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Apple Mac Pro is the ultimate PC?
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Blackberry Ringtones
It’s a little known fact, but the latest Blackberry 8700 running the latest firmware, 4.1, can in fact use MP3s for ringtones. Its kind of nice for Blackberry to join the rest of the world. It can also finally suck down JPGs and make them backgrounds. The way to do it is just terrible though,…
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Lexus GS Hybrid 2007
!>http://www.lexus.com/assets/models/anchor/small_photos/ASE_prm_img.jpg! Lexus GS Hybrid. Jim mentioned he was getting one of these over the weekend. Wow, what an amazing car. Twice as much as the Toyota Camry Hybrid, it is a screamer. It has a huge electric motor that puts out 120 plus horsepower. It can do 0-60 in less than six seconds. And it…
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Boat Rentals on Lake Chelan
“Come to the Lake”:http://www.cometothelake.com/businesses_listing_boat_watercraft.html provides a good list: Chelan Parasailing & Watercraft Rentals 158 East Wapato Way P.O. Box 523 Manson, WA 98831 (509) 687-7245 Sharkey’s Watercraft & Snowmobile Rentals (509) 687-2312 or (509) 470-2468 Mid-May Thru September – rentals of personal watercraft, open bow family ski boats, and 24′ pontoon boat (10 person max).…
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Perseid Meteor Showers
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Blackberry Tradeup and Support
“Blackberry”:http://blackberry.tradeups.com/. Not well advertised is the fact that if you buy a Blackberry then you have 30 days to send in your old Blackberry and get say $35 or some amount off. Models that this applies to are: BlackBerry 7100i, 7105t, 7130c, 7130e, 7130g, 7250, 7290, 7520, 8700c, 8700g or 8700r. For an old 7280,…
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Blackberry Enterprise Activation
OK, I’ve been bad, I’ve never really tried to learn how Blackberry and BES works as a result, I’ve bricked Connie’s 7100 and my buddy Duane has got really nothing working. So, here is what I’ve learned: * Everything is about _Service Books_ these are configuration parameters that provision the Blackberry. They are in Options/Advanced/Service…
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National Anthems
http://www.southafrica.info/ess_info/sa_glance/history/anthem.htm http://www.du.edu/langlit/russian/anthtxt.html http://www.chinaodysseytours.com/guide/national_anthem.htm http://www.nationalanthems.us/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1080243799/7
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Arrgh I hate DRM
OK, I admit it, I know I’m supposed to be legal, but I just hate the way these DRM schemes work. Two cases in point: # Apple. If you lose a hard disk which I just did, then the only way to get back your keys if you are on five machines (or like me,…
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Picture Frames
Now that I’m doing so many digital photos, the missing step is now getting frames for all these neat pictures. As usual google:”Picture Frames” is the answer with some pretty interesting online places including: * “Pictureframes.com”:http://www.pictureframes.com/. I’m not sure they are any cheaper, but they have a huge selection. Wooden frames in just about any…
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Sailing Simulators
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Seafair Planes and Ships
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Elizabethtown surprisingly great
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3.5″ SATA HDD External Enclosure
So now that I’ve ordered a 750GB Seagate 7200.10 drive to cart data back and forth, its time to find a good small enclosure so that I can get it from Seattle to work around the world. Now I’ll never have to worry about running out of room for photos or home movies again. A…
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XFX XGear Daul Reflex PC Controller
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Deathride
!>http://www.deathride.com/course/images/ebbetts2.jpg! “Deathride”:http://www.deathride.com/ John reminded me about this ride sounds like fun if you are in shape! bq. Beginning and ending at Turtle Rock Park north of Markleeville, California, the five pass ride includes 129 miles and 15,000+ feet of lung busting climbing. You also have the option of riding one, two, three or four passes.…
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Exo Cages are cool
!http://www.akfabshop.com/alaskaoffroad/images/Thumbs/Recovery_015a_small.jpg! Winter Recovery 03 I stopped by Blackjacks place of work (the new 6 States in Soldotna) and picked up his pull pall. The sign across the street said -9* but I could tell how cold it was by the sound of the snow crunching under my feet as I walked back across the parking…
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Sonicare Registration
Sonicare Registration. These are really great toothbrushes, if you read the fine print, you’ll see that this online registration gets you some coupons. Just make sure to opt out of getting email spam from Philips. With a few mouse clicks, you can register your Sonicare toothbrush right now and receive by email $27.99 worth of…
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FCKeditor
Well we are starting to use the Commercial MovableType for “Ignition”:http://ignitionpartners.com, it is certainly quite a bit different than the verison that I use. One big thing is that it uses a different set of HTML editors. I normally use Textile, but they use “FCKEditor”:http://fckeditor.net which is a pretty nice WYSIWYG editor that looks like…
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High Def Camcorders
!>http://images.tomshardware.com/2006/08/02/hv10_threequarter_screen_open.jpg! Canon launches compact “full HD” camcorder | TG Daily. It is literally raining HD camcorders now. Both Sony and Canon have come out with new small camcorders that record in 1040i. How cool is that. The big debate is whether or not the Canon is 1080i or 1080p. I’m betting 1080i. Following Sony’s HDR-UX1…
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Current Canon Rebates
“Canon”:http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=PromotionsAct has a list of all its rebates, since it looks like I actually got all three rebates I applied for, it gives me some confidence. Right now, they’ve ended their spring rebates for cameras (whcih were quite good nominal really at $50 for $1,600 lenses), but were amazing for cameras. So I’ll have to…
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Web Rebates
Wow, I found this site by looking at a Canon Rebate form and seeing the “web-rebates.com”:http://web-rebates.com URL, it turns out that if you put your last name and address in, it will find lots and lots of different rebates. At least Canon, PriceGrabber, Vonage and Samsung all use the same service. I could check on…
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Calling US from China
Figuring out the cheapest way to call the US when you are living in China is incredibly complicated. The main issue is that you don’t really want to spend $2/minute with your cell phone while you are there, but you do want a US phone number so someone can call you. Here is the best…
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Scudder Global Fund is now DWS Global Thematic Stock (SCOBX)
“Scudder Global Fund”:http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SCOBX&t=my This was one of the first investments that I ever owned. Got it in 1998 and then later sold it, it is just great the way that Yahoo keeps track of all this kind of stuff. As far as I can tell the fund was essentailly flat since 1998 its high point…
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Kid Games
“Gamesrankings.com”:http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/default_PC/5 is a great site that averages reviews across the web. Here are some games I found that I think the kids might like: * “Sports Games”:http://www.download.com/Sports/2001-2117_4-0.html?tag=dir. Free downloads are key so they can try the games. Cnet has a great collection of sports games. * “Kids Games”:http://www.download.com/3150-2102_4-0-1-0.html?qt=&author=&titlename=&desc=&dlcount=&daysback=&swlink=&gfiletype=&os=128&li=&dlsize=&ca= These are games for smaller kids under…
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Chaintech VNF3-250 Doesn’t POST and beeps once…
I guess I asked for it, upgraded from a 75GB drive to a 750GB (!!) drive and things were working fine until I actually put the drive into the computer and now nothing happens. I get one beep and then the system just hangs! “OC Forum”:http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=266936 has a very useful what to do on a…
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US University Endowments
“Wikipedia”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_colleges_and_universities_by_endowment actually has a list. These are for the fiscal year end 2005, but so pretty recent figures. | Rank | Institution | Endowment | | 1 | Harvard University | $25.474B | | 2 | Yale University | $15.225B | | 3 | Stanford University | $12.205B | | 4 | University of Texas…
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iGo Auto/air85
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Intel Core 2 Duo Desktops Arrive
Intel’s Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme processors were announced two weeks ago with much fanfare from the hardware editors and the enthusiast community. Intel had brought a great-performing chip to the market that was faster than every processor currently available and was much cooler than its Pentium-D predecessor. Today, there were a slew…
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MVP Baseball 2005 is no more
We downloaded the MVP 2004 demo and Calvin just loves it, unfortunately, because EA lost the rights to MLB, they now only have NCAA Baseball and it is only on consoles, so nothing for our beloved PC. You can still get used MVP 2005 on ebay though. And you pretty much have to have a…