Sektormedia: Aaron's Brain

Master Your DSLR Camera

Lifehacker has a great intro series in using your SLR Digital Camera. Part1 has already run but now Part2 is ot.

In part one of this series you kicked your digital SLR camera's auto mode to the curb with the help of program mode. In doing so, you learned to control the flash, the ISO value, and the white balance. Now in part two we're going straight to manual mode to learn about aperture sizes and shutter speeds.

Master Your DSLR Camera, Part 2: Manual Mode and More.

Loic Le Meur’s Ten Rules For Startup Success

The Financial Times has a profile of French (now Silicon Valley) entrepreneur Loic Le Meur today.

Loic is an accomplished entrepreneur - he founded uBlog (merged with Six Apart), organizes the annual Le Web conference and has now created Seesmic. So even though he’s French, his advice, when given, is worth listening to.

Included in the article are his ten rules for startup success.

Loic Le Meur’s Ten Rules For Startup Success

hewlett-packard LaserJet beta

Hewlett-Packard LaserJet Driverbeta site

A Sign From Above

Project Blackbox

Need a new Sun data center?! Just drop one in a box. New from Sun, Project Blackbox. Looks like what they were talking about with Google earlier this year.

Tivo House Party

I got an email as a Tivo House party subscriber for a great deal today. $30 for a Series2 Dual
Tuner at the purchase price, instead of the free price. $15 a month instead
of $20 basically. Anyway, just wanted to pass it along. Feel free to use my
aaronhaley@gmail.com account if they require a referral address. I have three Tivo's and I love them, if you think the DVR from your cable company is good you haven't seen nuthin till you try a Tivo.

www.tivo.com/party

Wow!Google Buys YouTube for 1.65b

Google Press Center: Press Release.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., October 9, 2006 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction.  Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently to preserve its successful brand and passionate community.

Automated Backups

Need to do automated backups for your local PC? I've been trying these out and they're both pretty good.

http://www.genie-soft.com/

http://www.maxoutput.com/FileBack/

Firefox - Have it Your Way

Leslie Franke has put together a great guide to enhancing and customizing Mozilla Firefox. If you're not using Firefox yet, (really?), or just want to really customize it this is a great guide.

Mozilla Firefox - Have it Your Way!.

GParted Partition Editor

Need a great partition editor? this one works on all sorts of partitions and is very useful.

GParted is the Gnome Partition Editor application. The purpose of GParted is to allow the individual to take a hard disk and change the partition organization therein, while preserving the partition contents.

GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them.

GParted