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Continue reading →: USB Phone Charger
ZIP-KIT-NK1 ZIP-LINQ Retractable Nokia Phone Charger Kit at TigerDirect.com. NOw that I have USB connection for just about everything, I can charge my Blackberry, iPod, Bluespoon AX headset all from my laptop or any USB connection, the only thing left is my Nokia 6620 phone. Here’s the $20 solution from…
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Continue reading →: USB External Hard Drive
Deb asked me what’s the cheapest way to upgrade her Dell “Inspiron 8100”:http://www.gamers-depot.com/hardware/notebooks/dell/inspiron8100/001.htm and not have to buy a new laptop. A great question since laptops are not that upgradeable and they are expensive. She was thinking about buying a new 60GB hard drive and an additional 256MB of memory…
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Continue reading →: Joysticks
Joystick Directory at Joystick Review. No one seems to be playing flight simulators anymore, so the reviews I’ve seen of joysticks are usually a couple of years old. Microsoft has even exited the business, although ebay has quite a few SideWinder “Force Feedback 2”:http://www.joystickreview.com/microsoft/sidewinderforcefeedback2.asp’s around. Thye have a great rating…
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Continue reading →: Sun Peaks
We are off to Sun Peaks. I’m actually kind of amazed how little information there is on the web about this ski resort. Well, maybe we can be the top hit 🙂 Anyway, here are some resources: * Sun Peaks, British Columbia – Reviews and travel information. There are a…
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Continue reading →: hdtv capture
HTPCnews Forums -> Recording HDTV FAQ Q. Can I record my satellite provider’s HDTV feeds? A. No you cannot. The satellite vendors employ encryption and use a different signal encoding scheme than OTA or even cable. Q. Can I record my cable provider’s HDTV feeds? A. Yes and No. Yes,…
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Continue reading →: htpc software
Home Theater PC News – Your Source for Everything HTPC Related Then you will want to look at building an HTPC around Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) 2005. MCE 2005 is a copy of Windows XP SP2 and a PVR/media center rolled into one. MCE requires a fairly new…
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Continue reading →: Flash Drives
“Flash Drive Review”:http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/usb-flash-roundup.html and X-bit labs – Articles – Five Flash Drives with USB 2.0 Interface (page 6). A good review of flash drives if older 2003 review. The net is that drives have very different performance depending on the speed of the flash they use. Most are 8-10MBps whereas…
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Continue reading →: Another Dothan Benchmark
GamePC – Battle at 90nm : Power Consumption and Performance Compared Our Doom3 benchmarks show the “Winchester” Athlon64 in a more positive light, besting the “Dothan” Pentium-M by an advantage of about a single processor speed grade. The opposite is seen in Far Cry, where the Pentium-M bests the Athlon64…
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Continue reading →: Office 2003
JR.com: MICROSOFT Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition in Office Productivity Suites:. _If you’ve got kids, here’s a very affordable way to get Office 2003. For $130, you get a copy of Office that can legally be installed on three machines. That’s a big discount over Office 2003 Standard and…
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Continue reading →: Terapeak
Terapeak: eBay Marketplace Research. A pretty amazing site. This is a research database of what is actually selling on ebay. BTW while we are at it, check out our “ebay”:http://stores.ebay.com/Marketing-Playbook to get autographed copies of the Marketing Playbook. Category Research Understand category patterns & make informed decisions.
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