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December 29, 1997
Added link to the Backwards Phone
Number Looker-Upper
at Infospace. Use with Oxbridge for
full periodical addresses.
December 27, 1997
Newest Blatant Opportunist #48 is on
my InfoPack "Cash
and Carry
Consulting". Added new links on Electronic
Surplus,
the great Northern
Lights search engine, school Public
Sales,
and a great site giving you
access to Auctions.
December 25, 1997
Latest Tech Musings #122 is
on quadrature phase
networks,
Hilbert
transforms, HP ScanJets, hydraulic rams,
and low
cost
satellite imagery. Plus a few other goodies.
December 20, 1997
Revised WHICHUP.HTML on
forced Acrobat Distiller
orientation. Removed some obsolete files and links. Slowly
improving
the green on followed links.
December 16, 1997
Added an Electronic Industry Telephone
Directory link, an
Free Online
Magazine Reprints Directory and a few others
to
the Web Related Resource Links page.
December 12, 1997
Acrobat web pages can have compelling advantages over
HTML, especially when
absolute control of what your user
sees is important.
My AWEBUTIL.HTML tutorial
and
utilities and its AWEBDEMO.PDF demo
show how its done.
December 7, 1997
Updated the Synergetics Surplus Bargain
Page. Found an
amazing new electronics parts info service
at Quest Link.
December 6, 1997
Have been quietly adding lots of new annotated links to just
about all the major
directories. Click here for your
update.
Also added a Wireless
Book List to our book access page.
Yes, we are working on a search
feature, byte range retrieval,
and online transactions. Real soon now, maybe.
ISP willing.
December 5, 1997
Everybody "knows" it
is "impossible" to get Genuine Adobe
PostScript to paint using translucent pixels. My
very latest
Alpha Channel
Transparency demo proves otherwise!
December 4, 1997
Added a brand new tutorial on JPEG
to PDF file conversions.
And a PostScript tutorial
on Tuna Can nonlinear
transformations.
December 1, 1997
Uploaded new Resource Bin #72 on
Wireless Resources. Also
a
reminder about our brand new Synergetics
Catalog. And our
great new InfoPack
research service.
November 26,1997
The latest Tech Musings
#121 is on FM Wireless
Broadcasters,
cool cars (literally!), surplus auctions,
and Faraday Disks.
November 23, 1997
Started up a new Golly Gee Mister Science library shelf.
November 22, 1997
Added to and further improved our We
Related Links page.
A few of the Hardware
Secrets and PostScript
Secrets in our
new online
catalog aren't quite hot linked yet. I'll be updating
these as time
and Banner
Advertisers permit.
November 18, 1997
Added short tutorial and demo on Showing
Acrobat Which
End is Up. Acrobat's
"intelligent positioning" feature"can
cause big time grief on certain duplex
printing apps.
November 15, 1997
Just finished our brand new Synergetics
Catalog! Also updated
and improved the Hardware
Secrets and the PostScript Secrets
portions.
numbers have newly been checked, and
a lot of them are now hot linked. Please report any
bugs.
Also added a convenient new Fax Order Form.
November 10, 1997
Just set up a new Santa Claus Machine library
shelf. The rate at
which more files can be added depend on
new Banner Sponsors.
Added hacker classic #77
on Santa Claus Machines, Solitons, and
on
Second Law violations.
November 5, 1997
Please welcome Amazon Books as our newest
banner advertiser!
Uploaded new tutorial on Netscape
& Acrobat Full Screen Displays.
November 3, 1997
BOD Update: Standard (800) 526-4774 just
announced a tabletop
perfect binder model BQ-P6. While very expensive at $5000 list,
this is
a MAJOR step in the right direction. Any cover, hot glue,
25 seconds per book, laser printer size,
70 pounds, 1000 watts.
Will try to get a review machine. More whenever.
November 1, 1997
Please welcome our newest banner advertiser, Rod Mack of
Ultralink with
his unique "snap together" parallel I/O modules
for instrumentation and control. Th
latest Resbin #71 is on
my secret
of Web Based Research. There's several
hundred
live hot links here, so please report any nonworking ones.
October 27, 1997
Revised Hack #66 on the
Basic Stamp and
Photopolymer
Resources. Our usual
reminder that free Acrobat 3.01 properly
installed in Netscape Communicator is REQUIRED for
access.
October 24, 1997
Uploaded another Hack Classic #65 on SETI
Resources,
Maximum Power
Transfer Theorem, and Gerber file formats.
Also improved Hack #64
on Thermodynamic Fundamentals.
October 23, 1997
The latest Tech Musings #120 is on Tim
Jenison's new
PIC Calibar tv
generator, and on investigating Brown's
Gas
through meta studies. Gonzo
Source Code is also here.
October 21, 1997
Major new Blat column #47 on Tri-Mode Publishing secrets.
October 17, 1997
Added hot links to Scott Edwards brand
new PIC website.
Yet another classic Hack #63 is now up on
Piezoelectric
Fundamentals and
simple Home EDM Machining.
October 16, 1997
In a stunning breakthrough, both the Avuncular
and
our Synergetics Puss De
Resistance are now colorized. With a
classic upload of
Hack #62. You'll also find Cubic
Splines here.
October 15, 1997
Adobe has just released the PostScript
LEVEL 3 Version 3010
specs and supplement! Uploaded another Hack Classic
#61 that
includes a FCC Part 68
Telephone Interface schematic.
October 14, 1997
A reminder about our ongoing contest. For a free ISMM II,
just
find six Guru's Lair typos, bad links, missing buttons, odd
glitches or whatever. Links to earlier
files promised but not
yet uploaded do not count.
Revised and uploaded
another classic Hack #60 on
EDM
Electric Discharge
Machining and Video Toasters.
October 13, 1997
Revised and uploaded classic Hack #59 on
Drawing
Semilog Plots, high side drivers, semiconductor suppliers, and more.
October 10,1997
The Calibar is a brand
new PIC video generator from Tim
Jenison
of NewTek. Have been adding a
link a day lately, rerranging things
as I go along. Still have hundreds of links and thousands
of files to go.
October 5, 1997
Upgraded and improved the
Don's Technical Links page.
Added
new WEBERRU2.PS
PostScript-as-language tutorial demo. This
one quickly reads Apache web error files
and prioritizes results.
October 1, 1997
More on PostScript
PIC Flutterwumpers in the latest
Resource
Bin #70 column upload.
Updated the Synergetics Bargain Page.
September 25, 1997
The latest Tech Musings
#119 is on miracle motors, handheld
computers, hydrogen resources, and reactance
limiters. Also
added real time live link to Arizona
Stream Gauges. Bet you do
not have this one bookmarked! Uh, six feet high and
rising.
September 23, 1997
Added some new Acrobat Resources,
including PDF Games
and a genuinely useful PDF editor!
September 22, 1997
Upated and upgraded the Pseudoscience
Links page. Those
new roller mice further improve online Acrobat full screen,
full page
displays. But go slow near the bottom of any page,
or you will change pages
instead of columns. Practice.
September 20, 1997
Just did a major overhaul of the Web
Resources Page. Also
added lots of new links. One of our banner advertisers now
reports over 100 click-throughs per day at a cost of 1.6 cents
each. More details on the
Banner Page.
September 14, 1997
Rearranged and improved Bee's Favorite
Web Sites. Now
includes FREE Medline!,
maps, airports, FM radio DX,
hot springs, bunches more. Added more
PostScript Web
Site
Analysis Utilities and Demos.
September 9, 1997
Please welcome Shepard Engineering, our latest
banner
advertiser with their great PIC Construction
Projects.
Added brand new tutorial on Vector-to-Step Conversion.
September 7, 1997
A reminder to be sure to use <ctrl> shift L followed by <ctrl> K
To get your
FULL SCREEN Acrobat pages out of Navigator 4.1!
Set preferences to escape escapes,
vertical wipe, and wraparound.
Note that your HOME, PAGE UP, PAGE DOWN and
ARROW
keys all work, as do the active hot links. Smoothing on, of course.
The newest Resource Bin #69 is an update on Robotic Resources.
September 4, 1997
The latest Blatant Opportunist column shows you the
insider
secrets of banner
advertising. Also updated the advertiser's
page, newly offering new
Acrobat Display Ad options.
August 27, 1997
The thought police strike again! Wonder what the big white
hole in the
middle of page 60 of the May-June 97 Midnight
Engineering is all about?
Only DONTSICK.PDF knows for sure.
August 22, 1997
The latest MUSE118.PDF file includes
laser printer testers,
submillimeter telescopes, more hydrogen developments, some
some
radio astronomy resources, and Home
Power's CD II
solar energy resource.
August 10, 1997
Uploaded a new collection of Terribly
Tricky Terrific Toner
Techniques in the Resource Bin Library as
RESBN68.PDF.
Waiting around for banner ads to download before you can
read useful
page content is both an insult and an annoyance.
Useful workarounds are in
this BANNLAST.HTML tutorial.
August 5, 1997
Alps has just announced a WHITE (!) opaque ribbon
for their
MD2010 and similar dry ink printers. Just uploaded the August
97 Resbin #67
on Resources for Amateur
Astronomy. Added
a new direct button link to
my Infopack Service page. This
new
service is going great guns. email me if you
want to participate.
July 30, 1997
Added new free link to Thomas
Registry of Manufacturers.
Adobe has just released
Acrobat 3.01. Lots of incremental
improvements
combined with full screen wiping display out of
Netscape
Communicator 4.1 plus working links to newsgroups.
A reminder that
Acrobat 3.0 or higher and NetScape 3.0 or
higher is *required* to access this web site.
Because of their
"looks just like a printed page only better" options,
Acrobat
3.01 and NetScape 4.1 are *strongly* recommended.
July 25, 1977
The newest Tech Musings
Column is on shattering Homopolar
Generator myths, sources for Melody IC's and Sound
Modules,
and assorted other goodies. Corrected the "one thousand times
to
big" error in MUSE115.PDF.
July 20, 1997
Real PIC PostScript! Nuff said!
July 16, 1997
It turns out that 100% authentic genuine Adobe display
PostScript has long been
available for Windows 95 and
other popular PC platforms. All it takes are
these Six Clicks
to Display
PostScript!
July 14, 1997
Netscape Communicator 4.1 apparently gives
you a total FULL
SCREEN display of Adobe Acrobat .PDF files! Here's how this
miracle
breakthrough should work for you: Install the latest
version of
Adobe Acrobat into Netscape 4.1. Then click on any
of
our .PDF files. You should now go directly into Acrobat, rather
than
Acrobat-in-a-small-Netscape-window as before.
Now for the fun part:
Click on the FULL SCREEN option or else
do a control-shift-L. Then do a
control-K. You should get a FULL
PAGE display that looks *exactly* like the printed
page! Use pageup
and pagedown keys to navigate either within pages or from
page
to page. Set your full screen preferences to any click advances,
no auto-tour,
wraparound, escape escapes and vertical wipes.
Special message to
HTML: We sent your saddle home John.
Your horse is dead.
July 11, 1997
A helpline caller asked for some ELF Reception Resources. Uh,
start with a small
punchbowl and tiny glasses. Just upgraded and
updated my
Flutterwumper Utilities and
Flutterwumper Demo so
they now
bring the full power of the general purpose PostScript
computing language to the simplest
and smallest of PIC's!
Yes, a brand new flutterwumper tutorial has just been uploaded.
July 8, 1997
Uploaded latest Blatant Opportunist column on
Busting a $650
Patent. Apparently
GhostScript can now pre-insert PDF mark
links. Use my into
MUSE112.PSL for practice. Note that
these
pre-layout PDF marks for url links *automatically follow* your
text as it moves around
on the page!
July 3, 1997
Added brand new
MUSE116.PDF on low level
measurements,
hand bookbinding resources, intrepreting HTML error codes,
reading
web site log files, and unique wood microveneers.
June 28, 1997
Added a humongous new PIC websites
directory as a special
extension of our PIC
websites library page. Fully hot linked.
The term, of course, came from Hugh
Mongus, a 475 pound
roving linebacker for the Houston Oilers.
Meaning "not small".
More details in my
Incredible Secret Money Machine II.
June 25, 1997
Please welcome our third and fourth banner sponsors! Lindsay of
Lindsay Publications
on "top secret" alternate technology
books
and early machine shop practice
texts. And Mike Hardwick of
Decade Engineering
with his PIC friendly Bob-5L
Genlocking (!)
TV Typewriter.
Wonder of wonders - the
death of the Whole Earth Review
may have been
exaggerated. A new issue is due out shortly!
I feel this is one of the greatest mags in
the world, so please
give them your full support.
June 20, 1997
My Blatant Opportunist columns are
now seeking a new printed
home. Meanwhile, new Blat columns and backlist
additions will
continue to appear in this ezine format. The July-August issue
on
Busting a $650 Patent is now on the
Guru's Lair library shelves.
Actually, in the topsy-turvy world of web economics,
a mere *four*
Banner Sponsors on the
Blat page could provide self-sufficiency!
Without needing *any* printed home. Welcome
to the future!
Other authors are now welcome on
the Blatant Opportunist Library
Shelf.
While we cannot currently offer payment, up to 30% of your
PDF file can be of an obviously
commercial and hot linked nature.
I will, of course, be *highly* selective
here.
email me if you want to talk about any of this further.
June 14, 1997
Please welcome our first two banner sponsors: Karl Schmidt of
Transtronix with
his Electronic Kits, PLC's &
Consulting; and
Mihai Beffa from PCB-Quote with
One-stop Multiple PC
Board,
Fab, and Design
Quotes.
We currently do have some
1800+ unique files and 300+ links
immediately postable. The number of sponsors and
how fast they
come online determine how fast these uploads can be
made. As
well as how fast that new Guru's
Lair features (such as forums and
byte range retrieval and on-line searching) can
be provided.
June 12, 1997
Uploaded a new demo to Convert
Acrobat files into HTML
Banners. Added links to
Straw Bale Homes,
Black Range Lodge,
Alternate Construction, and
more Pseudoscience Stuff.
June 10, 1997
Updated the Synergetics Surplus Bargain
Page. Added my
brand new Don Lancaster
Consulting Info Pack service.
The Download Mechanic beta is now
available for Win 95.
June 7, 1997
Newly added Essential Hacker
Nutrients to Bee's favorite
web sites. Along with a new
Advertiser's and Sponsors page.
Made
a bunch of behind-the-scenes updates and corrections.
May 30, 1997
Just did a major Book-on-demand resources
update as
RESBN66.PDF. Added
emag directory to the web links.
May 27,1997
It's deja vu all over again with this
PIC friendly
genlocking(!)
BOB-5L video character display TV Typewriter! Added
two
new emags to my favorite technical
web sites listings.
May 22, 1997
Added tutorial on Using the Palatino
font with Acrobat Distiller.
Provided new GhostScript
Fonts link. Updated
DISTLANG.HTML
on using Distiller
as a general purpose PostScript computer.
Discovered that links
to your url do not automatically increase.
Instead, they oscillate wildly from week to week.
Most likely cause
is AOL and ISP churning. Ferinstance, Netscape
lost 19,000 links
last week. I lost
13. Hotbot updates its counts
every Tuesday.
May 15, 1997
Would you believe the thought police at NUTS & VOLTS
censored
my RESBN64.PDF story? Seems they
do not want
you to know that the alt.sex.sheep.baaa
newsgroup exists.
May 12, 1997
Added older Blat #20 Book-on-Demand
Resource Directory.
Improved the colorization
on NONLINGR.PDF.
May 9, 1997
Added older Blat #23 on Book Production and Marketing.
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