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MP4 Files without Quicktime
Previously, I’d only been able to use Quicktime to playback .MP4 files. These are the newest sort of encoding that use H.264 encoding and AAC for the audio track. Turns out that it isn’t well documented, but the easiest way to use Windows Media Player or any DirectShow compatible player is to: # Install ffdshow…
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Using DirectShow Manager 0.5 back to defaults
Free-Codecs.com :: Download DirectShow Filter Manager 0.5 : DirectShow Filter Manager helps you to list, sort, find, add or remove DirectShow filters. If you are like me, you install all kinds of video products, the problem is they can really screw up video output. For instance, I reinstalled Nova Development’s Video Explosion. It installs a…
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Oscar Wu BIOS
DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI/ULTRA Bios. For those of you who like living dangeriously, in addition to the stock BIOS that comes from DFI, you can also have a special set of BIOS that Oscar Wu, one of the geniuses on the web, he has actually tuned them for different memory and different CPUs. For instance,…
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Errata 123 Option
Adrian’s Rojak Pot – Where The Best In Technology Gather. Now talk about obscure! This is a BIOS entry in my DFI LanParty. It refers to the 123rd bug found in Dual Core Opteron and Athlon 64 X2 (socket 939)s. BAsically, at low frequencies, DRAM data gets there too early and the processor hangs sinc…
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nVidia IDE Drivers
DFI Forums – NF4 Expert – Random BSOD. Well, I just got another Stop 0x0A, I’m wondering if it might not be the IDE driver. That is usually the first thing folks say to uninstall from nVidia. Or maybe a later video driver. Seems like I have two problems, some driver is bad and also…
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DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra D no boot 3 LEDs lit temporarily
DFI Forums – NO BOOT 3 LEDs LIT. OK, here is a strange problem that has just cropped up. The DFI LanParty nf4 Ultra D seems stable, but when you turn it off and then back on immediately, the system hangs with 3 LED lights on and the speaker beeping. This means that no ram…
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Stan on Marketing
Mobile Podcasting: Back to Basics. Stan is a super smart guy and he’s right about thinking about what marketing is all about.
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Sony Phone and Mouse
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Calibration Area Full
DW1640 – Calibration Area Full error when writing CD-Rs – BenQ DVD Burner / Philips DVD Burner – Club CD Freaks. Well, trying to copy CDs and I got this incredibly obscure error from Nero. What it means is that on modern CD drives, the laser actually changes power. It calibrates itself and there is…
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PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
Common Stop Messages. I had thought I had fixed my crashing Windows machine by installing the latest nVidia driver 82.xx, but just got another machine check. Seems like there is still a problem. When the system recovers, it complains about a memory access problm in nvsvc32.exe in the applications event viewer bq. Faulting application nvsvc32.exe,…
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Firefox Translation tools
Two great translation aids. The first is is Mozilla Update :: Extensions — More Info:Chinese-English-Japanese Character Hint Bar – All Releases. This is a freeware and a shareware version. It creates a toolbar in Firefox or IE and then when you hover over a Chinese character, it displays its dictionary meaning.
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Translation Toolbar
Mozilla Update :: Extensions — More Info:Chinese-English-Japanese Character Hint Bar – All Releases. A pretty cool add-on. You basically put your cursor over your a character and it shows you the english translation.
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KooWo
KooWo —— ????KooWo??!. My buddy Ming and Chelsea, launch their search site. Good luck guys!
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A Musical Journey
A Musical Journey. A great gift that Grace got for Christmas, this is a illustrated book that takes you to the various areas in China and let’s you hear the music. Beautiful and the original folks songs are great. By the way the author has some great recommendations for learning what I’d call practical Chinese.…
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Martin Luther King Quotes
Quotes From Martin Luther King Jr.. _Some great quotes that Alex found for MLK day… bq, There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society, with a large segment of people in that society, who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that they have nothing to lose. People who have…
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nForce3 and 6800GT Stuttering
GeForce 6800 and random freezes – Page 97 – nV News Forums. Some folks still have this problem. Turning Fast Writes seemed to help and getting rid of the nVidia IDE driver, but now people are saying that upgrading to the 80 series nVidia drivers really helps. I’m at 77.77, so here goes on to…
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nForce4, 7800GTX BSOD
Please Fix Dual Core and 8x.xx Driver bug. Isn’t it my luck, turns out the ocmbination of the nForce4 motherboard plus the nVidia 7800GTX and the Athlon x2 causes blue screen of death. Specifically, I get a blue screen of death with the latest drivers. There are huge complaints on various forums, but this thread…
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Calling Mexico Cheap
As usual, this is incredibly hard to figure out. “Ratekeeper”:http://ratekeeper.com seems like a good site, but the best rates come from 1010phonerates.com It shows that 10-10-565 is the cheapest right now at 9 cents per minute plus a 99 cent montly fee. It is just 3.5 cents to Canada.
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iPod Photo hangs
This is the most frustrating thing. Having learned that for my iPod Photo, I’ve been having repeated hangs when plugging it into the PC to dock. It is a strange condition, I see a small icon appear in the tool bar. Cliclking on it, I get a standard dialog that says what action do you…
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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.