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Backpacks for carrying your dSLR too
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Be Kind Rewind and Sweding
John is back and gave some great recommendations for movies and films: “Be Kind Rewind”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799934/ is an ultra strange movie starring Jack Black (Kung Fu Panda’s Po) and Mos Def as they reenact famous movies like Ghost Busters, you have to see it for the slapstick then appreciate the sense of community and important of…
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Taiyo Yuden CDs
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Driving to Jackson Hole
If you ever wanted to just enjoy the US countryside before gas is $10/gallon and we are all in electric cars, nows a good time. So, how to get from Seattle to Jackson Hole easily. It used to be hard, Mobil Travel Guides and so forth, but Google and Trip Advisor things are just so…
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AT&T Exclusively Business
We’ve never really had an AT&T business plan, but “Exclusively Business”:http://www.wireless.att.com/businesscenter/business-programs/small/programs/exclusively-business-faq.jsp actually seems like a pretty good deal. If you have 5 or more users, then you get an 8% discount on voice and data plans priced $35 and higher. Also, you can have corporate users direct billed (they are called Corporate Responsibility Users, is…
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Nintendo Emulators
“FireNES”:http://lifehacker.com/394597/firenes-brings-2000-nes-games-to-your-browser integrates into Firefox and let’s you play over 2,000 old NES games in Firefox. Or do it in any web browser via “vNES”:http://lifehacker.com/software/gaming/play-your-favorite-nes-games-online-206073.php through Java. Hat tip to “Ludwig”:http://www.theludwigs.com
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HD Camcorder choices getting hard again
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Places to look for Cleantech (aka Green, Renewables, Conservation, Energy) News
Cleantech Blog Cleantech Blog does not do all the news all the time. We rely on our friends at CNET, Cleantech Media, Greentech Media, GreenBiz.com, and Earth2Tech
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Get to ymail.com first…
PC World – Business Center: Yahoo to Add New Domains to Webmail Service starting Thursday and for the first time, the service will offer addresses in two other domains besides yahoo.com: ymail.com and rocketmail.com. If they find an address they like better, users with existing accounts in Yahoo Mail or other webmail service will be…
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PDF and Firefox on Mac
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) If you switched to Firefox from another browser like Safari that supports in-line PDF viewing (that’s the ablity to look at a PDF in the browser instead of downloading it), then you might have been disheartened to learn that Firefox does not support this feature natively. However, you will find…
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Morgan Stanley and Needham on Apple
Fascinating note from “Morgan Stanley”:http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/06/18/morgan_stanley_compares_apple_to_nintendo_while_raising_estimates.html on impact of the iPhone 3G and most importantly the store. The note about the app store is right I think AppleInsider | Morgan Stanley compares Apple to Nintendo while raising estimates More broadly, the analyst’s base case scenario estimates that iPhone 3G will help Apple capture 12 percent of…
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Blackberry Bold 9000
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Fortune article on Microsoft and a note on Eric
Was searching for an old friend Eric and found this incredible article about Microsoft. I’m sure there are a zillion copyright issues, but it is great reading. So strange to be reading about so many folks I actually know. And to hear: Inside the deal that made Bill Gates $350M Fortune, July 21, 1986 v14…
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Download Firefox 3 Today
This is my kind of marketing. Wow, set a record for most downloads in a day. And have fun too. Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008 Set a Guinness World Record Enjoy a Better Web Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help…
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Call of Duty 4 Weapons
OK not very PC (no not the computer dummy), but here’s a look at the real “guns”:http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/902593/call-of-duty-4-modern-warfare/videos/cod4_weapons_110507.html in Call of Duty 4, the most game I’ve played in a long time. And a note to self that the place to go is “The Gun Store”:http://www.thegunstorelasvegas.com/ in Las Vegas where you can actually use these things…
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Happy Fathers Day
OK, I must be the only person who gives a visit to fix a computer as part of a Father’s Day gift, but some quick notes for making things easier for people who don’t want the hassle: # “Autologon”:http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm enabled. Before Windows got secure, with Windows 95, you didn’t have to worry about logons. Mac…
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Apple Airport Utility 5.3.2
Good news is that the 5.3.2 update looks like it is OK to take for the Airport Utility. Also I’m now using Entourage 2008 and Excel 2008 and that looks like most problems are fixed as well Apple – Support – Discussions – Any problem with Airport Utility 5.3.2 … Airport Utility 5.3.2 is quite…
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MacBook Air $100 off at Amazon and so are iMac’s
MacInTouch: timely news and tips about Apple Macintosh, iTunes, iPhone and more… MacBook Air is only $1699 with Amazon’s discount and rebate. Save $55-$105 off the new iMacs: 20-inch/2.4GHz, the 20-inch/2.66GHz or 24-inch/2.8GHz with Amazon savings. Save $75-$180 on other MacBooks and MacBook Pro models, and save on AppleCare, too. Save $150-$380 on the latest…
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iPhone 3G
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Perceptual Experiment and priming
Hat tip to Peter for this one, watch the video and count the balls…See what happens 🙂 at “Transformationteam.net”:http://transformationteam.net/video/perceptual_experiment_tc
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OpenTable rocks!
My friend Jeff is doing a great job there. Haven’t used it in a while, but “OpenTable”:http://opentable.com now does a nice job with AJAX, it sends invites, it knows how to export reservations to Outlook VCS and also therefore iCal, but Entourage seems a little broken. Also, you can send invites to others for reservations…
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Could Google Calendar or MobileMe replace Exchange calendaring
With the announcement of MobileMe, we looked again at whether we can replace Exchange on our backend. The mail is interchangeable and the contacts we have aren’t shared, so the only function we really need is a shared viewable calendar that works online, offline when you are on a Macbook, on a Blackberry and on…
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Apple iPhone v2
Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About announced new features of Firmware 2.0 and the SDK, including: – contact searching- complete iWork document support- complete Office document support (now includes PowerPoint)- bulk delete and move for Mail- save images you receive- scientific calculator in landscape mode- parental controls- language Mac Rumors: Apple…
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Intel Nehalem 20-50% faster due in 2009
Early Version of Intel’s Nehalem Benchmarked, Much Faster than Penryn – Mac Rumors Anandtech had access to a 2.66GHz Nehalem processor which they pitted against a 2.66GHz Penryn processor. Performance improvements ranged from 20-50% faster for the Nehalem chip. h.264 video encoding was tested and saw a 44% speed boost on Nehalem vs Penryn on…
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Update on installing Chinese input on Blackberry
Well, I keep referring to my “own”:https://richtong.org/gadgets/blackberry/chinese_blackberry_and_cingular_blackberry.php page that explains how to install Chinese input on the Blackberry. The two main steps that work for Blackberry 8700 and 8300 Curves is: * “Hong Kong CSL”:https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads/entry.do?code=EEFC9E10EBDC4A2333B42B2DBB8F27B6 is still after two years the easiest way to get the Chinese versions. These are not multilingual. Chinese is handled…
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Beware! Dunlop SP Winter Sport 3D tire failure
I got the “Dunlop SP Winter Sport 3D”:http://www.dunloptires.com/catalog/winterSport3D.html from “Tirerack.com”:http://tirerack.com a set of snow tires for the MDX. They were big and expensive ($136 each!) and 235/65HR17. I thought I was fine, but when the good guys at “Island Detail”:http://islanddetail.com took them off, they found the tread had separated on *all* four tires. Very dangerous…