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  • Solid State Drives

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    Drool, drool, solid state drives are on the way. They are as fast as traditional hard disks. They are about $1,000 per 64GB drive which is still expensive but coming down fast. Think about it as the logical upgrade for your current notebook. AnandTech: 64GB SSD on the Desktop: Samsung…

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  • Movies from Video Games

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    Video games are so advanced now that you can make really good animated features from them. One of my favorite games, “Call of Duty 4”:http://codhq.com has been used for a really amazing series called “Retaliation”:http://www.machinima.com/film/view&id=25388. You have to see it to believe how good it is.

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  • Buying Guides

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    Dave asked me what review sites I use as he uses “Consumersearch.com”:http://consumersearch.com, I use a different site for each specialty area. And some notes on what’s the right buys… 1. Camcorders.info. The best reviews on video cameras. Canon HF-10 looks like the winner as HD camcorder2. Dcviews.com. An overview site…

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  • Soros on the economy

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    Minds over Money: The godfather of global investors – May. 14, 2008 Where is your money now? A. Mostly in my endowment fund, a good portion of which I had farmed out to other money managers. When I saw what I considered the most serious financial crisis of my lifetime,…

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  • Darrell is a genius

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    Here are some of the things he has selected…for us. He’s great and some good choices for others that are thinking about small business applications: * “Fonality”:http://fonality.com. IP PBX and also a PC Magazine editors choce. They sell a hardware box. $1000 is the software charge for standard. Professional is…

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  • Changing Default Application

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    While there is an application you can download and that makes it easy to change the default application. “AskDaveTaylor.com”:http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_change_file_icons_and_the_default_application_on_my_mac.html has an obscure way to do it that doesn’t require a download: # Click on the file that you want to change. For instance, foo.mpg # Choose File/Get Info # You…

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  • Webcams

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    Dave was asking me about webcams. Since we use Macs mainly, I haven’t really studied the PC market (all Macs have iSight webcams which are decent, but most importantly built in). “Cowboyfrank.net”:http://cowboyfrank.net has an amazing number of webcam reviews. He likes the “Creative Notebook Pro”:http://cowboyfrank.net/webcams/Creative/NotebookPro2007/Description.htm, but the top rated notebook…

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  • Password protect WordPress

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    This is an old post, but “cre8d design”:http://www.cre8d-design.com/blog/2006/08/10/password-protecting-your-wordpress-blog/ explains how to password protect your blog. The simplest way is the “registered only”:http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/registered-only/trunk/ plugin. With this plugin, only registered users can actually see your blog.

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  • Instant PhD in biotech

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    Ok, so here is a primer, also known as PhD in a blog entry: Plasmid – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A plasmid is an extra-chromosomal DNA molecule separate from the chromosomal DNA which is capable of replicating independently of the chromosomal DNA.[1] In many cases, it is circular and double-stranded.…

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  • Stryker Mobile Gun System

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    !http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/00/IAVFiringCanon.jpg/250px-IAVFiringCanon.jpg! Watched a “Future Weapons”:http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/future-weapons/future-weapons.html with the kids and some great footage on the new “Stryker”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stryker. There are lots of variants and “M1128 Styker Mobile Gun System”:http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/iav-mgs.htm !>http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/images/stryker-icon-mgs.jpg! This is one big gun on one small platform.

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