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Continue reading →: Podcasting
Podcasting – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. One of the most amazing trends that literally has taken off in six months is this podcasting idea. That is, there is audio on the web and it automagically downloads to an iPod. I’m stunned by how fast these platform shifts happen now. Literally…
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Continue reading →: Sony Vaio T140P/L
Sony Unveils 3-Pound T-Series Ultra-Portable Notebook @ CHAITGEAR. This is pretty close to the perfect travel notebook. Its not the machine for everything. In fact, right now I think the dream combination is a fast and cheap desktop for office work that you can get for $1,000 or so now…
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Continue reading →: Turkey
!{float: right; margin-left: 10px;}http://www.wholefoods.com/recipes/images/turkey_2004.jpg!:http://www.wholefoods.com/recipes/turkeyprimer.html Time once again for Rich to take charge and roast the turkey. As usual, here’s a list of recipes that work: “Whole Foods”:http://www.wholefoods.com/recipes/turkeyprimer.html. The local high end but fresh grocer around here. They have a basic recipe that includes brining the turkey. The brine ratio: 2…
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Continue reading →: RockXP
|MG| Free Download – RockXP 3.0. Hey this is a great program. Gives you the Windows XP PID and also the PIDs of other applications in case you lose them. Also recovers a bunch of other passwords as well.
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Continue reading →: Get Yahoo Toolbar
Yahoo! Toolbar. YOu have to get this tool for the antispyware. Been working through what’s wrong with Connie’s computer and despite the fact we run IE 6.0, Google Popup Blocker, Zonealarm, Norton Antivirus and Spybot Search and Destroy. On running Lavasoft Ad-aware that I found zillions of spyware programs that…
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Continue reading →: XP Hangs and Reboots
Troubleshoot Windows XP Professional. Been getting an amazing number of hangs (e.g., mouse freezes) and random reboots (no blue screen, just blown to the restart). Feels like there is instability in at least two machines at the driver level. As an old NT guy, I know that the only way…
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Continue reading →: Reinstalling XP
Sniptools ?| Tips/Tricks | Reinstall Windows XP without product activation. A bunch of my XP machines are getting random crashes. With the NTFS file system, it is easy to corrupt things and one machine is now dead. Things chkdsk fine, but that doesn’t mean the operating system files themselves aren’t…
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Continue reading →: SP2 Required
Symantec Support. Now that Microsoft is going to discontinue support for the “gold” XP, they are forcing everyone to upgrade to SP2. Interesting, this is the hardest core shift I’ve seen lately, but it makes me worried about the machines I have that aren’t SP2 yet. Here’s a note on…
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Continue reading →: dBpowerAMP
dBpowerAMP. OK, after much experimenting, this looks like the best of the bunch for setup and also for quality. First, it doesn’t make a mystery what codecs you need. You can download the Windows Media 9 Codecs (confusing that Windows Media Player is version 10, but but the codecs are…
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Continue reading →: WMA Conversion
WMA to MP3 converter, WMA MP3 converter, MP3 organizer, MP3 tagger, CD burner. I tried CDEX to convert from WMA to MP3, but it complains incessantly about a DLL missing even though I downloaded it. Here is a whole site devote to WMA to MP3 etc. These are mainly shareware…
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