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Audio Encoders…
Welcome to the world of audiocoding – AudioCoding.com. I use MP3 for compatibility, Ogg Vorbis for playback on PCs and Flac for archiving music files. Here’s another resrouces, Audiocoding.com is doing free MPEG-4 encoders including HE MPEG-4 also know as AACplus. This is a very high compression codec. Got to give it a try from…
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Referrer Spam Attack…yet again
“Referrer Spam”:http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/referer_spam/. There is no end to the spam disease. It ain’t just email. With all this self publishing, I’ve spent more time on comment, then trackback spam. Now I’m barraged by referrer spam. That is links of folks who have recently visited. What is really needed is some sort of server side filter and…
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PC Recommendations for 2Q04
George asked me about what computers should he get. Surprisingly, January-March was quiet in the computer business without any major events. The Prescott launch turned into a non-event given that although they moved into a new chip family pricing didn’t really change. Even with CeBit coming next week, doesn’t look like any major shakeups. Those…
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Gas Hybrids are Coming…
Well here they come, hat tip to my buddy Jeff for pointing this out to me: * Toyota Prius is named best car of 2004 and one of the ten best by Car and Driver. More importantly, production goes to 150,000 units next year. Who would have ever guessed that! * Lexus hybrid – RX400h.…
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Using Bit Torrent…after 30 days
I’ve been using Bit Torrent now for the last 30 days. It is a little confusing since there doesn’t appear to a site for novices who want an easy to use P2P system. Here’s my short guide with what I know so far: * “Azureus”:http://azureus.sourceforge.net/. First, you have to select a client. I’ve tried a…
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Nikon's Latest
I haven’t seen reviews of these yet, but Nikon has a pretty interesting 1Q04: * D70. A response to the Canon Digital Rebel. This is a 6Mp camera. Also has a new 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5 zoom lens. “DPPhoto”:http://www.dpreview.com/articles/nikond70/ thinks it compares well with its bigger brother, the D100, and its competition, the Canon EOS-300D. * “Nikon…
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Dummy Files for Spyware
Dummy files for neutering Spyware-based programs. Even if you use Lavasoft’s Adaware to remove spyware, some programs require them, here are some files that you put in that look like spyware, but aren’t.
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Vienna Teng
ViennaTeng.com: Scrapbook. A great example of an independent artist doing promotion via blogs and a web site. Interesting to see how folks develop an audience. Much is by traditional means, get a label like Virt Records, do interviews on NPR, go do lots of shows, but part of it is letting folks see who you…
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Online Shopping Guide
OK, as usual, the sources of information for shopping have shifted some. Here’s the 2Q 2004 guide to getting the best values on the web. h4. For Electronics and Computer Gear This is the easiest category to shop for. There are so many different sources of information. Here’s the path I use: # Get a…
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Blackberry Internal Error #4238
Livelink – Result Page for Internal Error #4238. Talk about obscure error messages. Got this while using my Blackberry and trying to synchronize contacts. The bad error message mumbles about a bad connection to the Exchange Server. Digging deeper, it looks like there is some corruption in the Outlook contact file and you have to…