YouTube making your computer slow? You may be in the HTML 5 Trial…

I have multiple monitors (four) and I like to have a YouTube video running in one of them, and what I found was with some videos (not nearly all of them) was that the computer would become so slow it was essentially unusable, and I couldn’t figure out why. …

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Amazing Program: Batchgeo

This is an awesome website. Ever wanted to quickly plot a bunch of addresses in Google Maps? Now you can with Batchgeo.com

Create a spreadsheet with an address column (and any other columns of info), copy and paste it at batchgeo.com, and click “Map Now” and you get a beautiful google map showing all the addresses! Tons of options to customize, and much of it for free! No need to even log in!

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A Live Google Wave on my Blog

A real live Google Wave embedded in a blog for ALL to see (not just those who have a Google Wave account!).

In the past I was able to embed a Google Wave into a blog post, but it could only be seen by people who had Google Wave accounts (a select few), which was a HUGE downside. Today Google has released the ability to put up a wave that EVERYONE can see. …

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Sony AF 75-300mm for $229.99 and finding deals

A friend of mine recently posted something on his blog about price matching in Winnipeg.  He said that, like me, when he wants a deal, he would in the past go to NCIX, a great site for finding electronics and computer equipment quite cheap.  Better still, they have a great price match policy – find the same item advertised anywhere else for a cheaper price and they will match it.  This allows you to find all your items at the best price and order them all from NCIX to save on shipping.  Not too shabby.

However, he points out that the biggest …

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A slick quick way for determining if a number is divisible by 7 (VIDEO)

I had never seen this before–came across a YouTube video explaining it, though the proof is trivial (he doesn’t do it in the video):

So here’s the rule.

Take any big number, say 439239619 (this is a multiple of 7 from how I generated it, but the trick will discover that…in fact, the only prime factors of this particular number are 7 and 13).

The rule is: remove the last number, double it, and subtract the doubled value from whats left of the original.  So 9 is the last digit.  Double it to get 18.  Then subtract 18 from 43923961 (the number formed by …

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A First Google Wave Post

It’s actually quite impressive that you can embed a wave directly into a blog, or a webpage.  I have done it, and it is below, but the problem is that you can’t see it unless you have a Google Wave account, and are logged in right now (Don’t have an account?  Go here).  Here it is:

If you are not logged in, then the above should look like the google wave home page (www.googlewave.com) with a spot for you to log in.  If you have an account, and are logged in, you can even edit the wave right on this page in …

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Hide files in a JPG file!

A great video I found that gives a nice explanation on how to hide files in a jpg image!  …

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