links for 2007-10-12

• iTag - IPTC/XMP Photo Tagging & Search
  “The captions you enter are embedded into each jpg file using industry standard IPTC and XMP headers - all in a loseless operation that doesn’t degrade the jpeg image.
  Many other applications understand IPTC/XMP too - so once you have annotated your pho
  (tags: jpg photo metadata insteresting tags windows)
• Replacing my home backup server with Amazon’s S3
  “My home server costs me a minimum of $13 every four weeks just to leave powered on and idling, or $170 per year. That doesn’t count the roughly $700 I sunk into the disks and the other $700 I likely spent on the motherboard, CPU, case, RAM, and so on. Re
  (tags: backup amazon via robotwisdom distributed)
• JR Hendershot - Electric Motor Design Expert
  “has designed hundreds of brushless motors for computer disc drives, servo systems, high speed machine tool spindles, traction drives, hybrid vehicles, micro-turbines and diesel generators. He has written numerous technical papers, publications and give
  (tags: electric motor design consultant engineering)
• Make A Clock
  via Ontario Science Centre
  UPC 019649209095
  http://tinyurl.com/yt6h9j
  “The partially preassembled clock is really fun to assemble. After one hour it made the “tick-tock” noise and our daughter was happy. The description is easy to follow. The accuracy
  (tags: clock toy mechanical how plastic kit via canada)