So, the land deal fell through about a month ago, so I decided to move the trailer into a nicer trailer park in Bryan. I got it in yesterday, and it cost a little less that 4 thousand to move it. Now I have to get utilities hooked up. I figured it was as simple as hiring an electrician/plumber to come in and hook up the lines. But I'm in the ( Read more... )

Olivia Newton John -- Let's Get Physical -- November 1981

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Composite = RCA
White = Left audio
Red = Right audio
Yellow = Video

Component = RGB
Red = Red video
Green = Green video
Blue = Blue video
No audio!

First, some corrections. The "yellow pages" option I wanted in a nav system does exist, and the units I looked at have it. You can look up a place by name or category, and an information panel comes up with the address and phone number. This makes me happy, since I think this will actually be more usefull for me than the nav system itself. ( Read more... )

I spent this morning looking at Cnet's reviews of the systems I mentioned yesterday, as well as the comparable models from Magellan, TomTom, and a few other manufacturers. One of the things I learned along the way is that Garmin liscenses it's nav technology to Kenwood to use in their products. That's pretty nice, because I can get a unit that I ( Read more... )

I've been thinking for a while about updating the electronics in my truck. Basically, I'd like to put in a navigation system, and a new stereo. I wrote about this earlier in the summer, and said that I wanted a navigation system to have traffic, weather, and yellow pages in addition to navigation. I also dreamed about integration with a radar ( Read more... )

I'm usually late to the technology game, so if everyone else already knew how to do this, just shut up! (Blu)

If you use Firefox, you know that there are all kinds of plug-ins. There is an add-on called Fast Video Download that lets you save videos from YouTube to your computer to watch whenever. However it saves them as .flv files, which are ( Read more... )