Jun 30th, 04
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Well, its Tour de France time and the fever over here is high. Lots of bikers hanging out here. Here are some great places to look by google pagerank:
* “Official TdF site”:http://www.letour.fr/2004/us/index.html. The official site. Wow, it all begins this Saturday if you can believe it! This site is great for the official results.
* “Internet TdF”:http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/~erikt/tdf/. Sort of like fantasy baseball, predict who you think will win.
* Tour de France 2004. Got to pump the blog version of the news. A good example of how blogging fits events like this well. Note the use of both google ads and blogads as well. It’s amazing that this is essentially now the #3 site above Velonews and other well known sites. The power of blogging strikes!
* “Velonews”:http://www.velonews.com/tour2004/. Great coverage from Velonews and format similar to the official TdF site.
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Jun 28th, 04
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Fountain pump – Little giant model 369 – free shipping. OK, here’s the power of the Internet for you. My Dad’s fountain pump broke and it is one google query to find this site that has about every pump in the world.
Jun 27th, 04
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Took a basic navigation class today and realized I’m under gadgeted on marine hardware, so here’s an update:
* GPS Receiver Information, Software, and Hardware Reviews of Garmin, Lowrance, Magellan and other GPS Receivers. This is the most amazing site. I used it two years ago to pick a Magellan Sportrak Pro. Its still a very nice unit.
* “Magellan Mapsend Direct Route”:http://gpsinformation.us/DirectRoute/DirectRoute.html. While it probably has the worse name in history for a product. This turns an existing Magellan GPS into a turn-by-turn car navigation unit. Pretty cool.
* Magellan Mapsend BlueNav. This is the marine software that you can load. Has chart data and tide information as well.
So where do you buy these goodies:
* Pricegrabber shows that Thenerds.net and Computers4sure carry it. There is also a host of speciality GPS “store’:http://gpsinformation.net/bannerroll.htm on the net tha tyou can look at. Can’t vouch for them. Although “TigerGPS”:http://store.yahoo.com/tigergps/mamaditusofo.html has a high page rank.
Jun 27th, 04
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Magical Jelly Bean Software – Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder v1.41. A nifty utility that tells the current Windows XP product key. Useful when trying to diagnose things.
Jun 24th, 04
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Quite a lot happening on the PC front. Intel announced their new 775 pin socket, new chipsets and new Pentium 3.6GHz. The amazing thing is that with all that technology, it ain’t faster than the current generation or the Athlon 64 in many cases. That’s amazing.
AMD also announced their new 939-socket family. Some slight performance improvement in the 2-5% range for the new socket. They now have dual channel ram but that doesn’t seem to help much. The pricing is about the same and they did announce new 3500+ and 3800 Athlon 64s that are much faster and much pricier.
But, getting the new X800 Pro really helps. As the Motherboards.org – Video Card: Gigabyte X800 Pro Review
Jun 12th, 04
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Scenario Walkthroughs. Alex is loving Zoo Tycoon. Its actually a hard game with lots of math required. Here are some scenario walkthroughs to help get through a game.
Jun 12th, 04
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Lazy Man’s Guide to Ogg Media (OGM Files). I’ve been encoding movies into the Ogg Media format (OGM). This has Xvid for the video coding and Ogg Vorbis for the audio.
A great guide.
Jun 11th, 04
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Lookout email search for Microsoft Outlook – Lookout Software. Outlook is definitely becoming a platform. Thank goodness the object model is finally decent. This utility lets you do a google like search across all your mail.
Jun 9th, 04
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OK, here are folks doing activations online.
* “Amazon”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/301185/ref=sd_str_wi/104-2743300-6001541. Their big cellular store. They have incredible discounts as well because of their scale.
* “Let’s Talk”:http://Letstalk.com. These guys are no. 3 google hit when you search for “cell phone” I’ve used them before.
* “Point”:http://Point.com. The one that I use quite a bit as well. Another big provider. In Maryland.
* “Karbon”:http://Karbonsystems.com. They sell lots of Blackberrys. Robert Karbon is a great guy. He knows us as he was in the developer programs for Microsoft for quite a long time. A good example of someone doing speciality distribution, even small cell phone resellers can deal with activations and discounts now.
Search Amazon.com Cell Phones
Jun 8th, 04
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textism: Refer Spamming. If I ever reinstall referrer lists, I’d use Dean’s stuff plus the patch that eliminates spammers bots from Eric Goldberg.
