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Google Phonebook

May 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Via Lifehacker, although I don’t have the article link:
You can search for residential or business phone numbers using Google. Enter a search like:
rphonebook: Donald E. Duck, Cambridge, MA
for residences or:

bphonebook: starbucks, boston, ma
The “bphonebook” version looks just like a normal text search (I’m not sure if it’s actually different), but clearly the “rphonebook” is.

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Choices for Encoding Video with HandBrake

May 13th, 2007 · No Comments

I’m gearing up to transfer some of my video to hard drives in the hopes of someday having a computerized media center for video akin to what I currently do with audio. Video can take a long time to encode using modern compression formats, so it’s going to be a spare-time thing. In [...]

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