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Setting up WAP and GPRS
Every phone has a whole series of WAP and GPRS settings to get data to work. The SIM card lets voice traffic work, but for some strange reason, the WAP and GPRS settings are completely separate, so for each phone you own, you have to go to the Internet and figure out both how to…
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Tour de France
Well Lance isn’t in it this year and just about every major star (Ivan Basso, Jan Ulrich, Vino, etc.) are out on a doping scandal, so its been interesting following things. See it on Tour de France 2006 blog for blog commentary. “Yahoo”:http://sports.yahoo.com/sc also has good coverage with particularly easy to find “photos”:http://sports.yahoo.com/sc
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United EQM and EQS Explained
United has a very strange system for calculating mileage if you are a Mileage Plus member, basically, if you are a United 100K traveler, then any ticket you book from full-far economy to first class and even including discounted business is counted as 150% of your actual mileage flow for the purposes of getting to…
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Blackberry and RedBerry in China
“Dan Harris”:http://www.chinalawblog.com/chinalawblog/2006/04/blackberry.html notes that Blackberry will be in China in the middle of this year with its own Blackberry. About time. That would be truly great and let’s hope pricing is reasonable too. Apparently, China Unicom will have a cloned service called the Redberry as well.
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Motorola RAZR V3 Mods
Wow, “Mark”:http://www.mark-world.tv/motorola/ has a great tutorial on how to modify and make the razor really yours. Here’s a quick summary of what I did based on his excellent site. h2. Getting Started with the right bootloader * “Software”:http://www.mark-world.tv/motorola/page1.html. First off, he tells you about all the software you need. A key piece is going looking…
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Kids Bikes
Time once again to look at bikes for that interesting age between 9 and 13 where the standover height is about 26″ !
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Why doesn’t Apple sell in China?
“Apple”:http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/intlstoreroutingpage.html sells in 50 countries, but for some reason they don’t sell in China where the darn things are made. How depressing. They do sell in Hong Kong though, but I don’t know how computer imports are sold. If you do ship into China your own Apple, “Fedex”:http://www.fedex.com/us/international/irc/profiles/irc_cn_profile.html?gtmcc=us has a good site that summarize the…
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Next set of Canon lenses
Now that I’ve settled into the new Canon Digital Rebel XT, the net is that the flash is nice, the camera doesn’t feel so tiny anymore and the reviews are right, having a F/4 lense really is an issue for indoor shooting. I love the 24-105mm lense for general shooting but really could use F/2.8.…
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Freeware Blackberry Games
BlackBerryToday: Software: Games
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Blackberry free applications
BlackBerryTools OTA. Browse to this with your Blackberry and it downloads over the air. See “Powertoys”:http://www.blackberryforums.com/showthread.php?t=3025 for more information about it.
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China trips
A good buddy of mine was asking about fun quick trips in China. While there are many, hat top to Duane for these two suggestions: 1. Cruise of the Li River and spending a day or two in Yangshuo, a very scenic and unique town at the end of the cruise. This would be a…
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Chinese on Cingular Blackberry
Turns out that Blackberry has done specific versions for each carrier as I noted before, but the “Pinstack”:http://blackberryforums.pinstack.com/showthread.php?t=3311 site was sometimes right, sometimes wrong. Google however seemed to be able to find the correct software downloads. Just a warning, before you do a download, back everything up! # BlackBerry Software for Cingular All Cingular customers…
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H.264 for Video iPod Conversion
I’ve been using Videola which has been OK and is free, but the user interface is confusing and it is easy to create invalid iPod Video formats particularly with variable bit rate encoding. It’s best to stick to 640Kbps video and 128Kbps audio and you get good results. Using Videohelp, I found DVD-Guides.com – H.264…
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Any to Any Video Format with a VOB to MPG example
“Videohelp”:http://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?tools=&madeby=&formatconversionselect=VOB+to+MPG&howtoselect=%3B&orderby=Date&listall=1&hits=25&archive=0&listallusers=&search=Search+or+List+Guides has an amazing tool that lets you put any type of format conversion to any other type and then shows you the guide that it has and the tool to use. For instance, to convert a VOB to MPG, see the search got me to this “guide”:http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=224833 which tells you how to do it…
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Cingular Blackberry Unlock
“Pinstack FAQ”:http://www.pinstack.com/blackberryfaq/index.php?action=artikel&cat=6&id=191&artlang=en&highlight=unlock. bq. Cingular customers Try the free route first. Call International customer service (Cingular customer service number is 800-335-4685 24hrs) Tell them that you are traveling and need to roam using another SIM on prepaid. They will ask you for your Blackberry’s IMEI and then give you the unlock code. Be sure to have…
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Chinese Text to PinYin
Well, I use Google to translate Chinese characters to English which works OK, but I really need something that also translates to Pinyin so I can read it. “Ping Asian Imports”:http://www.pingasianimports.com/Chinesepinyin/Translate.asp has such a tool. What I really need is something that takes a web page or a PowerPoint document and double converts to Pinyin…
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Phone Geeks for Blackberry, RAZR and CU320
With a shiny new Blackberry 8700c, it’s fun to see what the power nerds are doing to make it fast and personal, here are some great sites to follow: * “Blackberry Forums”:http://blackberryforums.com. This is pretty active and the “8700”:http://www.blackberryforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=52 forum has some good things on problems and new software like a video player. * “RIMarkable”:http://www.rimarkable.com/.…
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Merging M2V and MP2 elemental streams back into MPEG 2
Well, I use TMPGEnc Creator to encode my MPEG2 streams. DVD-Labs really likes to have the audio and video streams split into M2V for the video and M2A for the audio (sometimes called MP2 if it is encoded in MPEG2 audio). But, iPod Videola really likes either the complex MPEG2 or VOB files, so I…
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Walker Bay WB 10F
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Reinstalling Windows XP Easily
“Reinstalling”:http://winhowto.blogspot.com/2006/06/how-to-reinstall-windows-xp-easily_22.html is a pain and I need to do that now. I have a 75GB system drive that I want to replace with a 750GB (woo hoo!) drive, but I don’t want lose all the installation stuff. So how can I do this? You need something called the Bart PE
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Ack Windows Geniune Advantage Failure
PC Hell: Windows Genuine Advantage Problems and Fixes. Ack one of my PCs has been infected with geniune advantage problem. I can’t seem to fix it other than reinstalling which wipes out the entire installation as I think this is a version I got from the Microsoft Company Store. Interesting, this isn’t something that is…
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New Cingular Phones
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Home Movie DVDs to iPod Video
OK, I need to get a bunch of my home movies from their DVD .VOB format back into a long .MPG file so that I can make H.264 files for iPod Video. As usual, there are a zillion formats and it is hard to figure out the easiest way to do it. Here is the…
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Shooting Fireworks
!New York Institute of Photography – Fireworks Photography – Tips for Great Fireworks Photographs from NYIP. Happy 4th of July, here are some tips on shooting fireworks. The basics are that you need a tripod and you need to be able to take a long exposure. With “digital cameras”:http://www.nyip.com/tips/current/digfirewks.php, you need a tripod, a cable…
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Bob on Canon Lenses
“Bob”:http://bobsplanet.com is really a great photographer. By his permission, here’s an excerpt on picking lenses. Don’t you love IM? Bob Wise says: good, how are you? Rich Tong says: Goofing off. Scanning 35mm film from 1999 and looking for cameras. Have to leave in 3 minute to go to work We should talk cameras and…
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Motorola V3 RAZR Modding
OK, now that we have a Motorola V3, its fun to see what the internet world has been doing to customize it. It’s kind of amazing the tools that are now available and the amount of hacking people have done: * “Motox”:http://motox.us. This is a big modding site with lots of firmware. The essentials are…
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Calvin’s New Bike
Alex got one last year, now its Calvin’s turn. Some choices: !>http://www.redlinebicycles.com/adultbikes/bikes/images/Conquest-24.jpg! * REDLINE | ADULT BIKES | CONQUEST 24. This is a 24″ wheeled Redline Cyclocross. It has a 17.4″ standover.
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Useful Utilities
“PC Magazine”:http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1936083,00.asp normally isn’t that useful anymore and it is a pale imitation of its former self, but this piece on cool utilities is really useful. Here are the top ones: * “Roboform”:http://roboform.com. A great utility even if it does cost $30. Keeps track of all your passworks. * “PartitionMagic”:http://symantec.com. Its is $70, but it…
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Password Safe
My buddy Bill was using Roboform for password saving and I liked it, but I’m too cheap to pay for something like that. There is an open source project that seems to do much the same thing called “Password Safe”:https://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/
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Fuji F10 on the fritz
We have a pair of F10s and an F11, but one of them is now on the fritz. The lens cover won’t open, even though the rest of the camera turns on. With Fuiji, you have to send it to an authorized repair center. Fujifilm: Support & Contact Center: Repair Information & Locations: Consumer Digital…