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July 9, 2009 by Cyrus Patell

CardStar

Like many people, I have quite a few membership cards attached to my key ring. Recently, I discovered that that the bar code on my Food Emporium card had rubbed off enough to be illegible to bar code scanners and barely legible to the naked eye. So I photocopied the code on my wallet-sized card, [...]

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July 8, 2009 by Cyrus Patell

Installing Vista Programs under Windows 7

I’ve been using Windows 7 on several machines since the beta first came out, and now I’ve upgraded those installations to the Release Candidate, which is still available for a preview that will expire next spring. (The official expiration date is June 7, but the operating system will start shutting itself down every two hours [...]

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July 3, 2009 by Cyrus Patell

Back in Mac

Although I’ve been blogging regularly over at Patell and Waterman’s History of New York over the past few months, I’ve been on hiatus here. But now that the year has officially begun its second half and my summer graduate class on the American novel after 1940 has come to its end, it’s time to start [...]