Big Waves

I was watching the documentary "Riding Giants",and it reminded me of the old National Geographic advert that was shown in the cinemas a few years back.

I managed to track it down



Watch it full screen as it is simply gorgeous

The surfer is Laird Hamilton

TuxGuitar

TuxGuitar is a programme to transcribe music for the guitar.
There are versions for Linux, Mac and Windows available for download - and I think it's worth investigating as according to the website it does the following...

With TuxGuitar, you will be able to compose music using the following features

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  Tablature editor
  
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  Score Viewer
  
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  Multitrack display
  
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  Autoscroll while playing
  
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  Note duration management
  
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  Various effects (bend, slide, vibrato, hammer-on/pull-off)
  
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  Support for triplets (5,6,7,9,10,11,12)
  
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  Repeat open and close
  
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  Time signature management
  
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  Tempo management
  
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  Imports and exports gp3,gp4 and gp5 files
  

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Getting to the websphere Admin console

I set-up a Domino 8 and Sametime 8 server, then I installed Quickr 8 (portal) on the same box.
After securing the Quickr to the Domino ldap - I needed to get access to the Websphere console to export the SSO keys in order to import them to Domino and get SSO working.

The deafault url for the Websphere admin from Portal or Quickr is http://hostname:10027/admin
Ever since this port changed from Portal 5, I have to think about it every time.

One day i will remember it.

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RSS Reader - Newzie

Quickr and Connections have an untold number of rss feeds enabled to allow people to access content from other apps. Due to the large number of feeds i was following I needed a decent rss feedreader.

Newzie is the latest one I've tried an it seems to be quite good.
It's quite pretty to look at - I may be a bit shallow there.

Flock

I've been trying out the firefox based Flock browser - In short...it's very good.

It hooks up to several social networking sites, which is a major use as there can be so many of them. One thing I'd like to see added is support for the Google OpenSocial type networks network.

There's an opportunity for someone to create an extension to Lotus Connections as well

Blogged with Flock

Lotus Notes 8 - importing RSS feeds from OPML

If you use RSS feeds to follow various news sites you will probably end up using an RSS feedreader of some description. If you are an expert in your field then it's good to be able to share your RSS feeds with colleagues so they can learn fro the same sources.

The OPML file format is used to transfer RSS feeds between readers.
Lotus Notes 8 has an RSS feedreader, however there is no obvious method to load an OMPL file.

When you load the Notes 8 RSS feedreader for the first time there is a button to "subscribe to preset feeds". This actually does load an OPML file called "presetfeeds.opml". This file is held in the C:\Notes\framework\rcp\deploy\extras directory .

Just rename your new OPML file to presetfeeds.opml, place it in the C:\Notes\framework\rcp\deploy\extras directory, (after you've backed up the original of course), and click the "subscribe to preset feeds" button. All your new feeds should appear.

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Musicmesh

Musicmesh is a pretty good site that allows you to search for an artist and navigate around to different similar artists. When you select a CD cover the track listing is displayed to one side and if you click on a track the relevant video plays from YouTube.