Alaya·Techne

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  • Reaching New Levels with Windows 10

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    Ok, maybe not actually. LOL. Conclusion (if you don’t want to read the rest of the post): Don’t upgrade. You lose the ability to control when updates occur, the interface is ugly as shit, and most of your apps will get removed during the upgrade. Oh, and there’s more of the same of MS cramming…

  • Emojis and twits, I’m sick of the shit

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    At a critical time when human consciousness desperately needs to be advancing, not regressing, the mass beguilement with soundbite reality is sickening.

  • Bernie Sanders 2016

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    Please vote for Bernie Sanders to become our next President of America in 2016. Please remember to participate in his campaign, to spread the word to everyone you know, and to make contributions. By spreading the word I mean talk with people honestly and openly about why he should be our President. Don’t be afraid…

  • I detect another masterpiece!

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    The new season of jdramas has just begun and I’ve only just seen a couple but already there’s one which appears to be a masterpiece: Risk no Kamisama (God of Risk). Brilliant script. Brilliant acting. Excellent cinematography. Will make another post later when I’ve had a chance to sample the rest of the new jdramas…

  • Tip if Lastpass Autofill Stops Working on a Site

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    If you use Lastpass then you may notice occasionally that its autofill feature may suddenly stop working with a particular website. I have noticed this with several sites recently. Investigating this, I found the following advice at lastpass.com: LastPass won’t save or autofill my data for a particular site – is there a workaround? 1.…

  • Really useful tool to clip anything on the screen

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    Today I was trying to clip some clothing images from retailer websites so that I can later print out a page with all the items I want when I visit the stores. But the images were in Flash and thus could not be copied. Finally though I found a cool tool which is actually integrated…

  • The Iranians Are Our Brothers and Sisters

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    Persia is a great land and its people are great people. Its about time that Iran is treated with respect, that the sanctions against it are lifted, and that it is allowed to exist like any other free nation in the international community. I understand that China played an important role in helping get the…

  • Be sure to stay up to date over the next couple days with the NASA site for New Horizons

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    New Horizons will make its closest approach to the planet Pluto in just over a day (7:49:57 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, July 14, 2015). Because its so far away it will take 16 months for all the data from this close yet very fast flyby to be transmitted back to us. Make sure you keep checking…

  • Come on Greece!

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    Have been thinking about the situation with Greece recently. Read an article at scmp.com today discussing the likeliest scenario if Greece were to actually exit the Euro. Basically, it would be terrible and cause a lot of companies which probably are already on the margin of survival to collapse. That would not be helpful. Then,…

  • Viewing raw camera file thumbnails in Windows Explorer

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    If you shoot photos in raw format and want to be able to view the thumbnails in Windows Explorer, you need to install a codec pack that can handle the raw formats. For example I’ve been using Nikon’s lately and their raw image format is .NEF If you do not have a codec pack installed…