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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…
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19" LCD Monitors
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XP Home vs. XP Pro
Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows: Windows XP Home Edition vs. Professional Edition, What’s the difference?. This is the first PC I’ve bought that uses XP Home instead of my buying XP Professional from the Microsoft Company Store. I have to say having used it for a while at work, I’m not sure it is that…
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ASUS M5N
We are looking for a new notebook standard at “Ignition”:http://ignitionpartners.com. I’m partial to the build-it-yourself models that ASUS has. I have the older M3N and it is just as good as any other that I’ve seen (Dell and IBM thin and light), but you spec exactly what you want. Here are some reviews; * ASUS…
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iPod Photo
Been using this for about two weeks now. Its my first iPod. A nice device mainly because the screen is so easy to read. In termsof buying one, it is impossible to get much off the list price of $499 right now. Best you can do is to get free shipping and no sales tax…
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Negative Conversion
My Minolta-Konica Dimage 5400 scanner only produces 16 bit scans in negative mode. So, you get an inverted picture. How depressing. Works find in 8-bit mode, but why the heck pay so much for a scanner if you only get 24-bit (3 colors x 8-bits) and not the full 48-bit range. So how to fix…
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Textile 2 does that
Brad Choate: MT-Textile does that???. We use Textile 2.0 on this site. Still learning some of the amazing features. The float left and float right are great, but I still can’t get tables to work as well as with the first Textile. Textile(tm) drew a dark line by default, but this Textile 2 doesn’t seem…
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PC Guide
Well, it is Christmas time, so this might be a good guide for those of you who want to give the gift of computing. As usual, we’ll cover a “high value” system and a “low cost” system. The best value means the best price/performance for a computer but it is more expensive. The “low cost”…
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Software I would Pay For
The list isn’t very long, but since I’m at it (and it is the holiday season), here’s a list of software that I would (and have) paid for over the last year. Amazing utility for little cost: * “DBPowerAMP”:http://www.dbpoweramp.com/. I’ve only been using this for a short while, but it is amazing in that it…
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cbr 192
EncoderRoundup A counterpoint. This reviewer found simple !(@ cbr to beat –preset standard because these fancy vbr schees can get fooled. And can be bigger than cbr. For spoken word, cbr(^kpbs sounded terrible
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LAME presets
mp3dev They’ve been changing the presets in Lame. With 3.96, the names changes from –alt-preset to just –preset. Here is a quick list: h3. –preset medium This preset should provide near transparency to most people on most music. The resulting bitrate should be in the 150-180kbps range, according to music complexity. h3. –preset standard This…
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Getting Hit
!{float:left; margin-right:10px;}http://www.velorution.biz/images/Velorution%20-%20passenger%20airbag.gif! As someone who has been hit, I can say I wish someone would spend the $150 and make cars safer when the monsters hit you đ
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WordPress
WordPress Download. It’s a MovableType world for me and I’m spending more time figuring out BitTorrent and Podcasting, but sometimes I’m tempted to switch to a different blog tool. WordPress is one of those at the top of the list. Maybe the next blog I do I’ll use it.
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17 inch monitor review
X-bit labs – Articles – Closer Look at 17â LCD Monitor Features. Part V (page 19). X-bit did their usual thorough job. The Samsung Syncmaster 710N was expensive but the best looking of the monitors. Of course these days I’d recommend getting a pair of 17 inch monitors or splurging for a single 19 inch…
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nVidia SLI
AnandTech: NVIDIA’s GeForce 6 SLI: Demolishing Performance Barriers. The coolest thing out there. You can now slam two video cards into a single machine. The first board out is the ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce4 SLI) Motherboard. Available for about $180. Its a dream motherboard if you want SLI, otherwise get the nForce3 and a AGP…
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Accurate Rip
“Accurate Rip”:http://accuraterip.com. An interesting idea works with either Exact Audio Copy (my favoriate freeware ripper) or with dBPowerAmp. It collects a database of folks who have ripped and compares your rip to make sure that it is in fact good. Make sense since every CD should be identical. Of course, one could ask why we…
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Random Hangs and Restarts with XP SP2
Windows Support Forums – Restarts in middle of boot-up (WXP-Pro). Proving once again how great the Internet is. Since I’ve installed SP2, I’ve been having all kinds of instability on two of my machines. I get hand the same symptoms where you’ll get a hang or you’ll be booting and get blown back to the…
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Podcast Software
PodcastAlley.com — the place to find podcasts. A good set of reviews on podcasting software. The main ones seem to be “iPodder”:http://ipodder.sourceforge.net and “Doppler Radio”:http://dopplerradio.net. It also looks like there are literally hundreds of Podcasts. Most are nerdy topics like Slashdot. Perhaps the most interesting for those of us who care about music is “DownloadRadio.org”:http://downloadradio.org.…
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RSS and BitTorrent
a little ludwig goes a long way: I need a meta-guide for TV. A great tutorial on how to stick bittorrent and RSS together to find things. Its much better than using a search engine like “isohunt.com”:http://isohunt.com. “Pealco.net”:http://pealco.net/archives/2004/11/08/how_to_never_miss_an_episode_with_bittorrent_and_rss explains how you never have to miss another show with RSS feeds. Basically, you use Azureus and…
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Ignition Blog Roundup
a little ludwig goes a long way: Ignition blog round up 11/23. Great idea by John to just round up our dozen or so blogs. I particularly like the comment about the marketing playbook. It really isn’t marketing, don’t tell anyone that. Its really about strategy but those books don’t have a category on Amazon,…