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Aveda and Post Ranch Inn Spa
!http://a248.e.akamai.net/www.aveda.com/images/products2/mpp/av_A1XE_165.jpg!:http://aveda.com “Aveda”:https://www.aveda.com/home.tmpl now has an online site that ships you their various potions. The prices are certainly, ugh high end, the “Rosemary Mint”:http://www.aveda.com/templates/products2/mpp.tmpl?CATEGORY_ID=CATEGORY9515&PRODCAT_ID=CATEGORY10601 is particularly great. The shaving gel is a mind blowing $12.50 for 5 ounces,and the 1 litre shampoo and conditioner (34 ounces) are $25. So where else can you get it for…
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Blackberry Unlocked or from Carrier
!>http://onlinestorez.cingular.com/cell-phone-service/images/equip/medium/medium_blackberry_8700.jpg!:http://mpire.com/buyers/results.page?query=blackberry+8700+unlocked Right now the carriers are only giving a $100 rebate on Blackberrys, so if you are going to use it and don’t want to get locked into a plan, it makes more sense to use “mpire”:http://mpire.com/buyer/results.page?query=blackberry+8700+unlocked+ to find one. I see one for $400 right now, whereas “Cingular”:http://onlinestorez.cingular.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phones/cell-phones.jsp?q_sortOrder=Price&RFlow=A&source=INC230056&zip=98004 has a similarly new one for…
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Blackberry 8100 ships
Here’s a picture of the followon to the Blackberry 7100 line. It is based on the same platform as the 8700 so has Edge modem support and an amazingly beautiful screen. !http://static.flickr.com/88/208496698_9d9a38530e.jpg!
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Blackberry Sync Revealed
Blackberry has just about the strangest user interface for synchronization I’ve ever seen. They don’t seem to document it anywhere that I can find. Here is what I’ve learned: The synchronization interface is completely different for mail vs. calendar vs. tasks/memos. It seems like they did these at different times, so figuring out how to…
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Inflight Power Recharges through audio jack
Another in a set of clever ideasInflight Power Recharger Cables Finally you can power your handheld device while in-flight from your coach passenger seat! What it does is take the power that comes out of the headphone jack and converts it into a USB power outlet. So you can charge your cell phone or your…
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Mogo Wireless Bluetooth Mouse
Perfect gift for the road warrior that has everything. This is a mouse that slips into the PC Card slot of a laptop (who uses those anymore anyway), then it uses Bluetooth to connect to the laptop. For all of us who suffer while using a touch pad but would rather have a mouse. $70…
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Linksys Diagnostics, Firmware Hacks and Intel Driver Updates
OK, now that we’ve got our network basically working, we’ve run “DSL Reports”:http://dslreports.com/tools to figure out that we do have the speed, but it still doesn’t seem very responsive. There are also various attacks by different folks, so we need some sort of el cheapo monitoring software. There are quite a few of these utilities…
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Linksys AP Client Mode vs. Wireless Bridge Mode
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Printers
Well, the printer market has gotten simpler in the last year. Now the main thing, if you want a printer for digital photos is that you can either pick an all-in-one that gives excellent print quality or you can get a high end dedicated printer. Here are the two choices from PC Magazine that make…
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Tools for Duane
Most folks only seem to have the very rudiments of a protection on their PC. At most you might have the anti-virus software your OEM put on your computer. Duane reminded me it is hard to figure out what you need in today’s world. Here is what I put on every PC that I own.…
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Google Sets and Alexaholic
When we are working on companies, it is often times useful to see what’s related to what, here are the tools that I use: * “Google Sets”:http://labs.google.com/sets. This lets you type in a bunch of related ideas and see from the web, what else is related, so if you type in Microsoft, Ignition and Oracle,…
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Thin and Light Notebooks…just wait
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Blinklist
Since I’ve been traveling, I’ve been way off of my goal of logging onto 10 Web 2.0 sites a day. Sorry! but here are the latest: !http://www.blinklist.com:8080/Theme/Graphic/Blinklist.gif!:http://blinklist.com/richt This looks like a delicious clone, but it has been getting impressive increase in traffic according to “Alexa”:http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?q=&url=www.blinklist.com and is now 4000 after just a year. Seems related…
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Paradise Garden
This is right next to the Jinmao and I’d agree, it is a great place for a fancy lunch. The dim sum is very good and they have a very open feeling. By foreign standards it isn’t too expensive and the decor is very, very nice. Pudong Restaurants – Reviews, Photos – VirtualTourist.com Paradise Garden…
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Another Wireless Setup issue
I someday wish that someone would solve this, but fresh on leaving work, I got to spend an evening fixing another network here in China. This time I had a good education in Chinese user interfaces and thanks to “dltool”:http://dltool.sourceforge.net, it was easy to figure out the interface and learn some Chinese words for things…
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Wifi Debugging
Well, the network at Qiming doesn’t seem to work that well, we have a low end all Linksys system with two access points and a LAN router, so how to diagnose it. “Tech-faq.com”:http://www.tech-faq.com/wi-fi-software-tools.shtml has a very good list of tools and at the top is my old favorite “Netstumbler”:http://www.stumbler.net/ this tool only works with Prism…
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Wireless Routers
This category has been pretty stagnent for a year now. The 802.11n standard is not yet out and it won’t get ratified until March 2007. So we are right now at 802.11g with some improvements that are mainly about tweaking TCP/IP and other parameters. There are some nonstandard protocols as well, but these require special…
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Webcam
Cowboy Frank”. Here are his current best products: * “Logitech Quickcam Fusion”: $99 list. His choice for the best overall camera. This uses USB 2.0 and has a 1.3 megapixel imager.* “Logitech Quickcam for NOtebooks Pro. $99 list. His choice for best notebook. It is very compact with just a 640×480 imager, so its stills…
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Eagle Creek 0-50W Transformer
!http://a1472.g.akamaitech.net/f/1472/124/4h/img.ebags.com/is/image/im5/50645_1_1?&op_sharpen=1&qlt=80,1&hei=249&wid=249!:http://www.ebags.com/eagle_creek/0_50_transformer/product_detail/index.cfm?modelid=50645. I wish I had this right now. It is a very small transformer that takes 220 and makes it 110V. Everything I own *except* for my Philips Ultrasonic toothbrush is 120-220V. Philips, get a clue. Otherwise, get this $15 thing. If you buy two from eBags, you even get free shipping. Eagle Creek 0-50…
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Zoom Player
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Chinese Translation Tools
Well since I’m learning Chinese in earnest here are the tools that I use. All are free and publically available and here’s the order: If I see a Chinese word or sentence and don’t know the translation: # “Google Translate”:http://google.com/translate_t. First I use the Google translator to see if I can generally see what it…
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Jin Mao Tower
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City Shop
!>http://www.cityshop.com.cn/img/logo-new-web.gif!:http://www.cityshop.com.cn “City Shop”:http://www.cityshop.com.cn/ This is a super highend grocer in Shanghai. It is super expensive and convenient. The one we visited was right next to the ??? (Binjiangdian) “Riverside Shop”:http://www.cityshop.com.cn/cityditu-binjiang.htm right in the Citigroup Tower . The prices there are really amazing and it is probably best for produce. The signs say that they are…
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Metro Cash & Carry in Shanghai
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Haagen Daaz Riverside Promenade Shanghai
There isn’t a central directory for Haagen Daaz outlets at least that I could find in Shanghai via google:”Haagen Daaz Shanghai” We visited the Haagen Daaz on the Riverside Promenade (???? binjiang da dao) right in front to the Shangri-la Hotel (???????). The view is spectacular there and I have to say that it is…
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Paulaner Braehaus Binjiang
!>http://www.smartshanghai.com/pix/paulanerlogo.gif! There are three “Paulaner”:http://www.smartshanghai.com/venue/236/Paulaner_Braeuhaus_(Binjiang) restaurants in Shanghai alone and they all look like Bavarian beer gardens although maybe a little hotter in the summer đ The one we’ve been to twice is located on the Riverside Promenade in Pudong which is right next to the river and has a great view. They do brew…
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The Kitchen
SmartShanghai.com | The Kitchen Salvatore Cuomo – reviews, pictures, map – 2967 Bin Jiang Da Dao, Shanghai The Kitchen Salvatore Cuomo is a little hard to find since it doesn’t have a Chinese name and no one around there seems to know where it is. If you ask for ?? (chu fan) in Chinese, then…
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Skype and China
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Pairing JX-10
Jabra JX10 Bluetooth Headset Review | Everything Treo o get the Jabra JX10 into pairing mode, there is a tiny button on the back of the headset. Initiating pairing mode on the Jabra JX10 was easy enough. This thing doesn’t work like any other bluetooth headset I’ve had. Normally you hold the ON button to…
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Kensington 120 Watt AC/DC Power Adapter
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