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I rescind my previous statement that they are overpriced. Somehow the market has gone stupid, and what was previously cheaper than the iPod has increased in price to match the price level of the iPod.

For some reason, the MP3 player market seems to be based on chaos theory rather than economics theory. TigerDirect.com has new 30GB Video iPods in Black for $50 less than refurbished 30GB Video iPods in white.

On the other hand, why would I want to watch videos on an iPod or a Zune? ("Just because I can" isn't a valid reason)

I can't vouch for anyone else, but the only feature I look for in an MP3 player is "Does it play MP3s?" 1GB is plenty of space to hold all of the music I care to listen to in one session, so an option like this Diablotek Mini Portable MP3 Player with Transcend 1GB 45x Secure Digital Card for $39.99 before rebate would be fine by me, and if I need to increase the amount of music I want to carry around with me, I can buy a 1GB SD Card the size of a postage stamp for $14.99 without needing any rebates, and the prices are still dropping.

The Cannon HV10 is available for $999 from Tiger Direct and other outlets. Described as the world's smallest HD camcorder. 1920x1080 CMOS sensor. 10x optical zoom, image stabilization, etc.

The Sanyo HD1A records 720p MPEG-4 video on SD cards. Sells for around $600-$700. Froogle is your friend.

NB: posting as AC to prevent whoring

I've been working in the small shop/repair business for over 5 years, and its a weekly experience to get a machine in with thousands of trojans, viruses and spy apps. In cases where a re-install may not be desirable or feasable, here's a list of the tools we use to find, isolate and eradicate hostile software.

Disclaimer: I do not work for any of these companies, nor am I been paid anything by them. I just find that these tools work. Your mileage may vary.

1: Antivirus

As most of our customers are home users, we can recomend Grisoft's AVG as the most capable and reasonably priced ':)' antivirus out there. It does a pretty good job, and the installers are kept up to date so you don't have to fudge around with d'loading on a broken box.

AVG Free

2: Anti-Spyware

No-brainer. The best two in the business. Spybot and Ad-Aware. They don't get everything, but they both do a darn good job, and can even set themselves up to run on reboot before some of the uglies get going. We leave them on the system so we can attempt to train the user towards a safer future.

Ad-Aware Personal
SpyBot S&D

3: Process Viewers

Now this gets a little harder. Neither of these tools will do the job automatically, but with care, can show you the files and processes that are the center of these little problems. Personally, I like MS/Sysinternals Process Explorer, my boss prefers PrcView. As an interesting note: You'll occasionally find a hostile that can stop certain known process viewers from starting up. Get the old 95/98 version of PrcView. They always seem to miss that one. Recording the file name of the app, rebooting to the recovery console, and going in to hand delete the app works 98% of the time.

PrcView
Process Explorer

Now, the easy route....

Get yourself one of these. USB HDD Adapter Kit from your favourite retailer, and just hook the offending HDD up to a good machine with a up to date anti-virus scanner. You will have some broken startup and registry entries left over, but they're pretty simple in comparision.

I'd normally say, Enjoy! at this juncture. But you probably won't.

Best of Luck

kgs

How many players do have DRM support? I haven't kept up with the news lately, but I thought the RIAA companies never managed to get a standard going. Are you telling me if I buy one of these obscure brand name MP3 players (ignore the apple ones and such), they all have some sort of DRM?

My younger brother actually got involved in a technological cold war like that. First my parents put on a bios password, but it was pretty easy to reset it with a jumper. Then, they tried locking up the power cables. But, sadly, it is also easy to cut through a plastic toolbox. Then, they mounted a lock on the room, but he just busted the door down. Finally, they bought a big, lockable, steel computer cabinet from TigerDirect. In retaliation, my brother learned how to pick locks. I think my dad is planning to mount a real lock on the cabinet, but I don't have high expectations.

I don't think Apple will have to sell at a loss for to long, just long enough for people to know that the Zune is a dog, and that everyone who is anyone is still buying an iPod.

Nope. Get normal 2500NiMH batteries and one of these:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2145307&Sku=T105-5380

P.S., I doubt you'd get much usable life out of your Kodak on these USB battery trinkets. It's not just current capacity, but current delivery capacity over the discharge cycle, and I highly doubt a high drain device would be able to pull jiuce out of this fast enough to go anywhere near using up the battery capacity.

USBCELL batteries have a capacity of 1300mAH which is in line with most NiCd and NiMH batteries though some do go all the way up to 2500mAH. It takes five hours to charge a completely flat battery and an LED on the side will light up to indicate charging, flash for 10 minutes after charging is complete as an alert and switch off after that.

USBCELL batteries have a capacity of 1300mAH which is in line with most NiCd and NiMH batteries though some do go all the way up to 2500mAH. It takes five hours to charge a completely flat battery and an LED on the side will light up to indicate charging, flash for 10 minutes after charging is complete as an alert and switch off after that.

amd is talking about open ati drivers and http://www.tigerdirect.com/ is better then new egg local pick up kicks ass!!!!!!!!

get a firewire or e-sata one as USB is a lot slower and it eats up a lot of cpu power
this one a good fast firewire chip set
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=876439&CatId=0

I had good luck with tigerdirect.com. I read some reviews saying they had problems with rebates, so I avoid them, though I saw a few that mentioned they never had problems. Maybe I'm just being paraniod. But I've ordered several things from them, and everything came promptly. They have good deals.

I've never put such a machine together, but I'd probably go with: Asus P5V800-MX Socket 775 Barebone Kit ($300 after rebate--again, I never tried their rebates and this one ends very soon--risky), ATI HDTV Wonder ($80 after rebate.

Never tried any hdtv cards, but this looks good--check for linux compatibility though), I bought a Geforce 6200 and was satisfied. You may want/need a different card, since you probably won't be focused on 3D graphics. I don't know which work well with mpeg decoding (I thought I saw one which supported encoding too while I was shopping for my 6200, can't remember what it was though...)

That doesn't leave much for a monitor, but I've seen some cheap CRTs...however you could just use the TV out on your video card, I suppose. (My 6200 has one)

Shop around. I'm sure you'll find what you are looking for.

I had good luck with tigerdirect.com. I read some reviews saying they had problems with rebates, so I avoid them, though I saw a few that mentioned they never had problems. Maybe I'm just being paraniod. But I've ordered several things from them, and everything came promptly. They have good deals.

I've never put such a machine together, but I'd probably go with: Asus P5V800-MX Socket 775 Barebone Kit ($300 after rebate--again, I never tried their rebates and this one ends very soon--risky), ATI HDTV Wonder ($80 after rebate.

Never tried any hdtv cards, but this looks good--check for linux compatibility though), I bought a Geforce 6200 and was satisfied. You may want/need a different card, since you probably won't be focused on 3D graphics. I don't know which work well with mpeg decoding (I thought I saw one which supported encoding too while I was shopping for my 6200, can't remember what it was though...)

That doesn't leave much for a monitor, but I've seen some cheap CRTs...however you could just use the TV out on your video card, I suppose. (My 6200 has one)

Shop around. I'm sure you'll find what you are looking for.

I had good luck with tigerdirect.com. I read some reviews saying they had problems with rebates, so I avoid them, though I saw a few that mentioned they never had problems. Maybe I'm just being paraniod. But I've ordered several things from them, and everything came promptly. They have good deals.

I've never put such a machine together, but I'd probably go with: Asus P5V800-MX Socket 775 Barebone Kit ($300 after rebate--again, I never tried their rebates and this one ends very soon--risky), ATI HDTV Wonder ($80 after rebate.

Never tried any hdtv cards, but this looks good--check for linux compatibility though), I bought a Geforce 6200 and was satisfied. You may want/need a different card, since you probably won't be focused on 3D graphics. I don't know which work well with mpeg decoding (I thought I saw one which supported encoding too while I was shopping for my 6200, can't remember what it was though...)

That doesn't leave much for a monitor, but I've seen some cheap CRTs...however you could just use the TV out on your video card, I suppose. (My 6200 has one)

Shop around. I'm sure you'll find what you are looking for.

I had good luck with tigerdirect.com. I read some reviews saying they had problems with rebates, so I avoid them, though I saw a few that mentioned they never had problems. Maybe I'm just being paraniod. But I've ordered several things from them, and everything came promptly. They have good deals.

I've never put such a machine together, but I'd probably go with: Asus P5V800-MX Socket 775 Barebone Kit ($300 after rebate--again, I never tried their rebates and this one ends very soon--risky), ATI HDTV Wonder ($80 after rebate.

Never tried any hdtv cards, but this looks good--check for linux compatibility though), I bought a Geforce 6200 and was satisfied. You may want/need a different card, since you probably won't be focused on 3D graphics. I don't know which work well with mpeg decoding (I thought I saw one which supported encoding too while I was shopping for my 6200, can't remember what it was though...)

That doesn't leave much for a monitor, but I've seen some cheap CRTs...however you could just use the TV out on your video card, I suppose. (My 6200 has one)

Shop around. I'm sure you'll find what you are looking for.

You don't have very much imagination. A monitor is better than a TV, and I'm sure it would fit just fine in your entertainment center. If you don't like the size, buy a bigger one. Unless you don't have the money, then you're shit out of luck. However, think about this: for the price of your TV, you could've bought a bigger monitor. Yeah, if you want to watch old fashoned television, you'll have to buy a tuner card--they're $50(us)--actually I just found this Mercury one for $20.

I did that for a long time. My computer was also my TV.

There are a lot of reasons not to use Amazon's Unibox, but having to view movies on your monitor should not be one of them.

I sympathise. I grew up in rural Canada, and never had more than dial-up except if in a public library until I was 17, and still can't get a decent connection for my folks. Unfortunately, we're far farther from cable than you are, so this solution doesn't work for us, but by all means, enjoy:

You said your bosses house was 2 miles away and he has cable? Set up some wireless relays with highpowered antennaes, dude! For a few hundred dollars of equipment, you can share his home connection to the 'net.

Check these if you think the tech isn't up to it:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1503200&CatId=374
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtool s/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=1597472&sku=U13-4176

Combine and repeat.

Marc M.

I sympathise. I grew up in rural Canada, and never had more than dial-up except if in a public library until I was 17, and still can't get a decent connection for my folks. Unfortunately, we're far farther from cable than you are, so this solution doesn't work for us, but by all means, enjoy:

You said your bosses house was 2 miles away and he has cable? Set up some wireless relays with highpowered antennaes, dude! For a few hundred dollars of equipment, you can share his home connection to the 'net.

Check these if you think the tech isn't up to it:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1503200&CatId=374
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtool s/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=1597472&sku=U13-4176

Combine and repeat.

Marc M.

That website shows the drives go up to 64GB! Indeed, you can buy a 64GB flash drive at TigerDirect for the low low price of $2799.99. If you have money to burn, this may be just what you've been looking for.

umm... 16GB usb dongle drive made by Toshiba. big deal.

A company called Kanguru has been making a 64GB USB dongle drive for quite a while now.

You can buy it from many places including Tiger Direct ( Kanguru 64GB Flash Max Drive

-Supports USB Specification 1.1/2.0
-Full compliance with Universal Serial Bus Specification v2.0
-USB 2.0 data transfer rate up to 480Mbps at "High Speed"
-USB 2.0 is 40X faster than USB 1.1
-Speed: Read 8M bit/sec, Write 6.4M bit/sec (Max)

I would think that 64GB should be enough for anyone! But it's never enough.
Talk about something you'd really hate to loose.

When Kanguru has introduced a 64GB flash drive (measures 1.5 x 2.5 x 9.2 cm). Link to it here.

For me at least, the huge $2,799 USD price tag will keep it out of my pocket for at least a little while. But one thing's for sure: prices always come down. Wonder what this will go for this time next year.

I assume they're using the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 drive, which is the first gen of desktop drives with perpendicular recording (AFAIK), and are badass according to TH's tests, with average read rates on par with the 70GB Raptor, second only to the the 150GB Raptor. Also Tiger Direct has a $60 rebate on them through Thursday, which brings the total cost to about $50 less than anything I saw on Froogle and would make the price per GB ~$0.46US -- well below the ~$1.60US/GB of the 150GB Raptor.

yet but you can buy 2 gigs of ddr 2 800 epp Dual Channel ram with SLI Ready Certification for the same price as you pay for alienware to add one gig. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2206874&CatId=2368

30000 DVDs X 5 GB ISO FILES = 150000 GB
150000 GB / 300 GB = 500 EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES
500 EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES X $114.99 = $57,495

If you wanted to shake media, CD-R's would still be a better GB/$ deal:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=929365&Sku=K51-1060&SRCCO DE=GOOGLEBASE&CMP=OTC-GOOGLEBASE 200 CD-R's x 700 MB = 140,000 MB ~ 140 GB. $30. 140 GB / $30 = 4.6 GB/$. Blu-Ray was 1 GB/$.

Why would you want to shake it anyways?

Get your parts form a place like http://www.tigerdirect.com/ as they have local pick up and it easy to return bad parts to them.

I hate to disagree but I must. If you're running a gaming/internet cafe or whatever, really any business that isn't building and repairing PCs, then don't build your own computers. There's no cost advantage, and there's a large maintenance disadvantage. Pick a configuration from Dell, Compaq, whomever that serves your needs and buy all of them identical. Get 3 years or more of next business day on-site service for a pittance and then never have have hardware failure be your direct problem.

Have a smoke free area I once went to a gaming place and did not like the smoke at all and some towns in this area are talking about no smoking laws.

Use deep freeze to keep the systems in the same state as a lot of games need admin to work. Deep freeze resets the system back to where it was at each reboot. But you still have to put games updates, mods, system updates, and driver's updates into the image at least one a month or more.

Get your parts form a place like http://www.tigerdirect.com/ as they have local pick up and it easy to return bad parts to them.

you may want to have other things like pinball games to bring people in as there is no good play to play them. Gameworks has them but they don't fix them that well.

See http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1786714&CatId=193 They've had it for a while.

If you've been waiting to buy a fancy DLP because the prices are astronomical.. looks like they might just be starting to come down. Tigerdirect has a Samsung HL-R5078W 50" DLP with 1080p (yes, real 1080p!) for a mere $1600. Plus you can watch broadcast HDTV with the built-in tuner when no one's looking :)

Barring that, I'd go for a nice projector and a screen. Personally, I'm not such a huge fan of projectors, but they can be good with a proper setup (big, flat, custom-installed screen, everything aligned and focused correctly, etc.).

I got it off of ebay, brand new in the box. It runs windows mobile 2003, it's an older phone...
It'll check email at scheduled intervals (mine's set for every 5 minutes), I run AgileMessenger (free) to keep in touch with people on AOL Instant Messenger, viewers for Word/Excel/Powerpoint, has a nice calendar program, a Secure Digital slot, etc etc. Only thing it lacks is bluetooth, which to me isn't really that important anyway.

It's a rather large phone, but it FEELS like a phone, which I love. I've used Treo's before and they just weren't comfortable to hold when having a long conversation.

Oh yeah, and it has a fairly easy to use QWERTY keyboard that folds out from behind the regular phone buttons..

pic: http://images.tigerdirect.com/itemDetails/S/S266/S 266-1000/S266-1000-callout-2.jpg

I'm not sure about SCART, but I know that you can get PC-to-TV converters from sites like http://www.tigerdirect.com/ – or, if you know where to look, eBay has even better deals. I've got a little TView Micro adapter to connect one of my older machines to the TV to play stuff like SuperTux and TuxRacer on (and the occasional DVD) – not the best resolution, only 640x480, but for what I need it's just perfect. Although it's just a regular NTSC/video-in connector, so offhand I'm not entirely sure how useful it would be for you... anyway, probably horribly off-topic, but figured I may as well post what little I know anyway ;-)

They actually did make small touchpads that hooked up to the ps/2 port of a computer. I know because I had one for my IBM L40SX, which had no internal pointing device, being originally designed for DOS. They were designed to make people without touchpads on their laptops feel special, I think. Some companies still make them: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008XPAR/103-76 63121-8304644?v=glance&n=172282 They also make models with integrated keyboards: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1388856&Sku=A68-1016&SRCC ODE=PRICEGRABBER&CMP=OTC-PRICEGRABBER&ci_srccode=c ii_5784816&cpncode=08-10505924-2

You get a firewire / usb case for $40
firewire is better for this

this one is only $29.97 http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1631999&CatId=1204

$64.99 with Oxford 911 Chipset
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=876439&CatId=0

You get a firewire / usb case for $40
firewire is better for this

this one is only $29.97 http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1631999&CatId=1204

$64.99 with Oxford 911 Chipset
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=876439&CatId=0

In 1993, I was a college freshman. I paid over 2,000 for a Mac Performa 550. At the time it was a nice machine.

For under 1,0000 today, I could get a nice commodity PC & Monitor.

This is a pretty good deal from Apple, but it's not unheard of.

LK

In 1993, I was a college freshman. I paid over 2,000 for a Mac Performa 550. At the time it was a nice machine.

For under 1,0000 today, I could get a nice commodity PC & Monitor.

This is a pretty good deal from Apple, but it's not unheard of.

LK

I use the Century CD organizer which is available from http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=548251&CatId=44. One unit hold 100 CDs and is controled from your PC via USB or Serial. The included software isn't the greatest, but it does get the job done, and an upgraded software package will be out soon that allows you to view/search the contents of each disc. I have 3 at home and the work wonders for me - especially since the software keeps track of who I lend each disc out to, so I know who to hunt down if something goes missing.

As regards the first one you referenced at :
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtool s/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=548251&sku=B600-2004&CMP= EMC-TIGEREMAIL&SRCCODE=WEBNPR226

What I want to know is, why don't they have these with a reader drive built in?

With the stackable function, with the auto-eject on cue function, with a multiple o/s capable interface?

I mean, is this too much to ask? If I don't find one of these in the next three years (that is, before I get through school and know "all there is to make one for myself") I will make and market something like this for around $80-100 because, as admins, wouldn't it be easier to have some of these that you could lock away that people couldn't make off with so you could have all the time fingertip access of media without risk of damage?

And for AUDIOPHILES:
Or, and this is what is needed, so you could have all of your CD's at fingertip access without having to have multiple 200 disc players, if you could just have a stack of these connected to your reciever, with either a sort of jukebox style disc changer, or just feed them all together, ala DJ or karaoke whatever could blend songs together.

I think this crowd gets the idea

Have you seen this?

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtool s/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=548251&sku=B600-2004&CMP= EMC-TIGEREMAIL&SRCCODE=WEBNPR226

--100 discs/unit, ~7 seconds max eject time, comes with its own database/search software. It's even stackable.

--Alternatives:

http://www.storeyourmedia.com/-100-cd-stackable-di sc-drum-bonus-wallet.aspx
http://www.storeyourmedia.com/-60-cd-stackable-pod -titanium-blue-finish.aspx

--I use the 40-disc version of this one, plus an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of it:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?categoryid =pcmcat32500050007&id=1109233681431&skuid=7070411& type=product&ref=29&loc=01&srccode=cii_15720625&cp ncode=07-9481310-2

Lots of sources for cheap PCs... check out TigerDirect for one source.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/c ategory_tlc.asp?CatId=31

Audio comes -out- of one, right? Goes to your speakers.

Well, our informants in the underground scene have reported that you can use an top-of-the-line, cracker-produced, DRM-busting hyper-cable, and subtley 're-direct' the flow of audio, into an 'audio recording device'. Or, more ingeniously, back into the computer, and into an 'audio recording application'.

Mum's the word.

I use a sony t637 with a 15" powerbook. Syncs over bluetooth with isync. Connects me to tmobile via bluetooth and i charge it up with this ziplinq usb charger: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=585476

yes but with that you are limited to ONLY 128MB, whereas with the one he suggested as long as you dont care about screen quality, you could get that and a 1 or 2 gig sd card and have a player with as much memory as one of these Sandisk m250 2gig, or Mobiblue 2 gig "box", which cost about 120 to 160 USD, and when you run out of space, you can get another sd card as you need it, effectively enough swapping cards out like a cd player for unlimited space (by how many cards you have), vs a player with builtin memory, you have to delete songs

yes but with that you are limited to ONLY 128MB, whereas with the one he suggested as long as you dont care about screen quality, you could get that and a 1 or 2 gig sd card and have a player with as much memory as one of these Sandisk m250 2gig, or Mobiblue 2 gig "box", which cost about 120 to 160 USD, and when you run out of space, you can get another sd card as you need it, effectively enough swapping cards out like a cd player for unlimited space (by how many cards you have), vs a player with builtin memory, you have to delete songs

Not quite, if you look at the ads next to that one, you will find this: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1645242 It has memory and is less than half the price. pbbt

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1238959&CatId=1695

That one is $30, but every once in a while there are rebates which bring the price down to $10. There's no memory in it, but if you've got a SD card laying around this could be a nice little player.

Sleep tonight!

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1421774&CatId=1471