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Changing Driver Letters
Changing Drive Letters. _This one thing has always driven me crazy. I like to have C as the system drive, D as the CD-ROM or DVD and E as the data drive, but sometimes, I get it wrong when I install. Here’s how to fix it._ To change the default letter assignment for drives: #…
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Geocaching with Google Maps
If you want to create your own geocaches from home without fancy GPS software how can you do it with Google Maps. Here’s how: * Latitude and Longitude Search. This is an amazing site that when given a feature on a map tells you the latitude and longitude. * “Google Maps”:http://maps.google.com/. If you feed google…
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Airline Toll Free Numbers
“Travelersnet.com”:http://www.travelersnet.com/support/tools/phone.htm has a list of all toll free numbers. It is amazing how hard these are to find on each airline’s site now. They don’t want you to call. It is expensive. Some ones I use: Air Canada 888-247-2262 Alaska Airlines 800-425-0333 American Airlines 800-433-7300 Continental 800-525-0290 Delta Air Lines 800-221-1212 United Airlines 800-241-6522
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Airline Quality
I don’t know where Air Canada is in quality. They are three star. Air Canada Star Ranking
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International Travel Bookings
Normally, I find the results between a travel agent, Expedia, Orbitz or any other discounter to be about the same in the US. But, I’m finding that for travel to China, there are vast differences. Also when we went to Europe, I tried to book via Expedia, Orbitz etc and the airfares were on the…
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Default Passwords
Default Router Usernames and Passwords. Handy guide to default passwords for various routers. In case I forget mine… | | Username | Password | | Actiontec | _none_ | _none_ | | Belkin | _none_ | _none_ | | Buffalo | root | _none_ | | D-Link | admin | _none_ | | Linksys |…
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China Travel
It’s tricky to figure out all the ways to get to China. Here are some notes: * United Airlines – Promotions: Air. United is constantly running promotions, but you have to register for them. For instance for fall travel, if you register your Mileage Plus number, you get an additional 5,000 miles for travel booked…
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Digital Camera Accessories
Single Slot Multi-Card Reader USB Flash Drive (Lexar-RW023001) – PriceGrabber.com. With all these different formats around, how do you read them all. This is a handy $20 device that takes all those tiny cards from SD, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, MMC and xD Picture cards and converts them into a USB 2.0 interface. Very…
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USB Flash Drives
Tom’s Hardware Guide Mass Storage: Two Fast and Functional USB Flash Drives – Power Meets Intelligence: Who Wins? and the more recent “Tomss Hardware high speed review”:http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20050520/index.html A much later review that the “Xbitlab’s 2003”:https://richtong.net/gadgets/2005/02/10/flash_drives.html review I used to get an Apacer USB Flash Drive, so since I lost my Apacer, here’s an update on…
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Digital Photo Tools
There are so many useful tools for post image besides Photoshop of course. Here are some I’ve seen as I’ve gone through reviews that I need to try: * Noise Ninja: The gold standard for image noise reduction. A Photoshop Plugin, Noise Ninja is the most effective and productive solution for removing noise and grain…