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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…
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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:…