usenet.
It makes the whole yEnc decoding completely transparent to the user (you have no idea that files need to be decoded) and lets you batch download several files.
Don't leave home without it!
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August 28, 2003
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There's a new creation at the Disneyland Resort from Lucky the Audio-Animatronic dinosaur.
There are some more pictures of him on that site and you can tell that he is very cute and lifelike.
That cart that he pulls behind him is filled with electronics that bring Lucky to life.
According to the article, he does not seem at all like a robot: What is most impressive about Lucky is the degree of articulation in the head and neck, and the wide range of facial features. It's easy to believe that he is real as he “talks” with Chandler, or whimpers when his balloon floats away, or smiles and winks at a shy child. Lucky's motions are incredibly smooth—he doesn't appear robotic in his steps, or the way his head moves around to take in the scenery.
Pretty soon you won't be able to tell if that dog you see crapping on your lawn is real or just a Disney promotion...
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After several hours of struggling with the Umax Astra 2200 USB scanner I was finally able to get it to work in Windows 2000.
I bought the scanner about 3 years ago and had it installed on my Windows 98 machine.
Today I tried to install it on my Win2k machine but it wouldn't work.
I went to Umax's site to download an updated driver for Windows 2000 but the site said that the updated version costs money!
I was sure that other people had also run across this problem so I kept searching for some help and luckily ran across this post at driverforum.com.
That post pointed to www.umax.de/support/drivers.htm where I downloaded an updated version of the Astra 2200 driver for Windows 2000 (and XP).
Several reboots later (after about 5 previous reboots while trying to get the damn thing to work) and the scanner was finally working!
Thank god (the Internet Gods of course).
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August 27, 2003
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Howto Play Mp3's on a Clie
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The Sony Clie is a great PDA (I have a PEG-NX70V) that can, among other things, play video clips and mp3 files.
The only limitation with playing mp3 files on the Clie is that it requires that the mp3 file sampling rate be 44.1KHz and the bitrate be 56kbs and up.
If you try playing a mp3 file on your Clie and get an error similar to this:
This track is not available because of either of the following reasons:
Does not support the copyright system or file format.
The memory stick is write-protected.
then the problem usually is that the sampling rate or bitrate of your mp3 file are not supported by the Clie.
Many people in online forums say that you need to buy the white Sony Memory Stick (Magic Gate which is more expensive than the purple Memory Stick) in order to play mp3 files on your Clie but that's not true, you can use the regular purple Memory Stick.
One caveat: if you want to use Sonic Stage (the PC software that comes bundled with Clie) that uses ATRAC encoding (instead of mp3) then you'll need to get the white Memory Stick (the purple MS can't play ATRAC encoded files), but for regular mp3 files you don't need anything special (just make sure that the sampling rate and bitrate are in the range that the Clie supports).
In order to play mp3 files then remember to always put your mp3 files in the \PALM\PROGRAMS\MSAUDIO folder.
I had several mp3 files that weren't in the correct format so I searched for a utility (preferable freeware) that could convert mp3 files to different sampling rates and bitrates.
I stumbled upon this excellent util:
dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC)
It lets you easily select a mp3 file for conversion, select the desired output format, and you're off.
It does have to encode the entire file (that's the whole purpose of it) so it will take some time.
It also comes with an outstanding (really!) CD ripper.
Oh yea, it's free!
Good luck and rock on....
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 The Neuros Audio Computer seems like a very cool mp3 player.
It has a built in FM tuner and transmitter, has both 128MB flash and a 20GB HD, support for the open source encoder Ogg Vorbis, and runs an embedded version of Linux.
As you can see in the review, there are some problems with it but it's definitely one to keep an eye on....
Posted by Guy at 07:28 AM
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Yet another addictive online game:
RocketMania is a great little game where you need to rotate fuse pieces in order to launch rockets (just take a look at the site it'll make much more sense).
Make sure you have a lot of free time before you click that link.....
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August 25, 2003
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FreeTechBooks offers a list of free online computer books, tutorials, lecture notes, documentations and references.
They are free to view, download, and print!
Posted by Guy at 10:59 AM
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After the Matrix Ping Pong from about a month ago, I ran into another similar movie clip: girl and her shadow.
This one isn't as good as the Matrix clip but it's also cool.
And it's in Flash format so it's easy to watch.
Oh yea, once the clip loads you'll need to click on the play triangle.
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August 24, 2003
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An interesting anicdote on why the feature from the original release of Windows 95 where you could change your time zone by clicking on the map is gone.
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A great movie that we saw this weekend was Bad Company with Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins.
It's an action/comedy flick with a pretty standard plot (Chris Rock, a ticket scalper from New Jersey, is called to save the world after his twin brother, a CIA agent, is killed during an undercover mission).
The film is a lot of fun to watch with plenty of action and lots of funny scenes with Chris Rock as the street smart Jersey scalper who suddenly needs to work in the CIA.
Definitely one to check out.
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August 23, 2003
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I added a random quote to Guy's World.
You can find it at the right side of the page, right under the links.
What I did to add it was write a Perl script that opens the tidBytes database file, finds all quotes in it, and displays one of them at random.
It is invoked by SSI.
Every time you reload the page you'll get a different quote.
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August 22, 2003
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Now you can play Insaniquarium, one of my favorite Palm games, online.
Basically all you need to do in this game is feed your fish and collect money that they spit out.
It may sound stupid but watch out it's very addictive.
BTW: the online version is much harder than the Palm version (mainly because it's much faster).
There are other cool games here (but other than Snowcraft, which I ran into a few years ago, I haven't tried the other games yet).
Posted by Guy at 10:42 AM
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