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In celebration of the New Year and a recent phone upgrade, I'm posting 35 photos from the archive formatted for the E62's 320x240 screen. I'm also releasing 2 new ringtones I created in mp3 format. »click here

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"Could you reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there something unique about it? It wouldn't be surprising if it were hard to reproduce in other countries, because you couldn't reproduce it in most of the US either. What does it take to make a silicon valley even here?

An interesting article by Paul Graham that reminds me of an interview with Pinoy success story Dado Banatao [From Cagayan Valley to Silicon Valley].

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My precioouuusssss.

After using Win2K for too long, we finally upgraded to Windows XP Media Center this week. I was actually surprised to still get several BSODs with this version when I didn't install driver updates from Dell (which was later fixed by downloading support files).

The user experience of installing a fresh operating system is way much painless on the Mac no kidding. Would you believe that Windows MCE does not even come with DVD decoder? We fixed that by having to buy Nero 7 Ultra which is an OK bundle of media utilities along with their flagship CD/DVD burning software.

After shopping around for a decent TV tuner (we misread the specs on the Dell site thinking the PC we ordered came with at least one) we found a dual tuner in the form of the Hauppauge PVR-500 MCE. The default FM radio reception you get from this card is crappy to non-existent and you probably have to setup an external antenna to get usable radio. The cable TV video quality however is as good as it gets in my opinion considering the YUV color compression in video.

Check out Apple's new professional image management application: Aperture. Think iPhoto on steroids or a better alternative to ACDSee and Digital Photo Professional. Looking at the demo, it even looks much better than Photoshop's built in FileBrowser.

SiliconValley.com is hosting a weeklong roundtable. Panelists include Andy Hertzfeld, Tim Bray, Brent Simmons, John Gruber, Keven Krewell, Mark Gonzales and Leander Kahney.