On-line Chinese Tools. There are some great ones here including a flash card system for learning chinese characters and a complete dicitonary. Doesn’t have modern words like “venture capital” for example. or “blog” Most of the tools are based on the CEDict project which does translations for free on the web. They are either web […]
Month: November 2005
Call of Duty 2 Rocks
The reviews of this game are correct. The first Call of Duty just blew me away with its realism. From the shake mode when artillery landed to the sounds. Now this one is just more and more people and more and more of the same. I love it just the same. The Russian front for […]
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nVidia IDE Driver on nForce2
Win XP/2K – IDE (4.15). There have been many reports about how flaky this driver can be. Mainly on nForce3 chipsets. For us, I found that our ASUS A7N8X-X with an old Athlon XP 2800+ would suddenly hang. Turns out that after much diagnosis, defragging a certain file on the system drive would cause the […]
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Dimage 5400 Utilities
Software & Drivers | Support | KONICA MINOLTA. Where you download utilities for the Minolta-Konica Dimage 5400. The application is now old, it is called ImageScan 1.1.5. Been scaning old slides. Most I do at 2700 dpi since they really don’t have the resolution and have degraded some.
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Recover XP PIDs
RockXP download and review – recover XP activation code from SnapFiles. An exceedingly useful tool. Let’s you recover your XP Product ID from your Windows installation.
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Learning Chinese
“Zhongwen”:http://zhongwen.com is a great site for understanding chinese as it has an online dictionary that includes roots and things. It also has some great resoruces for learning chinese including: * Learning Chinese Online Page. This is one of many very good site for learning online and has pointers to zillions of other sites. * “CD […]
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IBEX Vantage JayVee
IBEX Vantage JayVee Details. Peter asked about this bike. It is a great size for kids. A great value too because it ships directly from the manufacturer. The folks at IBEX are great by the way. The components are high quality. Much higher than a Wal*Mart bike and it will last a long time. And, […]
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Key Disk Backups
“CDFreaks”:http://club.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=81 has illustrated guides on how to deal with various copy protection schemes when you want to make a backup. If you’ve been buying lots of games like me and the kids wipe out the key disk, you are really hosed.
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Benq DW1640 Update
BenQ USA – Drivers DW1640. Benq has a nice web site and clear support documentation for its DVD Rewriters. Folks at “CDFreaks”:http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=154261 seem to like firmware BSMB so upgrade if you have this drive (btw, they just announced the DW1655 which is as fast as the 1640 but also has this Lightscribe technology where with […]
