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Continue reading →: Shackleton Quote Is Not
Advert Proof Wanted. _I’m so depressed, it turns out that no one can find the actual source of the ad that Ernest Shackleton is said to have submitted to the London Times in 1913 for the Endurance. May have been for the Nimrod or it could be urgan legend, in…
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Continue reading →: Sony VAIO T140P/L Review
Sony VAIO T140P/L (ExactChoice Product Profile and Review of Features). Well the T140P/L is finally in stock. About $1800 for the 40GB/512MB model. Runs XP Home. Its about “Pricegrabber”:http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=4762539 shows that it is $1870 from “Page Computer”:http://www.pagecomputers.com/cgi-bin/page/B1481334.html, so it’s not expensive.
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Continue reading →: Insider scoop on PCs
AnandTech in Taiwan. A great insider scoop on what is up in Taiwan. The big news is that PCI Express ain’t selling well. The 915 boards are stacking up like cordwood. Shows once again that even with a brand like Intel, you can’t just sell stuff that ain’t faster. Interesting…
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Continue reading →: DFI LanPartyUT 855GME-MGF
Tom’s Pentium-M desktop motherboard. The latest strange inversion in the Intel product line. The mobile processor Pentium M 73x (codenamed Dothan) is actually faster and uses less power than its erstwhile “big brother” desktop chips Pentium 74x and 75x (codenamed Prescott). More than a little embarassing to Intel, the Pentium…
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Continue reading →: ebay hacks and tools
!{float: left; margin-right: 10px;}http://jillofalltrades.homestead.com/files/ebay_store_test_1.gif!:http://stores.ebay.com/Auction-Profit-Education-Consulting This is a huge sub-economy. There are many insights about this and many, many sites. Ebay itself is complex. Janelle is really great and a total expert. Some of her more interesting points and connections to great ebay tools are: * Auctionbites – Free news and…
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Continue reading →: Unlocked Nokia 6620s
The best place to get Nokia 6620s that are “unlocked” so that you can put it anywhere. Actually, they are amazingly cheap given they are unlocked. We bought three phones for $99 each but had to sign up for a three year contract. If you check out “ebay”:http://attr-search.ebay.com/6620_Phones-Only_Nokia-AT-T-Wireless-Unlocked_W0QQa10244ZQ2d24QQa25662Z25624QQa25664Z25636QQa35Z25644QQalistZa25664Q2ca25662Q2ca35Q2ca10244Q2ca3801QQcatrefZC6QQcoactionZcompareQQcoentrypageZsearchQQcopagenumZ1QQfromZR2QQgcsZ1440QQpfZShowQ20ItemsQQpf_queryZ6620QQpfidZ1720QQsacategoryZQ2d100QQsbrftogZ1QQsocolumnlayoutZ3QQsocomparecolumnlayoutZ1QQsofocusZpfQQsorecordsperpageZ50QQsosortorderZ2QQsosortpropertyZ2QQsotrZ2 you can…
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Continue reading →: Nokia Stereo Headset HDS-3
Nokia Stereo Headset HDS-3 For 6600/7200 series Phone. Nokia for instance needs special headset attachments. So you need to buy this for $15 and then if you have fancy earphones like this, you get “Adrian”:http://smithstuff.net to cut it off and put a 2.5mm connector on it.
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Continue reading →: Nokia 6620
Russell Beattie Notebook – My Shiny New Nokia 6620!. We got three of these and this is a great review by Russell Beattie. Am still charging it and am anxious to test the screen. The main bummer is that they have some funky headset attachment so you can’t plug in…
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Continue reading →: NEC ND-3500A DVD Recorder
AnandTech DVD Review and “Tom’s Hardware”:http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20041102/. _A new champion for DVD drives_ _From Anandtech_. From our results, we can see that the Pioneer DVR-108D, LG GSA-4160B, and NEC’s ND-3500A came out on top with their ability to burn any type of media almost flawlessly as well as burn 2.4X dual…
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Continue reading →: Latest on LAME
Hydrogenaudio Forums -> MP3 – General, It’s hard to find the latest data on what version of LAME (Lame isn’t an MPEG-3 Encoder). But, Hydrogenaudio seems to have it. Basically, today the version to use is Lame 3.90.3 which is a little older than the current 3.96, but seems to…
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