Technology

A Helicopter for Your Video Camera?

ByHenry Neufeld September 28, 2010

According to Gizmag, there is one! I have a hard enough time holding one in my hand and getting any useful video!

Technology

Fascinating Story of a Calculating Device Born (in part) in a Concentration Camp
ByHenry Neufeld October 12, 2016

New Atlas tells the story of the Curta mechanical calculator, and it’s designer Hertzsark who had to draw designs as a prisoner at Buchenwald. It’s well worth reading.

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Technology

PDF Margin Workaround
ByHenry Neufeld March 4, 2025

I suspect this will be needed by very few, but I didn’t see it elsewhere, so I thought I’d post just in case! I had a report that printed with a very narrow margin, such that my printer cut off parts of the text. I started to do a workaround by printing first to PDF,…

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Linux | Technology | Ubuntu

New Product: Zotac ZBox Mini-Computer
ByHenry Neufeld October 12, 2010

Bill Detwiler at TechRepublic takes a look at the Zotac ZBOX Mini-PC. I’m not linking to this because I like this particular item over all other possibilities, but I think it’s about time we start seeing smaller PCs that take up much less space. In many of the offices I work with problems with finding…

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Cell Phones | Hardware | Technology

Draining Batteries to Keep Them Conditioned
ByHenry Neufeld October 7, 2016

Back in my earlier days in electronics, as the glaciers receded, the NiCad battery was a new, great, and often expensive thing. We were taught to frequently let the battery drain and then recharge, as the cycle helped condition the battery. I get asked this question frequently regarding modern cell-phone batteries, and I admit my…

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Hardware | Laptops and Notebooks | Technology

Shopping on Amazon: The HP Omen Laptop
ByHenry Neufeld February 18, 2017February 18, 2017

I had an opportunity to look at this computer this week in the flesh, or better in the silicon, and so I thought I’d put it up here for shopping at Amazon.com. This is a high end computer for gaming or serious business applications that require graphics or very high speed. Key elements to look…

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Fun | Technology

Remembering Fidonet
ByHenry Neufeld February 16, 2016

I enjoyed reading a short article on the history of Computer Bulletin Board Systems (later just BBS) on ZDNet, not because I was there at the start (in 1978 I was learning how to work with a programmable calculator), but because it ended up at Fidonet. Starting in 1985 I operated a Fidonet BBS in…

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