/windows | May 17, 2013

• Android 4.1
• Flexible 6" E-ink screen (1024x768)
• Sunlight viewable with lunar lantern mode
• Glove friendly IR touchscreen
• Waterproof shell
• Kickstand
• Solar (or USB) charging
• i.MX 6 DualLite 1GHz Cortex A9
• 1GB ram
• 16GB memory + microSD
• WiFi b/g/n
• BT 4.0
• ANT+
• NFC
• FRS/GMRS/MURS
• GPS + GLONASS
• Accelerometer
• Gyroscope
• Magnetometer
• Temperature
• Barometer
• Humidity
• Anemometer
• AM/FM/SW/LW
• IR blaster
• 20+ hour battery
• 20" USB lanyard
• 303 grams (10.8 oz)
• 183mm x 121mm x 15mm (7.2" x 4.75" x 0.6")

/eink | May 11, 2013

Ghibli Pixel Wallpaper Pack

Castle in the Sky 天空の城ラピュタ Howl's Moving Castle ハウルの動く城 Kiki's Delivery Service 魔女の宅急便 My Neighbor Totoro となりのトトロ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 風の谷のナウシカ Ponyo 崖の上のポニョ Princess Mononoke もののけ姫 Spirited Away 千と千尋の神隠し The Cat Returns 猫の恩返し Whisper of the Heart 耳をすませば

Ghibli Pixel Wallpaper Collection 2

Castle in the Sky 天空の城ラピュタ Howl's Moving Castle ハウルの動く城 My Neighbor Totoro となりのトトロ Princess Mononoke もののけ姫 The Cat Returns 猫の恩返し The Secret World of Arrietty 借りぐらしのアリエッティ Whisper of the Heart 耳をすませば

/misc | May 08, 2013

• "It does not require money to be neat, clean, and dignified." -- Mahatma Gandhi
• "Nothing that really helps towards perfection costs more than is within the means of every person who reads these pages. The expenses connected with daily meditation, with the building-up of mental habits, with the practice of self-control and of cheerfulness, with the enthronement of reason over the rabble of primeval instincts--these expenses are really, you know, trifling." -- Arnold Bennett
• "I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?" -- Albert Einstein

/misc | May 07, 2013

"This may be the finest piece of word processing code ever written. I have never been as impressed with anything as I have with VDE 1.5... writing software in 100 percent assembly language still pays off in performance and reduced code size. It's an astonishing product, believe me. It's more than the perfect laptop word processor... I cannot give a higher recommendation for any product that I have seen in ten years... Top recommendation."

/windows | May 05, 2013

I searched high and low for an app that could do the same for images. The only thing I found was PixEdit, which does the job admirably, but at a cost of £1,250. ImageMagick's awesome command line tools were not well-suited to the task, as the images were highly variable.

I posted a plea for help on SuperUser that was promptly downvoted and closed, but not before ForeverWintr kindly pointed me in the right direction: ImageJ. Johannes Schindelin generously filled in the details that I was dark on. Here is the complete walkthru:

0. Open desired images in ImageJ (To enable multiple selection in the open file dialog box: Edit > Options > Input/Output... > Use JFileChooser to open/save > OK. Alternatively, simply drag and drop multiple files onto ImageJ's toolbar.)
1. Image > Stacks > Images to Stack > OK
2. Image > Stacks > Z Project... > OK
3. Click the rectangle icon in the toolbar
4. Click and drag over desired area (called a "region of interest" in ImageJ) in the Z projection
5. Click on the stack created in step 1 > Edit > Selection > Restore Selection
6. Image > Crop
7. File > Save As > Image Sequence... > choose desired image format and options > OK

/misc | May 03, 2013

/mac | May 01, 2013

/mac | Apr 25, 2013

/misc | Apr 25, 2013

• Quicken 6 for Macintosh
• Quicken 6 for Windows
• Quicken 99 for Windows
• Quicken 2000 for Windows
• Quicken 2003 for Windows
• Quicken 2004 for Windows

/windows | Apr 24, 2013