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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.
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Benq DW1640 Update
BenQ USA – Drivers DW1640. Benq has a nice web site and clear support documentation for its DVD Rewriters. Folks at “CDFreaks”:http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=154261 seem to like firmware BSMB so upgrade if you have this drive (btw, they just announced the DW1655 which is as fast as the 1640 but also has this Lightscribe technology where with…
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Shareware
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HP L2335 LCD lust!
AnandTech: HP L2335: Low Response Time and High Resolution LCD. Now that I’ve got that new Athlon 3800+ (running at 233MHz) stable, the next step is the lust for LCD monitor. The current trend is going to widescreen. “Tomshardware”:http://graphics.tomshardware.com/display/20050830/index.html and also “earlier”:http://graphics.tomshardware.com/display/20050706/index.html has also been tracking these. The monitors to get are all based on…
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Flac DirectShow Filter
CoreFlac Directshow Flac Decoder. I store my digital music in FLAC format. This is an open source lossless format. Winamp can play this back, but these folks have written a Directshow filter so anything that uses Directshow like Windows Media Player can now play it back. Other projects by “Corecodec”:http://corecodec.org include a Directshow ogg vorbis…
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Superpi stability
XtremeSystems Forums – SuperPI tweaks. Got some errors with it, but this might be because of old files. Here’s the tip on how to restart superpi correctly. bq. When you get an error, the first time it’ll most of the time be “not exact in round” but if you run superpi a seccond time it…
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Athlon XP 3800+ Overclocking
I always get less overclock that the magazines. The last machine I had, an Athlon 64 2800+, I got from 1.8GHz to 2.25GHz, but most of the reviews were reporting 2.4-2.6GHz. I think this is because I really want these to be stable. “AMDZone”:http://www.amdzone.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=164&page=1 got theirs to 2.7GHz but don’t have any details about how…
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Date night restaurants
Always a question what a good date night restaurant. There are quite a few in Seattle we like including: * Sostanza : Madison Park – Seattle. Romantic. Great country Italian. Ok, it ain’t Napoli, but its OK. * “Nishino”:http://seattle.citysearch.com/profile/10789937/. Some say it is the best sushi restaurant in Seattle. Great atmosphere and high quality. The…
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DFI LanParty nF4 revisited
OK, finally got a replacement Athlon 3800 and a new DFI LanParty. What an expensive experiment with that Arctic Silver. I ripped the CPU out of the CPU socket and torqued the motherboard and maybe the CPU. So if you have a Thermaltake XP-120 beware when you take it off. The safe way is *not*…
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Learning Chinese
It sure ain’t easy to learn Chinese. But, the web does make it a little easier. Here is one kind of cool tool called Chinese Chat. This has a bot that writes arbitrary pinyin and then you can click on each word and see what it means. Useful for the occasional look during mind numbing…
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MN-500 Software and Reset
We have a Microsoft MN-500 Broadband router and lost the software. It is discontinued so how do you get the software that resets it at this “Knowledge Base”:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/814445? article. MSBBN: How to update the firmware and software for your Microsoft Broadband Networking device. You can actually find the manual online too at “Microsoft”:http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/6/9/B69C956C-85D9-4641-AA6F-1548391E0967/MN500_usersguide.pdf and it…
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F.E.A.R Patches
3D Gamers :: Game Listing :: F.E.A.R. Downloads. They are up to version 1.02, so download it now. 120MB of stuff!