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CrunchGear » Archive » D-Link’s ethernet-to-coaxial adapter kit: useful but expensive — ha, you can buy old ethernet coax cards for pennies on various websites. of course they need ... Read more..Sunday, February 24th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Beautiful day here yesterday but I spent part of it wrestling a new power supply into a desktop pc. The PC wouldn’t turn on this morning — didn’t respond at ... Read more..Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Toolmonger ? Blog Archive ? All Tied Up With Flat Twine — more useful than tape in a lot of cases Nylon Pry Set — excellent idea SATA to USB adapter — ... Read more..Saturday, December 8th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
PC 99: Information and Much More from Answers.com — i always forget this Read more..Monday, November 5th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Electronista | SanDisk TakeTV media player leaked — an end to DVD burning which has always sucked. Bare SATA drive dock — OK not sure why I want this but I ... Read more..Sunday, November 4th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Bug Labs — not sure what i would use this for but a cool concept. Read more..Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Tempo wireless trash can — this seems like the most awesomest way to steal files from your co-worker on the other side of the cubicle wall — just install the ... Read more..Monday, May 14th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Grizzly Drill-Powered Hobby Lathe — another clever way to reuse a power drill. Not sure how large a part you could really fabricate on this but still. Oh ... Read more..Thursday, March 8th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
MAKE: Blog: Octopart - search engine for electronic parts… — also has links to various other electronics search engines. Read more..Thursday, March 8th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Just when I thought I had the ultimate water-cooled machine, now we have water cooled ram — OCZ Releases Water-Cooled RAM — and I am behind once again. Read more..Monday, February 26th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
I got a velocity micro box from Bestbuy.com with Vista preinstalled. Some early impressions: Bestbuy.com did a nice job on availability and shipping. they had what they said they ... Read more..Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Demystifying Display Connectors — some stuff in here I didn’t know about HDMI, DVI, UDI, Displayport, etc. Read more..Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
eHomeUpgrade | Keyspan Ships TuneView Remote for Apple iPod A bunch of audio gear Mouse with builtin card reader Cintiq Tablet Read more..Tuesday, November 7th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
The Gadgets Weblog: Lightsnake, the Soundcard in a Cable — is this cool or what? awesome. the idea is brilliant. Read more..Monday, November 6th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Finally resolved my Alienware issues. Full refund. Took too much of my time complaining but at the end of the day, I will give Alienware credit for making ... Read more..Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I raised a dispute with American Express concerning my problems with Alienware and I have to thank them, it is making things happen. I finally got a personal contact ... Read more..Wednesday, October 4th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
UPDATE 11/6/06: I’ll leave the original entry below for history but Alienware finally worked this out with me. I received a full refund. So at the end ... Read more..Wednesday, October 4th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Don’t Buy Product Warranties — no shocker here. Anything the stores are pushing that hard can’t be good for you. How higher RPM drives rip you off — some contention ... Read more..Friday, September 22nd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Mechanisms and Movement — online resource for mechanical motion mechanisms — how to convert rotary motion to linear, irregular, etc. great great stuff. Lindsay Books — great catalog of all ... Read more..Thursday, August 31st, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Circuit Specialists Inc. - PowerSupply1 Single Output Switching Power Supplies Read more..Wednesday, August 9th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
As i previously mentioned, my widowpc gaming computer has been acting up — it has always had thermal issues, and their support has been weak. I finally ripped open ... Read more..Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Rich got me excited about rebates and deals on technology — Tong Family Blog: Current Canon Rebates — great deals on Canon cameras. I did a quick search because ... Read more..Saturday, July 22nd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
DIY Software from PC Magazine: Your Virtual Assistant — good article on deploying asterisk for a small business. I want to throw out the phone system at my house ... Read more..Saturday, July 22nd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Getting ready to switch from a WidowPC box to an Alienware box. I’ve had the WidowPC box 8 months, it is a nice SLI liquid-cooled box, but it has ... Read more..Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Bob building his new PC — like me he is driven by gaming performance. His woes at fry’s — http://www.bobsplanet.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/72-Frys-Slimy-Practices-the-Bobsplanet-PC-project-continues.html — personally I have given up on Fry’s, they ... Read more..