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Cool Screensavers
Freeware Home – Desktop … Cosmetic Tools … Screen Saver Tools. The Mac has a really cool Ken Burns like screen saver. There is also a video screen saver that Microsoft has, but it requires validation and is a pain to load. So what’s free and good: * 4View Screen Saver. This create tiled images…
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nVidia new drivers 81.xx and 6.7x
Tong Family Blog: nVidia Driver Install. The newest drivers for nForce4 and also for the latest 7800GTX are apparently real performance boosters. Big recommendation over at Anandtech to update. You can get these from “nVidia”:http://nvidia.com It is tricky to do this, follow the instructions noted. You need Driver cleaner to do this so you make…
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Dual Core Performance
AMDZone :: The real #1 source for AMD news, reviews, and info. Est 1998.. Both AMD and Intel as well as nVidia and ATI have been busy. The latest nVidia drivers post version 80.xx support dual core improvements as do ATI drivers 5.13 and later. The performance improvement isn’t large as most games are graphics…
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Got an extra X2 lying around…
AnandTech: Mid-Range to High-End Buyer’s Guide, January 2006. If you have an extra X2 lying around, then it is a shame not to use it. It was from my blown DFI LanParty board. In any case, Anand was nice enough to write a January guide for the best motherboards and things.
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Bike Stand
!>http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2005/tech/reviews/ultimate_pro_elite/Ultimate_Pro_Elite_full_viewtn.jpg! www.cyclingnews.com news and analysis. Phil got one last week and I’m amazed at how good a truly nice a stable one can be. This ones is the Ultimate Pro Elite for $250 list, but the knock-off from “Performance”:http://www.performancebike.com/shop/Profile.cfm?SKU=19982&item=40-2198&slitrk=search&slisearch=true is just $140 right now. It is a nice one. The main thing being that it…
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Rebates Galore
Now that you’ve bought all that loot, get your rebates. Manufacturers lover ebates because 70% of the time, folks don’t do the work to fill it in. Even when you do, about half of mine get rejected, so here is this seasons. * 1310-1DT.pdf (application/pdf Object). $50 off LCD monitors from HP.
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PowderWatch Northwest
SkiWashington.Com. It is very hard to see *all* the resorts and to know where they are in terms of snow and so forth. Plus where the “webcams”:http://www.skiwashington.com/webcams.php are as well. Also,there is a “powder alert”
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Railroad Tycoon Update 3 and other updates
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 for PC Downloads – RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Downloads – RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Demos. Seems like every game these days ships with a sea of bugs. RollerCoaster Tycoon in our case just crashes out of the box on a vanilla XP machine, hope one of these updates help. In this case, it needs…
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What is Cerulean Blue?
!>http://webexhibits.org/pigments/indiv/i/105paintedSwatch/ceruleanblue.jpg! Cerulean blue – overview. Calvin heard this and was wondering. A very cool shade. And another great Calvinism that I just had to share. While riding mountain bikes down a trail, I said, Alex you are doing well as are you Calvin and he says, bq. Alex, he’s a single track artist Should be…
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Oggcodecs decodes Flac
illiminable Ogg Directshow Filters for Speex, Vorbis, Theora and FLAC. I use FLAC for lossless compression to archive music. Until now I’ve used winamp to playback FLAC files or dbPowerAmp to convert them back to WAV or MP3. A strange thing is that Ogg has a set of DirectShow filters that will let any DirectShow…