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Continue reading →: All in one printers
Someone asked me, what if you want to just send a fax these days. Well, like most things, the question is complicated. There are the really low end and ugly thermal fax machines, but with all-in-one printers just $180, it is not clear why you’d want one. So the house…
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Continue reading →: Portable GPS for your car
Someone was asking me what they could do about a car that doesn’t have a $3,000 GPS in it and what if they don’t want to buy a car just to get one. Well, TomTom, Garmin and Magellan are in a fight to the death to offer just such a…
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Continue reading →: Apple one day sale
Hey Apple is actually offering “discounts”:http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?nnmm=browse&Email_PageName=HOL2007-114828&Email_OID=175349&cp=5812&cid=CDM-US-HOL2007-C0003865-114828&sr=em&node=campaigns/holiday on the day after Thanksgiving. Small, but makes some difference, the new iPod nano is $138 and $10 off on iLife to $68 from $79. One cool thing is the very sleek Apple Bluetooth headset is now $108 from $129, although I think the…
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Continue reading →: Legoland
Legoland is something younger kids like. 8 is about the perfect age. The cost of the place is simply amazing at $60 for an adult. Fortunately, “Mousesavers”:http://www.mousesavers.com/legoland.html has some amazing discounts. Right now, you can get $7 off with just a coupon. Or book with “Costco”:http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11206458&whse=BC&topnav=&browse=&lang=en-US&s=1 to get 25% off…
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Continue reading →: Whistler Skiing
Arrgh, this is so complicated. I love the small resorts like “Sun Peaks”:http://sunpeaksresorts.com and who likes the fact that the US dollar is now less than the Canadian dollar, so prices are 30% higher, still the kids friends are all going up there, so I have to follow them. Here…
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Continue reading →: Playing RMVB on the Mac
Playing different video formats on the Mac is a real pain. “Animemusicvideos.org”:http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/playback/playosx.html has a nie list of, if I need to play a format, here is what I need to do with the short answer that beside Quicktime, the main thing you need is VLC: | Format | Player Needed…
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Continue reading →: Free and legal songs on iTunes and eMusic
Many sites are now tuning for the iPhone and also TUAW does a good list of free “downloads”:http://www.tuaw.com/2007/11/14/itunes-free-wednesday/ from iTunes. Many are from foreign countries, so what you have to do is to logon and then you have to buy a gift card and enter an address from that country.…
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Continue reading →: Learning to Program
Alex and Calvin are both learning to program. Here are some geat modern ways (as opposed to Basic that I learned): * “Alice”:http://alice.org. This is a 3D programming environment that is used to put people into the graphical world. EA is underwriting the development and will use Sims 2 characters…
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Continue reading →: iPhone 1.1.2 is out and now Jailbroken too…
Well, “1.1.2”:http://www.t3.co.uk/news/247/communications/mobile_phone/iphone-firmware-update-2 is out and that means hacking begins, the main feature for all us Chinese users is that it “finally” has Chinese input. Ryan tells me it is buggy though, so beware. In any case, 1.1.2 appears mainly to be a language release and of course it closes off…
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Continue reading →: Blackberry 8120 and 8139
It’s been a year since the original Blackberry Pearl came out, so of course its time for an update. The new Blackberry 8120 and “8130”:http://na.blackberry.com/eng/devices/device-detail.jsp?navId=H0,C101,P625#tab_tab_features finally gives you a 2 megapixel camera that is on the Curve. Also there is the “8120”:http://na.blackberry.com/eng/devices/series-detail.jsp?navId=H0,C101 that is launching in the UK. The big…
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