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When is small TOO small?

Over the years the media card formats have shrunk. I can remember when compact flash and smart media were once big (I had a FujiFilm cam that used smart media) and the new formats were expensive/non existent.

With devices shrinking in size there was a need for smaller cards…. but this brings up the question “When is small too small?

When i went to my Palm Treo 700p I had found that my old 512mb sd card was dying… it was cheaper for me to get 2gb MicroSD cards with their included adapters than to get the older SD format. The new cards i got inspired me to to do this photo set that places MicroSD next to many common objects.

Here are the pics :)

iPod USB Connector

When is small TOO small? - iPod USB Connector

On Finger

When is small TOO small? - On Finger

Apple Remote

When is small TOO small? - Apple Remote

AA Battery

When is small TOO small? - AA Battery

iPod Dock connector

When is small TOO small? - iPod Dock connector

Dime

When is small TOO small? - Dime

1gb flash drive

When is small TOO small? - 1gb flash drive

Thumb screw

When is small TOO small? - Thumb screw

Card Case

When is small TOO small? - Card Case

Card Reader

When is small TOO small? - Card Reader

Card range

When is small TOO small? - Card range

Headphone mic adapter for Treo

When is small TOO small? - Headphone mic adapter for Treo

RSS Digest #101

RSS Digest for Thursday, July 2nd, 2009:

Latest dev diary for Batman: Arkham Asylum
Phone ringtones a “public performance”? EFF, AT&T say no
MJ Fans Flock to eBay for Memorabilia
Archos 9 Windows 7 tablet does a little hands-on time
Google App Engine misfires
Waffle House waiter sues over Taser incident
Huge 2K Games sale on Steam, plus 50% off Fallout 3
What will you do if piracy as we know it goes away? (I’ll just read more)
O2 confirmed as Palm Pre carrier in the UK, again
Windows 7 Home Premium to get Family Pack deal
Will MySpace Kill MySpace Latino?
Lunar mapping satellite snaps first test images
Verizon will now offer the BlackBerry Tour to everyone
Can an SD card startup disk be used on any Mac?
Twine Tries To Manage The Stream With New Coverflow-Like Design
What’s new at Talking About Windows.com
Leaked AT&T Memo: iPhone 3GS Generated ‘Best Ever Sales Day’
Make big bucks rolling out broadband to unserved areas!
Take the Fireworks With You For Free
10.5: Wake a sleeping Mac with via Automator
Do Lower Phone Bills Justify Ads on Your Mobile Phone?
Motorola’s Aura Celestial Edition soon taking “giant leaps” for “mankind”
Carnivorous gadgets kill insects for power
The future is now: Star Trek-like language translator debuts on the iPhone
Opinion: Why the iPhone can’t be killed
Free Windows 7 upgrade plus HP Pavilion S5110t – $339
Apple to Rate Your Karaoke Singing on Your iPhone?
PS3 Slim ready to ship in July?
HTML 5 standard won’t have an official video codec
DIY HD projector hits the right note, sub-€500 price range

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

RSS Weekly Digest – #4

Here are my news picks for the week…

Sorry for them being late but i had a busy start of week.

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

The story of the PlayStation
SlingPlayer for iPhone getting closer to release?
Apple may hear Verizon now
Google makes their own Digg, lets users pop stories
Will Oracle kill MySQL? Who cares?
Skype Cuts Prices On SkypeOut Service
Qualcomm, Broadcom reach $891 million settlement
Essential Tips to Get the Best from iTunes
Virus begins to attack PCs
First Android Netbook will cost $250?
Flip Video Ultra HD makes its unofficial debut, gets unboxed
Apple loses patent suit, will have to pay $19M
NVIDIA’s GT300 specs outed — is this the cGPU we’ve been waiting for?
FBI accuses Twitter user of massacre threats
Windows 7 – Gold – As Early as July?
Download Wall-E for just $62,000 Now!
Billionth iPhone App is a Freebie!
Review – Twitter Desktop Clients for Mac, Dual Review
Chalk Drawing Depicts Epic Browser War (With A Touch of Conan) [Browser War]

Saturday, April 25th, 2009yep

Steve Jobs On The Value Of Stock Options
German book publishers want Rapidshare blocked
Former AOL Exec Mike Jones To Become No. 2 At MySpace
Video: Recording analog audio to a floppy disk
New Snow Leopard beta build includes screen recording capabilities, a certain je ne sais quoi
Windows 7 reveals XP mode AKA the IT guy’s wet dream
21 Eye Catchy Collection Of Free Textures
Samsung plays catch-up with 32GB P3
Why AT&T Wants To Keep the iPhone Away From Verizon
Windows 7 Release Candidate 1′s Best Surprise New Features
Conficker virus begins to attack computers
Somniloquy external networking card lets PCS “sleep talk” essential connectivity functions
Microsoft training video reveals older prototype of Windows 7 “superbar”
Bugs Aside – Ubuntu 9.04 Is Pretty Slick

Friday, April 24th, 2009

It’s official: Windows 7 Release candidate available for download May 5th
No, This Dancing Building’s Bricks Are Not Falling Like Tetris [Art]
Hollywood attacks RealDVD in court
Model 2+ production seen as “unlikely,” says OQO exec
Coming Soon: Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC
Analysis: App Store now $1 million a day business, cloud mobile apps the next big thing
Windows 7 RC build 7100 leaked
Windows 7 Release Candidate Update
Microsoft axes Live Search Product Upload
Apple Loses Patent Lawsuit from Opti Inc on “Predictive Snooping”
Internet Explorer 8 Security
Irish reject e-voting, go back to paper
Microsoft Surface First-Run Experience
Geocities to close after 15 years of aesthetic “awesomeness”
Android-Based G1 Phone Sells One Million Units
News: Bump is billionth app downloaded, 13-year-old wins prizes

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Apple Questioned Again About a Mac Netbook
Jaunty Jackalope hops onto scene with GNOME 2.26, new features
Consuming the Contents of Windows 7 Libraries
iPhone OS devices continue to dominate mobile traffic

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

iSuppli: Kindle 2 costs twice as much to buy as it does to make
Apple iPhone & iPod Touch sales pass 37 million
Steve Riley on Windows 7 Security
Apple with “No Plans” to Change AT&T iPhone Exclusivity and Other Notes
Pixelpipe adds drag-and-drop uploading to Firefox
Make your own solid state drive with a CF card
Second Life gives users ability to filter Mature, X-rated content
Apple WWDC rumors: MacBook speed bumps, pro application upgrades (but where’s the netbook?)
Congress wants new probe into P2P file-sharing snafus
The EagleTec USB Nano flash drive: it doesn’t get much smaller
Panasonic makes school runs more cinematic with its in-dash Blu-ray player
OLPC waves goodbye to AMD for new XO laptop, adopts VIA chip
Face recognition comes to Flickr
MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and Pro Apps to See Updates at WWDC?

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

iTunes Price Hikes Hurt Some Track Rankings
Amazon Video on Demand goes high definition
Apple preparing to release new Snow Leopard beta build
From Mingebag To Gmod Activist
DiggBar Changes Live Today
Why Time Capsule Is Doomed to Suck
Rumor smash: Windows 7 will keep 6.1 versioning
Sony Pictures is on YouTube, Hulu, but not Joost anymore
Nvidia gives developers OpenCL driver and SDK support
Bluetooth “high speed” technology becomes official with 3.0 spec
GamePark Wiz app store coming this summer
VMware’s Cloud OS Is Compelling, But Closed
Google joins effort for 3D Web standard with new plugin, API
Windows 7 Starter Edition Only Runs 3 Applications at Once
End to End Trust and Windows 7
The iPhone app that ran the Boston Marathon
Xbox 360 ‘Game Of The Year’ bundle ships in May
A Peek Inside Windows 8: Coming in 2011 [Windows 8]
LEGO Rock Band officially announced, coming just in time for the holidays
Study: Illegal music downloaders buy 10 times as much legal music as non-illegal downloaders
Google links students, projects in Summer of Code
Windows 7 could change our perception of PCs
More Details of iPhone OS 3.0 ‘Voice Control’ Emerge
Gmail can now suggest recipients for you
AT&T plans to double its 3G network capacity
Google serves up brace of slightly skewed search tools
SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone. What’s the deal?
Video: Sharp’s Mebius LCD trackpad
Fujitsu’s 10.1-inch LOOX M netbook looks good, positively average
OLED displays coming to half of all mobile phones in the next five years

Monday, April 20th, 2009

PSP firmware updated to v5.50
The ESA are fans of Pirate Bay decision
Jonathan DiCarlo: Do We Still Need Bookmarks?
Apple Launches Movie Downloads in German iTunes Store
Windows 7 security enhancements
Blu-ray in every home? Backers aim for $99 players
Windows 7 Starter Won’t Open Any Doors for Android or Linux
ISP Download Caps Not Dead, But Ought to Be
Windows 7 Security: Helping Enable the Mobile Workforce
Google tweaks Chrome with new tabs management features
Windows 7: A New Approach to Securing Today’s Enterprise
Skype coming to the DSi?
$400 Xbox 360 Elite Games of the Year bundle with Halo 3 and Fable 2 gets official
Tweetie for Mac now available
MSI intros the touchscreen Wind Top all-in-one US mod
Adobe brings Flash to the TV screen
Atempo Digital Archive Adds Full Mac OS X Support
The Pirate Bay loads cannon with official appeal
Play Garry’s Mod before you die!
Windows 7 Starter Edition headed for a netbook near you
Engadget’s take on the new mophie Juice Pack Air
Toshiba 10-inch Dynabook UX’s got talent
More Apple Netbook Rumors Pinpoint Foxconn as Manufacturer
Next Generation iPhone to Support HD Video and Apple TV-Like Behavior?
Oracle reels in Sun Microsystems with $7.4bn buy

RSS Digest Combo – #58,#59,#60

Another late set of posts..

Here are the links for:

Friday, February 27th 2009

Microsoft’s Child ‘I’m a PC’ Ads Only Works With Little Girls Apparently [I'm A PC]
Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 (montage + video)
Psion responds to “netbook” challengers, says it does so still sell the NetBook Pro
Preview: Boxee social media center for Windows
Google: ‘New Code’ Crashed Gmail, Sorry, Won’t Happen Again
Acer “Hornet”: Wii-like PC game platform
Camino 2.0 beta 2 for Mac now available
Run BASIC
LG denies plasma TV withdraw claims
Inside the Recompute Cardboard PC [Greener Gadgets]
World of Warcraft: ‘the crack cocaine of the computer world’
Sega Dreamcast + iMac = iCast
10 ways to make Chrome as good as Firefox
Google Street View integrates user images
Apple cracks down on emoji apps
Microsoft to remove need for QuickTime in Windows 7
Microsoft’s Business Model
USB cable with inline card reader
Australian Censorship Scheme Gets Blocked By Opposition Leaders [Australia]
A Little Peak at Changes Coming with the Windows 7 RC

Thursday, February 26th 2009

Safari 4: Eye Candy or Seriously Useful?
Microsoft talks open-source love amid TomTom Linux ‘war’
New Adobe AIR Marketplace
Apple Removes Old Non-Customer Reviews from App Store
IE8 for Windows 7 beta in ‘reliability update’
Apple and Psystar finally agree—to keep trade secrets secret
My Safari 1.0 Review From January 2003 (Not Mine but the author of the blogs review)
Windows 7 to get 2,000 bug fixes pointed out by testers
LEGO employees hand out tiny versions of themselves as business cards
Apple laptop ignites marketing department
Quebec ISP To Terminate Subscribers Over Copyright
Acer’s Ion-based Hornet nettop leaked in presentation slides?
Acclaim developer claims PSP 2 will be without UMD
There’s the Grammatic Way and the SEO Way
New Yahoo CEO ushers out CFO in executive shake-up
Practicality of Multi-Touch and an Early PowerBook Multi-Touch Keyboard Design
Apple Prepping OS X 10.5.7 Update
Amazon Kindle 2 review
Video: Windows CE and Android running simultaneously on a Nokia N800
Android Gathers Steam Among Open Source Developers
Get the Vista Service Pack 2 Release Candidate Next Week [Vista Sp2]
New Google dashboard provides downtime information
The Future of Google Chrome
Anyone Using Yahoo Briefcase?
Windows 7 – How WGA Will Work
Safari’s new tabs: Good or bad?
PSP 2 is ready and UMD-less, claims Earthworm Jim developer
More hidden preferences for Safari 4 Beta
Purported Specs Surface for Slimline 10″ Acer Aspire One [NetBooks]
Jobs Coming Back to Apple in June

Wednesday, February 25th 2009

Nokia’s Brave New Strategy: Laptops
Windows 7 shipping this Fall… according to Compal, anyway
Google Me Business Cards: Best or Worst Idea Ever? [Design]
New slimline Acer Aspire One slimline pics, alleged specs leak
Google blocking paid Market apps from Dev Phone 1 users
Quake Live May Spark Gaming Industry Shake-up
Microsoft files patent lawsuit against TomTom over Linux-based GPS systems
Leaked Snow Leopard screenshots and video show new Stacks, install options
I Love Downloadable Media, But It Makes For a Crappy Gift [Editorial]
Warning: Google Talk Phishing Scam On the Loose
id pushing hard for Quake Live on the Mac
Kindle 2: Disassemble? No disassemble!
Announcing the Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 RC
Ballmer Confirms Skinny Version of Windows 7 for Netbooks [Windows 7]
Apple’s App Store success hasn’t stopped prices tumbling
Panasonic’s latest Toughbook 30 unboxing and hands-on
Will You Be Moving to Safari?
New, Stealthy Conficker B++ Worm Discovered
Safari 4 Tips, Tricks and Special Effects
Real worm breaks man’s computer, sick of software worms getting all the glory
Adobe patches Flash vulnerabilities for three platforms
Google explains cause of latest Gmail outage
ZumoDrive Launches Public Beta
Apple TV 2.3.1 updated totally borks the Boxee add-on
Intel launches shapely new CPUs for slim new laptops
Sony shows off its latest fuel cells and cola-powered batteries
Syba debuts RCG RC-VIS62002 pocket projector
OmniWeb Mac Browser Finally Released For Free [Browsers]
Intel also sues Psion over ‘netbook’ trademark, general stupidity
Happy Birthday Steve Jobs

Legacy Windows Live Install

When I was young I use to use Windows 3.11 for workgroups on a network. For the fun of it i decided to reinstall my old 486 laptop. The twitter posts below cover all of what i went through in getting it going on that old machine plus some messing around. (Yes this is a twitter centric post).

The Twitter postings are newest first (scroll down to read the older ones)`

Overall it was fun… so much fun I next did simular process in VMware. Watch here for the vmware related post later on.

RSS Digest Combo – #55,#56,#57

Another late set of posts..

Here are the links for:

Tuesday, February 24th 2009
The Omni Group Releases Four Apps, Including OmniWeb, as Freeware
Apple starts ‘iTunes Pass’
Google Apologises to Millions of Users Left without Email
iTunes Launches Indie Store
Kindle 2 dissected, found to contain space for a SIM card
The Kindle 2 Gets Disassembled [Kindle 2]
The Hard Upgrade Path From XP To Vista To Win 7
Hidden Preference Tweaks in Safari 4 [Safari 4]
Can’t Get 1password to Work With the Safari 4 Beta? Here’s the Fix.
Google pays for e-mail outage with 15-day credit
DVD Jon’s DoubleTwist device-management software enters public beta
Firefox 3.1 Won’t Ship This Quarter
What’s next for netbooks?
Apple’s PR for Safari 4
Microsoft: new flaw affects all supported versions of Excel
Kindle 2 unboxing and hands-on
Google App Engine Announces Pricing
Jam an extra internal hard drive in your MacBook via OptiBay
Hands on: Safari 4 beta fast, mixes polish, rough UI edges
Intel rips into NVIDIA’s Ion platform
How to run Safari 4 beta and Safari 3 on the same mac
A micro microSD card reader
Leaked Snow Leopard Grabs Reveal Slimmer, Faster Mac OS X
Safari 4: Finally a reason to come back UPDATE
A few new rumors point to two new NVIDIA-packing iMacs
Mac OS X trends Compared to Windows
Blu-ray sales to top 100 million next year, says analyst firm

Monday, February 23rd 2009
Red ‘Resident Evil 5′ Xbox 360 unveiled!
Hack an extra core into your Phenom II
Google.org: Full steam ahead!
Snow Leopard shots reveal few changes but QT pro included
Chipmakers Hope Widgets Bring the Web to TV
“I Am Rich” clone comes to Android – at last!
Desktops on cell phones: X-Windows comes to Android
Brando USB Internet Sharing Dongle is About Nine Years Too Late [Internet]
CBS may fight to get Hulu videos back
Amazon ships Kindle 2 a day earlier than planned
Academy Award Winning Films Distributed For Free At “Kopime” Stations [Piracy]
Concept video shows iPhone App sorting done right
The 30 best features of Windows 7
Beambox launches Evolution R-1 pico projector
Vista Capable Lawsuit Loses Class-Action Status
Two more X-Slim notebooks coming from MSI
Want to Clean Up After Your Applications? Check Out AppZapper!
Dell’s Mini 10 comes with any amount of RAM you want, so long as it’s 1GB
Apple, Psystar Case Gears Up For the Long Haul
Video claims to offer more evidence of a Mac mini revision
News: iTunes Norway leaks album weeks before release
ASUS Eee PC T91 sits down for photo shoot, early critique
Stolen WinMo 6.5 device wiped remotely
Yahoo! boss warns of reorg ahead
Staccato CEO says UWB still has more to give

Sunday, February 22th 2009
Apple Disk ][ enclosure used to house Mac mini, enhance lives
Gnome, KDE, LXDE, IceWM All Working On Android
Satellite Collision May Have Endangered All Future Space Launches [Space]
Vizio moves to second place in HDTV sales
Online Cable Debate Heats Up As Execs Embrace Streaming Tech, Bicker About Programming Model [Cable]
Google Earth 5.0
Cool computer networking architecture graphic from 1988
Otters Making Home Videos Of Passing Photojournalists In Monterey Bay [Man Versus Nature]
iriver’s gorgeous P7 gets itself a web address
Microsoft wants refund from some laid off employees
Is P2P the new music marketing arm?
How Intel’s battle with NVIDIA over Core i7 impacts Apple
How a Router’s Missed Range Check Nearly Crashed the Internet
Researcher demonstrates SSL attack
An HP Mini 2140 Mini Post
Forget iClones, Everybody’s Copying the Iriver Spinn These Days [Copycats]
iPhone game saves a family’s home
Exclusive: Windows 7 RC set for April 10, 2009
Trimble rolls out rugged Yuma UMPC
Sun Slips Firefox Extension Into Java Update
TealOS brings Pre experience pre-Pre
The Future of Netflix is All About Streaming
Windows 7 Beta Users to Get Updates That Aren’t Updates