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San Diego Bicycle Rentals
Phil found a great set of sites that let you out into the great ourdoors in San Diego. San Diego Kayaking & Bike Tours in San Diego with Hike Bike Kayak San Diego (866) 425-2925. . They run a whole series of tours. 10% off for bicycling and hiking. Ohter things that they have are:…
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HP DX5150
AnandTech: HP DX5150 – OEM plus AMD. A good review of a business system. Interesting to see how performance has really converged. If you upgrade the video card, then you have a very high performance machine. They recommend the DX5150 X2 3800+ “Smart Buy”:http://h71016.www7.hp.com/dstore/MiddleFrame.asp?page=config&ProductLineId=429&FamilyId=2178&BaseID=16561&jumpid=re_R2515_store/smProdCat/BusinessDesktopPCs/sku_dx5150. This actually has a Athlon 3800+ X2 in it and is…
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King County now has Digital Music
King County Library System – Digital Books – OverDrive eMusic. How way cool. You can now check out digital music from the King County Library. Just need a library card and then you can use OverDrive to get eMusic and Books. Mainly classical music, but some great ones.
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More Nero Tools
Nero [Clean Tools]. There are many great tools that Nero has on their site. Here are some that clean up the registry completely.
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Video Editing Reviews: Microsoft Movie Maker and Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0
_I’m going through all the editing programs trying to find one that is easy and powerful_ I’m going to surprise myself and say that while I like Sonic Foundry quite a lot, I’m surprised by how good the Microsoft Movie Maker actually is. Its based on an old version of Roxio, but it is surprisingly…
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Nero Speed Limits
Nero on our DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra D mysteriously has gotten confused about the maximum write speeds of both a Benq DW1640 and a Ricoh drives. It thinks the Benq only writes at 4x and the Ricoh at 2.4x. The main issue appears to be that it doesn’t actually set the burn speed until *after*…
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Asus A8R-MVP and DFI LanParty nf4 SLI-DR Expert
AnandTech: Asus A8R-MVP: Mainstream Rocket. There is a new king of overclocking. For the last year or so, DFI has made the fastest boards with the overclocking. Now the value oriented A8R-MVP along with the ATI Crossfire X1800XT is just amazingly quick. Or, if you have lots of dough, the “DFI LanParty nF4 SLI-DR Expert”:http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2620…
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Best Spa in South Bay
Saratoga CA Day Spa, Los Gatos Day Spa, Consulting – Preston Wynne. Hey Peter told me that this was a great spa place in the South Bay. Check it out. Seems very nice!
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Besplit or MP3DirectCut and what about Besweet Light
“Besplit”:http://besplit.doom9.org/ is a utlity that cuts up an MP3 file intelligently, so it happens on blank spaces. I’ve been using MP3DirectCut to do a similar thing, so another option if you’ve got a big file that needs to be cut. Another hat tip goes to “Besweet Light”:http://belight.corecodec.org/. This is an easy to understand tool that…
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SD Memory Card REview
EXTREME Overclocking – 1GB & 2GB ATP Secure Digital SD Memory Card Review – Page: 6 – Tweaking PC Hardware To The Max. Memory cards are all pretty much the same, but for $68 vs. $50 for a vanilla card, you get one that is about twice as fast on writing. 10MBps is 60x the…