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iPod Accessories
!>http://www.ilounge.com/assets/images/reviews_kensington/digitalfm/kdfm5.jpg! Well, that Video iPod sure looks cool and I have the Nano and the older iPod Color 4G, but what about all the accessories? Also “Gizmodo”:http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/ipod/ has some offbeat products but doesn’t review them as well as ilounge.com. Here are the ones I got from the last round a longish term review and the…
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Movable Type 3.2 Templates
Learning Movable Type: MT3.2 – Changing the Default Sidebar Position. With Movable Type 3.2, the big changes are better anti-spam and also a switch to a new set of default templates that are the same across MT, TypePad and LiveJournal, but that makes it pretty hard to understand. The Learning blog has a good description…
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Refurbished and Surplus R Us
99% of the time, if it says refurbished and a great deal or surplus, you just know someone is trying to rip you off. However, I’ve found a few places where really great customer oriented companies take returns and the refurbished thing makes some sense. Here are some that I troll: * The Apple Store…
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Mac Defragmenter
OS X Maintenance And Troubleshooting. I’ve been mvoing files like crazy and my old iMac with OS X 10.2 is getting really slow. Maybe defragging will help. Here are some general things. Folks like Norton Speedisk quite about for the Mac it turns out.
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iPod to Computer
Copying music from iPod to computer. A good guide to copying from your iPod if your hard drive gets trashed. “iPodAgent”:http://ipodsoft.com is the recommended freeware product that does this.
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Educations Games
Educational Technology and Life: Serious Games Summit: Sandford on COTS Games in Education. We’ve been looking for education games for kids. It is amazing how few of these there areally are. Not edutainment, but something where you can reallky learn. Here are some that we’ve found. This link by the way is the first that…
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Video iPod from DVD or Divx
DVD Movies to iPod Video Released!. Very cool. If you’ve got video, this little piece of software puts it on your new video iPod. It is $400, but the 60GB video iPod is sure cool.
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Nitro PDF Buying
Nitro PDF Professional Nitro PDF Professional (AvanQuest-4380) – PriceGrabber.com. Turns out that Nitro PDF is tracked by Pricegrabber. Right now, Page Computer has it for $85 including shipping, not a bad deal compared with $190 fo Adobe Acrobat Standard
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Editing PDFs
PDF Store – Nitro PDF Professional – Nitro PDF™ Professional, your PDF creation and editing product. Priced at $99. ONe of the most bizare things about applying to schools is that they ship everything in PDF (why not Word, too many issues I guess). Noone has a good idea how to handle this. Many folks…
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Thermalright XP-120 Installation Beware!
Thermalright. I followed the Thermalright directions, but this XP-120 Heatsink is so large that it actually ripped out the processor when I tried to remove it. So beware, when you put clips down and and whale on the other two, you are putting lots and lots of side force on the processor. I’m going to…
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Dell 24 LCD on sale
Electronics & Accessories. My buddy Bill got these monitors for $500 each and after seeing them, I can’t help but lust for them. Best price I’ve been able to find without being on surplus is the current 20% off. A monitor with a 3 year warranty $960. The five warranty $998. Kind of strange to…
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6800 GS
AnandTech: The Holiday Stop Gap: GeForce 6800 GS. Here’s another graphics card. It is as fast as the older 6800GT, but costs $100 less at $250 and still beats the latest ATI offerings, although they have some vaporware versions (the X1600) that will be competitive. By comparison, the top of line 7800GTX costs about $350…
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Startech 5.25 to 3.5 Inch Drive Adapter Bracket
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Athlon 64 roadmap
AnandTech: Socket M2 Processor Roadmap; FX-62 and Athlon 64 X2 5200+. Since I’ve torqued either my CPU or my motherboard. It is nice to know that there aren’t any big upgrades on the horizon. There is a new socket system from AMD due 2QCal2006, but that is a while from now. In the mean time,…
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Thermal Grease continued
Tong Family Blog: Too much Thermal Grease. Well, it turns out that it wasn’t the thermal grease at all. The CPU fan just got knocked aside, so that is why temperatures went up to 65C. With the fan in properly, even at full bore, the machine never got above 55C. That is still quite high,…
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Webshots
Webshots – Photo Sharing, Free Wallpaper and Free Screensavers. These folks are mentioned in the latest issue of “Popular Photography”:http://popphoto.com. They do have an amazing array of amateur phots. Kind of cool what folks are doing.
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Calvin and Hobbes
!>http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0740748475.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg! Amazon.com: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes: Books: Bill Watterson. These must have come straight from heaven. Calvin just loves his namesake’s antics and now for $90, you can get every Calvin and Hobbes comic ever done.
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Ender Wiggins Saga
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Lame settings for Audible AA files
Hydrogenaudio Forums -> -V n (in 3.95.1). OK, Audible files are low quality relatively and they have four different “formats”:http://www.audible.com/formats/ So the best mappings appears to be these settings from “afterdawn”:http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/103313 | Audible Format | Audible Khz | | Format 1 | Mono 8Kbps proprietary | | Format 2 | Mono 16Kbps proprietary | |…
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Audible Success Activation Error
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Darwinia. Both Alex and Calvin just love this game. “John”:http://www.theludwigs.com turned us on to it. Essentially, it is a cool simulation and not too violent either.
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Railroad Tycoon and Stop 8#
Stop error message on a blue screen when you transfer data to a USB device in Windows XP. Probably not the right hotfix, but “Railroad Tycoon regular causes a blue screen on my Athlon XP
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Audible .aa files to .mp3
Converting .aa files to mp3’s. _DBpoweramp comes in handy again as a way to get my audible files onto unsupported devices. Audible is great but they don’t support every device._ Here is how: I’ve finally found a way to convert .aa (audible) to .mp3’s at 50x realtime! # Install Just use dBpowerAMP Music Converter which…
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F.E.A.R and loose fans
Well, I finally got the new Maxline III drive and it works fine with my nForce. So, when you buy a drive, make sure you get a recent one. The 7S series is newer and it works fine. Also found out that my fan was loose in my new computer so that is why temperatures…
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Lame is not an MP3 Encoder
The latest places to get LAME for my new machine build: * Multi-threading LAME MP3 Encoder. Kind of cool, this is a multithreaded version of Lame that should run better on hyperthreaded Pentiums by splitting the integer from the floating point calculations and also compiled by the special Intel compiler. A research project from the…
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Saturn Rings
Thickness of Saturn’s Rings. _Grace asked how much does Dad know and one question was, how big are Saturns rings, so google helped him…_ The rings are very wide, about 170,000 miles across, but only about a mile thick.”
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Yaris
Carscoop: Toyota Yaris Verso. Wow, Toyota seems to have figured out life in the $3/gallon range. They just announced the Yaris. It will cost less than $13K in the US. Has four doors and gets 40 mpg. Maybe that’s why they are the only car company to grow sales last quarter in the US.
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Junior Bikes
Between clearly kids bikes that cost about $100 from Wal*Mart and grownup bikes, there is a funny zone. Basically, until you get to 5″4″, you can’t really get on a mainstream 54cm high bike, so what can you do until your child is big enough to get on a 26″ wheel bicycle. Well, there are…
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Too much Thermal Grease
Arctic Silver Instructions. I’ve been getting pretty hot temperatures on the new Athlon X2. When the two CPUs are running, I rapidly get to 70C and this causes thermal shutdown. These things should run about 50C at maximum according “AMD Forums”:http://forums.amd.com/index.php?showtopic=59602 particularly with a high quality heat sink like the gigantic XP-120 I’ve been using.…
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Athlon X2 stress test
Back to getting my X2 overclocked configuration stable. Right now at 245MHz FSB x 10, I’m driving the CPU as hard as I can. I’m also now running at 5:6 multiplier to memory, so memory is now at 223MHz running at T1 2-2-2-6. So how do I test stability, well a single instance of Prime95,…