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New life for old iPods
iPodlounge | All Things iPod | NuPower Battery. iPods are so expensive I’ve been thinking about getting a 2G from eBay. The problem is that battery life is a big issue and Apple charges $99 to get a new battery. A great solution is a third party batter the NuPower Super High Capacity by Newer…
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Free music without fear
iPodlounge | All Things iPod. A great list of free legal music is no this site including: * “3Hive.com”:http://3hive.com. This has teaser tracks.
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iPod headphone recommendations
“Drew”:http://judysbook.com was wondering about buying an iPod vs. a Creative Zen and also about accessories. I’ve blogged this before, but here are the recommendations: * iPod vs. Zen. I haven’t used a Zen, but have to say the iPod is a device that a five year old can learn to use in 10 seconds. This…
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Nokia 6620 Downloads
My-Symbian.com – Symbian OS News and Software for Series 60 smartphones downloads. Eureka, here finally is a source of 6600 Symbian applications. I’m checking out the most popular, but Doom is available on the phone how cool. Also there is MP3Go which I hope is a much better player than the Real player. For instance,…
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Symbian Virus
Zedge: Symbian Virus called Skull. Very scary, there is a file call Extended Theme Manager by Tee-222 that has this virus. You have to have a third party file manager installed to get rid of it. There is a third party virus scanner for symbian from “f-secure”:http://www.f-secure.com/products/fsmavs60/. Probably should get it.
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Nokia 6620 Unlocking
Going to Europe, so will need to use a prepaid card. Here are various sites that unlock the 6620 courtesy of google:”6620 unlock”: * Nokia Unlock, Symbian 3600,3620,6600,6620 and 7650 Unlock – GSMLOCKER. They charge $15 and can do it remotely. * “Mobileunlocked.com”:http://www.mobileunlocked.com/order_unlock.php. These folks charge $9 for the same service. Pretty high google rank,…
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Sorry state of Audio Players
Tom’s Hardware Guide Mobile Devices: Is There Any Flash Left In Audio Players? – Introduction shows why Apple is going to completely kick butt when they announce their flash-based players in January. It is amazing to me how poor the designs are of the current flash products. Tom’s Hardware struggles to say good things, but…
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Notebook Hard Disks
Now that you can just take a notebook hard drive out and replace it, there’s a growing market for increasing disk space. This really matters for notebook performance. First, going to 7200 RPM essentially doubles performance compared with 4200 RPM (although power consumption goes up). Also, most drives are 20-40GB in current notebooks. Going to…
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A9 for Firefox
Now that Firefox is officially a 1.0 product, its interesting to see the “big” guys start to support it. Amazon just released A9.com > A9 Toolbar for Firefox. Works well.
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Finding a 4-port VOIP gateway
_Hat tip to “A9”:http://a9.com for finding this…I’m trying the new Firefox A9 toolbar_ VoIP Hardware and Software Products. Here’s a list of VOIP hardware. Its actually quite hard to find a good review site that tells you how to put together a small multiline system with an existing PBX. I probably just don’t know the…
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ASUS WL-HDD2.5
TomsNetworking Tom’s Hardware WL-HDD2.5 review. Well I’ve struggled with the Linksys NSLU2. In talking with a buddy, the problem is that it won’t work with just any enclosure, the new Maxstor II enclosure works perfectly though, so don’t use a cheesy one, it is very sensitive to the USB2.0 interface since it pushes it so…
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Blackberry reinstall gotcha
Support – Protocol Error: Data Transfer Aborted. Arrgh, the one error you get when you reinstall is that two DLLS don’t get registered by the install program, so you get this error. The fix is to register with regsvr32 rimdevicemanagerps.dll and bbdevmgrps.dll. You can find these usually in c:\program files\common files\research in motion\usb drivers.
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Car Complaints
Car Problems, Car Complaints, & Car Repair Information — [ CarComplaints.com ]. “Hoops”:http://scbhooper.com was asking bout where to complain about cars. Here it is. And who couldn’t love a site called, “Mylemon.com”:http://www.mylemon.com
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Thunderbird to Gmail, Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo
Making the transition at home from IE to Firefox and from Outlook to Thunderbird. Main issue of course is what happens with calendars. Good news is that there are quite a few applications that allow public mail access as showing from Using Gmail, Hotmail/MSN or Yahoo! Mail with Thunderbird. – MozillaZine Forums
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New Phone
Connie’s 7230 finally gave up the ghost. Naturally two years later, so it is out of warranty, so time to buy a new phone. Naturally, T-Mobile makes it hard to do this and stay with T-Mobile. Both Cingular and AT&T Wireless are smarter. At the end of your commitment period, you get the same deal…
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Eggs Benedict
Eggs Benedict New York: What Is Eggs Benedict?. An entire website dedicated to Egg Benedict. A delicious Sunday meal. Fast facts: * “Easy Eggs Benedict”:http://mosaic.echonyc.com/~jkarpf/eggs/recipes.html * “Food Network”:http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_8502,00.html. A classic recipe 2 English muffins, split, toasted and buttered 4 thick slices ham or Canadian bacon, warmed 4 poached eggs 1/2 cup Hollandaise Sauce Hollandaise Sauce:…
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ipod speakers
Hat tip to “iPod Lounge”:http://ipodlounte.com. Here is the latest of gifts for Ipodders here’s a run down on the best speakers. As they say from ultra=portable, to portable to near portable to not portable * Macally Podwave. These are tiny little speakers that fit at the top of an iPod. $39 and they sound decent.…
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itunes addons
iPodlounge | All Things iPod. Ipodlounge has some review of little software add-ons for itunes.
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FSA on Campy Record
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Expired Domains
DomainsBot – Daily Expired Domains. Was on the plane with an Internet online expert. He told me about all these sites that regularly sweep for expired domain names. You can then pick them up and many have traffic associated with them, so you can point to your own site. What an amazing thing the Internet…
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Wireless interesting stuff
Had a chance to hang out in sunny San Diego to day. A few interesting notes: * BREW Today. Fun to visit with the our buddies at Qualcomm. They have a one pager site that gives BREW status. * “Flo”:http://www.qualcomm.com/press/releases/2004/041101_mediaflo_700mhz.html. A very interesting thing they are doing to provide a nationwide network on 700MHz for…
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UCDSChess going away
The UCDSchess.org domain, per school policy, is going away. It is a little confusing how to move domains, because you don’t actually send them, but someone has to request them. TransferInsider.pdf summarizes it pretty well if you need to do it. Here is how it works: # UCDS has to purchase a domain transfer from…
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iPod XM
XM vs. the iPod – Will XM’s new portable satellite radio make the iPod obsolete? By Paul Boutin. Lots of iPod rumors floating around. One I heard from “John”:http://www.theludwigs.com is that the next Ipod will include an XM receiver. Very smart if true, then you have an easy way to download content and given that…
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Perfect T140 Companions
“Eric”:http://www.voyagercapital.com/team/erik.htm and “Jeff”:http://www.merrimancapital.com/about/jeffsbiography.html both got Sony VAIO T-140P/Ls and by all reports love them. Hat tip to both for the latest accessories that dress up that piece of hardware: * Wi-Fi Networking News: Canary Wireless Digital Hotspotter Overview. This is a little digital thingy that lets you know what Wifi hotspots are around. Very useful…
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Christmas Gifts
Well, its Christmas time again, so once again, here’s some holiday recommendations from Rich. Hope you all buy early: h3. Household * Cusinart Classic Style 2-Slice Chrome Toaster with free shipping from MetroKitchen.com. This is $50. Interesting to see how retro is so in. Just look at what Restoration Hardware has done. Here’s a 1920s…
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Oakley Pro M
Well, I have now run over both pairs of my Rudy Project Tayo sunglasses. Both freak accidents, but good thing I have an Oakley Pro M still. But I’ll need another a clear lense set. I loved the Rudy Project Tayo’s by the way, but the Pro Ms are so incredibly clear all the way…
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Spam Spammers
Lycos Screensaver Tackles Spam Wesites – PCStats.com. What a great idea, spammers get hit with denial of service attacks by those they are attacking. Basically, the new Lycos screensaver doesn’t just block spammers, but pings them like crazy. I love it!
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Pentium 4-560 Thermal Problems
Tom’s Hardware Guide Processors: The P4-560’s Heat Can Crash and Kill – The Heat Can Cause Intel’s P4 To Throttle And Damage Over Time. An interesting study. Basically, the new Prescott runs so close to its thermal limits that if you install it into a stock system with their thermal “pad” everything is OK. But,…
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Total BitHead
HeadRoom. Besides the great name, this is a terrific Christmas present for the geek that travels too much. I just lost my ER-6P on an airplane. Darn it. Here are the recommendations: * Etymotic “ER-6P”:http://www.headphone.com/layout.php?topicID=3&subTopicID=26&productID=0020100100. These are $99 street and are amazing. Best investment and value for the money. They make white ones to match…
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HTPC
Home Theater PC News – Your Source for Everything HTPC Related. OK I’m biting the bullet and building a true home theater PC. Should be ultraquiet, have an HDTV decoder, product 1040i for my big screen TV and also have a PVR. The search begins now… * “$1,000 HTPC”:http://htpcnews.com/main.php?id=htpcmidbuyersguide_1. The general purpose overall guide to…