Remembering our vets today…
Author: Larry Cotton
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Memorial Day 2014
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Using ‘Awesome Screenshot’ in blog posts
Take a quick shot of something in your web browser and save it as an image to then upload and use in a post to your blog.Google Awsome Screenshot to find links to plugins for your browser to use it, free!
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Google ups free storage!
“Google unifies Drive, Gmail, and Google+ file storage, bumps everyone up to free 15GB” http://feedly.com/k/13ZVqDj
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Human Powered Helicopter
Wow! We’re getting close! We need 10 feet for a minute:
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Need a new App for Windows?
Easy PC Setup – Download the Most Popular Windows Apps
Whether you just got a new computer or want to add some new abilities to your current setup this page has a listing and links to all the most popular free and open source programs available for Windows. We have looked at a number of these in meetings but if you need to be able to see them again, here they are.
If you have suggestions for programs not here please let us all know in the comments.
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Crossroads!
Crossroads-2009 International Quartet Champions
Just thought I’d share some great accapella music with you. Real Barbershop talent.
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Good Grief! UK being PC…
Ex-soldier faces jail for handing in gun
Ex-soldier faces jail for handing in gun
Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 12:15A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for “doing his duty”.
Paul Clarke, 27, was found guilty of possessing a firearm at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday – after finding the gun and handing it personally to police officers on March 20 this year.
The jury took 20 minutes to make its conviction, and Mr Clarke now faces a minimum of five year’s imprisonment for handing in the weapon.
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To my friends who believe the ‘Liberal Media’ never reports good news…
Armed Robbers Apologize to Army Reserve Victim – ABC News
The 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee sophomore, who joined the Army Reserve a year ago, said he was walking home from work early Tuesday morning when four masked men forced him into an alley at gunpoint.
After ordering him to the ground, the reservist said the men took his wallet, keys, cell phone, and even an energy bar wrapper from his pants pockets.
But when one of the robbers started going through the wallet, the reservist said the hostilities immediately ceased.
“They found my military ID which stopped them dead in their tracks,” the student, who asked not to be identified, told WTMJ-TV. “What I presume to be the leader said, ‘We can’t do this. We’ve got to give him his stuff back.’”
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Google Translate Upgrade
I happened to use Google Translate recently and realized they have changed its face since my last visit. If you don’t know about this service visit the link. When you visit a website in a language you can’t read just visit this site and put the link in the form.
If you have Google Toolbar installed it can have a button or right click link to automatically open the translated page.
I don’t use it often, but each time I am reminded how limited I am knowing only one language well. I am grateful for my family’s effort to have tried to teach me French as a child and for my father’s teaching me to understand etimology listings in Webster’s Dictionary for each definition. We red necks don’t consider how much of our American ‘English’ is based on other languages.
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Springtime in Oregon
This is the most common view here in Oregon and I like it. But it’s causing some friction with my sun loving wife and friends who are ready for the California style spring. So we wait and watch things turn green and grow long and hope sometime we’ll be dry enough to go mow the lawn.
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Wingsuit flying
Parachuting has come a long way in my lifetime.
Have a look at this video on jumping from a helicopter I believe from the Alps:
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Offline Blog Editing Tools
If you are not already keeping a Blog of your own you may be finding you are soon to be a minority.
It has become so easy to create one now the complex part is actually wring in it, and this article is about new ways to create or edit Blogs from other programs, offline so to speak.
The first I’ll describe is one I am trialing to make this part of this post. It’s a freebie from Microsoft called Windows Live Writer.
I am trying to demonstrate how it will handle images very nicely, it even adds the show effect on the graphic you see.Because it is a Microsoft product it handles inserting info from all the Microsoft services (which I am not a big fan, MS maps, video sites instead of YouTube and Flickr and Google Maps).
For a Windows product, it’s not bad.
