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Digital film media backup and RAID

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My friend Jules Kobelin is going to Berkeley Digital Film Institute to learn everything about digital film creation. So far she is loving every minute of it! She recently came to me because she is having issues around inexpensive yet stable media storage. Specifically, she is trying to solve two problems: 1) She needs to … Read more

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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My friend Laurie is going back to school to become a principal and is reading some interesting books. One of them is Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, Donaldo P. Macedo, Myra Bergman Ramos. This book changed my life and still ranks as one of the best books I have read. I base my … Read more

Multiple Lines On A Single iPhone

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Is the future really coming to the iPhone? Newber would like you to sign up for a second “business line” for your iPhone as soon as next month. If the software works as promised you will be able to receive calls from two numbers to a single iPhone. But wait! That is not all. The … Read more

Fat Freddy’s Drop

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I love my little iPhone application called Shazam. When requested, it listens to the music around me for 15 seconds, queries the internet, and comes back with amazingly accurate results. I was at the Elbo Room grooving to Dub Mission a few weeks back when DJ Sep spun a track by Fat Freddy’s Drop. Shazam … Read more