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Depressing facts about iPod Battery life
Apple – Batteries – iPod. A good section on iPod battery life. Basically it says that an iPod can go through 400 cycles before you get to 80% of maximum battery life. All batteries have a life and these definitely do. A cycle by the way is a complete all the way and all the…
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1GB Nano
Apple – iPod nano. Wow, Apple just cut their prices again. With a 1GB Nano so cheap at $150 list, there ain’t much reason for a Shuffle IMHO. The screen is great, but there you do need to have a nice case for this (I currently love “Invisible Shield”:http://theinvisibleshield.com as the simplest way to protect…
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Rosetta Stone: Support – Knowledge Base. _Got this program to learn Chinese as some folks said it is the best and since it costs a fortune, maybe it will even work for me. However, it does have a bug if you use Asian fonts, which is kinda sad given it is to learn Chinese._ The…
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Biking in Shanghai
Well, so what if you actually wanted to ride your bicycle in Shanghai, a city of 18M plus people. Most folks take a day trip and go from there. Some resources noted at “Moveandstay.com”:http://www.moveandstay.com/shanghai/guide_sports_and_activities.asp include Bohdi Bikes which sponsors various trips Shanghai Bicycle Club Description: Organizes regular weekend ridings and biking activities in great Shanghai…
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10% off from Performance
Performance Bike – Home for all your cycling needs!. There is a special if you used to be a “Supergo”http://supergo.com lover. Enter the code 66298151 and get 10% off. It is kind of sad to see the various discount outlets and other online places dry up on the web. Right now, Excelsports and Colorado Cyclists…
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Stress Testing
Overclocking, Stress Testing & Benchmarking Tools – AMD Processor Support Forum. A good review of stress tests. I use Prime95 mainly. Most notably, “Stress Prime 2004”:http://sp2004.fre3.com/ uses the same code but has a better user interface.
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Athlon X2 Overclocking
AnandTech: Investigations into Athlon X2 Overclocking. This is a wonderful overclocking guide particularly since it uses essentially the same board and cpu that I have. The net result is that it has a nice chart showing where your voltage should be: CPU Clock CPU Voltage CPU Temp Chipse Voltage Chipset Temp System Power Draw 2000…
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Judy’s Book
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OCZ PC4000 Gold 2GB Kit
Overclocker Cafe – OCZ EL DDR PC4000 Gold Edition 2GB Kit. I got this memory mainly because I just couldn’t see paying $400 for the higher end Platinum. Also, there was a $23 rebate from newegg.com, so couldn’t resist a $200 2GB kit. It won’t go as fast, but let’s a least make it go…
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Seattle Dining on your iPod
Dining Guide for iPod (Seattle Weekly). I wish this were a WAP site too, but you can download the Seattle dining guide as notes on your iPod. Check it out!
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iMac Intel Duo
AnandTech: Apple Makes the Switch: iMac G5 vs. iMac Intel Duo. Well, it might seem like a no brainer to get the new iMac, but a couple of great points this article makes: * The Intel Duo is an interim chip for the desktop Macs. There is a new chip “Merom which is the desktop…
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Tom’s Hardware Woes
DailyTech – Editor In Chief and CEO of Tom’s Hardware Both Step Down. Tom’s Hardware started as a great site and it is a good example of the speed of the web. I too noticed about two years ago the quality had diminished and switched to reading “Anandtech”:http://anandtech.com. Apparently, the rest of the world noticed…
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GSB 87 up to date
Stanford GSB ’87 Alumni News. Well it took a year, but I finally updated the GSB alumni swebsite. Gosh, you really can fall behind. Also, I’ve got “Madison Park Trail”:http://madisonparktrail.org, for the group of folks who are trying to get a trail from the new SR-520 bridge which will hopefully have a bike lane to…
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Resetting Hijacked Firefox Search
Yahoo! Search blog: Firefox Toolbar: Beta no more!. One of the nasty things about the yahoo search bar in firefox is that it silently and completely resets default search. Here is how to get back to the default where google is used: # Type about:config in your location bar. This will display a list of…
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Snow, then Rain
SkiWashington.Com. Amazing conditions in the last 48 hours. First, it snows 15″ at Crystal and an amazing 16″ at the Summit (it is only 2500′ there!). Then it starts to rain like crazy. Who would have every thought that The Summit would have 129′ of snow. That’s over 10 feet! Larry’s “forecast”:http://www.skiwashington.com/powderwatch.php is for more…
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Perfect in car adapter
TEN Technology flexibleDock Adjustable Car Dock and Charger for iPod | iPod Accessory Review. So on the cheap, get this plus the Sony cassette adapter and you are set. $50 from the apple store.
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iPod Car Chargers
Well, now that the case decision is made, the main question is how to charge in the car. It works fine to charge my iPod nano with a generic USB charger, but my 4G ipod doesn’t work correctly. * Griffin Technology TuneFlex Auto Charger and Flexible Docking Cradle for iPod nano | iPod Accessory Review
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OCZ PC 4000 VX Tuning
Well, I ordered the OCZ PC4000 Gold 2GB Kit, but in the mean time, I thought I’d just tweak up the single stick of OCZ PC 4000. Interesting to see how to get the settings right. Basically, I got the thing with memtest to be stable at 238MHz FSB 1:1 with very tight 1T 2-2-2-6…
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Lexar JumpDrive Lighting and Kingston
AnandTech: USB Flash Drive Roundup – 10/2005. A good review of 1GB USB flash drives. The main message is that all drives are not completed equal. For $90 premium Lexar JumpDrive Lightening and Kingston DataTraveler Elite use fany high speed memory that means it will be much faster to write. Read the reviews though, most…
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Napili Kai Bearch Resort
Maui accomodations and lodging details – Napili Kai Beach Resort Maui. Asa swears by this spot on Maui. It is far from the big condo complexes and is just two stories and has its own beach. I normally think of Maui as gigantic resort heaven, so this is a good option with snorkeling outside, etc.
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Intel Duo Battery Life
Will Core Duo Notebooks Trade Battery Life For Quicker Response? | Tom’s Hardware. Well, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Early previews of the Intel Duo show there are some power issues. Some folks think it is the USB 2.0 bug in Windows, but we’ll have to see. The processor itself codenamed…
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iPod nano, video iPod and iPod Photo Clear Cases
There are as many cases as there are iPods it seems right now. I’ve tried three of them. The Waterfield one that is a nice cloth one with a hook for a 4G iPod. It is nice, but bulky. A silicon green thingy for my nano. It works, but I like the look of the…
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2 GB Ram Review
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Snow Reports on your mobile
!>http://www.summit-at-snoqualmie.com/sasassets/images/89/cellSummit.jpg! Summit at Snoquamlie. Get a text message when more than 6″ of snow falls at your favoriate resort. This sues a service called rubbersnow. Very cool.
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Jeff Renner Snow forecast
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Free Web Sites!
Brett & Theresa Central. My buddies at “Network Magic”:http://networkmagic.com have been busy. I’ve been working with them for three years now and Brett has been trying to make it easy to get stuff up on the web. This is Brett’s home site. It is actually hosted on his machine at hom. This net2go feature lets…
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2GB DDR Kits
AnandTech: FAST 2GB DDR Kits – Part 2. Well it has been along time in coming, but we are finally at the point where you can get 2GB on your machine with a pair of 1GB memory. Good for really memory hungry games. The recommendation is for the OCZ 2GB PC4000 from “part 1”:http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2560 but…
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DFI and OCZ compatiblity
DRAM Settings for DFI NF4 (all) VX, TCCD/TCC5, BH-5, 3200 Gold & General BIOS Info – Forums on the BleedinEdge. Wow what a great site I just found that talks about really making OCZ fly. Nice to have a memory vendor who knows their audience. Some quick things I learned: * All OCZ memory seem…
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Latest DFI BIOS
DFI NF4 Bios Files – Forums on the BleedinEdge. A good list that includes the coveted 704-2BT
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OCZ VX Bad Ram
DFI Forums – NF4 Ultra-D – 1 LED hang on 702-2. After hours of debugging, it turns out all these problems seem to be from a failing “OCZ PC4000 VX”:http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/memory/ocz_el_ddr_pc_4000_dual_channel_gold_vx memory stick. Finally did a swap for some OCZ 3700 Gold Rev 3 and it booted fine and found there was one good one and…