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Audacity
Audacity – Reviews and free downloads at Download.com. The most popular freeware MP3 and audio editor in general. The only issue is that while powerful, it edits in uncompressed WAV file and so recompressing is a hassle. Ideally, an editor would keep the MP3 in its encoded form and edit from there. Saves time and…
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Volvo Upgrades
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TomTom GO 700
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Sportrak Pro Update
Magellan Sportrak Pro. It’s been nearly a year since I’ve used this. A blown knee took a lot out of the season. Anyway, for those of you who have it, here are the update instructions. It is pretty arcane and not very clear on the Magellan site what you need to do, but presuming you…
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Catastrophic Error and Error 365
Tong Family Blog: Prefetch Exception and Abort Exception. I’m developing a negative attitude towards blackberrys đ Since we last chatted about it, I’ve had more problems with the Blackberry 7230. First, I started to get Java Exception Errors when dialing and the phone application would crash. Scott then tried to reload the software and the…
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Scion xB Upgrades
When I actually drove the Scion xB, it was cheap and great, but it had a couple of pretty big drawbacks. Fortunately, the thing is so customizable, that a quick visit to various enthusiast sites got me to the fixes for in order: # Low Power. It is only 108 hp so it is sloooowww…
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Transport Recommendations
Had a chance to drive the Prius and the Scion, the Scion is a pretty cool car. In depth in 2005, here’s my recommendations for cars. The main criteria are a) reliable, b) fuel efficient (30 mpg or more), c) seats 5, d) can carry a bike easily, e) can get me and the kids…
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Using Bit Torrent
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Blackberry 4.0 Problems
We just upgraded to Blackberry 4.0 clients at “Ignition”:http://ignitionpartners.com. Works for everyone but me. Here are my problems: * I can’t keep more than 50 or so emails. They just scroll off the bottom. I have never expires set, but it keeps happening. I’ve also noticed that I have only 100KB or so of free…
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ATI 800XL
AnandTech: Price Guides, April 2005: Video Cards bq. Considering the fact that we were recommending X800XL video cards over GeForce 6800GTs a month ago, and the Radeons took a nose dive in price, we would be ridiculous to not call the X800XL cards our top graphics card pick this month. We do commend NVIDIA for…
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Opera swim
THE 1 !>http://www.opera.com/img/swim.jpg! MILLION DOWNLOAD CHALLENGE – Opera Web Browser. _Wow, 1M downloads in 4 days and now he swims to the USA. I have to say one of the best get close to the customer on the web pushes that I’ve seen._ Before the weekend, Opera’s CEO, Jon S. von Tetzchner boldy proclaimed at…
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Windows 64 Bit Upgrade
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Pentium D vs. Athlon X2
AnandTech: AMD’s dual core Opteron & Athlon 64 X2 – Server/Desktop Performance Preview. _A very interesting set of comparisons. The D’s are so inexpensive and if only we could invent some software at “Ignition”:http://ignitionpartners.com that would exploit dual core, now that would be cool_ !
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State Tournament Results
!>https://richtong.org/chess/chess2005-2a.jpg!:https://richtong.org/chess/chess2005-2.jpg It was a great tournament. A brilliant cloudless day with a terrific view of Mount Baker. The team up at Whatcom County did a great job at Lynden. Kudos to you all. The results are alread up Rating report for State Tournament. Some really impressive players. Congrats to all! Kudos to all the UCDS…
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nvmcp.sys installation
Tong Family Blog: Simcity 4 crashes nVidia Sound drivers. Never could get the latest 4.57 drivers to install because nVidia has no installation instructions. Hat tip to “Guru3d”:http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=938, they have the instructions: 1. Uninstall old AUDIO ONLY drivers via Add/Remove Programs out of the nVidia installation program. Reboot the system. 2. Upon reboot and redetection…
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Washington State Elementary Chess Championship;s
!>http://www.chessenrichment.org/Images/image002.gif! Rich Tong on Chess: Washington State Chess Tournament. These are this weekend. You need to checkin either online or in person. I’d really recommend online first. If you don’t checkin, you are hosed.
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What is TONG?
Geekfishing Blog: What is TONG? TONG!. OK, I admit it, when you query on yourself, what fun to find a game named after you. It’s free and a great mix of Pong and Tetris.
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It's all gone Pete Tong!
!>http://www.channel4.com/film/media/film/2l/I/its_all_gone_pete_lg_02.jpg! Channel 4 Film – It’s All Gone Pete Tong film review, interviews, filmographies and more. My brother is going to be distraught to know that his name is about a screwed up rocker đ
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Seatac Parking
With Seatac parking rates running at $30/day, it seems like there have to be some alternatives. When I have time (which ain’t often I admit), I do use off-airport parking. There are amazingly few sites that cover recommendations for this. Last recommendation by a human is from 2002 in google! If you can believe that.…
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Bookends, Lanikai Juice and Morning Brew in Kailua
BookEnds | Store/Shop Review | Oahu | Frommers.com. If you are on this end of the island, stop here. They are one of those great bookstores like “Bailey Coy”:http://seattle.citysearch.com/profile/10773009/ in Seattle that seems to select just the best books. In this case, Bookends is particularly good at children books. Also a good used selection for…
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Cool Sayings
Heard on the street… Imagine a kid climbing up a steep hill towards a water slide that you ride head down (no it is not dangerous, you use a map and there is a bumper in the front). And as Dad fills the air with advice, little guy says, “Hey Dad, can you just let…
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DVD Media
X-bit labs – Articles – Ultimate Testing of Recordable DVD Media Discs (page 24). It ain’t of question of just buying the cheapest DVD writeable or of buying the most expensive. Here’s an indepth review that shows some good brands and OEMs to buy. Realy complex to summarize, but stuff that is OEMed from Ricoh…
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Creation
!>http://www.princess-kaiulani.com/upload/de-creation2.jpg! Sheraton Princess Kaiulani | Creation – A Polynesian Journey. We did this tonight. A couple of lessons. First and most important… *Don’t go to Waikiki from Kailua on a Friday night!* It took 1 1/2 hours to get there with most of the trip very fast until we hit Honolulu. The traffic jam would…
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Hawaiian Waves Adventure Park
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Apple falls 10%
Apple Stock Sinks Despite Robust Profits. A good example of buying after the rush. Despite higher earnings, it is going to be hard for Apple to match the PE. It hit a high of $45 and is now at $36. Another reminder the key to making money is finding things that no one else knows…
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Zia's Caffe
RealEats – User Restaurant Reviews for Zia’s, Kailua, Hawaii. Good family restaurant. Get there early since they don’t take reservations. The Chocolate Overload is good, but I like the pasta particularly the linguine. There’s aren’t any great reviews for Hawaii that I could find. “Pubcrawler”:http://www.pubcrawler.com/Template/dsp_restaurant_zoom.cfm/flat/ID=414251 just had the basics yellow page information for instance. “Kailua…
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Dream Cruises
!>http://cms.dream-cruises.com/media/images/site/DreamCruises/WhaleWatch/whale_breach_left01.jpg! Dream Cruises – Hawaii Fun Cruises. The kids have already seen grey whales, but not Connie, this is a quick cruise out of Waikiki, by Fishersman’s Wharf for an hour and a half. Not too expesnive and fun. Personally i’d rather be on a sailing cat, but what the heck đ
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Boogie Boarding
Actually, the technical term is body boarding, since Boogie Board is a trademark. In any case, Amy asked, are there lessons on how to boogie. Of course there are… How to Bodyboard and Bodyboard Tips Videos. Here are some videos online that explain it. “eHow.com”:http://www.ehow.com/how_5293_bodyboard.html has many more basics. the main one is that you…
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Luau
It’s campy and wierd, but the kids really do love the luau’s and I have to admit, after the really bad food, Dad does too. Here’s the best on Oahu: “Germaine’s Luau”:http://www.germainesluau.com. This is the first luau we ever did. It is pure tourist and you can get good discounts so it is about $50…
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Kayaking Kailua
For a great day, check out Kailua Sailboards + Kayaks Inc – Watersports Center Hawaii. !