Doctor Who Props

Benjamin SchollnickNo Comments

I just found a site, that details some of the behind the scenes information on the Props used on Doctor Who…
For example:
Original Cyberman costume pieces especially the fibreglass areas are one of the most difficult of all Doctor Who items to authenticate as so many have been replicated over the years that it is almost impossible to tell the difference this is worse on “earthshock”and “attack of the Cybermen” pieces but what makes items from “Silver Nemesis” different is the way in which they were finished, for the 25th anniversery story all the fibreglass parts were chrome plated and then lacquered but during filming the lacquer reacted with the chrome and started to turn gold!!
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More information and tidbits, here Doctor Who Props

Can you edit Evernote externally?

Benjamin SchollnickNo Comments

Evernote is fine, but its text editor is strange and not good for storing code snippets. The fact that is allows HTML but can only manipulate a subset of HTML is a bit frustrating.
Is there any way to edit Evernote  snippets outside of Evernote?

My first read thru suggests this:
Copy and Paste the Evernote text into TextEdit, or another editor of your choice.  Clean it up, modify it to your pleasure…  Then Copy & Paste it back into Evernote.
But I maybe misunderstanding your question…  Do you mean to edit the Evernote data without using Evernote?  The data is stored in ~\\Library\\Application Support\\Evernote
The Evernote.sql file is presumably the SQL database that stores the tags, sync information, etc…
The Content folder is broken up into individual folders, in my case, marked PXX where XX is a number…  Inside each folder is an filename.ENML, filename.html, & thumbnail files.
The ENML appears to be an XML file with the contents of the note.  The content.html appears to be a straight HTML file of the content, and the thumbnail files are thumbnail views…
I modified the XML file, and the evernote client did not see the changes…  So I presume you can modify the data, but without reverse engineering the database, you can\’t force the client to sync the changed data….

Solar cells get two electrons for the price of one, efficiency bonus

Benjamin SchollnickNo Comments

It may still be a lab experiment, but still, this could led to eventual mainstream adoption of solar power…

Photoelectric current as function of photon energy was measured on single crystal TiO2 coated with a monolayer of PbS nanoparticles. The experiments conclusively showed that multiple electrons were generated and extracted from the nanoparticles for each high energy photon that was absorbed. The result is a theoretical efficiency increase from 31 percent in single junction photovoltaic cells to 47 percent in a MEG cell.

Ars Technica explores how Solar cells could get two electrons for the price of one, efficiency bonus.