Month: June 2006

Advanced Google Tips

David Rostenne

Well, I certainly learned a few more Google tricks!

CyberWyre >> Advanced Google Tips

For future reference:

  • Use quotation marks
  • mark esstial words with a +
  • omit unwanted words with a –

Use these with a url;

  • site:theconsultant.net – search only on this site
  • related:theconsultant.net – find related sites
  • link:theconsultant.net – who links to this site?
  • cache:theconsultant.net – show the cached version, highlight search words.
  • info:theconsultant.net

Others;

  • filetype:PDF – search for results only in PDF files
  • daterange: use a julian date. – what’s a Julian date range?
  • allinurl: and inurl: – search only or partly in a url
  • allintitle: and intitle: – search only or partly in page titles
  • allinlinks: – search only in page links
  • allintext: – search only in page text

Thanks Matt!

How to get pictures off a Vivicam 55 under OS X

David Rostenne

Grandpa got his grandson a $10 digital camera while they were on vacation, and I got annoyed at having to boot up the Thinkpad to get photos off of it.

Since Vivitar does not make drives for the Vivicam 55, and only made the 55B OS X compatible… I had to go do some digging to get it to work.

From Google groups I ended up in digital-products.info and grabbed 905C OSX10.4.zip. Inside are a PKG file, and a Quicktime component,

Copy the Quicktime component to /Library/QuickTime/, then install the PKG. Reboot. grumble.

Open Image capture or iPhoto.. and it works!

Anyone want 20 snapshots of the frame around our living room window?

living_room_window_frame_01.jpg