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http://www.stormpulse.com/

interesting site for tracking these heavy hitting storms.  lots of info and a full screen mode as well.

looks like hanna has her eye on the coast this time around…

credit necine

fantastic site with videos showing properties for each of the elements – very informative!

http://www.periodicvideos.com/#

credit trikiniki for this link

Trans Union Corporation Privacy Litigation Home

This is the settlement website for the In re Trans Union Corporation Privacy Litigation class action settlement. Preliminary approval for the settlement was granted on May 28, 2008. Click on the links to the left to read the Court-ordered notices, the Settlement Agreement, and other important documents. You can also register for benefits or update your email address.

get yourself out there and get in on the settlement. if you even had a credit card in the past few years, its worth it.

so far so good with this new toy - the battery fits nicely with the incase bodyglove cover pardo uses:

the spring loaded usb charger is just a standard mini plug - nice for other uses as well so it will fit very well in "pardobag" - my version of the lauded "go-bag" (these are not just for emergencies - see the lifehacker article here.)

i will report back on battery life as soon as this little battery runs dry.

spaceweather.com has done it again with a new web browser program to tell you sat-hunters when and where a bird is expected to fly over your zip code.  you can also get text messages sent to your phone. more here:

http://spaceweather.com/flybys

from our county coordinator, rick tighe n2phi:

Camden County SKYWARN will implement a three tier alert level system. Its purpose is to assist in the activation phase for long duration events. During the Severe Weather season, it is likely that the National Weather Service will issue weather watches well ahead of actual precipitation. For this reason it has become ever more necessary to create the three tier system.

The three tier system will utilize codes and colors to substantiate the level in which the threat is positioned. Once the codes and colors are memorized, spotters will be able to differentiate which level of alert is necessary and also from a color standpoint which level the program is in at all times without having to actually state skywarn activation. In addition, time frames to correspond with the colors will be utilized as well.

Code Green

Advisory

Advanced notice for the potential of weather to effect the county. 12-24 hours advanced notice. Email sent to group, text page if necessary (Hurricane Watch). Stand by mode may be activated if needed.

Code Yellow:

Stand By

Used to notify group of the possibility for activation, 12 hours or less advanced notice. Email updates to follow up to advisory level. This level would be used when Watches are issued. Text page may be necessary.

Code Red:

Activation

Used to activate group due to a Warning being issued, threat may be imminent or likely to occur. Little to no advanced warning due to the nature of the short fuse warnings which have little to no advanced lead time. Text page and email sent.

Different situations will require longer activation periods. Spotters are asked to actively participate in the nets, try and stay in the net as long as possible. Longer activations will require net controllers to take shifts. Realistically we need two people to conduct a net, at least one licensed amateur and an assistant to email and text page, answer phone calls. When responding to the EOC bring picture ID, snacks, food, drinks etc. Microwave and refrigerator available for use by members.

Manhattanhenge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

coming soon to a nyc near you…

More info at: http://www.weather.gov/sbwarnings/

list of screencasts on totalpardo.net:

1. readerboard restart procedures (example)
2. next

what is a screencast?

screencasts are an easy way to quickly create unique web content to generate web site traffic, increase product sales, and reduce product support woes. have you seen any good screencasts lately? i’m betting you have - even if you didn’t know they were screencasts.

thanks to changes in tools used to create screencasts, they are becoming an important part of the internet.

a screencast is short movie incorporating live motion computer screens, usually with a narration track explaining the activity on the screen.

as the example illustrates, screencasts can be an effective way to provide a lot of information in an easy-to-view, and easy-to-create format.

why is this important?

since the very beginning the internet has been about providing information. billions of web pages providing millions of surfers information covering every imaginable topic.

and almost all the information on all those billions of web pages is still being presented in text format - the same ‘words on a page’ format used since the days of clay tablets.

the ‘read the words and try to figure out what the author was trying to say’ limitation of text means that web page visitors often have to wade through pages and pages, trying to grasp the instructions to accomplish even the simplest of tasks.

but screencast technology changes that.

with a screencast, web visitors can call up a movie that demonstrates exactly what they want to accomplish. and because screencasts are often published in the flash format, web surfers worldwide can view the screencasts without having to worry about compatibility problems with video players.

ease of creation

the big breakthrough in screencast creation and publishing is directly attributable to one program - camtasia studio. with just this one tool, almost anyone can quickly create and publish a screencast, often in a matter of minutes.

camtasia studio is an ‘all-in-one’ screencast creation, editing, and publishing tool. Using it, you can capture your live computer screen actions along with voice narration, edit both the audio and video, add graphics, titles and overlays, and publish the completed movie in a variety of formats.

if you choose to publish the movie in flash format (which is ideal for screencasts), camtasia studio handles the complete task - converting your movie into flash format, creating the html and player controls, and putting it all in one package making it easy to place the screencast on your web pages.

creating your own screencasts

to create theses screencasts, i used:

• camtasia studio software - to capture the computer screen activity as i performed the tasks
• plantronics usb headset microphone - to record my audio narration as i performed the task being recorded
• camtasia studio - to edit the screen capture movie
• camtasia studio - to convert and publish the completed movie into flash format

the entire process required only two tools (camtasia studio and a microphone) and took less than 15 minutes for a small screencast.

other uses for screencasts

one of the great things about creating screencasts is that in addition to being used on web pages, you can include screencasts in menu driven CDs that can be viewed in both windows and mac computers. this means you can include screencasts to build an instructional video for your favorite software tool, or to create a video users guide for your own software product.

often it is easier to create a quick screencast showing the answer to the question than it is to write a technical reply. this is great for message boards!

the efficiency of a screencast

from a content creators point of view, creating a screencast showing how to do something is almost always much more time efficient than writing an article presenting the same information. while creating, editing, and publishing a screencast like the readerboard one took less than 15 minutes, researching, writing, and editing an article covering the same topic could take four times as long - and it wouldn’t be nearly as effective.

from a product developer / information publisher point of view, creating screencasts is definitely an appealing way to create high value content in a short period of time using only minimal resources and tools. from a web visitors point of view, screencasts provide a quick and easy way to obtain information on almost any subject (especially computer software). it is the ultimate ‘learn by seeing it done’ information delivery system.