Snap Card - Make an audience selected card appear on your hand.
The Revolver - (Taught by a kid) Makes each card on the deck flip over.
Coin into Can - Coin forced into closed can
Coin Matrix - Make coins transfer beneath cards
Drop Change - Throw a card onto a deck and it instantly changes into a different card
Pen through a dollar - Pen through a $100 dollar bill
Spin Change - A card instantly changes to a different card while being spun around
Glass Through Table - Amazingly simple yet effective trick where you force a glass through the table
Tear a Phone book in Half - Not so much magic, just damn cool
Self tying shoe lace
Penny Pinchers
Cascade DTP A very well organized CSS driven page layout, for visual design of material complete with font selections, colors, background and more. Text areas can be visually arranged and graphics positioned as you go - Cascade DTP generate the style sheet codes for you and you can save it as complete HTML pages or copy the CSS code to be used with your favorite HTML editor. Additional features include optional design grids, scrollbar scheme editor, browser preview and more. A delightful application. 2MB Windows Freeware Found at: http://www.price-media.demon.co.uk/cascade.html
Programming in C. A very comprehensive site covering the Programming Language c, from it's history of origin to course notes on the technique. This collection of notes is under copyright, but is openly available to read, so you can learn a great deal here on the subject thanks to A.D. Marshall. Included are UNIX System Calls and various interesting and valuable subroutines using C. Found at: http://www.tudogs.com/programming.php
Superstat Professional A fast, and easy way to add a web counter to your web page, which displays the number of visitors to your web site, it also keeps statistics on the number of visits each hour and each day. Superstat is a free, fast, responsive, quick loading and reliable service with invisible tracking and accurate real-time website statistics with detailed visitor tracking and analysis Freeware, found at: http://en.superstat.info/index.htm
1080i / 720p were the original standards and thus anything that is called "HD Ready" will support these formats
In a CRT (the screens we all used to have, or may still have) a stream of electrons is shot by a gun at the glass in lines, left to right, then top to bottom
The face of the screen would glow when the photons hit the face which was coated with phospheus.
Reduce Bandwidth
TV sets could not draw fast enough before image at the top started to fade
Uneven brightness and intensity would result
Still work in accordance with the electricity supply, (60 Hz in the US and 50 Hz in the UK and Europe)
Interlacing:
To overcome this problem the screen was split in half, with only half the lines, each alternate line, being refreshed each cycle.
Signal was interlaced to deliver a full refresh every two cycles.
So if the signal refreshes half the lines on the screen 60 times per second, you get 30 frames per second.
The problem is distortion that occurs when things move really fast.
Technology advanced:
Progressive scan
Instead of refreshing even and odd lines, the whole screen is refreshed every time.
Larger displays
As the display gets larger, the more important more pixels is.
HD is nothing more than increased resolution, or more pixels.
The "plug and play" approach common on today's electronics didn't work out so well for HD, more like "plug and pray" leaving customers baffled that their TV wouldn't magically display the clean, crisp imagery they viewed on the in-store displays when making their purchase.
Consumer confusion over making HD "work" with HDTVs has gone on for quite some time, and even though some companies are making the leap and offering up that helping hand, it seems the majority of folks are still wandering around in the (heavily pixelated) dark.
Panasonic opened up the "Plasma Concierge"
No Panasonic device required
From "customized plasma profiles" to figuring out mounting they had it all...through December 31st
Matt Swanson, director of business analysis for Consumer Electronics, told Daily Variety that people don't realize a special antenna must be used when installing their set, or that they must subscribe to an HDTV service from their cable company to receive high-definition pictures, it's not just a matter of plugging in your television set and having high quality images right away.
