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nForce4 Motherboards
AMDZone :: nForce 4 Ultra. As Brad points out the Jetway is not really available. Newegg is stocked out, so what’s a good alternative. There are a couple of choices, first most folks like the nForce4 motherboards, nVidia has done a nice job if you are buying AMD. But then there are three levels of…
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A9 Maps
A9.com Maps. Maps seem like the next IT. Here is Amazon’s Blockview maps. They actually have gone to the major sections of streets in US cities and if you type in an address, you can look around for buildings. As, “Ludwig”:http://www.theludwigs.com said to me today, the future for google just might be in maps. Two…
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Specialized S-Works Tarmac
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MotionBased
MotionBased – GearReview.com. With the advent of Google Earth and Maps, there are going to be many applications like this. !>http://www.gearreview.com/images/mb_logo.gif! With MotionBased, you upload your GPS coordinates from a bike ride and then it plots the points to form a trace of where you roade.
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Light & Motion Vega
LED Lights – GearReview.com. If you don’t have a light yet for your bike, then now is the time to get one. The new LED lights are a great compromise. For myself, I still like the incredible power of a HID 14 watt since it is just blinding, but the Vega is a more practical…
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Intel New Architecture: Merom, Conroe, Woodcrest, Whitefield
IDF Fall 2005 wrap – The Tech Report – Page 1 [T]he biggest news out of IDF, Intel’s decision to move to a new CPU microarchitecture common to its mobile, desktop, and server product lines, and we’ve outlined some of the features of that architecture, including a 14-stage pipeline that’s much shorter than the 31-stage…
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Gaming PC Off the Shelf
Brad asked me about a gaming machine. As usual, there is an incredible range of prices for a gaming machine. I will tell you the new games require an incredible amount of horsepower. The main places not to skimp are in order: a) video card, b) memory, c) processor and d) hard drive. If you…
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F.E.A.R.
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Colorvision PrintFIX
PrintFIX profiling review and observations. OK, if you are really into printing, then the last step is not to use the paper profiles that vendors ship, but to actually print something and then have a custom scanner which then corrects things. A combination of the “Spyder2 Pro”:http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/spyder2pro.html to adjust the monitor plus PrintFIX to set…
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Canon i9900 Paper
68lb. UltraPro Gloss – Gloss Inkjet Paper. I’ve been printing up a storm now that I’ve gotten our Canon i9900 to work. Started with standard Canon paper, the Plus works really well and I love the status monitor that shows you how much ink there is the printer. But, the quality of the pictures is…
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USE Alien 8mm Cradle does not fit
I got a Fizik Aliante seat from you and also an 8mm cradle for my USE Alien. The problem is that the cradle doesn’t fit the post. It seems that it is a little too big. My post is from 2000, so I’m wondering if they’ve changed the post somehow since then. you: Hi Josh:…
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Passport Photos
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China Visas
China requires a visa for travel. There is a business visa and a family visit/tourist visa. You can get a multiple entry visa if you have a letter saying you have family there or you have a letter from a business there. Get the forms from Chinese Visa, Passport, Notarization & Authentication. “Additional Visa info”:http://www.chinaonlinetravel.com/visa.htm.…
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Multimedia notebooks
Besides the ultraportable, other folks have been asking me for the classic desktop replacement. Big and heavy at 6 pounds, but with a huge 15-17″ screen. These are great for music and video editing for consumer. As usual, reliability is the number one criteria, but the other ones are screen size and quality, DVD writeable…
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Spoken Word in Lame
Hydrogenaudio Forums – encoding the spoken word – settings?. Got a bunch of spoken word, here’s how to encode really small with Lame. You only need mono and a low bit rate. Some recommendations are to use a very low bit rate (-V 7) and also to use mono (-a) _lame -V 7 -a_ Another…
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Unsharp Mask
Understanding USM. OK, now that I’ve colors about right, now its time to futz with the actual images in Photoshop. Some of the things are understandable. Changing the Brightness (e.g., the Black Level), so if a picture is very bright (has a high black level), you turn it down, this means that everything looks darker.…
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Canon i9900 ICC Profile Guide
Well, now that I’ve got our Canon SD500 working and also calibrated all our monitors with the Spyder2 Pro, things are looking way better on the various monitors around here. The photos are way more natural and I for one can now really tell the difference between my LCDs. The el cheapo Optivision 15, the…
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Lame switches
Hydrogenaudio Forums -V n (in Lame 3.95.1). They keep changing the switches in Lame. First in the early versions, you used -r3mix and got the best. Then it was to use –alt-preset standard and then –alt-preset extreme Then it was just –preset standard and –preset extreme. Now they have converted this to the -V option…
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Sony VAIO for Ultraportable
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Holland America Gifts
Cruise Gifts – Holland America Line Inc.. These guys at Holland America are smart. They even let you buy gifts for passenger son board.
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NTFS Resizing
NTFS Resize Frequently Asked Questions. I installed my dad’s computer incorrectly. Got the system drive too big and then threw Windows on the wrong partitiion. To fix, I need to resize partitions. There’s now a freeware program that does this. You boot from a CD version of Linux and then run NTFSProgs. Wish me luck!
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Flight Simulators
I’m getting back to flight simulators after a long hiatus. Here’s a list of things to try: * FlightGear Flight Simulator. This is an open source project with realistic flight models and an open way to get everything. It doesn’t have the latest graphics, but is supposed to be very accurate. * “Falcon 4.0: Allied…
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Turtle Beach Riviera
Turtle Beach – Riviera 5.1 Sound Card. This is a $30 card that has a digital S/PDIF output perfect for plugging into a home theater. Ironically, the new Creative X-Fi won’t work but the older “Audigy2 ZS”:http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=204&product=4915 does because it has an SPDIF output in the rear. It lists for $100 and is probably a…
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G.Skill DDR650
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Creative Labs X-Fi
Tom’s Hardware Guide Peripherals & Consumer Electronics: Creative X-Fi: A New World of Sound – Introduction Now that I’ve got Zoom Player working, things are pretty good with my home theater PC. Just two problems remain. First is getting digital audio out. The onboard audio gives me five channels out, but they are five separate…
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Paris for Kids
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Zoomplayer Rules!
Home Theater PC News – Your Source for Everything HTPC Related. I’ve been struggling to get my home theater PC really working correctly. Both Windows Media Player and BSPlayer have trouble working correctly. When I go full screen, they always go to the PC Monitor rather than to the big HDTV display. Also, ATI Catalyst…
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Flatseat.com
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Great Airlines
4 Star Airlines in the Skytrax Airline Star Ranking Programme. While I knew a bunch of these airlines, there are definitely some surprises. The usual suspects are the 5-star airlines. The ones that no business traveler (I know) which are: * Cathay Pacific Airways * Malaysia Airlines * Qatar Airways * Singapore Airlines Then there…
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Changing Driver Letters
Changing Drive Letters. _This one thing has always driven me crazy. I like to have C as the system drive, D as the CD-ROM or DVD and E as the data drive, but sometimes, I get it wrong when I install. Here’s how to fix it._ To change the default letter assignment for drives: #…