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Mexico Power Plugs and Phones
Off to Mexico, well, here are some things to know: * Electricity around the world: everything about plugs, sockets, voltages, converters, etc.. They use 127 volts, 60 Hertz and Type A plugs. In short, like Canada, the US and Japan, you can just use the appliances you have.
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Snow!
SkiWashington.Com. Well there must be a God. It has snowed 24″ (!!!) at Snoqualmie in the last 24 hours. Crystal has 14 inches if you can believe that. Even Whistler got 6 inches. The Power Watch was right!
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CES awards
2006 International CES:?Innovations Honorees. For the gadget geek, instead of tromping through days of hell (I’ve done it), just browse the CES honorees list and buy away. Notables are: * “Logitech G5 Laser Mouse” The geeks dream, you can actually change the balance of the thing. Gamers love the idea. * LG Wireless Plasma Display…
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Sport camcorder
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LG V Phone
NetworkGarage.com: CES – The goods. Been looking for the next phone, this one looks like it, has full MP3 and stereo speakers plus, it has a qwerty keyboard and is on the EVDO network. Nice find! The other one is the new Sony or the updated Motorola RAZR that has a memory card and is…
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Phillips Phot o Display 7FF1AW Hangs
Philips 7FF1AW Digital Photo Display review – Engadget. Well as for all simple devices, it is the simplest things that kill it. In this case the lack of an on-off switch that really is a hard reset. Like the iPod, its on-off switch is software controlled. I got a 1GB SD card, so that we…
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Bike trips
Northwest USA pictures. My bicycle tour photos.. A great log of bike trips out and about from Seattle. Boy, life in the slow lane is great.
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Powertap SL and Zipp 808s
Powertap SL Zipp 808 – Complete System – Power Meters – Bikes :: all3sports :: Triathlon Bike Parts & Frames. If you actually have to know what the most incredibly expensive single components that are outrageously priced, then lust for this single wheel. It costs $1800 and is one of the fastest production rear wheels…
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iPod nano Case
XtremeMac IceFrame and MicroShield Clear Cases for iPod nano | iPod Accessory Review. Most cases for the iPod hide what I think is the best part. The iPod just looks great by itself, so off to find some clear cases that show it off. iLounge as usual does a great job helping here but the…
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iPod Reset
Resetting iPod if it appears frozen or doesn’t respond. Arrghh. Somehow my 4G iPod Photo just doesn’t like my Windows machine anymore. It sure feels like a driver error somewhere. Basically what happens is that on loading, I often times don’t get to iTunes and then the iPod hangs on the don’t disconnect message. Resetting…
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Yet another link
Mobile Music & The Ipod Frenzy: iPod Accessories. Holy toledo, I don’t know where google gets this, but sure works better than Technorati I have to say, another fellow who found a review I did. Amazing.
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First hit from DL Byron
Blog Business Summit: Cycling is the new golf. It’s a circular post, but thanks to the new google blog finder, I found someone blogging about me blogging about cycling. I gather that it really is the new golf. Which is good, I took up biking six years ago and golfing two. I can promise you…
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Google’s Firefox Extensions
Google Firefox Extensions. Wow, innovation continues. There are no less than six plug ins for firefox I had not heard of. They have Google safe browsing that identifies ifyou have a bad page and there is a little widget called blogger web comments to tell you what someone has said about a particular page. You…
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Ski Pass Discounts
Whistler Lift Tickets and Season Passes. You need to an IRS tax attorney to understand the pricing structure at Whistler/Blackcomb. The big points are: * Skiing is free if you are 6 or under. Cool! * If you are a Washington or BC resident, you get an EDGE card. This gives you about a 20%…
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NSLU2 and WRT54GL or NAS for home
NetworkGarage.com: NAS Done Right. Andrew is trying to use NAS at home. I actually tried this as well last year. Bought USB enclosures and the NSLU2. Basically at least back then, it was incredibly unreliable and the USB enclorues are quite loud. Performance is only OK, but the main issue was the constant crashes under…
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Tweakguides for Games
Every gamer wants to make their system faster, so after overclocking like mad, check out “TweakGuides.com”:http://tweakguides.com for the latest on specific tweaks to improve performance: TweakGuides.com – Call of Duty 2 Tweak Guide. A nice review for Call of Duty “What is Antialiasing?”:http://www.tweaktown.com/guides/601/the_simple_antialiasing_and_anisotropic_guide/index.html a guide for those of who think Anisotropic is something that happens…
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Update now
Wireless LAN Products – Download Windows* Software for Intel? PRO/Wireless Network Connection. A bunch of sites say the new Intel wifi software finally fixes various problems like connection drops and so forth. They are right. My new VAIO works perfectly with it. And if you don’t have an OEM who updates you the generic Intel…
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H.264 in .MP4 files
Talk about an arcane topic. I can’t believe that Windows is so complicated when it comes to playback! Anyway, the new iPod expects its video in H.264 format. Videola produces this in a .MP4 file, but how do you play this back on the PC to check it. Well, the easy way is to use…
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Wallpaper Changer
Now that I’ve got Nostalgia as my screensaver, next thing is to change the desktop wallpaper automatically too. Again, there are bunch of free utilities: * “Microsoft Powertoys”:http://www.worldstart.com/tips/tips.php/312. Before the era of activation keys (I just had Office die and we had to call up because the nVidia driver rearranged the CD-ROMS on my machine.…
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Cool Screensavers
Freeware Home – Desktop … Cosmetic Tools … Screen Saver Tools. The Mac has a really cool Ken Burns like screen saver. There is also a video screen saver that Microsoft has, but it requires validation and is a pain to load. So what’s free and good: * 4View Screen Saver. This create tiled images…
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nVidia new drivers 81.xx and 6.7x
Tong Family Blog: nVidia Driver Install. The newest drivers for nForce4 and also for the latest 7800GTX are apparently real performance boosters. Big recommendation over at Anandtech to update. You can get these from “nVidia”:http://nvidia.com It is tricky to do this, follow the instructions noted. You need Driver cleaner to do this so you make…
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Dual Core Performance
AMDZone :: The real #1 source for AMD news, reviews, and info. Est 1998.. Both AMD and Intel as well as nVidia and ATI have been busy. The latest nVidia drivers post version 80.xx support dual core improvements as do ATI drivers 5.13 and later. The performance improvement isn’t large as most games are graphics…
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Got an extra X2 lying around…
AnandTech: Mid-Range to High-End Buyer’s Guide, January 2006. If you have an extra X2 lying around, then it is a shame not to use it. It was from my blown DFI LanParty board. In any case, Anand was nice enough to write a January guide for the best motherboards and things.
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Bike Stand
!>http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2005/tech/reviews/ultimate_pro_elite/Ultimate_Pro_Elite_full_viewtn.jpg! www.cyclingnews.com news and analysis. Phil got one last week and I’m amazed at how good a truly nice a stable one can be. This ones is the Ultimate Pro Elite for $250 list, but the knock-off from “Performance”:http://www.performancebike.com/shop/Profile.cfm?SKU=19982&item=40-2198&slitrk=search&slisearch=true is just $140 right now. It is a nice one. The main thing being that it…
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Rebates Galore
Now that you’ve bought all that loot, get your rebates. Manufacturers lover ebates because 70% of the time, folks don’t do the work to fill it in. Even when you do, about half of mine get rejected, so here is this seasons. * 1310-1DT.pdf (application/pdf Object). $50 off LCD monitors from HP.
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PowderWatch Northwest
SkiWashington.Com. It is very hard to see *all* the resorts and to know where they are in terms of snow and so forth. Plus where the “webcams”:http://www.skiwashington.com/webcams.php are as well. Also,there is a “powder alert”
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Railroad Tycoon Update 3 and other updates
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 for PC Downloads – RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Downloads – RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Demos. Seems like every game these days ships with a sea of bugs. RollerCoaster Tycoon in our case just crashes out of the box on a vanilla XP machine, hope one of these updates help. In this case, it needs…
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What is Cerulean Blue?
!>http://webexhibits.org/pigments/indiv/i/105paintedSwatch/ceruleanblue.jpg! Cerulean blue – overview. Calvin heard this and was wondering. A very cool shade. And another great Calvinism that I just had to share. While riding mountain bikes down a trail, I said, Alex you are doing well as are you Calvin and he says, bq. Alex, he’s a single track artist Should be…
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Oggcodecs decodes Flac
illiminable Ogg Directshow Filters for Speex, Vorbis, Theora and FLAC. I use FLAC for lossless compression to archive music. Until now I’ve used winamp to playback FLAC files or dbPowerAmp to convert them back to WAV or MP3. A strange thing is that Ogg has a set of DirectShow filters that will let any DirectShow…
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Final restaurant picks
Here were some final picks: * Asia-Vous Restaurant Restaurant Escondido CA Review Gayot. Asia-Vous has gotten great reviews, but is closed Sunday and Mondays. Too bad! “San Diego Magazine”:http://www.sandiegomag.com/dining/index.shtml has its readers choice and some of their favoriate are Hacienda de Vega 760-738-9804. For Japanese, amazingly in the North County Mall is Onami. It is…