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America's Cup on NBC – October 7 – YouTube
America’s Cup on NBC – October 7 – YouTube. Well, if you are following sailing, the America’s Cup is now a race series with identical AC45 (45 foot boats) and then in 2013, there is the main race using AC72, the big brother, which are all different. Finding this isn’t easy. In TiVo, they are…
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Affordable Small Cars
So if you just want a reliable small car that is easy to drive and learn for the beginner driver, what are the choices? According to US News, you should consider: Honda Fit. This is small and perhaps too small for big drivers, but is inexpensive and easy to maneuver. Ford Fiesta. This is can…
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Simpletech Simpleshare
I have three of these old things just sitting on a desk. Simpletech is long since gone, but they are still functional NAS that are good for storing some videos and so forth. So why not use them. Fortunately, the Internet let’s you do that: Retrevo has their original manual which is pretty nice You…
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HD HomeRun Prime
Well I’ve gotten HD HomeRun Prime to work on Mac MythTV and also Windows Media Center, but haven’t gotten much further. Mainly use a TiVo to record things with kmttg which also does ad skipping. What I really want is an easy way to do this with HD HomeRun Prime and get rid of the…
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Getting virtual disks to work
OK, getting back to Windows, so many things I’ve forgotten. If you want to run without a disk drive, but have the DVD what do you do? Well, if the DVD doesn’t have copy protection, you need to turn it into an ISO and then run virtualCloneDrive to mount it as a disk image and away…
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Sailing Simulators
If you love sailing, well then why not play a simulation on your computer. It is not like most folks have $100M to run an Americas’ Cup campaign, so here’s a quick search of what is out there: Sailing Simulator 5. Shipped in 2010 and there is a Windows demo. First hit on google, so…
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Apple owes me $44
Argh. Darn Apple Maps, they think the Washington Athletic Club is down on 5th vs the actual address on 6th. Wandered around looking for it and got a ticket 2 minutes before I got back. Was there for 15. Wow, the ever efficient revenue generation of Seattle! And there is of course no way to…
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Gamers PC Blu Ray Player Samsung SE-506 or use digital downloads only
OK, I thought I could get away without an optical drive, but it is pretty clear that PC games are still delivered this way, so I still need some way to read them. Not everything is on Steam or downloadable yet (when will that be???). You do have to suffer with things like EA’s Origin…
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Gamer PC Drivers, drivers
Well the hard part seemed to be putting the hardware together, but it is really getting the software particularly when everything is flash. Here are the steps: Download the Windows USB Installer Put in your DVD and make it Goto the ASUS site and download all the many new drivers Goto the nVidia site and…
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Cyberpower AVR vs LCD
I got a Cyberpower CP1500PFCLCD which is a pure sinewave version costing $200. It is confusing as there is also a model called CP1500AVR and CP1500AVRLCD. AVR means that it isn’t an actual sine wave, but a triangular. Not so good theoretically for modern power supplies that use PFC. If you can get away with it, the…