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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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.
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Continue reading →: Updated Guides
Some late breaking changes to the August guides are pretty relevant. For the “high-end”:https://richtong.net/guide_to_pcs/2004/09/01/high_end_system_recommendations.html systems, First, taking into account the Silentpcreview.com information, I changed some of the components in the guide to the high end particularly the power supply and the case. Switched the motherboard recommendation to the DFI Lan…
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Continue reading →: Feinleib is a god!
VC MBA. Well our buddy Dave is off to business school. Makes me feel old that it is decades since I enjoyed the warm sunny Palo Alto area. Got a great URL too. Hope we can buy him lots of drinks. Good luck, Dave!
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Continue reading →: Digital Multimeter
Carl Electronics. A great example of what the web can do, need a digital multimeter to measure things and they are $20 from Radio Shack, but a quick google search reveals this little store has the third ranked site for DMMs. Only Fluke and Agilent (two huge companies) have higher…
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Continue reading →: Washington Primaries
. It’s time once again to vote. I lost my election guide, but everything is now on the Internet, if a little hard to find. Here’s the Washington State official election guide, they actually have a website called “vote.wa.gov”:http:/vote.wa.gov
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Continue reading →: Best Video Drivers
Who would have ever thought there was going to be a bunch of debate about this, but in the world of high performance gaming, everyone tries things. “Guru3D”:http://guru3d.com is the site I use for much of this, but here’s the quick guide: * Guru3D.com Forums – Which nVIDIA Drivers Are…
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Continue reading →: Guide to Silent PCs
OK, here is my first guide to Silent PCs. I’m going to change the way I do the PC guides to have essentially three guides: * High-end guide for very fast full systems that are great price/performance. These are gamer and video editing machines mainly. Basically what I like to…
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Continue reading →: PC Reference Sources
Ah for the days when you just read PC Magazine and that was it to find the best computer hardware and software, now its all about the web. Since I’ve been buying a bunch of PCs this month, here are the sources I’m using in stackranked order of quality IMHO.…
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