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iPod Reset
Resetting iPod if it appears frozen or doesn’t respond. Arrghh. Somehow my 4G iPod Photo just doesn’t like my Windows machine anymore. It sure feels like a driver error somewhere. Basically what happens is that on loading, I often times don’t get to iTunes and then the iPod hangs on the don’t disconnect message. Resetting…
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Yet another link
Mobile Music & The Ipod Frenzy: iPod Accessories. Holy toledo, I don’t know where google gets this, but sure works better than Technorati I have to say, another fellow who found a review I did. Amazing.
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First hit from DL Byron
Blog Business Summit: Cycling is the new golf. It’s a circular post, but thanks to the new google blog finder, I found someone blogging about me blogging about cycling. I gather that it really is the new golf. Which is good, I took up biking six years ago and golfing two. I can promise you…
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Google’s Firefox Extensions
Google Firefox Extensions. Wow, innovation continues. There are no less than six plug ins for firefox I had not heard of. They have Google safe browsing that identifies ifyou have a bad page and there is a little widget called blogger web comments to tell you what someone has said about a particular page. You…
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Ski Pass Discounts
Whistler Lift Tickets and Season Passes. You need to an IRS tax attorney to understand the pricing structure at Whistler/Blackcomb. The big points are: * Skiing is free if you are 6 or under. Cool! * If you are a Washington or BC resident, you get an EDGE card. This gives you about a 20%…
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NSLU2 and WRT54GL or NAS for home
NetworkGarage.com: NAS Done Right. Andrew is trying to use NAS at home. I actually tried this as well last year. Bought USB enclosures and the NSLU2. Basically at least back then, it was incredibly unreliable and the USB enclorues are quite loud. Performance is only OK, but the main issue was the constant crashes under…
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Tweakguides for Games
Every gamer wants to make their system faster, so after overclocking like mad, check out “TweakGuides.com”:http://tweakguides.com for the latest on specific tweaks to improve performance: TweakGuides.com – Call of Duty 2 Tweak Guide. A nice review for Call of Duty “What is Antialiasing?”:http://www.tweaktown.com/guides/601/the_simple_antialiasing_and_anisotropic_guide/index.html a guide for those of who think Anisotropic is something that happens…
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Update now
Wireless LAN Products – Download Windows* Software for Intel? PRO/Wireless Network Connection. A bunch of sites say the new Intel wifi software finally fixes various problems like connection drops and so forth. They are right. My new VAIO works perfectly with it. And if you don’t have an OEM who updates you the generic Intel…
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H.264 in .MP4 files
Talk about an arcane topic. I can’t believe that Windows is so complicated when it comes to playback! Anyway, the new iPod expects its video in H.264 format. Videola produces this in a .MP4 file, but how do you play this back on the PC to check it. Well, the easy way is to use…
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Wallpaper Changer
Now that I’ve got Nostalgia as my screensaver, next thing is to change the desktop wallpaper automatically too. Again, there are bunch of free utilities: * “Microsoft Powertoys”:http://www.worldstart.com/tips/tips.php/312. Before the era of activation keys (I just had Office die and we had to call up because the nVidia driver rearranged the CD-ROMS on my machine.…