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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: The state of file sharing
Slyck – File Sharing News and Info. I haven’t had a chance to look at the many advances in file sharing and peer-to-peer commercially. Interesting to see an entire site dedicated to it. Most interesting is to see how many users are on various networks cribed from Slyck, the top…
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Continue reading →: Blog Pingers Galore
a little ludwig goes a long way: Pinging Service Rundown. What a great idea. “Neil”:http://www.neilturner.me.uk/2004/Jan/30/pinging_service_rundown.html has a list of good sites to ping and “Doug Gunters”:http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2004/02/23/blog-service-pinger-enhancements is working on an automated version of this.
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Continue reading →: Incredible AT&T Wireless Snafu
a little ludwig goes a long way: ATT phone obsoleting. For those of you who have been wondering why AT&T GSM coverage is so horrible. Ludwig explains it. Basically, AT&T launched their GSM in the 1900 MHz range, but then built out their older 850 MHz TDMA spectrum, so now…
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Continue reading →: Video Cards: March 2004 Recommendations
Last review of these I did in early January, so time for the 2Q04 recommendations. As usual, “Digit-Life”:http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/digest3d/index.html has the very best comprehensive review. Here’s a quick summary. These figures were done with an Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz Not much change here since January, no major new releases. These prices…
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Continue reading →: Guide to Cell phones in general: March 2004
Well, Jenn asked me about cell phones. She needs one or maybe two. Given the pricing right now and wireless local number portability, here’s what I told her (this applies mainly to Seattle) and is tuned for “just married” set for once vs. geeks galore: * “Wireless Local Number Portability”:http://wireless.fcc.gov/wlnp/.…
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Continue reading →: More Mac Blogging Applications
:: w.bloggar FAQ ::. Som e good tips on Mac blogging applications. The one I’ve been using crashes like crazy. Called Ecto. I’m not sure why. Mysterious, “Application Unexpected Quit” which is about as useful as the BSOD on Windows. * Netnewswire:http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/. Is a Mac RSS reader and editing off…
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Continue reading →: Disk Drive recommendations
Can it be that another quarter has passed. Here again are the recommendations for the best hard drives to buy. It basically is that you should get the WD740GD for system drive, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 ATA-100 for your data drive. If you are on a budget, then get the…
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Continue reading →: Best CD-Rs, DVD+Rs and other consumables
OK, now that I’ve run out of consumables, here’s a good place to get them. Its actually hard to find an inexpensive place to buy this stuff, but you can try Yesmicro.com as well as thenerds.net. Verbatim has done consistently well in benchmarks for media, but it is a mess…
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