Category: Lifestyle Technology
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3d Printing some feet to display photos on my desktop
We had these ugly plate-stand style photo stands for some aluminum photo prints. Had that ‘wrought-iron’ look. Totally not suitable for a very white shot of our dogs. 3d Printing to the rescue. Then I found these simple ‘feet’ on Thingiverse — a perfect solution. I printed off one batch, but had a bit of a flashing…
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Friday: Lander
Standard Lunar Lander — because it’s Friday.
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What to do when you can’t connect to the Internet with Google Chrome?
Needed to reset the router. Did so, lost internet connection while it was rebooting. Had Chrome open and refreshed my connection. This neat little running jumping game appears. It appears to just be a ‘no connection’ screen… but press the space bar. And have fun!
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Lazy Long Weekend Project
About five years ago, we got a cute little R‑Pod 173T. It’s a trailer with a pop-out tent to extend the internal living area by about 36 sq. ft. Very cute and just the right size to be towed by our Santa Fe. A couple of years ago, my very patient wife suggested we remove the sofa…
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More progress on painting Alien Frontiers Field Generators
Work in progress, painting Alien Frontiers game components.
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Alien Frontiers — Colony paint complete
Well, I finished painting the colony components. Looking at the photos, they kinda look messy. Note to self, don’t rush, even if you have 40 of the little buggers to paint. Ah well, on the game board at normal viewing distances they look ok. I didn’t want to paint the originals that came with the game so…
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Ahh, the olde time computer days of Windows 3.1
This weekend Archive.org, the Internet Archive people, released a huge trove of Windows 3.1 applications and games. Powered by a Javascript browser version of DosBox, these programs load and run in any modern browser. And there goes the weekend… Source: Software Library: Windows 3.x : Free Software : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
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Star Wars: The Brush Awakens
Had to try out the new Star Wars: Crawl Generator. With a little Bob Ross flavour.
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Found my boarding pass. Next stop, Mars.
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Have your friends pay you back directly with PayPal.Me
Do you lend friends money, and they never have cash to pay you back? Well PayPal has created a tool that will help your friend pay you back through PayPal; it’s called PayPal.Me Basically you get a custom URL at PayPal (Mine’s paypal.me/BradGrier if anyone feels like testing this) , that anyone with a PayPal…
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Well then. Flickr re-launches Flickr Pro.
Earlier today flickr re-launched flickr Pro — the premium tier online photo archiving and sharing service now owned by Yahoo! We’re excited to unveil the new Flickr Pro for both existing and new members of our community, a subscription that offers improved stats, brings back our Pro badge, and more. Source: Hey there, Flickr Pro, nice to…