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  • Benq DW-1620

    AnandTech BenQ DW-1620 Review. Anand’s review of the drive shows that it is a decent performance, but you have to have the very latest beta firmware called B7J9 to really have decent compatibility and performance. Likesd the drive thoug.

  • Winchester and nForce4 Ship

    AnandTech says there news on a couple of fronts that are going to change recommendations quite a bit for this month, so if you haven’t bought wait a small tick AMD is announcing Winchester 90nm socket-939 low-end Athlon 64s! That is pretty amazing. According to the “board”:http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=40&threadid=1400299&enterthread=y newegg.com has them for $170 for the 3000+…

  • Blackberrys and XP SP2 don't get along

    Support – Protocol Error appears and BlackBerry Desktop Manager closes unexpectedly on a computer running Windows XP Service Pack 2. Heck, folks say going to SP2 should work. I’m sure glad I just have one machine there. There are certainly issues with it and here’s another gotcha. There is a very arcane thing you have…

  • Blackberry T-mobile Web Client

    It is nearly impossible to navigate through the t-mobile UI to find the web client interface for the blackberry. I don’t know who designed the interface but it is terrible. Here’s the link to the “Web Client”:http://www.t-mobile.com/bwc/ if you need it.

  • Full Spectrum Warrior

    It’s Full Spectrum Warrior Madness!. There is a God. Full Spectrum Warrior is the Xbox game based on a real simulation sponsored by the US Army. Its finally out now and Gogamer has it on sale for 20% off even. Also “Ludwig”:http://www.theludwigs.com points out Call of Duty United Offensive is also now available. Wow, get…

  • A9 Traffic and Google Page Ranks Compared

    A9 has a different scheme for page rank. Amazon actually lists all the sites in the same Amazon catalog. Pretty clever. They seem to be using Alexa to do this, so it isn’t really a ranking like google that is used to figure out what sorts to the top (the real use of such rankings).…

  • A9

    Zagula has been raving about this toolbar. I’ve also been bad and not been looking at other people’s blogs. As you can see most time I’ve had has been spent building computers and doing computer geek stuff, but I’m getting back to the basic blogging job. So A9 is cool and I hear ebay is…

  • Minolta Dimage 5400 Elite Scanning Tips

    OK, I’ve been putzing with this film scanner for a while now. I have to say the Minolta site is just awful in terms of finding things and this is one case where google queries don’t work well at all. So here is what I’ve found out: h4. Scanning software There are three basic choices.…

  • Colorvision Spyder2

    Colorvision Spyder and Optical Review. More reviews of this little gadget. As I’ve been doing some printing, they are right. The monitor color and the printer color doesn’t really match. The original Spyder got good reviews. “Spyder2”:http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/news/articles/story_1813.html. They are just now launching the Spyder2 ($179 list) and the Spyder2Pro ($279). The sensor is upgraded. The…

  • Maxthon is great

    Maxthon Plugins @ TaraPages.com. Been trying a bunch of alternative web browsers. IE progress has just been so slow. Maxthon seems to be the best of both worlds, its IE compatible since it uses the IE engine, but it has all the features like tabbed browsing, popup blocking, mouse gestures and plugins that I love…