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    Gigaware Micro Projector

    Yeah, I picked up one as well. I put in on the headboard of the bed, pointing at the ceiling and connected it to my portable DVD player. It's a blast to watch when drifting off to sleep! I did wire up a custom mono miniplug to four-pole miniplug cable to connect it directly to the DVD player...
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    What's Going To Happen With All The TVs When Signals Go Digital Next Year?

    Cool! Glad it worked out.
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    Wireless Router --TRYING AGAIN--

    Most will hold a setting once you've programmed them with a computer (i.e. set it up once, then you can send it where ever and plug it in and it's ready to go). Put another way, you'd just set up new the router to match whatever the defaults were on the Belkin and that would be that. Most...
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    What's Going To Happen With All The TVs When Signals Go Digital Next Year?

    There's some discussion on AVS Forums that might be useful: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=186 The results you are (or aren't) seeing are kind of puzzling. If you were in an RF cage (e.g. hardware cloth under stucco construction, etc.) you'd be getting crummy analog...
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    What's Going To Happen With All The TVs When Signals Go Digital Next Year?

    Check out: http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/welcome.aspx You can punch in your zip code (anything else is optional) and get a list of stations by frequency, bearing and range from your location. That should give you an idea if you should be seeing something. Some stations broadcast their digital...
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    What's Going To Happen With All The TVs When Signals Go Digital Next Year?

    I've seen a couple of the smaller DTV converters that run off a DC wall wart. Not as power efficient as an analog radio, but you should be able to run one of those from an appropriate battery pack. Then you could use a battery powered TV, or just connect the audio output from the converter to...
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    irobot's roomba: birds, bees & bots

    I'm not so sure the Li-Ion mod is such a good idea. First there's the issue of properly charging them (the mods I saw required the battery to be charged separately, making the dock useless) and second I think the weight of the Ni-MH may be necessary for the brushes to work correctly. Just...
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    I think I need a digital book...

    Not here, but check out the Sony section of www.mobileread.com - Do a search for "pdf" and you should find the guidelines for setting up Acrobat. If you want to test your files out, you can download the PC Reader software from the Sony ebook site to see how they will look. Regards, Bob
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    I think I need a digital book...

    The Sony directly supports PDF, but as you noted you need to reformat the pages to the screen size of the Reader. Straight text is pretty easy to do, but highly formatted pages (e.g. technical papers) just don't convert too well. The Reader does not support encrypted PDFs (e.g. purchased books...
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    What's Going To Happen With All The TVs When Signals Go Digital Next Year?

    Information on the digital TV switch over is available here: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/dtvcoupon/index.html or https://www.dtv2009.gov/ Those sites also explain the process for requesting converter coupons from the US government, intended help defray the cost of up to two converter boxes per...
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    Soon to buy an Omega - feedback please...

    Check out the Omega forum on www.timezone.com. A search there will turn up a number of posts you might find of interest. I've had a used Speedy Pro for a few years now (the basic manual wind NASA model) and really like it. I believe the dial at 9 o'clock is composed of a continuously running...
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    Omega x 33. Anyone got any thoughts?

    The 8F33 series are a terrific value on the accuracy/$$$ scale, but you wouldn't know it from their advertising. (Back to my earlier point that this just doesn't seem to be a big selling point). Looking back at my first post I think I should have said "high accuracy" quartz movements...
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    Help: I need a list of good watch companies to look at

    "Automatic" generally means what used to be called a "self-winding" mechanical watch. No battery, but it will need to be periodically serviced by a watchmaker (or replaced), and it can't match the accuracy of a quartz watch. The service interval is specified by the manufacturer. Although...
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    Omega x 33. Anyone got any thoughts?

    If you take the plunge, look for a second generation model (non-shiny bezel, flanged crown) and try to find one with the factory bracelet. The latter is very expensive to buy new, and tough to find on the secondary market (ask me how I know :) ) Having a bracelet makes a resale easier if you...
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    Need "Monocular" Recomendations

    The Minox fits very nicely in an old ARC LS pouch, if you've got one of those laying around somewhere. Regards, Bob
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    Need "Monocular" Recomendations

    And you're a danger to my credit card :) Thanks for the link!
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    Any HP calculator fans around?

    Even more amazing is that it handles dates past 1999 (a decimal point next to the year indicates 20xx instead of 19xx). So, the day-of-the week function and the date arithmetic all work fine. I like to think the programmer was imagining us figuring out space shuttle departure schedules for...
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    Any HP calculator fans around?

    Mine arrived on Friday. Great homage to the old 35/45/55 series. I'm still working through the manual but it seems like a pretty good daily driver. The keyboard action is good, the layout is certainly an improvement over the wacky 33s and I really like the way it handles complex numbers as a...
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    Wallet suggestions?

    As much as I hate to admit it, the backup item in my wallet that's gotten the most use is a spare car key :sssh: I also keep a pen in there as well - I use a compact telescoping PDA stylus in mine, but a multi-pen refill works in a pinch. Neither takes up much room. If you put anything with a...
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    RGM watches 150 & 151P

    They turn up on used on www.timezone.com periodically, but you'll have to keep looking. I got an opportunity to tour his shop a couple of years ago (it's in an old bank building...saved installing a safe) and it's very impressive. They do a lot of high-end repair/custom work in addition to...

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