I want a steganography tool to host non-image files in blog provider’s free image hosting

It would need to generate a noise image large enough for whatever file, and as part of the image contain the file name, and optionally date stamp, and MD5 hash of the contained file.  Not to be used to “hide” files, but encapsulate them for easy retrieval.

Preferable output is PNG because most image hosts do not try to resample or recompress PNG.

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IrfanView ImageShack plugin

yes, I did send that feedback

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mystery science: invasion for flesh and blood

How could you not mock this “great” horror flick monster

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check out that slimy mug

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I must have you!

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Do I have an underbite?

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obey hypnotoad

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arg my teeth

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when catapults are outlawed….

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gold robot guy to the rescue

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stop eating my dog

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how many humans does it take to fill a trashcan?

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where’s peta now?

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Ease your carbon debt with Baby Power

digg’s friend status should have friendness-direction arrows

Is he a fan of me or am I a fan of him?

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Cowon A3 plays Matroska.. Q5W filters out MKV extension.. no play joy

Q5W won’t play MP4,
Q5W won’t play  MKV,
Q5W won’t play  M4K

… very disappointing

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BROKEN junk should have its own ebay category… acounts selling BROKEN junk in wrong category should be suspended

Tired of finding stuff listed as broken, “not working”, or “as is” with no assurance of functionality, too?  REQUIRING ALL sellers tick a box assuring functionality on penalty of suspension would allay the issue.

NOT-checking the box would force the item into a separate category of brokenness and NOT show in standard search results

ARRRG

Condition used?   Obviously used to death.  wrong infernal category, cretin

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myoelectric text entry (keyboard)

timeline, products, and sparking ideas..

fun phrases

Surface electromyography

United States Patent 4964411
Evoked EMG signal processing, Issued on October 23, 1990

A method of separating dispersive and synchronous time varying myoelectric signals

The Finger-Joint Gesture Wearable Keypad (1999)
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/goldstein99fingerjoint.html

Survey of virtual keyboards
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/532022.html

FingeRing

thumbcode

DSI datotech: mutli-point touchpad

VKB projection

VKey

How to operate a PC without using the hands (2005): HaMCoS
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1090785.1090828

Today:  SenseBoard

http://www.senseboard.com/

Alternatively: DataHand keyboard (defunct)

natural keyboard = Klockenberg, 1926?

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dd-wrt 23 sp2 vs tomato 1.15 — screencaps and whatnot

briefly

tomato has more intuitive QoS controls

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dd-wrt screenshots later

When KAID, VPN, and VoIP are not an issue tomato is the way to go.

I’m days away from donating $20 to dd-wrt to try their ’special’ QoS edition!

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low cost alternative to cowon Q5W + GPS – MTWO Technologies GPS-288 – FLAC xvid TV-out SDRAM 2gigs

MTWO Technologies GPS-288

2.8-inch Multimedia Player with GPS Navigation Function

http://m-two.manufacturer.globalsources.com/si/6008811374324/pdtl/Portable-GPS/1004679615/Portable-GPS.htm

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Plays videos and the beloved FLAC… TV-out, secondary to GPS

Key Specifications/Special Features:

• GPS navigation, music player, video player, photo viewer, FM radio, voice recording, E-book and gaming all-in-one
• Embedded Linux system (version 2.6.14)
• Actions ATT2200 processor (MIPS + DSP, 180MHz)
• Screen: 2.8-inch TFT LCD, QVGA 320 x 240, 260K colors, touch screen
• Storage: build-in NAND flash, up to 1GB, external SD/MMC card up to 2GB
• Music format: WMA, DRM WMA, ASF, OGG, APE, FLAC, WAV, AUDIBLE
• Supports ID3 LRC
• Equalizer: seven mode, SRS WOW, SRS WOW HD, user mode
• Recording: FM recording, MIC recording. Format: WAV, ACT
• Photo viewer: support JPEG, BMP, GIF format
• Video format: XviD, AMVB, WMV
• Video out: TV out
• USB OTG
• FM radio and FM recording
• Support actions DRM
• Build-in stereo speaker
• System:
  • CPU: Actions ATT2200 processor (MIPS + DSP, 180MHz)
  • SDRAM: 64MB
  • NAND flash: 64MB (up to 1GB)
  • OS: embedded Linux system (version 2.6.14)
• Functions:
  • Channels: 20
  • Position: less than 10m
  • Velocity: 0.1m/seconds
  • Time: 0.01 seconds to GPS time
  • TTFF (open sky)
  • Reacquisition: 0.1 seconds, average
  • Hot start: 8 seconds, average
  • Warm start: 29 seconds, average
  • Cold start: 42 seconds, average
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trust us with all your phone numbers, all your email addresses, all your passwords, all your pincodes… and collect all your inbound communication in one convenient google-monitored-and-indefinately-cached location! ooooh sign me up.. not

GrandCentral sounded like a Ring-One telco service onlinified…

“recently acquired by google”

wow… what a surprise?

hunt for the ideal SATA/EIDE to USB2 gizmo (not an enclosure)

I already own a Vantec CB-ISATAU2 … but it appears to be a first or second generation edition of this three type device to USB idea. It’s working fine with my Seagate 320 SATA. Curiously its the only one to require power be fed to the gizmo to power 2.5″ ide drives.
This time I’m going to buy the MASSCOOL ADT-UPS003-S. The only thing its missing is a power switch… I think that’s easily remedied

not hardwired == device not hardwired to USB
those not showing 2amp 12v are 1.5amp 12v

Rosewill RCW-608 is the only one boasting Sata II, but remember we’re connecting via USB2 here. Sadly I couldn’t find a similar class of devices that used Firewire400 (or 800) instead of USB2. Some of us know Firewire provides better continuous speed than USB2.
bytecc BT-300 (hardwired,no switch, 4pin molex feeds device, sata power/data ports on device)
http://www.byteccusa.com/product/adapter/BT-300/BT-300.htm

Rosewill RCW-608 (sata II, power switch, brick-Y: 4pin molex && Sata, only sata data port on device)
http://www.rosewill.com/product/product.aspx?productId=903

* MASSCOOL ADT-UPS003-S (2amp 12v, not hardwired, no switch, ATAPI, simul: SATA + 2.5″ IDE, 4pin molex feeds device, sata power/data ports on device)
http://www.fannerusa.com/masscool/Product.aspx?ID=296

Sabrent USB-DSC5 (2amp 12v, hardwired, 4pin->sata.power simul: SATA + 2.5″ IDE … looks like gen1.5 of vantec, only sata data port on device)
http://www.sabrent.com/products/specs/usb-dsc5.htm

Sytche SCUPS 1000 (2amp 12v, not hardwired, switch, ATAPI, NO 2.5″ IDE, simul: SATA + 3.5″ IDE/ATAPI, 4pin molex feeds device, sata power/data ports on device)
http://www.scythe-usa.com/product/acc/013/scupc1000.html

This information is provided as a resource for myself… if you find it useful then your day became a little better… you’re welcome

mobile phone laptop cars? AlphaCOM rolling over in grave

AlphaCOM, pioneers of mobile PCMCIA cards, rolls eyes over “new” mobile phone company’s laptop cards.  It was cool at 1997 COMDEX.  19.2k with LOTS of compression?  Remember when I suggested bonding multiple cards TEN YEARS AGO?  Bonding isn’t new, but its time has come again.  Most laptops have two PCMCIA slots.  2x broadband > 1x broadband

But $49 is better than the $600 I spent four years ago testing cards from VerizonEvil Wireless and AT&T.  I had a less unpleasant experience tethering my laptop to my moto.

firefox extension: slow loading page element nuke

There needs to be an extension to ’speed up’ slow loading site pages by nuking elements (or temp blocking) that fall well below the average page element load time — or a specified load time.  No more waiting on cross domain loads, bloat, or objects in high demand.  Once could set a global threshold and thresholds for individual domains or domains+paths

At last a digital music licensing scheme the recording industry can live with