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Build-To-Order PCs
Well, I mainly assemble PCs myself these days, but if I didn’t want to, here is where I’d go to pay a little more for building, but get the exact components that I want at a reasonable price. In order: * ARM Systems. Haven’t ordered from here yet, but will soon. They are somewhat more…
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Shoes Online
Buying shoes online seems crazy, but both shoebuy.com and nordstrom.com have the great idea that you can exchange shoes for free if you don’t have the right size. Nordstroms is even better in that you can take the shoes in and return them in a real store. Also, the nordstrom.com site has a much bigger…
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Picky, Picky…
Alex is incredibly picky about his shoes. We’ve been to lots of stores and he doesn’t like anything. But, a little searching online reveals the shoe that looks the most like the one he has. He’s like Dad. Dad has been wearing the same brand, same style, same shape running shoe for 20 years. Why…
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Far Cry Mods
FarCry Mods. Well I finally got a full copy of Far Cry in anticipation of updating Calvin’s machine to a full Athlon 64 system (just waiting for the CPU right now!). A wonderful game even on a now mid-range, Athlon XP 3200+ with GeForce 5900GT card. Main issue is that it pushed the graphics card…
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Dual Core will save us
AnandTech on Intel Developers Forum Wow, this is a big deal, both AMD and Intel are going dual core. So there will two complete processors on one chip. Vanderpool Technology or VT is an upcoming feature on several processor families (including the dual core families) that allow processor emulation and/or virtualization. As explained by Intel,…
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nVidia Driver Guide
Guru3D.com Forums – Which nVIDIA Drivers Are For Your Video Card?. A great list of what drivers for your nVidia card work and which don’t.
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Great new places to shop
Always good to find some good reliable places to shop on the web. Here is my own poor man’s bizrate.com: * “Newegg.com”:http://newegg.com. Very reliable shippers. All kinds of strange PC parts. Love their invoicing system, all the reciepts include serial number so super convenient for rebates, etc. * “Zipzoomfly”:http://zipzoomfly.com. Just as reliable. Usually Newegg and…
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Mac FTP software
Mac FTP Software Applications at The Mac Orchard. “Michelle”:http://vcmba.com asked me to fix her new website. Arrghh. No mac FTP client I could find, but Cobra worked pretty well as shareware. Check out her site, its just coming up, but will be great. And, she saved me from incredible embarassment too so I owe her…
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Netcam and other wireless
This is a $600 industrial quality web cam. There are folks who are doing in rough order of what I think is interesting: Netcams These are devices that don’t need a PC to show audio/video. Unlike webcams which require a PC: * StarDot Technologies / NetCam. There are so many more cool WiFi devices that…
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Carl's electronics
Voice Changer Electronic Kit This kit is uses a Voice Modulator Chip. Wow, got the digital multimeters from Carl’s Electronics in four days. They are wonderful. Gave one to Adrian. They have lots more toys though. Another great example of a small business making good.