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Continue reading →: Computer VGA to Component Output
OK, if you’ve got a flat panel TV and want to project say some movies from your computer, how do you do it. You need a magic box called a “VGA to TV Convertor”:http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/PC-TV_video_adapter.html. Ram has one for $99 that takes VGA analog output and then converts it into component…
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Continue reading →: PSP Games, Nubs and Cases
Calvin got so bored on his last trip that I finally dug out a PSP I had buried in a gadget drawer and gave it to him. Now he really likes it for trips, so time to accessorize. “Pricegrabber”:http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_attrib.php/page_id=1935 has popular ones and “PSP411”:http://psp411.com has great reviews. * Memory Stick…
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Continue reading →: Best Media Player
Well, I use a huge variety of these, from the standard Windows Media Player to everything else. Net, net, the easiest to use is for me “Zoom Player”:http://www.inmatrix.com/. The main reason is that it automatically installs all the various codecs that you need automatically and they are the really great…
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Continue reading →: Apple share is 4th for notebooks and 5th for desktops
Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About Bloomberg provided March 2007 marketshare numbers from the NPD Group. It revealed that for March 2007, Apple was ranked 4th for notebook sales (9.9%), 5th for Desktop sales (7.7%), and #1 for MP3 Player Sales (68.9%). BetaNews provides a historical…
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Continue reading →: Best Workflow for Raw images uses DXO, CS Pro and Noise Ninja
With all these plugins around for photos that do the same thing, it is a little confusing what to use. Here is one fellows view on what to do Bluejake: Westside, Looking Northeast from 31st and 10th I use DxO Optics Pro to correct lens distortion (but I don’t use…
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Continue reading →: Top PSP Games
Calvin really likes the PSP but has lost all his games. “Gamespot”:http://www.gamespot.com/games.html?type=top_rated&platform=1024&page_type=games&tag=subnav;top_games. Sid Maeier’s Pirates got an 8.6 and is wonderful on the PC. Powered by ScribeFire.
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Continue reading →: New MacBooks next week or certainly by June WWDC
Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About ThinkSecret updates with claims that both MacBook and MacBook Pro updates are coming sooner than expected. (As an aside, “Anandtech”:http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=2985&p=9 has seen no real world performance improvement with moving to this chipset, which means that used or refurbished MacBook Pro’s…
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Continue reading →: United Mileage promotions
United is always running strange promotions that require signup. The latest is that if you register at “http://www.united.com/chinabonus”:http://www.united.com/chinabonus, you’ll get up to 10,000 mileage points if you fly to China before June 30. Turns out there are lots of way to track this. “MileMaven.com”:http://milemaven.com is an awesomely cool site that…
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Continue reading →: itunes cannot run because it has detected a problem with your audio configuration
Keep getting this error and Apple says that you need to “uninstall”:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304424 and reinstall Quicktime. Let’s see if that helps. Powered by ScribeFire.
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