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  • iPod Mini or tweener

    Good review of the iPod Mini, as they say, with iPod Shuffles at $99 and $149, and the 20GB iPod at $299, the niche between them is pretty small. The 2G iPod Mini is the one to hold out for although the main diffference is “decent” battery life (double the nominal 8 hours). iPodlounge Review:…

  • Pacific Rim Cube

    !>http://www.ipodlounge.com/assets/images/reviews_pacrim/cube/cube1.jpg! iPodlounge Review: Pacific Rim Cube Travel Speakers On the spectrum of iPod-specific speaker options we’ve previously identified, the Cube Travel Speakers generally fit into the ultra-portable category. They’re pocketable – on baggy pants, at least – with the option of using batteries or AC power from an optional power supply ($5.00) if you so…

  • JBL On Tour

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  • eBooks Checkout

    _A brilliant idea, copy-protected digital library, just need a King County Library card and you can checkout lots of books_ King County Library System – Digital Books – Home King County Library System is proud to announce the full integration of hundreds of downloadable digital audio books to this collection for your enjoyment. Browse or…

  • Athlon 64 overclocking tools

    Some I’ve heard of, others I haven’t… ABXZone.com Forums – A64 overclocking tools. There are several utilities that make it much easier to overclock and tweak an A64 system. “Clockgen”:http://www.cpuid.com/clockgen.php – Allows you to change HTT (FSB), CPU multiplier and AGP/PCIe frequency in Windows. This works but you can crash your system very easily. “A64…

  • Appliances, etc.

    VC Mom.com: Home appliance etc. chat forums. Hat tip to Michelle, a great site on questions and information on not just gardening, but kitchens and everything else.

  • Exact Audio Copy and Taiwanese CDs

    _My Dad had a bunch of CDs from Taiwan he wanted to rip to his iPod. What a mess figuring out how to do this. Essentially, we are back in the days of code pages. The CDs don’t store unicode (unicode was invented after CDs), so you have to know how to set the code…

  • iPod Cases

    My dad loves his iPod 20GB 4G so much he uses it all the time, now he just wants a case that won’t blow out the bank. Here are some choices: * iPodlounge Review: Vaja i-Volution 4G with Wheel Protector, It’s leather and beautiful but cost $60! Great to go with a nice briefcase 🙂…

  • Just a Ride

    _As the kids use the iPod, its interesting to see musical tastes evolve, here mine and Alex’s intersect perfectly with JEM’s Just a ride_ Jem Reviews on Yahoo! Music Finally Woken, Jem’s full-length debut, fleshes out the It All Starts Here EP with six additional tracks. It features the addicting title track, the one that…

  • MT-Ban-Numeric-Entities

    a-giâu: MT-Ban-Numeric-Entities. Very clever, this plug-in blogs HTML that uses numerics to disguise spam. Pretty smart. Another thing to load and also once again proves the value of having a platform on the open internet.