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My PDA is suddenly unable to sync -- it keeps telling me "port is in use by another application."
This seems to have happened last night, when I installed Adobe Acrobat Reader for Palm, but I don't know where to go to tell whatever else is using the port to get its ass out of there.
I'm on OSX (Tiger), using Missing Sync with a Clie, if that helps.
[eta: Oh, how weird -- when I opened Missing Sync manually and tried again, it worked. Now lets see if it will also sync my PDFs.]
[eta2: Sweet! Workiness has been achieved.]
The easiest way to make it go away is to try logging out/logging in again, or if that fails, rebooting.
I have joined the Flickr crowd, and am currently tearing my hair out over the various upload tools. The iPhoto plugin has a tendency to freeze if you ask it to upload more than 10 pics at a time. The OSX downloader is a PITA to use altogether.
Are there other options that aren't on the Flickr site? That work better?
Why I did not bother installing Microsofts new anti-spy ware even when people I respect told me it worked well:
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Yeah - I know, not that terrible if you know what you are doing. But most people take the recommendation their protective software makes. And, I bet this is not the worst thing Mickeysoft anti-spyware does over the next few years.
Anyone else checked out Google Earth? Bloody amazing ... and not a little scary.
Google Earth
It won't run on Win98, so I'm SOL until I get to my work machine. It looks like an expanded version of the US satellite imagery they added to Google Maps. Although the picture of Coors field they show doesn't appear to be a satellite image. Interesting.
I've played with it a little -- the animation itself is fascinating. I can fly from Kingston to LA to Nairobi. And you can mark stuff. But I haven't played with it properly.
I've played with it a little -- the animation itself is fascinating. I can fly from Kingston to LA to Nairobi.
I was going to say that the Coors Field pic looked similar to the graphics in Flight Simulator.
And it's painfully slow on my 2.8 GHz machine, which may be a function of the display adapter.
Ah, it's working much better now. Very snappy, in fact. I guess it needs some time to stream all that data.
It's much nicer than Google Maps for areas that have the high-res imagery available, like at my office, [link] , because you can zoom in closer than Maps lets you. OTOH, if you want to look at an area that doesn't have the high-res imagery, like where I live, [link] , it's not as much fun. (The annoying part is that I only live a few miles from where I work.)
