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  1. Great news for those without Old English keyboards by ambanmba · · Score: 2 · on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off

    Looking forward to not needing to look for the "Long S" character on my keyboard anymore http://blog.ambor.com/2013/07/an-unexpected-risk-of-using-re-captcha.html - I'm always worried that my employer is filtering on words like goatfucker when I mean to write goat(Long-S)ucker.

  2. Re:Better design by ambanmba · · Score: 1 · on The DIY $10 Prepaid Cellphone Remote Car Starter

    And here is another solution http://blog.ambor.com/2009/02/remote-control-by-sms-with-gsm-phone.html which gives a bit more granularity in your control.

  3. Useful for functional fonts by ambanmba · · Score: 1 · on Typography On the Web Gets Different
    This will be very useful for functional fonts such as Harvey Balls or Dice - up until now they needed to be drawn. By embedding a font you can start to use the fonts in online applications such as games or dashboards, etc.

    Here are a couple of proof-of-concepts... (obviously you need a compliant browser to view this)

    http://www.ambor.com/hb/webdice.html

    http://www.ambor.com/hb/webharveyballs.html

  4. Useful for functional fonts by ambanmba · · Score: 1 · on Typography On the Web Gets Different
    This will be very useful for functional fonts such as Harvey Balls or Dice - up until now they needed to be drawn. By embedding a font you can start to use the fonts in online applications such as games or dashboards, etc.

    Here are a couple of proof-of-concepts... (obviously you need a compliant browser to view this)

    http://www.ambor.com/hb/webdice.html

    http://www.ambor.com/hb/webharveyballs.html

  5. Old Mac Mini still the fastest of them all by ambanmba · · Score: 1 · on New iMac, Mac Mini Benchmarks Show Changes Are Slight

    My old 2006 vintage Mac Mini still seems to be the fastest in the land. I did the infamous Merom Upgrade to it almost 3 years ago and it's still alive and kicking. The Geekbench on my machine comes out to 3060.. you can see the full details here: http://www.ambor.com/public/meromswap/meromswap.html

  6. The media wont last by ambanmba · · Score: 1 · on Long-Term PC Preservation Project?

    After having successfully rescued some 1929-era shellac 78rpm records, I tried to migrate some late 1990s era CD-Rs to a hard drive and most of them had already deteriorated enough to corrupt data. There are tools to overcome some of this, but don't count on any media lasting in an "archive" - you must have plan in place to regularly migrate the data to newer media. You can read more about it here: http://blog.ambor.com/2009/01/rescuing-corrupted-files-from-old-media.html

  7. Real examples of converted audio by ambanmba · · Score: 2, Informative · on Making Old Sound Recordings Audible Again

    Coincidentally, I just spent the last weekend converting some old 78s using a modern (albeit not laser-based) record player. I wrote a little article about it here: http://www.ambor.com/public/78rpm/78rpm.html, including some sample audio clips that show what the raw recording sounds like and then shows what some open source audio restoration software can do.