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Bluetooth Headset
Broke both my Nextlink Bluespoon AX headsets. In one case, Calvin stepped on it. Yuck and in another, it cracked because of a manufacturing defect. So on to find some others. There have been incredible price drops. The original Bluespoon AX that “CNet”:http://reviews.cnet.com/Nextlink_Bluespoon_AX_Bluetooth_headset/4505-6448_7-31228822.html?tag=pdtl-list loved and I did costs $120. Now, they are $60 at “Blueheadsets.com”:http://blueheadsets.zoovy.com/product/BLUESPOONAX-C?ref=cnet.…
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DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra D problems
I’m a failure. Have had great luck building my own machines, but now my latest masterpiece, a DFI NF4 Ultra, Athlon 3800+ X2, OCZ 4000+ and nVidia 7800GTX won’t boot at all. It is very flakey what is going on. I’ve had any number of issues: * The system starts and then all the fans…
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nVidia Driver Install
PlanetAMD64 > New nvidia driver 78.01 shows older 77.77? as they point out. There is always a new driver. However, if you do this, you really do have to clean everything up. The safest way to do this takes a while but it works: # Install DRIVERCLEANER PRO. Google for it. # Uninstall the nVidia…
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nvmcp.sys Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) with SimCity 4
nvmcp.sys.. I thought that this problem was solved, but Calvin just got this with SimCity 4 (not exactly a state of the art game) on his Athlon 64 3200+ on a Chaintech nForce3 board. Basic solution is to either. There is a new (August 23 dated) nVidia Sound driver their “download”: # Get a Creative…
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Kids Bikes
Tong Family Blog: Christmas is coming, time to. It’s been three years since Alex and Calvin got their K2 Zed road bikes. They have loved them ,but they are getting bigger, so nows the time to find out what’s next. They need bikes that are really right for someone who is about 5″ tall and…
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Gmail for sending big files
viksoe.dk – GMail Drive shell extension. I’ve had two requests for this in the last week. Basically, what’s the easiest way to send a big file over the Internet that mail systems can’t handle. Here’s the easiest way I’ve found: # Get a Gmail account. It stores up to 1GB of stuff # Compose a…
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Mini Microsoft
Mini-Microsoft. Wow, written up in Business Week, Slashdot, etc. Shows the power of the web when someone can put up a site like this about the insides of a company. Wonder how long it will last, so read it while it lasts. Some really greet insider comments. It took me an hour to read one…
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Points.com and PriorityRewards Club
Points.com | Get More Rewards, Faster. The wonderful free Internet is back. This is a site that lets you track all your various mileage programs and then trade between them. It is sort of free, it is $20/year to exchange all year, so that means, you can aggregate all those miles that are scattered across…
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Laser Printer
PCWorld.com – Top 10 Monochrome Laser Printers. Printers have been most worst purchases over the last five years. I usually use reviews like PC World to buy a printer. The print quality has been great, but the reliablity has been awesomely bad. Of the 4 printers I’ve been part of buying, only one is still…
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Seattle Primary
Seattle Weekly: News: Off Year? Off the Monorail! by the Seattle Weekly Editorial Board. Elections tomorrow. Good recommendations as always from the Weekly.
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Power Adapters in China
“Electricity around the world”:http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/electricity.htm. Just got back from China and figuring out what power adapter to take is incredibly confusing. China essentially has three standards for electrical plugs and if you are lucky to be in an international hotel, they will even take American plugs. So, have a good kit bag. Hopefully most of your…
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Katrina Images
In this new world of images, everything is online. A quick search for Katrina shows just the most incredible analysis of what happened. One case where google is just amazing in finding interesting sites when looking for google:”katrina images”: * “Digital Globe”:http://www.digitalglobe.com/katrina_gallery.html. Many of googles images come from there, their presentation is particularly good showing…
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Zip Linq 2.5 or Cell Kit M01
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Airplane Power
“Mobility Electronics”:http://www.mobilityelectronics.com/Many of these overseas planes now have airplane power which for some bizarre reason don’t use standard connectors, so you need to buy some strange monster connector that connects to 12VDC in a car, in a plane etc. “iGo Everywhere Power”:http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/review/igo_everywherepower_3500_series_adapter_review seems to be the common one. There are quite a few different models…
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Windows on 64 bit processors
My buddy Brad built his first computer in six years. Said the hardware was easy, the software was confusing. I don’t blame him. You’d think that if you bought a 64-bit processor you’d want 64-bit Windows, well in fact, for most folks, you actually run the 32-bit Windows XP on the 64-bit processor. That gives…
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HP L2335 Monitor
The folks at “Anandtech”:http://www.anandtech.com/displays/showdoc.aspx?i=2467&p=9. They really liked the image quality and said although more expensive than the comparable Dell 2405FPW which has a street of $800 while this has a street more like “$1100”:http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__HP_Hewlett_Packard_L2335_Silver_23_LCD_Monitor,__8222432/sort_type=bottomline. The panel in HP is the L.G. Philips SIPS while Dell uses the Samsung PVA panel. “PC Magazine”:http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1773493,00.asp liked it but…
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Shanghai
Ok, so if you want the ultimate in a good experience while traveling to Shanghai, my buddy Gary filled me in: Pudong Shangri-la. This hotel is right on the new side of town, the Pudong (literally East River) side, great views, and a incredible rooms. Beside the rooms, it has a health club and a…
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OMG Hitachi 7K500
Hitachi’s Deskstar 7K500 hard drive – The Tech Report – Page 1. My newegg order got bounced but I’m sure glad. I had ordered a 300MB Maxtor, but now with the 500GB coming out, you really have to wonder. It is incredibly fast and alarge. A pair of these is a terabyte. Little would I…
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MilesAway
United Airlines – MilesAway! Redeem your miles for these exciting destinations.. Smart idea on United’s part, they now have a dedicated page that will tell you where there are current Award travel seats, so you don’t have to figure out. For instance, in the Pacific, New York to Tokyo
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Speakeasy
Speakeasy – Speed Test. Speakeasy is a great ISP that is dedicated to power users and small business. Reminds me a lot of the early Dell model where the point was to get 2nd users of PCs to get the right computer. Dell has of course come far from there to be the Wal*Mart of…
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iPod nano
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Cervelo
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Sumicom S600 follow-ons
I built a “Sumicom S600”:http://www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h419.htm a while back and Grace uses it now. It has worked pretty well. The main issues have been that it is still quite noisy even with the tunable fan I installed and it runs very hot even with a relatively low power Pentium 4 2.53 processor. The latest incarnation is…
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Arrggh Brother
Brother International – Service Center Locator to support your Brother Product. I knew when I bought this printer that I might have issue. It was between an HP networked laser printer and a Brother DL5170DN, the Brother was just so much cheaper. Well, shame on me, this is the second Brother to die. There are…
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New Balance KJ 717
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Cervelo P3 Carbon
!>http://www.cervelo.com/images/2005/2005-P3Carbon-click.gif! P3 Carbon. Bicycling magazine gave the Cervelo Time Trial/Triathlon bikes a top rating. Incredibly light, there are a bunch of models from the P2K, P2 SL to the PC, P3 SL and the top of the line P3 Carbon. Super light and fast. Also, the R2.5 is traditional road bike that is incredibly light.…
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Calfee Bamboo Bicycle Frames
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Acura Handsfreelink
hfl_sys_home. This is the branded version of a Bluetooth connection for your cellphone. In 2005 MDX’s and later they have this, but it is not documented in the manual. At least I can’t find it. They do have a site “Handsfreelink.com”:http://handsfreelink.cm that tells you about. They can store up to 50 phone numbers and pair…
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Seattle Ferries
Seattle Area Vessel Watch. Miracle of GPS means that you can now see not just buses in Seattle, but also where the ferries are on their routes. !
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Gaming PC Do It Yourself
Just covered buying gaming PC. Use “Alienware”:http://alienware.com or “Falcon NW”:http://falconnw.com in a nutshell. but if you want to build it yourself, here’s the scoop: In terms of specs, there is what I would get. IN short answer to your question, right now for pure gaming, the short pipeline AMD has the advantage. Dual core seems…