In part one I covered ‘Why use eSATA?’ In part two I’m covering ‘How to use eSATA’ The presumption is that you want to add additional external drives to your current setup. Maybe you are a laptop user or have run out of internal space in your computer but still want super fast disk access [...]

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A two part post, you can find part two here.
Own a MacBook Pro or Windows Laptop? Want to write to / from an external disk at theoretical 3Gb/sec? Which, in practical terms, is a maximum of 280MB/sec.

Tags: Apple, art, book, conversion, disk, firewire, free, FW, mac, macbook, macintosh, sata, usb

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The root password on the Amazon Kindle is ‘fiona’.
Fiona is the name of the girl protagonist in Neil Stephenson’s ‘The Diamond age’. In the book Fiona receives an advanced electronic device that is in the shape of a book, this device educates her and acts as her guardian through her formative years.
Hacking the Kindle

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Sigh, this is bad news. I’ve loved TP’s books for a long while now. He’s not dead but has 4-10 years left, with only probably half of that being productive. Best wishes to him and his family.
Folks,
I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and [...]

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So I was at a strip bar late last night, one of my least favourite dancers comes on. Yeah I’ve been a few times and have started to know the dancers, OK. Sheesh. It’s not like I live there or anything. Honest.
Anyway, it is not that she’s bad but she’s not enthusiastic. She spots this [...]

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My life has totally changed again, the second time within a year. I’m not sure what this means when it comes to my online life.
My real life has been thrown up in the air and the bits are still raining down; albeit more slowly now as I start to gain stability once more.
These are interesting [...]

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Use firefox and greasemonkey? Want an easy way to clean up Facebook? Then here you go :)
I didn’t enjoy the fact that Facebook now allows “apps” applications/widgets to be added to profiles. Sure, some applications are useful, but like MySpace, it gets annoying. So, with that I created a Greasemonkey script to remove, per se, [...]

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Or how to dance with the devil in the pale LCD light.
One of the first things I did when I received my new MacBook Pro was install MAME. This is not relevant to this article in the slightest, I just happen to like Arcade games. The next thing I did was install Windows. On my [...]

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