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Ya need to select India instead of United States:wink2:

yea, any tips on improving battery life on laptops?

I ask because we bought my mom a wonderful (I mean dual-core, 1 gig ram, widescreen, wireless...etc...) laptop for Christmas and the battery life is terrible...

So any tips?

This is on this "Holidays in Dementia" Dr. Demento CD as well lol...never gets old

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Free everything, including domain name 

Ohh Microsoft, as much as I hate you, I love you! 

ok, the guy is buying it for me, and I'll let ya guys know when I get it  

How about I trade it for a V3x then?  :D I have a way to, the guy is looking into it right now 

I'm on Cingular currently...I'm kinda wondering though, cause it's not my time to upgrade yet (still got a year on this phone, and as long as Cingular doesn't find out about any of the hacks I've done to it I still have a warrenty for about 4 months lol) and I really want a Moto for modding...I mean, I love these things, they are such great phones and they're beautiful as well

And really, what other brand phone can you change the outer screen to say -=MOD THIS=-  on when the phone is open so people (@ school mostly) who have the same model do a kinda "how he do dat?!"

It's funny, to say the least hahaa

Welllll..... 

So, I went to Start-Run-services.msc. From there I unchecked the one that had something to do with Media Center, it was under the M's, I believe. Closed that.

Start-Run-msconfig. Startup tab-unchecked ehshell.exe (is that right?) sorry, not @ home right now..but anyway, basically, since I have very little in startup, it was easy to find and take out the Media Center related one. Dialog box: "You gotta restart now, dogg" 

Restarted..

Started up Sony Vegas 6.0, went to capture and (since I had nothing plugged into the card) it said preview is turned off in the video preview pane. YAY!!!! The thing here is that it didn't immediatly (in fact, it never did) say "Can't open Hauppaugue WinTV PVR PCI II because it is in use by another program or is turned off"..so that seems to have fixed the problem...

Tho...I could still try and get a better card from my mom  :haha:

I'll grab out the camcorder @ some point and test it...life is kinda really busy atm, school started today (I'm a Sophmore in h.s.) and being as I'm in IB it's even more hectic, even in the first few days, and there's only more to come. Everyone wish me luck in pre-cal please

Yea, that's what I'm thinking as well...the 635 is way more modable lol

k then thx 

Well, the thing here is that it would be a trade with someone, so I would be gaining a lot, at least thats what I think, and I do use data a lot on my current v557, so I might have to...

But, for that matter, I could just trade the guy for a v635 and stick iTunes on it lol

Im wondering, I have the oppurtunity to trade my Motorola v557 cell phone for a Mpx220 Smartphone...wondering, should I?

@cholla: thx, I'll check those out right now

and @php: you mean go into services.msc and disable all that ehmsas and all that crap, correct? basically anything that is a dirrivate of the word "ehome" lol

haha thnx

Yea, I know but it's what came with the computer lol 

lollers

Hey, I'm not a computer gee...wait a minute, yes I am...umm, ok carry on people! 

cool, thx

I was lookin on newegg, but I really couldn't find anything in particular that would work...but there ya go!

@swimmer, yea, i am too, but idk, I already have a Radeon X300SE, but no RCA inputs on that baby :-

Plus, I already have a capture card, a Hauppauge to be exact, I just forgot to mention that it will not work at all in Sony Vegas 6.0d's vid cap utility, or any vid cap utility for that matter..stupid sony vid cap says that it's in use, and I never have gotten it to not say that.

Ya think it could be MCE constantly trying to use it even when I don't have (the prog) Media Center up and running?

Hey guys,

I'm lookin to get a PCI capture card to be used to digitize VHS tapes onto DVD. I know how to do video editing, I got Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 and Sony DVD Architect 3.0, and I can turn out pretty good lookin DVD's from our DV cam, but I gotta get these VHS tapes onto DVD's soon..

So, it's gotta have RCA inputs, obviously and I want it to be pretty good quality, and I got maybe $150-$160 total to get my mom to spend on it lol

What would you guys recommend?

Thanks!

-brennan 

Yea, that would make sense, if you're testing from a connection in France (great place, btw) to the States it gonna be really slow. Your test is run out of France or thereabouts, so it's gonna give you more accurate results, if that is where you are from 

Good job!! Nice speeds, as well 

Well besides the fact that the one you suggested takes forever and you have to download a batch file 

Ty punkin! Now I have a few testmy members and the entire UK backing CA3LE's wise decision to cater to my ego!

This so rocks! I feel like I won the lottery! (And I really needed a good thing to happen to boost my spirits this week!)

I'm glad to help ya out water

and @FiberOptic: hmm...lol *starts up photoshop, attempts to clone brush till able to find big firefox logo*

haha, guess I'll have to fix that, but that's the way it came, btw-thx php!

I'll vote for: "I'm all broken."

lol, ya I guess that fits me pretty well haha

lol, thank you, thank you, my newfound-friend lol