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  • Best Home Router Reviews

    Hardware Router Chart | Tom’s Networking. They have Den Guru now and they list the throughput of the various devices. It is amazing to see how fast these are. The Netgear WPNT834 for instance can up/download at 94Mbps. That should be fast enough for any broadband connection. The D-Link DGL4300 is the same at 93Mbps,…

  • Custom made and great

    Well, I’ve tried lots and lots of computer bags and sleeves and I’ve settled on the stuff form Waterfield aka sfbags.com http://sfbags.com You can design your own bag and they make it for you. The sleeve I use is from them and they have a sleevecase http://www.sfbags.com/products/sleevecases/sleevecases.htm that has just about every option. I use…

  • That’s a great ad campaign…I love it

    Goes along with What goes in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas. Here are folks I’d vote for the top five (again like Letterman). By the way the correct http://www.visitlasvegas.com/vegas/features/be-anyone/ is here. 5. Johnny Cash. Mainly because I liked Walked the Line and have gotten all his soundtracks :_) 4. Joel Goodsen. This for afictionados.…

  • Be Anyone in Las Vegas

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  • My Printers

    Printer drivers are so specialized and are so deeply linked, I can never find them. Here are the quick links for the printers we use at ” * HP LaserJet 4050 Printer series – Download drivers and software – HP Business Support Center. This is our old printer at work * “Ricoh 3235C”:http://www.ricoh-usa.com/downloads/downloads.asp?tsn=Ricoh-USA&path=http://support.ricoh.com/bb/html/dr_ut_e/rc2/model/c35_45/c35_45en.htm. This is…

  • iPod Video Options

    Converting Videos for iPod, Take 2 (Twelve Black Code Monkeys). My buddy at Twelve Black Monkeys went through the hard work of encoding in different formats and then figuring out what the tradeoffs are. The basic points from his spreadsheet are that basically recommends H.264 at a CBR (constant bit rate) if you are only…

  • iPod Video Problems and Limits

    KSDD:Articles:Getting Video into the iPod Video. I’ve been using Videola for a while and some of the videos won’t playback at all on my iPod. I suspect, I’m exceeding the maximum bitrate or other limits. I’ve been using the very compact .mp4 format with h.264. The limits are below: # File formats: .m4v, .mp4 or…

  • Print Server

    Print server Print Servers – PriceGrabber.com. I could use one for our Canon i9900. We’ve been using an old laptop up there and it actually works reasonably well, but it would be nice not o. I’m just worried that this print server stuff doesn’t really work. here are the top ones at that are Pricegrabber.…

  • My buddy Dale is great!

    We’ve been working with Dale for the last 15 years now. He has wired three homes for us. He’s great and very thorough, most importantly, he’ll tell you exactly what he is doing. He’ll also do structured wiring, fire alarm and ethernet, so a good all purpose guy and he’s very responsive. Our main issue…

  • Videos and Soundtracks to your iPod

    The kids are really starting to like the iPod Video so time to get more things down there. There are all kinds of utilities and things and I’m sure this isn’t the fastest way to rip video and get soundtracks to your iPod, but it works for me: h2. If you have an AVI and…