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Change Command Prompt's Default Font for Easier Reading [Windows Tip]
via Lifehacker by (author unknown) on May 11, 2008
Shared by Bwana I'm going to do this to all my windows machinesThe default prompt in Windows' Command Prompt isn't the easiest to read, but Microsoft has a font, Consolas, that works much better in a terminal, as attested to by ourcommenters. The Digital Inspiration blog runs down how to set Consolas as the default font in your command prompt. Vista users can perform a registry hack...
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View YouTube in high-res
via Hackszine.com by Jason Striegel on March 03, 2008
YouTube has been testing higher bitrate encodings of it videos, which you can see if you add a &fmt=8 or &fmt=16 to the video url. Historically, all videos have been delivered to the lowest common denominator: sorenson encoded 320x240. By adding &fmt=6 to the URL, the video is served up in 448x336 resolution and I'm guessing it's using the VP6 codec (can anyone confirm?). &fmt=18 gives...
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Generate KML With Google Spreadsheets
via O'Reilly Radar by Brady Forrest on February 13, 2008
By Brady ForrestAs people geotag more information they need more advanced ways to share it. The way that offers the most control, flexibility and portability is KML, but KML is not easy to work with. (It should be noted that GeoRSS, the other popular geodata format, is an equally portable format, but it is designed to be simple and does not have some of the advanced features of KML. ) You can...
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