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Continue reading →: Headphone Buying Guide
HeadRoom | Portable Listening. The folks at Headroom do such an outstanding job doing recommendations for headphones and portable equipment. The best recommendations are the Etymotic headphones. I’ve gotten a bunch for folks. They are expensive, but boy do they sound amazing. The ER-6P is $99 and is very good.…
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Continue reading →: BlogIt for Firefox
JustBlogIt with a simple right-click.. Eureka, I love Firefox, but one announying thing is that tools like QuickPost for MovableType don’t work well with it. In particular, the popup comes up behind the main windows instead of in front. This fixes that (I hope). Also SharpMT doesn’t seem to get…
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Continue reading →: Buying List
Ok, so many things to look at right now…here’s a list of what we’re in the market for right now: * “iPod”:http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_attrib.php/page_id=161. Probably the 4G 20GB version. No VC can really invest in consumer products without having an ipod. They are their own universe right now. Man these these things…
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Continue reading →: Dream Laptop nearly here
Page Computer — T140P/L NB PM1100 512MB 40GB CDRW/DVD 10.6IN WXPP. My dream laptop is nearly here. It is the low-end Sony VGN-T140P/L, cost if $1905 and it is backordered. Can’t wait to get it.
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Continue reading →: Markdown
Daring Fireball: Markdown. We’ve been using Textile 2 for a while as the markup languages for all of our blogs. I see now that using Markdown, so it is an interesting language to try. Textile is great and powerful, but hard to teach folks the more sophisticated stuff. BTW, this…
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Continue reading →: Commenters must register
Because tongfamily.com is literally beseiged with spammers (even with MT Blacklist, I get probably 50 spam comments a day), I’m turning on the registration required. In order to comment you’ll need a free “Typekey”:http://typekey.com registration in order to logon. Sorry about this, but I’m wasting too much time editing out…
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Continue reading →: Final Move from MT 2.661 to MT3
Learning Movable Type: TypeKey Authentication for Comments. I thought I was done, but it turns out there is a ton of work to be done. MT 2.661 blogs are *not* automatically converted to MT3.0. There is a boatload of work to do as covered in Elise.com and also in “Anzi”:http://www.anzidesign.com/archives/000443.html…
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Continue reading →: Final Fix for Blackberry 7230, Windows XP SP2 and Outlook 2003
Well its taken forever to figure out how to fix the various problems. There are lots of postings. I basically got the install problem to work with XP SP2, but I’ve been unable to synchronize because when I go to the Desktop Manager and choose Intellisync/Configure PIM/Address Book/Choose/Browse, I don’t…
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Continue reading →: Quantum String Costume
Calvin wants to be a quantum string for Halloween (I know, the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree). So we need a picture of a quantum string for the front of his sweatshirt (black of course) and the equations on the back. Here are the places to look for…
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Continue reading →: Portable Speakers
Need one of these portable speakers for presentations. Got an el cheapo Radio Shack thing for $40, but it is incredibly heavy and you have to bring two speakers. That’s because it uses 4C batteries each and is very bulky. The reviews for portable speakers absolutely stink from the mainstream…
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