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15th September 2005

How to Scan 35 mm Slides On a Flatbed Scanner

“Over a year ago I began trying to work out a cheap and easy way to scan 35 mm slides on an ordinary flatbed scanner–to avoid buying the Transparent Media Adapter for several hundred dollars. This is the third–and, I think, the final–stage in figuring out how to do the same job for free. (If you’re curious, links to my two previous methods are on the Scanning Experiments page.)”

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15th September 2005

FoodieView: The Recipe Search Engine

“…searching over 110,000 recipes and counting. Why search for recipes one site at a time when you can search them all here? We scour the web to find the best recipes on the web’s most popular recipe sites. You can save your favorites in your own personal recipe box.”

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15th September 2005

Advice for a Young Entrepreneur

“This morning a young gentleman contacted me to meet for an interview. As I am feverishly coding away at a project (note the lack of posts recently), I had to decline. But I did want to give him some advice. He is in an entrepreneurship class in college, and the professor asked them to contact someone about establishing a graphic design business that targets the entertainment industry.”

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