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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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Page Rank 6
Woohoo! Tongfamily.com is now Pagerank 6. Finally up to where “Ludwig”:http://www.theludwigs.com is.
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iMac G5
Apple – iMac G5. I have an old Pentium Xeon desktop at work (a cast off from a failed EIR project) and an old iMac (another castoff), but I’ve been thining that getting a real iMac might make sense. Asked my buddy Rob over at Apple, and he recommended the iMac G5. It is a…
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DxO image correction
DxO – Simply better images. This is software that corrects for optical defects in lenses of cameras. Pretty amazing what you can do post a shot. Reminds me of Tom Clancy’s Hunt for Red October, back in 1984 (is that really 20 years ago!), he wrote about a secret technique where spies would take a…
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This message is used to carry data
BlackBerryForums.com : Your Number One BlackBerry Community – Unwanted network messages – repost. Connie went to Canada and started getting these bizarre messages from Blackberry that looked like this… From: network@etp01.etp.na.blackberry.net Subject: RIM_bca28a80-e9c0-11d1-87fe-00600811c6a2 This message is used to carry data between the BlackBerry Handheld and an associated server. Please do not delete, move or respond…
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Verbatim DatalifePlus 52x CD-R
Folks don’t seem to review media very much anymore, but I’ve had good experience with the Verbatim DataLifePlus in 48x, this is the 52x version. “Pricegrabber”:http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=987018 shows them with prices of $50 for 100 pieces since it is discontinued now. The Verbatim part number is 94594. Instead, you can get the 50-pack version from “Pricegrabber”:http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=699647/blsrt=1…
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Lightscribe
LightScribe: Getting Started. _Wow, HP invented this. What a great idea. The Benq 1625 seems to be one of the first drives that will have it._ Burn your tracks onto the data side of the disc. Flip the disc over to the label side and put it back in the drive. Burn your label by…
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DVD Guide for Dummies
AfterDawn.com: Guides and articles. A great list of articles on how to copy anything to anything.
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Verbatim DatalifePlus 16x DVD+R
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Blackberry 3.7
BlackBerryForums.com : Your Number One BlackBerry Community – 7230 3.7 os upgrade. _Now that I’m stable and back to the original 3.7 from 2003, it would be nice to get some of the later features like calendar sync. Here is how…_ This is because there are so many different versions of 3.7. Some of them…
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Eldest by Christopher Paolini
Amazon.com: Books: Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2). Alex just loved this and I did as well. Amazing since it was written orginally by a 16 year old. Here is the second of the trilogoy coming in August 2005.
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Eoin Colfer
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