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Continue reading →: Famous People and What They Drink…
We’re having a Holiday Party and I like to invent fun games. Here’s one, match the famous person with what they drink. So, you have folks who have the name of a famous person and match it to what their favorite libation is. Here are some websites to pick from:…
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Continue reading →: Consumer VOIP
VoIP NEWS ONLINE. Been looking at VOIP for consumers. Here’s an entrie site dedicated to it. Note that Vonage just raised an additional $35M from NEA to bring their total to $60M plus. Have about 70K subscribers, but seem to be a early leaders. Also have Skype who are doing…
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Continue reading →: Codec Comparisons
Doom9.net – The Definitive DVD Backup Resource – Codec Comparison May 2003. The latest motion Codec comparison that I could find. Pretty interesting results. Basically says that DivX 5.05 is fast and has OK quality while Xvid is slower with better quality. I ran Xvid against Raiders of the Lost…
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Continue reading →: Spyware and DivX 5
How to deal with spyware/adware. Yuck spyware, here’s a good source of information about it. Specific data on DivX: When you finish installing DivX, it will immediatly start a program called ?gain trickler,? which slowly downloads GAIN onto your hard drive. It will also put the trickler on your start…
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Continue reading →: Washington Wine Lists
Wine Press Northwest magazine online. A good web site focused just on Pacific Northwest wines.
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Continue reading →: Xvid Settings
Nic’s XviD Binaries & Paraphernalia 😉. Because DivX now doesn’t let you remove GAIN for the free ad version (how sad), I’ve switched over to using XviD. This is an open source MPEG4 codec. Since it is open source, the settings are very strange and hard to understand. Check out…
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Continue reading →: Codec Comparisons
Radified – Audio Codec Comparison. The latest on codec comparisons between Lame, Ogg Vorbis and others
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Continue reading →: IntraVnews
intraVnews | Features. Here’s a free for personal use Outlook RSS reader. The other one I tried required a subscription.
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Continue reading →: Newsfeed Readers
Rss Readers. There must be a thousand of these. Here’s a Wiki that compiles them. Way too many to try in a lifetime 🙂
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Continue reading →: Real Time Bus Location
Busview Applet Launch. An amazingly cool thing. They’ve put position hardware into Seattle buses, so you can actually see using this Java applet in real time where your bus is. Cool!
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