• Nokia Stereo Headset HDS-3 For 6600/7200 series Phone. Nokia for instance needs special headset attachments. So you need to buy this for $15 and then if you have fancy earphones like this, you get “Adrian”:http://smithstuff.net to cut it off and put a 2.5mm connector on it.

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  • Nokia 6620

    Russell Beattie Notebook – My Shiny New Nokia 6620!. We got three of these and this is a great review by Russell Beattie. Am still charging it and am anxious to test the screen. The main bummer is that they have some funky headset attachment so you can’t plug in…

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  • AnandTech DVD Review and “Tom’s Hardware”:http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20041102/. _A new champion for DVD drives_ _From Anandtech_. From our results, we can see that the Pioneer DVR-108D, LG GSA-4160B, and NEC’s ND-3500A came out on top with their ability to burn any type of media almost flawlessly as well as burn 2.4X dual…

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  • Latest on LAME

    Hydrogenaudio Forums -> MP3 – General, It’s hard to find the latest data on what version of LAME (Lame isn’t an MPEG-3 Encoder). But, Hydrogenaudio seems to have it. Basically, today the version to use is Lame 3.90.3 which is a little older than the current 3.96, but seems to…

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  • HeadRoom | Portable Listening. The folks at Headroom do such an outstanding job doing recommendations for headphones and portable equipment. The best recommendations are the Etymotic headphones. I’ve gotten a bunch for folks. They are expensive, but boy do they sound amazing. The ER-6P is $99 and is very good.…

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  • BlogIt for Firefox

    JustBlogIt with a simple right-click.. Eureka, I love Firefox, but one announying thing is that tools like QuickPost for MovableType don’t work well with it. In particular, the popup comes up behind the main windows instead of in front. This fixes that (I hope). Also SharpMT doesn’t seem to get…

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  • Buying List

    Ok, so many things to look at right now…here’s a list of what we’re in the market for right now: * “iPod”:http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_attrib.php/page_id=161. Probably the 4G 20GB version. No VC can really invest in consumer products without having an ipod. They are their own universe right now. Man these these things…

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  • Page Computer — T140P/L NB PM1100 512MB 40GB CDRW/DVD 10.6IN WXPP. My dream laptop is nearly here. It is the low-end Sony VGN-T140P/L, cost if $1905 and it is backordered. Can’t wait to get it.

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  • Markdown

    Daring Fireball: Markdown. We’ve been using Textile 2 for a while as the markup languages for all of our blogs. I see now that using Markdown, so it is an interesting language to try. Textile is great and powerful, but hard to teach folks the more sophisticated stuff. BTW, this…

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  • Because tongfamily.com is literally beseiged with spammers (even with MT Blacklist, I get probably 50 spam comments a day), I’m turning on the registration required. In order to comment you’ll need a free “Typekey”:http://typekey.com registration in order to logon. Sorry about this, but I’m wasting too much time editing out…

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