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		<title>Embedding videos the old fashion way</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time when I embedded web videos manually by uploading the video file to a server, and then wrote some HTML emded code on the web page to show a video.  Then came YouTube which solved one of the biggest problems which is server bandwidth, but they insisted on transcoding the uploaded file [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Pentium&#8217; branded Sandy Bridge laptop for $268!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 9/2/2011 &#8211; The deal is alive again.  I bought one and it is a reasonably nice screen and keyboard. Here is a Lenovo &#8220;Pentium&#8221; branded Sandy Bridge laptop for $268! at Fry&#8217;s (Silicon Valley, don&#8217;t know about other regions).  That&#8217;s a little too good for me to pass up as my old wooden computer experiment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Solid State PC</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles N. Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A silent PC is one that makes absolutely no noise, and by necessity has no moving parts (including fans). Such systems usually use very low-end hardware limited to trivial tasks such as running a cash register. The system introduced today, a Solid-State PC (SSPC) is a powerful quad-core i5 PC which runs most software faster than the majority of modern PCs, yet uses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Put the scroll bar out to pasture already!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Put the scroll bar out to pasture already! Once you’ve tried finger based scrolling on smartphones and tablets, it makes you realize how antiquated the Desktop User Interface (UI) is, especially the scroll bar. A plugin called “Wet Banana” adds mouse drag tablet-like scrolling but it’s about time all desktop operating systems get a UI [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strange PC flakiness solved</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Motherboards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a strange problem with one of my PCs. It was acting slow and sluggish, then the RAID 1 dropped a drive out saying it was failed (I&#8217;ve used RAID 1 on all my PCs for a while now, an dI highly recommend it). I shut down, inspected the failed drive, and turned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stay away from Cruz e-Reader</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 02:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Out of curiosity, I picked up a Cruz e-Reader from Fry&#8217;s for $160 this morning because it looked interesting with a 7&#8243; 800&#215;600 display running Android 2.0.  This device is apparently tied in with Borders bookstore and it doubles as a cheap Android tablet device.  After about 1 minute after I turned it on, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BlackFriday deals that you don&#8217;t have to wait overnight for</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to be updating this post as I find more things that are interesting. For the people who depend on mail order, NewEgg has some good stuff (via bfads.net).  Here&#8217;s a sampler. The NewEgg Black Friday sale begins tomorrow (Wednesday &#8211; 11/24) at 1pm PST (4pm EST). A few high notes from the flyer: TomTom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best SDHC USB card reader for $3</title>
		<link>http://www.formortals.com/best-sdhc-usb-card-reader-for-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 02:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These are simply the best USB SDHC card readers at any price because it&#8217;s the fastest reader I&#8217;ve measured, and DealExtreme sells it for $2.99 (free but slow ~3 week shipping from China).  I was able to measure read speeds of 22 MB/sec and write speeds of 11 MB/sec using a cheap 16 GB class [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problem with UltraFire WF-502D flashlight</title>
		<link>http://www.formortals.com/problem-with-ultrafire-wf-502d-flashlight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 02:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just received this UltraFire WF-502D flashlight from DealExtreme (SKU 04314) in the mail. This flashlight battery compartment is simply too short.  When you put two batteries in it, you can&#8217;t even screw the back lid on. Furthermore, the on/off switch was broken but that was the least of its problems even if the on/off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>21.5 inch 1080P for $100</title>
		<link>http://www.formortals.com/21-5-inch-1080p-for-100/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 23:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a great Lenovo 21.5 inch 1080P LCD for $100.  Any time someone has a 1080P display under $100, I take notice.]]></description>
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