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Best notebook for Xmas
VAIO TX610P/B Notebook (Sony-VGNTX610PB) – PriceGrabber.com. Bill and Jon were asking me about laptops to buy, For the mobile road warrior, I have to say the new TX610 is pretty much the dream. About $2K, but the main thing is incredibly light at 2.7 pounds and the battery life is really six hours. It is…
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Canon i9900 and 8×10
Digital Darkroom Forum: Can anyone brint borderless 8×10 on Canon i9900?.It is a ridiculous issue, but apparently, Canon doesn’t let you set arbitrary sizes for your paper. So the very common 8×10 isn’t supported, although 8.5×11 is. How wierd. Here is how I do it with my Canon i9900 and Photoshop CS2, I just fake…
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Great sites for downloading
Had a great discussion with my buddies at “Network Magic”:http://networkmagic.com. We were talking about pages that really sing and work for downloading and trying. It’s interesting to see folks that are doing brochureware sites with lots of graphics vs. folks who are google or apple white space where less is more. Some good examples:” *…
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D-link camera is cool
Tim just told me about an ultracool wifi D-link camera. I’ve used these cameras before and they stink. “John”:http://www.theludwigs.com has used everything and he told me that is is great. What they say is great about it is that it swivles and rotates and it is actually easy to setup and it looks cool too.…
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Video and Photo Editors
Now that I’m full bore doing digital pictures, the question is what should you use for editing. There are three tracks: a) getting professional software mainly from Adobe for hundreds of dollars, b) getting amateur stuff for dozens or c) living with freeware. H2. Amateur Software This prosumer software has gotten quite good, so it…
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Red River Paper Profiles
Red River Paper Color Profiles Home. Am using this paper now, it requires a particular ICC. This is a profile that will ensure that the printed color looks like what you see on the screen . As usual, it is a little complicated, download the profile for the paper you bought in my case Red…
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MusicMatch and Chinese don't get along
Musicmatch Jukebox – World’s best music player. Well, I love Musicmatch and even though Yahoo has acquired it, it has served me faithfully. It is the only one of the big players that did smart tagging right. That is, it lets you select the tags and make them accurate in batch. But alas, now that…
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Christmas Photography Guide 2005
Well, it sure has been a busy year for cameras. We started with the tipover to digital just happening, but now the price points and the cameras make it a no brainer. Heck, we bought two digital cameras ourselves this year (Canon SD500 and Fuji F10) and for once I have to say that they…
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Blackberry 8700 out
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VOB Merge
DVD Digest – Downloads – VOBMerge. Because Videola needs a single VOB files but DVDs for compatibility reasons limit VOBs to 1GB, you have to have a utlity that merges VOBs for you. This one does the trick. Literally, it copies them together. So the workflow is: # DVD Decrypter to get the DVD files…
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DVD to iPod
Mobile Deviant Community – How To: Put DVDs onto Your PSP. OK, this for a PSP, but you use much the same process to get a DVD into iPod format since both the Sony PSP and the Apple iPod use h.264. The basic idea is you use DVD Decryptor in no file break mode so…
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Video for iPod
So if you have one of these very cool 5G ipods, how do you get your home movies on there. Well, as usual, there is a mountain of technology to wade through to get to the answer. It all has to do with different standards out there. See below: The Complete Guide to iPod Video…
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Build your own computer
MonarchComputer.com: AMD Combos. Hey Monarch is a great site and they’ll build your do it yourself computer up for you. Good prices too.
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Etymotic headphones
DiscountHeadphones.com. Billy reminded me that headphones are such an important accessory for iPods. IMHO everyone should get a case to protect the finish of the iPod and then the best headphones they can afford. Discount Headphones carries the Etymotic 6i for $89 and if you are really splurging for concert quality, the Etymotic 4s. Go…
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Flytecomm
Welcome to FlyteComm. Given all the bad weather, this is a way useful site for figuring out real delays.
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5K EQM on United Visa
United Airlines – Promotions: Credit Cards. If you had the forsight to get a United Visa card, then you can get up to 5,000 miles towards getting to 1K or Premier Executive by payingj $50 and then all purchases between November 20 and December 28 count. If you spend 10K you get 5,000 Elite Qualifying…
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United Mileage Doubling
MSN Money – PR Newswire Business News: United Mileage Plus Members Can Now Earn Elite Status Twice as Fast: US:UALAQ United Airlines is offering Mileage Plus(R) members — and customers who want to join Mileage Plus — the opportunity to achieve 2006 elite status twice as fast by doubling their miles when traveling between Oct.…
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Applesauce Polish
Applesauce Polish: iPod/iBook Plastic Scratch Remover & Cleaner.. Here is how you use the stuff in a nutshell: There are two solutions. The heavy SCratch Remover is for the front and back. It is followed by the Fine Scratch Remover and Protectant for the front and display. Shake Well. Wipe surface to be polished with…
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The Invisible Shield Instructions
Application. This is the heavy plastic made by 3M. It has rather funky installation instructions. You basically: # First get rid of scratches with “Applesauce Polish”:http://applessaucepolish.com, this stuff removes light scratches # Wash your own hands thoroughly to prevent contamination # Turn off the iPod by holding the Play/Pause button for 10 seconds. Then engage…
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D-link 624 and Intel 2200BG woes
I’ve had lots of issues with my old Sony VAIO VGN-140 that are described in this thread. Lots of hangs and poor performance. Lately, I’ve been having lots of problems with my D-Link 624 router. I’ve had to reboot the router twice today. Once because it wasn’t handing out DHCP addresses and another time because…
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Powder!
Crystal Mountain Washington Home. What a ski season in Washington. Canada has OK amounts of snow, but Crystal alone got 24 inches of powder this week and a whole foot in the last day. Eureka. Even “Snoqualmie”:http://www.summit-at-snoqualmie.com/winter/conditions.asp is swimming in snow. They have 12″ of new snow and a 49″ base. Amazing. Get out there…
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Cool Chinese Tools
On-line Chinese Tools. There are some great ones here including a flash card system for learning chinese characters and a complete dicitonary. Doesn’t have modern words like “venture capital” for example. or “blog” Most of the tools are based on the CEDict project which does translations for free on the web. They are either web…
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Call of Duty 2 Rocks
The reviews of this game are correct. The first Call of Duty just blew me away with its realism. From the shake mode when artillery landed to the sounds. Now this one is just more and more people and more and more of the same. I love it just the same. The Russian front for…
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nVidia IDE Driver on nForce2
Win XP/2K – IDE (4.15). There have been many reports about how flaky this driver can be. Mainly on nForce3 chipsets. For us, I found that our ASUS A7N8X-X with an old Athlon XP 2800+ would suddenly hang. Turns out that after much diagnosis, defragging a certain file on the system drive would cause the…
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Dimage 5400 Utilities
Software & Drivers | Support | KONICA MINOLTA. Where you download utilities for the Minolta-Konica Dimage 5400. The application is now old, it is called ImageScan 1.1.5. Been scaning old slides. Most I do at 2700 dpi since they really don’t have the resolution and have degraded some.
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Recover XP PIDs
RockXP download and review – recover XP activation code from SnapFiles. An exceedingly useful tool. Let’s you recover your XP Product ID from your Windows installation.
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Learning Chinese
“Zhongwen”:http://zhongwen.com is a great site for understanding chinese as it has an online dictionary that includes roots and things. It also has some great resoruces for learning chinese including: * Learning Chinese Online Page. This is one of many very good site for learning online and has pointers to zillions of other sites. * “CD…
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IBEX Vantage JayVee
IBEX Vantage JayVee Details. Peter asked about this bike. It is a great size for kids. A great value too because it ships directly from the manufacturer. The folks at IBEX are great by the way. The components are high quality. Much higher than a Wal*Mart bike and it will last a long time. And,…
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George Hincapie in China
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Key Disk Backups
“CDFreaks”:http://club.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=81 has illustrated guides on how to deal with various copy protection schemes when you want to make a backup. If you’ve been buying lots of games like me and the kids wipe out the key disk, you are really hosed.