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MT Categories
TEMPLATE TAGS. It has taken quite a bit of time, but I finally have gotten my categories right on this site. Now that I’ve resolved the mt.js problem, I resorted the categories logically. But, the big change is learning about this wonderful tag MTEntriesWithSubCategories In your category archive, you replace the MTEntries container that gives…
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Buttons don't work for some functions
Buttons don’t work for some functions. _Wow, this is a case where tech support really does work. Sent a note to the folks at sixapart because I couldn’t get some things to work, quite a subtle bug and hard to find since this help item isn’t indexed well and I was sure where to look._…
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ATI HDTV Adapter on Mitsubishi WS-73903 RPTV
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=1271. I’ve been struggling to get my ATI 9800 Pro to connect to my Mitsubishi 73509 television. It is an older thing, but supports 1080i, 540p, 480p and of course 480i. But, I can’t seem to get it going. This is one of those $30 products with DIP switches. You connect one to the DVI…
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iPod BSOD
d2r: how to reboot an iPod photo. Well, the things aren’t perfect, I got the “Black Screen of Death” on my iPod Photo yesterday. Had it and it was working fine, put into my pocket and then got ready to play in the car and it sat there completely blank. No Apple logo, no nothing.…
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Nothing Fails
Jem Biography on Yahoo! Music. OK, who would have thought Jem is from Wales and when she ended up in London, one of her first collaborations led to one of our other favorites songs, Nothing Fails by Madonna. Who would have thought? Alex has great taste in Music. bq. Two days into her first writing…
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MTInlineEditor
MtInlineEditor – Movalog Plugins – Trac. What a great idea. This is an inline editor, so that you can look at your blog and if there is a typo, you can directly type into the entry.
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Windows Safe Mode
CHSAFE: Getting into Windows Safe Mode. I always forget the exact key sequence to get Windows into safe mode. I need this quite a bit when I switch monitors since Windows can lock into a higher resolution than an LCD can display (for instance right now I have a machine that is at 1280×1024 while…
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Besweet
BeSweet. This is *the* tool for transcoding audio. In my case, I have MP3s that are encoded from CDs at 44.1KHz, but to use it for DVD, you need to transcode it to 48KHz. There are lots of tools for this, but the most common one that is a standalone utility is besweet. You download…
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Resetting Activity Logs
Interesting to see that for my blogs, I’ve got gigantic activity logs, I’ve never looked at them and they are filled with errors. With Firefox, I found that it just thrashes with gigantic files. Gets to be 500MB of swap and then just seems to slow. This is one area where Internet Explorer is better,…
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MT-Moderate requires reinstall after MT Upgrade
Don’t Back Down – Moderate Archives. Just a reminder to folks that most of the time, when you upgrade from say 3.15 to 3.16, the plugins are fine. That isn’t true with MT-Moderate because it modifies one of the standard templates, the list_ping.tmpl, so when you do a dumb upgrade, you overwrite the file and…
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CD Media
Media – Club CD Freaks – Worlds Largest CD/DVD Community. This is where the hard core folks who study the various CD media live. _Interesting that google doesn’t index any of it, so there is still reason for blogs like mine._ An interesting factoid on “CD Freaks”:http://cdfreaks.com “poll”:http://www.cdfreaks.com/poll/26 is that 39% of all hard core…
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CD-R Tools
cd-rw.org: Software: CD-R software: CD-R tools and “CDMediaWorld”:http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_utils_2.shtml. In trying to figure out exactly what CD media I’ve bought, I bumped into some pretty cool tools. Here’s a list of fun things on this page: * Alcohol 120%. This is a CD drive emulator. Let’s you mount CD images you have on your hard disk…
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Verbatim DatalifePlus
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Adobe Premiere Elements
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Home Video Editing
Haven’t done this in a while, but to remind folks here is the workflow that I use and here is the work flow # Video Explosion Deluxe. This is an old program, but I use it to capture the video from the DV Camera and to build up the scenes. It is underneath really Sonic…
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Bike Buys
So after talking with “Brad”:http://www.thesilverbergs.com, here is what I’m going to get to update my bike and get ready for the 2005 STP: * Lickbike.com | FSA Carbon Pro Elite Compact Road Crank. He uses these and confirms they are just great. $280 from Lickton’s as part number 0086-72. Discontinued now, so “Excel Sports”:http://www.excelsports.com/new.asp?page=8&description=Carbon+Pro+Compact+Crankset+ISIS&vendorCode=FSA&major=1&minor=13 has…
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mp3DirectCut
mpesch3 audio tools. I’ve got to say this utility is just awesome. Not spyware, etc. and it is amazingly fast. Since it edits MP3s directly, it is amazingly quick to do. On Windows XP, you don’t even need a playback driver. It does need LAME if you are going to do encodings. Here are some…
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SpamLookup
MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse: Introducing SpamLookup I’ve been using MT-Blacklist for a while, but now it looks like its time to convert to SpamLookup, a new plugin by Brad Choate. Even the author of MT-Blacklist thinks folks should switch. It adds many more rules for preventing spam, which everyone needs. I’m up to 35,000 comment spam…
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Samsung Yepp YP-MT6Z
Samsung Yepp YP-MT6Z 1GB MP3 Player Review – PCStats.com. _This could be a good substitute for the iRiver iFP-799._ About the size of a pack of Wrigley’s gum, the Samsung Yepp YP-MT6Z incorporates a digital FM Tuner with 20 pre-sets, inline MP3 encoding, a voice recorder and eight EQ pre-sets. It also is powered by…
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Far Cry 64
AnandTech: Far Cry AMD64 Edition – A First Look at 64-bit Gaming. _Despite the name, this 64-bit port runs on either Intel or AMD 64-bit chips._ bq. First, we see that the difference between running the 32-bit binary in XP Professional and x64 Edition is basically nothing. Next, there’s a modest performance gain seen by…
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Passport Renewal
Applications and Forms. Wow, this has gotten way easier since the last time that I did it. The big changes: # They take digital photos now. I paid $14 at Kinkos to have mine done, but I could have done it with a digital photo. The only requirement is the photo be at least 2″x2″.…
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Compact Cranks
Weight Weenies – Crank Sets. I’m trying to decide on a compact crank set for my Trek. Right now I have a 39/53 ring and Brad and others have really been telling me that a 34/50 is more practical. But, which one to get? Weight Weenies is a good source to at least find out…
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Lightman Strobe
!http://www.priority1lss.com/PRIORITY1_gif_jpeg/FlightSite_art/fs_helicopter_land.jpg! They are big and heavy, but nothing can be better from far away. Alas, of the four that I have, one blew out, one now has a cracked battery holder and the other two have a broken back plate and I only have an amber one left. Today, the newest choice is the same…
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iRiver iFP-799
iriver – UMS Firmware. I got the iRiver iFP-799 thanks to Adam Curry. It has an impossibly hard user interface (that’s another story), but the other pain is that it requires some wierdo software called the iRiver Music Manager (IMM) to upload. iRiver is wonderful though. They have something called the USB Mass Storage Firmward…
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Honda Pilot
2005 Honda Pilot – Pictures, Specs of the Honda Pilot. Nina and Tom reminded me that although we love our Acura MDX, if you want to save a few bucks and want a roomier car as well, then the Honda Pilot is the car to get. Consumer Reports confirms that these sister cars are great.…
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Polar s-720i
Polar S710 Reviews, Specs and Shopping. I’ve had this heart rate monitor for a while now, so here’s a long term review. I also have a very low end Polar and a big Suuanto. The reality is that most of the time I just end up using the dumb old unencoded Polar because it has…
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Polar s-720i
Polar S710 Reviews, Specs and Shopping. I’ve had this heart rate monitor for a while now, so here’s a long term review. I also have a very low end Polar and a big Suuanto. The reality is that most of the time I just end up using the dumb old unencoded Polar because it has…
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Griffin iTrip
Griffin Technology. This is a long term review of the iTrip. I’ve been using it pretty regularly in the car and on trips, etc. Here’s an evaluation… Basically, this is a super useful device. It transmits on FM so that you can listen to your iPod pretty much from any clock radio, car radio, etc.…
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Griffin iTrip
Griffin Technology. This is a long term review of the iTrip. I’ve been using it pretty regularly in the car and on trips, etc. Here’s an evaluation… Basically, this is a super useful device. It transmits on FM so that you can listen to your iPod pretty much from any clock radio, car radio, etc.…
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Topolino
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