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Geocaching with Google Maps
If you want to create your own geocaches from home without fancy GPS software how can you do it with Google Maps. Here’s how: * Latitude and Longitude Search. This is an amazing site that when given a feature on a map tells you the latitude and longitude. * “Google Maps”:http://maps.google.com/. If you feed google…
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Airline Toll Free Numbers
“Travelersnet.com”:http://www.travelersnet.com/support/tools/phone.htm has a list of all toll free numbers. It is amazing how hard these are to find on each airline’s site now. They don’t want you to call. It is expensive. Some ones I use: Air Canada 888-247-2262 Alaska Airlines 800-425-0333 American Airlines 800-433-7300 Continental 800-525-0290 Delta Air Lines 800-221-1212 United Airlines 800-241-6522
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Airline Quality
I don’t know where Air Canada is in quality. They are three star. Air Canada Star Ranking
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International Travel Bookings
Normally, I find the results between a travel agent, Expedia, Orbitz or any other discounter to be about the same in the US. But, I’m finding that for travel to China, there are vast differences. Also when we went to Europe, I tried to book via Expedia, Orbitz etc and the airfares were on the…
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Default Passwords
Default Router Usernames and Passwords. Handy guide to default passwords for various routers. In case I forget mine… | | Username | Password | | Actiontec | _none_ | _none_ | | Belkin | _none_ | _none_ | | Buffalo | root | _none_ | | D-Link | admin | _none_ | | Linksys |…
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China Travel
It’s tricky to figure out all the ways to get to China. Here are some notes: * United Airlines – Promotions: Air. United is constantly running promotions, but you have to register for them. For instance for fall travel, if you register your Mileage Plus number, you get an additional 5,000 miles for travel booked…
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Digital Camera Accessories
Single Slot Multi-Card Reader USB Flash Drive (Lexar-RW023001) – PriceGrabber.com. With all these different formats around, how do you read them all. This is a handy $20 device that takes all those tiny cards from SD, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, MMC and xD Picture cards and converts them into a USB 2.0 interface. Very…
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USB Flash Drives
Tom’s Hardware Guide Mass Storage: Two Fast and Functional USB Flash Drives – Power Meets Intelligence: Who Wins? and the more recent “Tomss Hardware high speed review”:http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20050520/index.html A much later review that the “Xbitlab’s 2003”:https://richtong.org/gadgets/2005/02/10/flash_drives.html review I used to get an Apacer USB Flash Drive, so since I lost my Apacer, here’s an update on…
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Digital Photo Tools
There are so many useful tools for post image besides Photoshop of course. Here are some I’ve seen as I’ve gone through reviews that I need to try: * Noise Ninja: The gold standard for image noise reduction. A Photoshop Plugin, Noise Ninja is the most effective and productive solution for removing noise and grain…
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Kids Camera
With film and developing at about $8-10 a pop for 36 exposures, it doesn’t take long to realize it makes more sense to get a $200-300 digital camera instead of a $100 film camera if you little guy is really into taking pictures and won’t lose the darn thing. Pays back after about 10 rolls.…
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Casio Exlim EX-Z750
We got the Canon SD-500 and it is great as a 7 megapixel camera. There are just three problems with it, it has relatively short battery life, there isn’t an aperature or shutter priority so you can’t take sports shots well and given the kids use it, it would be nice to have some anti-shake…
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Perfect Ribs and Grilled Chicken
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Brothers in Arms Review
Brothers In Arms Walkthrough Guide. Been playing Brothers in Arms, it is right between Unreal Tournament shoot’em up and Full Spectrum Warrior. That is, you have a squad like FSW, but you are still mainly the marksman like Unreal or Doom. For me, I personally like the reality of FSW in being a real squad…
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Downloaders
LeechGet – The ultimate download utility. If you plan to download an entire site and all the images, this is a useful tool. Also Free Download Manager is another one I’ve used.
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PAP2 Web Interface
Can Lynkys PAP2 work without vonage?. You need some magic to be able to look at the PAP2. Here is how to get the web interface working. Vonage locks out the web interface so you are left with a DTMF interface usually. Follow these step to unlock the ADMIN portion of your Web Interface Linksys…
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Canon SD-500 Impressions
Canon PowerShot SD500 Digital Camera Review – Canon Digital Cameras – Reviews, Ratings & Comparisons. We used our SD500 for three weeks. Seemed to work well. Main thing missing is aperture or shutter priority for doing sport shots. This is a good review by the way, shows that even with 7 megapixels, effectively you get…
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Bicycle Saturday and Sundays
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Iceland
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GeForce 6800 and nForce 3 stutters
nV News Forums – GeForce 6800 and random freezes. I’ve been battling this for a week now. When I swapped my ATI 9800 card out of my Chaintech so that I could use it for an HTPC in my home theater, little did I know I’d land in a heap of trouble. Although nVidia makes…
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Seattle Geocaching
Hey we are going to do a little geocaching and playing with a GPS. I no idea that Mike Teague invented the idea in Seattle. Kind of cool really as told in a Groundspeak – Brief History of Geocaching When the GPS signal degradation called Select Availabilty (SA) was removed by the Clinton Administration May…
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Magellan Firmware
Magellan :: Support :: Product Support. _I have a now old Magellan SporTrak Pro, incredibly confusing what firmware to load. The thing doesn’t have that much memory, so the tradeoff is that if you want tides and currents you need to use the specialized Marine firmware, otherwise, if you want both on street routing and…
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Comcast HDTV
HDTV FROM COMCAST – CABLE FAVORITES HD PROGRAMMING. There are a lot more HDTV stations on Comcast here in Seattle. I’m actually kind of surprised. Also for $10/month, you can get a PVR as well. This is an 80GB Motorola 6802 box, so not that fast and only a single tuner. That is, you can’t…
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ProntoPro NG TSU7000
I’ve been using the ProntoPro TSU6000 for a long time now. In fact there is one at our house and both our parents house. They are the easiest I think to use because of the touchscreen. Now, Phillips has finally introduced a replacement RC: Philips ProntoPro NG TSU7000 & Marantz RC9500 Remote Control Review (2)…
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Mouse and Sound Lag in Brother in Arms
Gearbox Software Forums – How to FIX Mouse LAG in Menu and Sound Errors. _Back from holiday and managed to fry one machine and can’t get Brother in Arms to work. Here is one fix. Arrgh. It is amazing how hard it is to fix things. This involved files not being copied properly from the…
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Watching the Tour de France in Paris
Well if you don’t happen to be Sheryl Crow or John Kerry, where do you watch the Tour de France finish, not lots of advice on the web, but basically, they cruise in via the Rue di Rivoli past the Jardin de Tuileries and then hit the Place de la Concorde then up and down…
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Following the Tour de France
On TV, undoubtedly, those of you in Comcast territory should kiss the earth. They now have Video on Demand and if you are smart, you can find 20 minute Tour de France highlights in their VOD section. Of course, good luck finding it. Here’s how: * “Comcast On Demand”:http://comcast.m0.net/m/p/com/mic/Sports.asp?email=&cmp=&custom=. Hit Menu and select Video on…
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Tour de France Stage 14
_What an exciting stage. Of course I had to follow it all over my Blackberry’s mobile web access to cyclingnews.com. Pretty cool to do remote though._ The big news of course is that T-mobile blew out the Discovery Team. Boy are those guys strong. With three world class contender, Ullrich, Kloden and Vinokourov. The main…
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Scott CR1
!http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2005/tour05/tech/saunier-scott/cntdf05-scott1tn.jpg! www.cyclingnews.com presents the 92nd Tour de France. _Another incredibly light bike._ Saunier Duval-Prodir’s American rider Chris Horner told Cyclingnews that he thinks his Scott CR1 team bike is “the best road bike on the market today” and he’s already won a Tour de Suisse stage this year to prove it. Scott’s CR1 frame weighs…
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Iceland Tours
Quick highlights and must sees of Iceland: Here is the Sigfus tour: * Nesjavellir. Cool beyond words. This is a place where steam literally rises from everywhere in the ground. Its a big geothermal plant that products 90MW of power and incredible amounts of warm water. There is a 50km pipe back to Rejkavik that…
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Iceland Calling Card
Most calling cards don’t work in Iceland. But, the local company called “Atlas Simi”:http://atlassimi.is is just $0.12/minute back to the US. It cost is 1,000Ikr for 450 minutes, so pretty amazing net, net. The card also works in the UK and Denmark. Kind of cool that you can buy it online too from the sitel.…