I have a chance to review a new, specialized video editing tool called vReveal, just in time to try to fix up some of the shaky vids I’m making with my new iPhone 3GS. But there’s a catch.
vReveal is a MS-Windows® program. Normally this would not be a problem, since I have Windows XP Pro®, [...]

Posted in Computers, MacOS X, Open Source, Operating System, Video editing, Virtual Machine, Windows 7, WindowsXP, audio, drivers, iPhone, smartphones, sound card, video card 2 Comments »

I’ve been trying to help a friend troubleshoot her blog’s visitor counter today. She’s using Blogger, which I hadn’t tried before, so to be accurate in my suggestions, I created a dummy blog and tried installing several counters on it.
My results were somewhat mixed. I could not duplicate the counter error she’d seen, but I [...]

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I was merrily posting a new entry to my personal blog this evening, when I discovered it had been infected with some malware. When I tried to look at the page, all I saw was the background image, and the status bar in Firefox showed “waiting for banished.ru”. After looking at the files on [...]

Posted in Anti-virus, Computers, Firefox, Operating System, Software, Virtual Machine, WiFi, WindowsXP, blogs, iPhone, malware 2 Comments »

About a month ago, long-time friend Deirdré (@DeirdreS on Twitter) suggested I try Sun Microsystems’ VirtualBox application, after I’d complained about the necessity to buy yet another copy of Parallels to put on my home webserver. Since it’s opensource software, and I’m a fan of Sun anyway (having used Solaris when I worked at Cadence [...]

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I’ve been delving into the underpinnings of several web technologies lately, including one that’s been added to this site. If you scroll down below the Google ads in the right sidebar on this page, you will now find “Kat’s Tweets” — the last 5 posts I’ve made to my Twitter account. That took a bit [...]

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One of the reasons I’ve been so upset over not having good internet access is that there are just so many things I want to do that require it. This won’t be news to any of my readers, of course, but it becomes even more apparent when that access is missing or impaired.
For instance, in [...]

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When I left off in my last posting, I was going to chase down the last vestiges of malware still apparently lurking on Phil’s MacBook Pro from the DNS Changer trojan horse. Even though I’d eliminated the installer, what it installed was still creating some kind of traffic back to a couple of IP addresses [...]

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I said I’d report on the new mobile router, modem & antenna we bought this week, so here you are. It’s all good! At least so far.
Right now we have the router (with the USB modem sticking out the side of it) sitting on the dashboard of our RV:

Connected to the modem is the [...]

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Woo hoo! Wordpress now has a version that runs on the iPhone! I’m using it now to write this post. What this means is that I will be much more likely to update this blog and my others (the app allows you to have several active blogs in your login settings) even while we are [...]

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I was just talking to Henrik Bennetsen at Stanford Humanities Lab about his project, Preserving Virtual Worlds. So much has been happening in the homebrew virtual worlds space that it’s hard to cover it all, but we exchanged some info about various sites we’ve each visited, and talked about the possible future of these exciting [...]

Posted in Metaverse, Open Source, OpenSIM, Virtual Worlds 1 Comment »