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Celestia: A 3D Space Simulator. Wow I was browsing through Sourceforge and went through the most downloaded open projects. Found this incredible viewer of celestrial bodies. Amazing what people have built. It works great and I can’t wait to show it to the kids. Nice thing is that it is tied to various public databases…

Electronic Federal Tax Payment System. Ok, now that I’m just a self-employeed geek, filing all these tax payments is a big hassle. I’m just bad with paper. Amazingly, the government has an online tax payment system. I’m going to give it a try. Wish me luck!

ITX DIRECT GUIDE / ITX IR Information Company Data. This is a company we have been working with. It has a good Investor relations site. Here is where to get the current quote on Nasdaq Japan and enter 2725 as the stock code quote. Their shares outstanding are in Company information

ZDNet: Reviews. Ziff and Cnet have the two best sites.

Cell Phone Reviews. A list of places that do cell phone reviews.

Let’s Talk.com. OK, it’s time to buy a cell phone given that the fall is arriving and discounts are coming. Need one for Connie, Me and my parents. Here’s a place to start chopping

FrontPage? Online Support – SiteCrafters Internet Services. It’s been bothering me how to put a simple password on my hosted web site. It’s actually quite easy to password protect if you have IIS on a machine where you control the directory since it integrates with NT authentication. But, what if it is on a hosted…

The Dream Do-it-yourself PC. Hoops asked me to put together a dream machine for him. Here are the links for the smallest, but most functional machine I can imagine. Thanks to Tom’s Hardware” and C|Net for recommendations and Pricegrabber for the best place to buy things. If you’re interested, this machine is about the same…

BlackBerry Internet Edition. Connie uses a Blackberry Internet Edition by Aether. For some crazy reason, they don’t point to the home site of Aether, so you have to know the detailed information is at Blackberrybyaether.com. Nor do they tell you where the user interface is at No Comm Methods when all other queries on blackberry.net…

Patty Griffin is getting to be one of my favorite artists. She has a great bootleg CD set. You can also get these tracks on kazaa. She’s at the Paramount in Seattle on October 19 BTW.

Google Press Center: Zeitgeist. Ok, I’ve been studying this search engine stuff. John Ludwig mentioned he can see how people get to his page. Here is Google’s list of top queries. A fun fact list. Interesting that Windows 98 and IE6 are the main ways that things get accessed.

Google PageRank explained. I’ve never understood the page ranking algorithm that Google has. This does a good job of demystifying it.

StorageReview.com Headline NewsHere it is, the next set of drives to get. Wow, 3-year warranties and up to 250GB. Drool on! The MaxLine Plus II adds a third platter to the firm?s 7200 RPM design to reach capacities up to 250 GB. The Plus also incorporates an 8-meg cache. Both will be available in ATA-133…

StorageReview.com – Hardware, Benchmarks, Reviews, Reference, Research, and SurveysI’ve been pricing a do-it-yourself kit for Hoops. Here is a good place to get an overview on storage. I use Tom’s Hardware for just about everything else. The current leader is the Western Digital Caviar WD1200JB. I have one and it is like lightening. Another round…

Ideal Wine Cellar Temperature and Humidity After a great weekend at the Inn at Langley, I realized I’m storing my wine at the wrong temperature. Here’s a recommendation from a wine storage company… Wine should be held at a temperature which assures its proper rate of maturity. It is generally agreed that around 55?F is…

Philips CEO: LCD prices falling – Tech News – CNET.com Philips Electronics’ CEO Gerard Kleisterlee on Tuesday acknowledged that prices for liquid-crystal display screens were falling. “Apparently prices are going down. They are getting competitive again. I think we are reaching a point where undersupply is behind us,” Kleisterlee told Reuters at the sidelines of…

Blogicon description of what happens to your mind when you keep trying to attach “blog” to everything. You knew it had to happen, now there are special terms for those who blog 🙂

Blogroots | Home At this site you will find reviews of blogging tools and services and the latest news and happenings in the world of weblogging.

Bloglet: About RSS Bloglet’s RSS support is a radical departure from the way subscribers sign up for Bloglet. Before, a site owner had to sign up for Bloglet before anyone could subscribe to the site. Now, subscribers can subscribe to any site with an RSS feed, even if it isn’t a member of Bloglet. All…

BlogAmp BlogAmp is a free Winamp plugin that allows the user to keep in his personal web page a list with the last songs played in his Winamp. This list is update by FTP in real time. Thanks John Ludwig for another cool tool!

DVDplusRW.org – The ultimate unofficial DVD RW resource siteHere are some notes on why you can’t see DVD+RW on certain players… Any DVD player should be able to play back a DVD+RW disc, after identifying it. However, some DVD players falsly assume that, after identifying a disc as not being a dual layered DVD-ROM (which…

BlogSkins.com Just what I need dynamic templates…Yoohoo! So you’ve got a blog of your own. Congratulations. And you’re oh so proud of your witty and insightful posts. But you’ve got one problem — you suck at design. In fact, you suck so much that people skip right over your site because the bad color scheme…

Remove the Spyware, Banner Ads and Bitrate limit from Kazaa How To Remove the Banner Adds & Spyware from Kazaa What is Spyware ? What You Will Need Kazaa Ad-Aware cd_clint.dll Install Kazaa. Install Ad-Aware then use it to scan your computer for spyware. Remove all the spyware found including the spyware that Kazaa put…

US Flag Wallpaper Another great American flag

DefenseLINK – Official Web Site of the U.S. Department of Defense. Straight from the horses moth if you will. This is the official public relations site of the DoD. Some cool photos and other reports here.

tools Bloggar – a cool little program that sits in your system tray so you don’t have to go all the way to the taco stand to post. It does a whole lot more and is also available in French, Portugese, and Spanish for all you foreign guacamoles. Check out the screen shot. I’m still…

broadband ? Forums ? P2P Chat ? Kazaa registry hack question…… >In HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Kazaa there is only one option you can change … LimitBitrate. Setting this to 1 will limit the bitrate to 128 kbps, like Kazaa. Setting to 0 will set the bitrate back to normal. (320 kbps limit).