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  • Best T-mobile phones

    HowardForums: Your Mobile Phone Community & Resource – Best Looking Thin T-Mobile phone?. Darn it, I was just going to get the new Samsung t809 from T-mobile, but Howard Forums, really the best resource I’ve found for phone shopping says: bq. the t809 is horrible… Don’t buy it! Dust gets under the screen cover, the…

  • Motorola H5 Miniblue Uhuru here we come

    !>http://www.motorola.com/mot/image/13/13668_MotImage.jpg! Motorola Motorola H5 MINIBLUE. This may be the ultimate headset. It is incredibly small because the microphone actually picks up your voice through bone conductance. So, it just slips inside your ear and there is no microphone externally at all. It is just 33mm x 41mm and has a little chargine station. The other…

  • Lewis and Clark . Interactive Trail Map | PBS same site new things!

  • iPod stuck at the Apple logo

    iPod only shows an Apple logo and doesn’t start up. This means that the firmware in the iPod won’t start up. It is the equivalent of hanging at the Windows logo screen on your PC. You have a just one depressing option. You reset your iPod by: # Pressing the three fingered: a) turn the…

  • iPod Disk Mode

    !http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/51/936511129673384/www.info.apple.com/images/kbase/93651/93651_2.jpg! Putting iPod into Disk Mode. This is a very confusing mode and lots of folks seem to get stuck in. Basically, if you run a reset and then press Select and Play right afterwards, you get into a low level mode called (badly IMHO) disk mode. What this means is that only the very…

  • iPod Diagnostics and

    MoiMeme : iPod. Wow, a cool point, there is a magic diagnostic mode for iPod that you get a particular way, hit Select and back right after reset Diagnostics menu (4th generation iPods only, these may be different for previous versions): * Reset the iPod : Toggle the Hold switch on and off. Press and…

  • iHome iH5 Clock Radio and iPod Dock

    !>http://laptopmag.com/NR/rdonlyres/ezciuhhaa567xmrerarca3iyeb2hh6ylpe4kzbxmvhipwf2kxackurtcvhbs3wwwpsicvubyaxk5dm/intro.jpg! :: LAPTOP Magazine • iHome iH5 :: bq. One look at iHome’s iH5 iPod alarm clock prompts an immediate question, “why didn’t somebody come out with this thing sooner?” The device features an input jack for a number of audio devices, but it’s primarily designed to fit iPods, featuring special inserts that plug into…

  • Moderate on Older Entries

    WizbangTech Moderate Via Delay – Revives the MT-Blacklist functionality to moderate or junk comments and trackbacks on older entries. This fills a major gap in the Spam Lookup plugin as a replacement for MT-Blacklist. _Hat tip to Wizbang, this is a good ting to load, lots of spam happens on old entries.

  • Linksys Wireless-G Travel Router

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  • Italy Campania

    !http://www.italianvisits.com/images/italianmaps/campania-map.jpg! It’s hard to believe, but I never posted about the cool back half of a trip to Europe. Specifically some of the great places we found outside of Naples (Napoli for the affictionados). Here are some notes of great places to hang out in. This is a region called Campania and is just incredibly…

  • Etta’s is fine

    Actually, I have to admit that I remembered a much better Ettas than what I had. It is not that Etta’s has gotten worse, it is that in the last 15 years (gosh, I’m getting old, I can actually remember Etta’s opening all those many years ago), that the quality of restaurants in Seattle has…

  • Yahoo Widgets and Google Desktop

    Yahoo! Widgets – Get Weather, Photos, Calendar, and More on Your Mac or Windows Desktop. Just had a great dinner with “Brad”:http://feld.com. What a smart guy. Had three suggestions for folks who invest in or build companies on the Internet: # Read a set of blogs everyday. Spend an hour taking in the gesalt of…

  • lewis and clark

    Lewis and Clark | PBS wow!

  • Facebook to see $2B

    Facebook’s on the Block. _Now this is an amazing statistic. I just wish we had invested. Facebook started two years ago with sophomores at Harvard, today, they are #7 in MediaMetrix, do 5.5 billion page views and are ahead of Amazon.com, Ask.com and Disney)._ bq. Facebook, the Web site where students around the world socialize…

  • Creative Zen Micro Photo

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  • Salt Spring

    !http://www.saltspringguide.com/images/ssimap.gif! Welcome to Salt Spring Island. _We are taking a trip up north. Went to Salt Spring decades ago._ Getting to Salt Spring Island is EASY! There are 3 ferry routes using BC Ferries and a multitude of other ferry lines running from Vancouver, Seattle, & Victoria. Also, the float plane is a delightful, fast…

  • 27″ Monitors!

    4 new Dell monitors – BeHardware. _Hat tip to Google Desktop on this one._ Hey, Dell has announced a bunch of amazing monitors. There is a 27″ (!!!) monitor and a 30″ Right now I got Connie a 24″ monitor and I have to say it is a terrific experience to use Windows at 1900×1200…

  • Other MP3 Alternatives

    “Cnet”:http://reviews.cnet.com/Music/2001-6450_7-0.html? has gone through a list of alternatives. None as easy as the iPod, but they can all at least play WMA format which is need for “KCLS”:http://kcls.org content: * “Samsung Yepp YP-Z5”:http://reviews.cnet.com/Samsung_Yepp_YP_Z5_4GB_silver/4505-6490_7-31644076-2.html?tag=nav. Like the Nano, but twice (!!!) as thick. * “Creative Zen Vision:M”:http://reviews.cnet.com/Creative_Zen_Vision_M_30GB_black/4505-6490_7-31632696-2.html?tag=nav. This is a 30GB hard disk player. As the name…

  • SanDisk Sansa c100 and c200

    DailyTech – SanDisk announces several new flash-based MP3 players. I love our iPods, but King County only does WMA format files for audio books. Given that a book costs about $30 even from Audible, just five books would payback. Look at the options, assuming they aren’t horrible, there is the new Sony Bean (I think…

  • Eastside Express

    Eric runs this (Marat used to) and they are reliable. The Russian emigrants seem to dominate this, like my cousins do restaurants for instance. In any case, they don’t have the huge humeersines, but basic Lincoln Town Cars. Very reliable though and terrific folks.

  • $20 Bill

    20 dollar bill new – front & back.jpg (JPEG Image, 669×585 pixels). Alex needs for his project. $20 is all his grandmother had in her pocket when she came to the US.

  • Kids loved it

    This is a kids wonder. They really liked the computers and the roller coaster simulation. The DNA things was terrific too where you actually extract DNA. Also they have RFID cards, so you can record what you are doing. The other part that they loved were the various experiments. Actually the Shanghai Science Museum is…

  • Interesting, but really not worth the price

    We went through the Science Fiction Museum and it was OK. As P.M. says, it takes just an hour to through there and it really isn’t super worth it. Nice to see some of the trivia, but seems like they should just throw it in as part of the EMP fees. If you are looking…

  • Croquet, Stomp Rockets, Pool Toys, Scooters…

    Our kids just love that. It is amazing how entertaining it is. Just make sure you get the plastic mallets and not the hard wood ones. Also for that age, I’m assuming you mean summer toys, other things that the kids loved (I’m afraid ours are past that age now!) are: * Stomp rockets. These…

  • iPod phone on the way

    Smarthouse – iPods Bill Shope of J.P Morgan believes Apple will introduce the phone by the fourth quarter of this year. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster told clients last week that he estimates there to be a 75% chance that we’ll seen an iPhone in the next 12 months.

  • Karen Pernick

    karen pernick – karen pernick – HOME. Karen is awesome. We are so happy she is back into music. We sponsored her first album in the days before Internet promotion, now she has a website and everything and even a blog :_) !>http://www.karenpernick.com/images/kpfrontlivingroomwashed.jpg!

  • 520 Pike has a $10 for 11 hours rate good location…

    Parking downtown is just unreal and expensive I agree. On Pike you do find some reasonable deals. I don’t know where you are downtown. One of the companies I work with Melodeo is in 520 Pike, this is just across from Pacific Place. Their deal is in before 10AM and you park on level E.…

  • Tadalist and Lala

    My Ta-da Lists and “LaLa”:http://lala.com. Well, onlky beta users can try La La, but Tadalist, is a great example of the new style of development. Start with the simple feature and then wait for users to tell you what to do. To me that is the heart of what Web 2.0 is really about.

  • Vancouver Coast Plaza Hotel

    OK, this place ain’t fancy, but it is perfect for folks with families. It is actually a converted apartment building that is about two blocks from Stanley Park and it is three blocks from English Beach. They have everything there though, they have 1, 2 and 3 bedroom suites. It is not fancy as I…