And now I find out they are shutting down winamp.:(:( I got winamp working on the phone a few months ago for listening to web streams and live music events on Second Life.
Thinking back now I am pretty sure my first music player was winamp back around 1996-1997 as I had it before the Rurouni Kenshin fan-subs days and playing around with winamp theme displays.
A very sad day indeed. I most definitely would miss it as I streamed a lot of tech/talk shows off it over the years.
Perhaps this question as mentioned or not. I've not read all the comments and skimmed the first 2 pages of comments. I did check out the Prey website and a thought came to mind which was not addressed in the F.A.Q there. What if the thief removes the HD and puts thier own new HD onto the laptop? If the thief was after just the hardware would that mean that the thief can't be tracked anymore if they throw the old HD away till someone finds or boots up the old HD?
That also had me wondering about the Craigslist or the story someone mentioned about finding thier GPS in thier area. I often see lpatops for sale online on Craigslist and many times the ad says the HD is removed for security reasons. Yes that can be a valid reason if you are the rightful owner of the item and wish to remove your HD for privacy but that also had me wonder if the HD removed could be also because the person sellingi t could have stolen it and removed the HD just because of any tracking software on it could track them?
I mean if they dummy corded the phones to them with like a coiled bungee cord I'm sure the phones are very less likely to get lost unless someone cut the cord on them.
I've used this for some time and it worked quite well. It can take 10 batteries to charge at once but it does not have a auto cut off timer and other charging protection but then again it's more for 50/50 outdoors and indoors use.
http://21st-century-goods.com/page/21st/PROD/iSunB P
That is the unit I use. Here is a review I did a while ago on this.
http://outdoors-magazine.com/s_article.php?id_arti cle=109
One idea is to see if the devices you have, have cigarette chargers sold for them. If they do then take some color labels and write the name of the device that charger is for or use color sticker dots and put one color dot on the cig-port end and the other on the adaptor end. Now take all the cig-chargers you have and zip-tie or gun-tape or put into one of those wrappy coil things to keep them all together. Now all you have to do when traveling is only reach for that multi-adaptor you just made and the Isun Battpak with its AC/DC charger and you're good to go.
So that would mean you only carry 4 extra items on top of your devices. You can make that 3 extra items if you take away the DC charger for the BattPak and have an invertor in the car. IMHO I find the AC charger better to have just incase the DC fubars or something you can still charge the batteries at any 110 outlet.
The Battpak will also charge N cells as well without an adaptor (which is not mentioned anywhere and very useful for small lights or blinkies on a bicycle). You can drop 10 fresh alkalines and get ~15-16v and run an small inverter if you want and if you come across a bulk buy AA pack.
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And now I find out they are shutting down winamp. :( :( I got winamp working on the phone a few months ago for listening to web streams and live music events on Second Life.
Thinking back now I am pretty sure my first music player was winamp back around 1996-1997 as I had it before the Rurouni Kenshin fan-subs days and playing around with winamp theme displays.
A very sad day indeed. I most definitely would miss it as I streamed a lot of tech/talk shows off it over the years.
I would have loved to see how things changed over time/
Perhaps this question as mentioned or not. I've not read all the comments and skimmed the first 2 pages of comments. I did check out the Prey website and a thought came to mind which was not addressed in the F.A.Q there. What if the thief removes the HD and puts thier own new HD onto the laptop? If the thief was after just the hardware would that mean that the thief can't be tracked anymore if they throw the old HD away till someone finds or boots up the old HD? That also had me wondering about the Craigslist or the story someone mentioned about finding thier GPS in thier area. I often see lpatops for sale online on Craigslist and many times the ad says the HD is removed for security reasons. Yes that can be a valid reason if you are the rightful owner of the item and wish to remove your HD for privacy but that also had me wonder if the HD removed could be also because the person sellingi t could have stolen it and removed the HD just because of any tracking software on it could track them?
I mean if they dummy corded the phones to them with like a coiled bungee cord I'm sure the phones are very less likely to get lost unless someone cut the cord on them.
I've used this for some time and it worked quite well. It can take 10 batteries to charge at once but it does not have a auto cut off timer and other charging protection but then again it's more for 50/50 outdoors and indoors use. http://21st-century-goods.com/page/21st/PROD/iSunB P
That is the unit I use. Here is a review I did a while ago on this.
http://outdoors-magazine.com/s_article.php?id_arti cle=109
One idea is to see if the devices you have, have cigarette chargers sold for them. If they do then take some color labels and write the name of the device that charger is for or use color sticker dots and put one color dot on the cig-port end and the other on the adaptor end. Now take all the cig-chargers you have and zip-tie or gun-tape or put into one of those wrappy coil things to keep them all together. Now all you have to do when traveling is only reach for that multi-adaptor you just made and the Isun Battpak with its AC/DC charger and you're good to go.
So that would mean you only carry 4 extra items on top of your devices. You can make that 3 extra items if you take away the DC charger for the BattPak and have an invertor in the car. IMHO I find the AC charger better to have just incase the DC fubars or something you can still charge the batteries at any 110 outlet.
The Battpak will also charge N cells as well without an adaptor (which is not mentioned anywhere and very useful for small lights or blinkies on a bicycle). You can drop 10 fresh alkalines and get ~15-16v and run an small inverter if you want and if you come across a bulk buy AA pack.
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