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Total BitHead
HeadRoom. Besides the great name, this is a terrific Christmas present for the geek that travels too much. I just lost my ER-6P on an airplane. Darn it. Here are the recommendations: * Etymotic “ER-6P”:http://www.headphone.com/layout.php?topicID=3&subTopicID=26&productID=0020100100. These are $99 street and are amazing. Best investment and value for the money. They make white ones to match…
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HTPC
Home Theater PC News – Your Source for Everything HTPC Related. OK I’m biting the bullet and building a true home theater PC. Should be ultraquiet, have an HDTV decoder, product 1040i for my big screen TV and also have a PVR. The search begins now… * “$1,000 HTPC”:http://htpcnews.com/main.php?id=htpcmidbuyersguide_1. The general purpose overall guide to…
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19" LCD Monitors
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XP Home vs. XP Pro
Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows: Windows XP Home Edition vs. Professional Edition, What’s the difference?. This is the first PC I’ve bought that uses XP Home instead of my buying XP Professional from the Microsoft Company Store. I have to say having used it for a while at work, I’m not sure it is that…
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ASUS M5N
We are looking for a new notebook standard at “Ignition”:http://ignitionpartners.com. I’m partial to the build-it-yourself models that ASUS has. I have the older M3N and it is just as good as any other that I’ve seen (Dell and IBM thin and light), but you spec exactly what you want. Here are some reviews; * ASUS…
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iPod Photo
Been using this for about two weeks now. Its my first iPod. A nice device mainly because the screen is so easy to read. In termsof buying one, it is impossible to get much off the list price of $499 right now. Best you can do is to get free shipping and no sales tax…
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Negative Conversion
My Minolta-Konica Dimage 5400 scanner only produces 16 bit scans in negative mode. So, you get an inverted picture. How depressing. Works find in 8-bit mode, but why the heck pay so much for a scanner if you only get 24-bit (3 colors x 8-bits) and not the full 48-bit range. So how to fix…
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Textile 2 does that
Brad Choate: MT-Textile does that???. We use Textile 2.0 on this site. Still learning some of the amazing features. The float left and float right are great, but I still can’t get tables to work as well as with the first Textile. Textile(tm) drew a dark line by default, but this Textile 2 doesn’t seem…
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PC Guide
Well, it is Christmas time, so this might be a good guide for those of you who want to give the gift of computing. As usual, we’ll cover a “high value” system and a “low cost” system. The best value means the best price/performance for a computer but it is more expensive. The “low cost”…
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Software I would Pay For
The list isn’t very long, but since I’m at it (and it is the holiday season), here’s a list of software that I would (and have) paid for over the last year. Amazing utility for little cost: * “DBPowerAMP”:http://www.dbpoweramp.com/. I’ve only been using this for a short while, but it is amazing in that it…