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CSI Miami music
CSI:guide.com – CSI and CSI:Miami Music. CSI Miami in particular has just the best music. Unlike the unofficial Alias soundtracks, no one seems to have complied them, but at least there is a list of some of the songs on the CSI Guide.
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United Airlines Promotions
United Airlines – Promotions: Air. These folks run an amazing number of promotions, but in order to participate, like a robot, you have to go to the promitoin site and sign up. So check there every so often. Big ones are win a million miles if you fly once. If you fly inside Asia, get…
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Western Digital Caiviar SE16 400GB
Oh well, I’ve long had a failing 250GB hard drive (a Western Digital Caviar) in our old Athon XP 3200 system. Now it has finally given up the ghost. It won’t format and it won’t boot. When I diagnosed it last time, some sectors had failed and it wouldn’t boot properly. Now it looks like…
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NJStar better than Windows XP
Chinese Software, Japanese Software & Korean Software by NJStar ???. In writing Chinese, I’ve mainly been using the free inpute method editor (IME) that comes with Windows XP. Our Chinese tutor says that I should give NJStar a try. There is a free trail, but she likes the word processor and the communicator better. The…
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Special Friend Day
Some special friends and their favoriate broadway tunes: * Amazon.com: With a Song In My Heart (from the 1952 film)/ Pal Joey (with 1952 cast members): Music: Harold Arlen,Sammy Fain,George Gershwin,Peggy Lee,Matt/ Livingston, Fud Malneck,Alfred Newman,Richard Rodgers,Arthur Schwartz,Jule Styne,Various Composers,. With A Song from my Heart from the 1952 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical called Spring…
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DSLR Buying Guide
While I’m at it, the new Fuji F10 and the Canon SD550 have been great recommendations for snapshot cameras. The F10 in particular because it is so fast and doesn’t need a flash in most situations. Even though these are just 6Mp or so, the lense begins to make a real difference with these small…
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Camcorder Buying Guide
With our Canon 100MC dying and eating tapes, its time to plumb the markets again. A quick A9/Google search for google””hd camcorder reviews” reveals that there are four big camcorder review sites listed below. What is clear is that right now, with CES just having happened, there is tremendous innovation. Basically, the DVD camcorder has…
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iPod Speakers
Well, Iwe have a variety of speakers sets now, so a quick long term review and then on to finding a good portable system: * JBL Creature II. These are PC speakers so for listening in a whole room and is the 21st century version of bookshelf speaker set. They sound OK. 4/4 on playlist,…
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Brunch in San Diego
AOL City Guide: San Diego – City’s Best Brunch, Restaurants. Some brunch recommendations. Neimans
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Romantic Dining in San Diego
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Good metroplex, just be careful of the lines
We don’t go to the theater that often, but last Saturday, after a long day of playing chess, a trip to see Ice Age 2, Meltdown was well deserved. This theater let’s you buy tickets via Fandango.com. A great service, although probably not as necessary out in the Tri-Cities, but for 13 parents and kids,…
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Quick and convenient to the Convention Center
We were there for the State Chess Tournament. I hate to admit it but having lived in Seattle for 18 years, we’ve never been to the Tri-cities, so literally didn’t know what to expect. First of all, its super quick to get there. Just 3 hours from Seattle. The Hilton Garden is *the* place to…
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Sony Vegas 6.0 Updates
Sony Media Software – Downloads – Vegas Update. Sony is one of the few companies that make finding their updates easy. Here they are. The latest version is 6.0d. I’ve used the Video Explosion Deluxe for a long time and like it. Sony bought Sonic Foundry which OEMed to Video Explosion, so this is the…
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Used Cell Phones
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Home Switch
Switches – PriceGrabber.com. I have a single router at home, but upstairs, I have two printers and a notebook. The issue is that wireless networking is just unreliable I’m finding. I constantly find that the connection is broken, so I’m back to wired networking for now. Fortunately there is an ethernet jack upthere, so off…
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Best Home Router Reviews
Hardware Router Chart | Tom’s Networking. They have Den Guru now and they list the throughput of the various devices. It is amazing to see how fast these are. The Netgear WPNT834 for instance can up/download at 94Mbps. That should be fast enough for any broadband connection. The D-Link DGL4300 is the same at 93Mbps,…
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Custom made and great
Well, I’ve tried lots and lots of computer bags and sleeves and I’ve settled on the stuff form Waterfield aka sfbags.com http://sfbags.com You can design your own bag and they make it for you. The sleeve I use is from them and they have a sleevecase http://www.sfbags.com/products/sleevecases/sleevecases.htm that has just about every option. I use…
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That’s a great ad campaign…I love it
Goes along with What goes in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas. Here are folks I’d vote for the top five (again like Letterman). By the way the correct http://www.visitlasvegas.com/vegas/features/be-anyone/ is here. 5. Johnny Cash. Mainly because I liked Walked the Line and have gotten all his soundtracks :_) 4. Joel Goodsen. This for afictionados.…
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Be Anyone in Las Vegas
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My Printers
Printer drivers are so specialized and are so deeply linked, I can never find them. Here are the quick links for the printers we use at ” * HP LaserJet 4050 Printer series – Download drivers and software – HP Business Support Center. This is our old printer at work * “Ricoh 3235C”:http://www.ricoh-usa.com/downloads/downloads.asp?tsn=Ricoh-USA&path=http://support.ricoh.com/bb/html/dr_ut_e/rc2/model/c35_45/c35_45en.htm. This is…
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iPod Video Options
Converting Videos for iPod, Take 2 (Twelve Black Code Monkeys). My buddy at Twelve Black Monkeys went through the hard work of encoding in different formats and then figuring out what the tradeoffs are. The basic points from his spreadsheet are that basically recommends H.264 at a CBR (constant bit rate) if you are only…
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iPod Video Problems and Limits
KSDD:Articles:Getting Video into the iPod Video. I’ve been using Videola for a while and some of the videos won’t playback at all on my iPod. I suspect, I’m exceeding the maximum bitrate or other limits. I’ve been using the very compact .mp4 format with h.264. The limits are below: # File formats: .m4v, .mp4 or…
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Print Server
Print server Print Servers – PriceGrabber.com. I could use one for our Canon i9900. We’ve been using an old laptop up there and it actually works reasonably well, but it would be nice not o. I’m just worried that this print server stuff doesn’t really work. here are the top ones at that are Pricegrabber.…
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My buddy Dale is great!
We’ve been working with Dale for the last 15 years now. He has wired three homes for us. He’s great and very thorough, most importantly, he’ll tell you exactly what he is doing. He’ll also do structured wiring, fire alarm and ethernet, so a good all purpose guy and he’s very responsive. Our main issue…
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Videos and Soundtracks to your iPod
The kids are really starting to like the iPod Video so time to get more things down there. There are all kinds of utilities and things and I’m sure this isn’t the fastest way to rip video and get soundtracks to your iPod, but it works for me: h2. If you have an AVI and…
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Getting the iRiver iFP-799 Working Again
iriver – iFP-700 Series Support. I haven’t use this little guy in a while because I’ve been too lazy to podcast and since this unit doesn’t control volume well, it is useless for that. But it lets me list to WMA protected files, so it will be useful for listening to books on tape and…
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Chaintech VNF3-250 and OCZ PC4000 2GB Platinum
AnandTech – Chaintech VNF3-250 Motherboard Question. Well, I’ve just lost another memory module. Been running 2x512MB PC3700 OCZ Gold Rev 2 for a while now in the Chaintech rig, but I’ve been getting random BSODs. Ran memtest and see intermittent errors on the first stick, so I bought some fancy OCZ PC4000 Platinum’s for the…
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Dogster…special interest rule
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Thick, thin, who cares…
Heck, I guess I just appreciate every form of pizza for what it is supposed to be, but your question reminds me that every slice bring back another memory so in reverse order the top 10 best pizzas are so intimately tied to the who, where and when, so here goes in Letterman format, the…
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Best Cingular Phones
HowardForums: Your Mobile Phone Community & Resource – Cingular Phones. As I said, Howard has the best phone data, but they are amazingly good for Cingular which is where they started. Their current recommendation is to get an unlocked Motorola V3i on eBay since that costs $300 as “mpire”:http://researcher.mpire.com/research/progress.page?action=call&formName=search&searchType=form&query=v3i+&search=Search&excludeWords=slvr+pebl+mpx220+l7 +z510 shows and you can get…