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Coolest Bluetooth Headset
Since we are getting all kinds of new phone stuff, might as well try Bluetooth headsets. I’ve never liked them because they are so gigantic, but a little trolling shows this Bluespoon to be pretty amazing. Just 10 grams and not expensive. There is a big brother that has a DSP in it that costs…
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Need MMC for Nokia 6620
MMC vs. SD and “Flashcards.co.nz”:http://www.flashcards.co.nz/knowlege-base/mmc-card-vs-sd-card.html. We are getting Nokia 6620 for various demonstrations and need a big memory card. It takes MMC, but I’ve never understood the difference with SD until now. Basically SD is newer and has a higher transfer rate, but has some mysterious copy protection scheme. They are the same shape, so…
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Hosting Your Blog
Hey if you are thinking of getting a blog, go hang out with Mark over at “tqbloghosting”:http://www.tqbloghosting.com/. I’ve been working with him for two years now and he’s great. We have about a dozen blogs all running on his servers.
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Trek 5900 Headset Fix
_David Diamond wrote me pointing out that the 5900s from 2000-2003 had a problem where the headset was not loctited down so they are sticky. Its a little complicated to fix, but he has the procedure. Trek will fix under warranty too apparently. Here are his fix-it notes or maybe take it to your local…
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More on the NSLU2 Delayed Write Problem
_More on the delayed write problem from Erik who is struglling like me to get the thing to work_ I bugged tech support at Linksys and they suggested turning off write caching on the local disc of the machine doing the writing to the NSLU2, disable all software firewalls, and if that doesnt work try…
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WMV on DVDs and Photo on a DVD
_Great questions from my buddy Dan about how to get formats back and forth_ Say Rich, what’s the best way to: # Burn .WMV files onto a DVD in DVD format? # Produce a photo slide show video? Well, there is the best way and there is the easiest way. So, easiest way answers are…
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Marketing Playbook is born
Hey for those of you who don’t know, our book, the “Marketing Playbook”:http://marketingplaybook.com was officially released. Hit #199 on the Amazon list and in the top 25 for business books on Amazon, so it is in the top 1% of all Amazon books! Wow. Kind of neat. Some good reviews at “Marketing Playbook”:http://marketingplaybook.com/praise.php and also…
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Low-cost Hotel Rooms and Travel
Great ways to get low cost hotels: h4. Airfares Use “Fare Chase”:http://farechase.com, this is a meta search engine. As an example, tomorrow I’m flying back to Seattle. Rack rate on Alaska is $451, it is $251 on Jet Blue and $165 on Delta. That’s quite a spread! There are a couple of tricks. First, always…
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Audio Books on the Road
Well, not exactly music, but the kids and I love to listen to books on tape or CD these days. They are really in an inconvenient format since a typical book takes 5 CDs because the encoding used on regular CDs is tuned for music. Even with MP3 or OGG encoding, a book takes 700MBs…
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Nokia 6620 and Bluetooth Headsets
Well, time once again to get a great phone. The prices are pretty reasonable right now. You can get a Symbian phone that has full stereo plumbing for $100 with a 2-year plan from AT&T. This is an EDGE phone, so it is incredibly fast. “Letstalk.com”:http://letstalk.com is about $50 more expensive than Amazon.com for this…
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Debugging Video Codecs
AVIcodec. Al that money and Windows doesn’t come with an MPEG_2 (e.g., DVD decoder) as part of it, so you are reduced to buying various codecs that may or maynot work with Windows. Right now I’ve found lots of problems with CyberDVD’s codec and lots of oddnesses with the Ligos codec. Here’s a good site…
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DVD-Lab GOP Size problems
VideoHelp.com Forum Archive – DVD-Lab won’t create .IFO files!! (Yes, I’ve searched….) I’ve been battling the same problem as this guy. There is a problem with this very nice tool called DVD-lab. Appears to have to do with demultiplexing files and something called a GOP size and whether it is closed or not…whew, now I…
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Get an Athlon 3000+ Winchester
!{float: left; margin-right: 10px;}http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/Additional/athlon64_logo_86x94.gif!:”http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2242″ _Anandtech just reviewed the new Winchester chips, this is a 90nm Athlon in socket 939, with a MSI Neo2 Platinum, OCZ Platinum Rev 2 DDR3200 memory, its a screamer with a huge overclock. Newegg.com has them for about $170 in the OEM version. Of course, to be really cook, you have…
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Andy is a Cool dad and CEO too…
!{float: left; margin-right: 10px;}http://members.judysbook.com/images/judysbooklogo.gif!:http://judysbook.com A Sack of Seattle. Andy is working on “Judy’s Book”:http://judysbook.com and doing a great job helping parents everywhere. He also started a blog that I think is great. I think “Ludwig”:http://www.theludwigs.com had a big hand. His posts on the election are great too.
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Call of Duty United Offensive
FPSCentral – File Downloads. Ok just about done with Call of Duty United Offensive. Not nearly as exciting as the first Call of Duty. Maybe this is serial fatigue, but this one didn’t surprise me as much. it is harder in that there are way more people in each battlefield, but really nothing new. I…
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Making MPEG-2 Work in PowerPoint
Well I’ve been struggling for days to figure out how to get PowerPoint to show a DVD fragment in slideshow mode. I just couldn’t get it to work. The movie would embed properly, but would not playback in place. You would have to launch a standalone viewer. This is one case where google was absolutely…
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Ken Kelley
!{float: left; margin-right: 10px;}http://k2bioventures.com/templates/34/img/user/masked/K2BIOVENTURES.COM.jpg!:http://k2bioventures.com Ken Kelley, an old buddy from business school dropped me a line. What did we do in the days before the Internet, I don’t know. Anyway, he’s got his virtual shingle out and is helping bio-tech firms make it. Another example of the cyber world that we live in, you can…
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Jeff Ort on Color Management
_A comment Jeff wanted to post, but my site wasn’t quite configured right_ I have been following your posts on color management, and I wanted to offer you a few thoughts. I have been implementing a color managed workflow since April of this year, and I have climbed the same learning curve that you are.…
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Art Classes
“Brett”:http://purenetworks.com has started an Art School in Seattle (Ravenna) and is opening a new location in Madison in September. Check out the “Drawing School”:http://www.drawingschool.com
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Coolest Ultralight Notebook
!{float: left; margin-right: 10px;}http://www.sonystyle.com/intershoproot/eCS/Store/en/imagesProducts/180×180/VGNT150L.jpg!:http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_BrowseCatalog-Start;sid=vnu0O_r5gG-0DruV1Aq-MLX3-QBirtIQz8s=?CategoryName=cpu_VAIONotebookComputers_TSeries&Dept=cpu_VAIONotebookComputers The new Sony T-series is finally here. Its an ultra portable with a smaller screen so you have some chance of fitting in when you are on the airplane. Weighs 3 pounds *and* it has a CD/DVD drive, so you can watch movies and things. A nice form factor since the…
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What is Personal Productivity
I just love all these add-ons that are being done in the browser world by “Opera”:http;//opera.com, “Firefox”:http://firefox.com and “Maxthon”:http://maxthon.com. Also, there are an amazing number of add-ons that you can add to Outlook and can anyone have enough IE toolbars. All this leave me wondering what the new “Office” is for the average business user…
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USB 2.0 Hard Drive Problems
I thought it was my NSLU2 that was the problem, but now when I try to use my USB 2.0 Hard Drive against Windows XP, I get delayed write failed. Here’s the diagnostic from “viaarena”:http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.cfm?catid=16&threadid=50469 _I tried the same thing with a Maxtor complete system and it didn’t fail, so this probably means the el…
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Editable Movies from DVDs
Someone was asking me how they can edit DVDs that are already created. As Jeff said, if you have a TIVO you can now make DVDs of the stuff you create there, but what happens if you want to edit it down. There are actually two ways. One way is to edit a little with…
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Firefox Rocks
“Brad”:http://www.ignitionpartners.com/about/brad_s.asp asked me the other day what browser do I use. Got me thingking quite a bit. I actually like “Maxthon”:http://maxthon.com an awful lot mainly because it is built on Internet Explorer, so it is very compatible (even Microsoft pages like hotmail, outlook web access) render correctly with it. I’ve had to drop the latest…
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PGP comes to Thunderbird
mozdev.org – enigmail: index. One of the amazing things about both Firefox and Thunderbird is how open they are. They leave lots of room for developers to add features. Enigmail is a great example. For once there is a usable secure mail system using PGP.
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Lowest Fares
I have a theory that our “Ignition”:http://ignitionpartners.com travel agency called “Navigent”:http://navigent.com doesn’t give us the best fares. So, I’m going to see what fare are around for some of the trips I’m doing. So let’s start with USATODAY.com – A guide to booking air tickets online which is also the top google hit for google:”fare…
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DVD Backup
OK, this can be pretty complicated, but two freeware utilities have made it much easier: * DVD Decrypter. You need to set this in Mode/IFO and make sure to copy everything onto the hard disk. For performance reasons having two hard drives is very beneficial otherwise you thrash like crazy. * DVD Shrink. You use…
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Sefy is awesome
Sefy’s Complete DVD Backup Guide v2.6. Sefy is incredible. For once an easy to read step-by-step series of directions for DVD manipulation. Its great!
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Athlon 64 into Notebooks
GamePC – Clawhammer To Go : AMD Athlon64 3700 DTR Processor. A good overall review of the AMD Mobile Athlon and the Intel Pentium-M line. Also “AMDNotebooks”:http://www.amd64notebooks.com/index.php seems like a great source of data on actual shipping hardware like the new “Sharp”:http://www.sharpsystems.com/products/pc_notebooks/actius/al/27/# and “ASUS”:http://www.asus.com/products/notebook/a2series/a2000k/a2000k_overview.htm. These are raw performance numbers of course, but interesting to see…
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Benq DW-1620
AnandTech BenQ DW-1620 Review. Anand’s review of the drive shows that it is a decent performance, but you have to have the very latest beta firmware called B7J9 to really have decent compatibility and performance. Likesd the drive thoug.