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  • A9 for Firefox

    Now that Firefox is officially a 1.0 product, its interesting to see the “big” guys start to support it. Amazon just released A9.com > A9 Toolbar for Firefox. Works well.

  • Finding a 4-port VOIP gateway

    _Hat tip to “A9”:http://a9.com for finding this…I’m trying the new Firefox A9 toolbar_ VoIP Hardware and Software Products. Here’s a list of VOIP hardware. Its actually quite hard to find a good review site that tells you how to put together a small multiline system with an existing PBX. I probably just don’t know the…

  • ASUS WL-HDD2.5

    TomsNetworking Tom’s Hardware WL-HDD2.5 review. Well I’ve struggled with the Linksys NSLU2. In talking with a buddy, the problem is that it won’t work with just any enclosure, the new Maxstor II enclosure works perfectly though, so don’t use a cheesy one, it is very sensitive to the USB2.0 interface since it pushes it so…

  • Blackberry reinstall gotcha

    Support – Protocol Error: Data Transfer Aborted. Arrgh, the one error you get when you reinstall is that two DLLS don’t get registered by the install program, so you get this error. The fix is to register with regsvr32 rimdevicemanagerps.dll and bbdevmgrps.dll. You can find these usually in c:\program files\common files\research in motion\usb drivers.

  • Car Complaints

    Car Problems, Car Complaints, & Car Repair Information — [ CarComplaints.com ]. “Hoops”:http://scbhooper.com was asking bout where to complain about cars. Here it is. And who couldn’t love a site called, “Mylemon.com”:http://www.mylemon.com

  • Thunderbird to Gmail, Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo

    Making the transition at home from IE to Firefox and from Outlook to Thunderbird. Main issue of course is what happens with calendars. Good news is that there are quite a few applications that allow public mail access as showing from Using Gmail, Hotmail/MSN or Yahoo! Mail with Thunderbird. – MozillaZine Forums

  • New Phone

    Connie’s 7230 finally gave up the ghost. Naturally two years later, so it is out of warranty, so time to buy a new phone. Naturally, T-Mobile makes it hard to do this and stay with T-Mobile. Both Cingular and AT&T Wireless are smarter. At the end of your commitment period, you get the same deal…

  • Eggs Benedict

    Eggs Benedict New York: What Is Eggs Benedict?. An entire website dedicated to Egg Benedict. A delicious Sunday meal. Fast facts: * “Easy Eggs Benedict”:http://mosaic.echonyc.com/~jkarpf/eggs/recipes.html * “Food Network”:http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_8502,00.html. A classic recipe 2 English muffins, split, toasted and buttered 4 thick slices ham or Canadian bacon, warmed 4 poached eggs 1/2 cup Hollandaise Sauce Hollandaise Sauce:…

  • ipod speakers

    Hat tip to “iPod Lounge”:http://ipodlounte.com. Here is the latest of gifts for Ipodders here’s a run down on the best speakers. As they say from ultra=portable, to portable to near portable to not portable * Macally Podwave. These are tiny little speakers that fit at the top of an iPod. $39 and they sound decent.…

  • itunes addons

    iPodlounge | All Things iPod. Ipodlounge has some review of little software add-ons for itunes.