inline skate shops

the skate shop
Nett racing
Black Diamond Sports
Weber sports
Adams Inline
The Skate Guy
North Texas Skate Sales
Bont, Powerslide, Raps boots

Unlicensed transmission

FM: 250 uV/m at a distance of 3 meters from the antenna, 87.6 MHz to 107.9 MHz.
AM: 100 milliwatts (0.1 watt)

FM Transmitter
A Beginner's Guide to Low-Power FM Broadcasting

HobbyTron Low Power FM Transmitters
AM/FM Broadcasters
fmtv RF parts and transmitters
The Official Pirate Radio Kit Site

Digital Broadcasting

Digital Radio

HD Radio using IBOC

DAB DMB Digital Audio Broadcasting, Digital Multimedia Broadcasting with VHF band and DAB ensemble
DRM Digital Radio Mondiale using in-band on-channel

Digital Television

DVB DVB-T Digital Video Broadcasting COFDM 64-QAM
ATSC 8VSB 19.39 Mbit/s

Digital Cable

HD Digital Cable
Open Cable DVB-C 256-QAM 38.4 Mbit/s

beam wiper blades

Valeo ultra-flat Valeo ULTIMATE Wiper Blade

Trico Innovision

Bosch ICON

Michelin Radius Michelin Optimum by Pylon

Walmart
Target

Studio Monitor

Loudspeakers: For Music Recording And Reproduction By Keith Holland
Recording Studio Design By Philip Newell
Auratone 5C -> Yamaha NS-10M -> Roland DS-50A

世界10大知名監聽音箱評比
建構個人數位錄音環境
Recording and sound effect equipments

Yamaha Pro Audio Powered Monitor Speakers
Yamaha Pro Audio Japan Speaker
Yamaha Pro Audio History
国内专业数字音乐网站-midifan发表"YAMAHA HS80M监听音箱测评文章"

MSP Studio monitors: MSP7 STUDIO, MSP5 STUDIO, Subwoofer SW10 STUDIO
MSP5A, MSP3, MS101 II
HS Series monitors: HS50M $200, HS80M $350, HS10W
MS101 III
NS10M NS10s near-field active powered near-field speakers

ADAM Audio, Alesis, Dynaudio Acoustics, Fostex, Genelec, JBL, KRK Systems, M-Audio, Tannoy and Yamaha.

Event
ASP8 $650 35Hz–20kHz ±3dB
ASP6 $500 40Hz–20kHz ±3dB
TR8XL $300 35Hz–20kHz ±3dB
TR8 $250 35Hz–20kHz ±3dB
TR6 $200 45Hz–20kHz ±3dB
ALP5 $165 53Hz-20kHz ±3dB

KRK VXT
VXT 8 $600 37Hz-22kHz ±1.5dB
VXT 6 $450 49Hz-22kHz ±1.5dB
VXT 4 $300 56Hz-22kHz ±2dB
KRK V Series 2
V8 42Hz-20kHz ±1.5dB
V6 55Hz-20kHz ±1.5dB
V4 62Hz-20kHz ±2dB
KRK Rokit Powered
RP8 $250 45Hz-20kHz ±1.5dB
RP6 $200 49Hz-20kHz ±1.5dB
RP5 $150 53Hz-20kHz ±2dB
RP10S $300 36Hz-50Hz ±1.5dB to 130Hz

Dynaudio
BM 6A MK II $750 40Hz-21kHz ±3dB
BM 6A 41Hz-21kHz ±3dB

M-Audio
EX66 $600 37Hz–20kHz
BX8a $250 40Hz-22kHz

tapco S8 $250 40Hz-20kHz ±3dB

Fostex
PM-2 MKII $240 50Hz-20kHz ±2dB, 40Hz-22kHz -10dB
PM-1 MKII $190 50Hz-20kHz ±2dB, 38Hz-23.5kHz -10dB
PM0.5 MKII $140 50Hz-20kHz ±2dB, 40Hz-22kHz -10dB
PM0.4 $75 60Hz-30kHz ±2dB, 60Hz-22kHz -10dB
PM0.5-Sub MKII $180 25Hz-85Hz, $400 with PM0.5 system

Headphones
Sony MDR-7506, MDR-V6, AKG K-240

音樂與音效製作 Music Production

THX approved pm3 studio loudspeakers Mackie Designs HRS-824, HRS-624, HRS-120, JBL LSR-25P, LSR-6312SP $1300 28Hz-80Hz -6dB

Yamaha
MSP7 Studio $600 45Hz-40kHz -10dB
HS80M $350 42Hz-20kHz -10dB
HS10W $400 30Hz-180Hz -10dB

JBL
LSR6328P $1300 70Hz-20kHz +1-2dB
LSR6325P-1 $340 70Hz-20kHz +1-2dB, 5.1 surround package $2600
LSR6312SP $1450, 28Hz-80Hz -6dB, 26Hz -10dB
LSR4328P $1400 pair, 50Hz-20kHz ±1.5dB, 43Hz-22kHz -3dB, 35Hz-32kHz -10dB
LSR4326P $1000 pair, 55Hz-20kHz ±1.5dB, 47Hz-22kHz -3dB, 39Hz-32kHz -10dB
LSR4312SP $940, 27Hz-250Hz, -6dB

Mackie HR824 $500 39Hz-20kHz ± 1.5dB, 37Hz-22Hz -3dB
Mackie HR624 $450 52Hz-20kHz ± 1.5dB, 49Hz-22Hz -3dB
Mackie HRS120 $1100 21Hz-150Hz ±1.5dB, -3dB at 19Hz
Mackie HRMK2 Series
HR824MK2 $600 37Hz-20kHz ±1.5dB, 35Hz-22Hz -3dB
HR624MK2 $450 49Hz-20kHz ±1.5dB, 45Hz-22Hz -3dB
Mackie MR Series
MR8 $250 40Hz-20kHz ±3dB
MR5 $150 60Hz-20kHz ±3dB

Harmony Central Electronic Musician Buying Guide

Monitors with TRS
M-Audio Studiophile AV 40 4" 15W 1" TRS, RCA $149
M-Audio DX4 4" 18W 1/4" TRS, RCA $149

Digital inputs
Edirol MA-15D: Digital Stereo Micro Monitors S/PDIF, RCA 4" 2" 15W+15W
Roland DM-10 S/PDIF, RCA 3.5" 2" 10W+10W
Edirol MA-10D S/PDIF, RCA 3.5" 2" 10W+10W
Logitech Z906 5.1 THX-certified 3" 5x67W + 8" 165W

Small inexpensive monitors $99
M-Autio StudioPro 3 3.25" 100Hz-20kHz ±3dB, 10W, RCA, 1/8"
Edirol MA-7A 3 9/16" 7W, RCA, 1/8"
Alesis M1Acrive 320 USB 3", 80Hz–20kHz, 10W, RCA, 1/4", 1/8"
Tascam VL-S21 5W + 15W Sub
Edirol MA-1EX USB 2.5", 100Hz-20kHz, 0.75W $49

USB Powered Speakers
Edirol MA-1EX 2.5", 100Hz-20kHz, 0.75W x 2, 3 1/2 x 2 1/8 x 5 1/8 $49
Logitech V20 Notebook Speakers 2", 70Hz-20kHz, 1W x 2, 6.44"x3.125"x1.5" $69
Altec Lansing BXR1220 2", 180Hz-20kHz(-10dB), 2.8"x4.8"x3.7" $19.95

Nike+iPod

Devices That Tell On You: The Nike+iPod Sport Kit
Nike+iPod Shoe Hack and Sensor Accessory Round-Up

MEMS: Yesterday to tomorrow at Analog Devices ADI ADXL330 accelerometer on Nintendo Wii

Surround Sound on HD Radio

Surround solution such as Dolby, SRS and Neural Audio. have been certified by iBiquity and are currently supported.
HD Digital Radio Products

SRS Circle Surround Automotive Technology CS Auto = FOCUS + TruBass + Circle Surround
"Automotive" Related Products Featuring SRS Technology

Neural Radio Neural Surround

Dolby Pro Logic II Surround Sound for Stereo Broadcast Transmissions

HDRadio Chipset
Texas Instruments (TI), ST Microelectronics, NXP (Philips), Samsung and Siport,
High Fidelity Radio

1.5 Million HD Radio Chips Shipped To Date Texas Instruments (DRI200, DRI250, DRI302, DRI352 processors) and NXP (3550 and 3555)
Texas Instruments (DRI4xx processor) and NXP (3560) next generation chips
Samsung, SiPort and STMicroelectronics - portable low power
HD Radio chip marks SiPort's recovery

Cellphone Wireless Coverage Maps

RootMetrics cellular performance comparison map
RootMetrics rootscore

Verizon
All covered by LTE, 3G, Data, Voice
OLD: All covered with BroadbandAccess & VCAST

Sprint
Voice: Good, Good, Good, Good
Data: 3G, 3G, 3G, 3G
OLD: Good 3+, Best 5+, Good 3+, Good 3+, (Best: outdoors, car, many buildings) (Good: outdoors, car, some buildings) (Fair: outdoors) + for Sprint Mobile Broadband Network

Cingular/AT&T
Voice: Best, Best, Best, Best
Data: LTE, LTE, LTE, LTE
OLD: Good 3+, Good 3+, Moderate 2+, Moderate 2+, (Best: most in-buildings) (Good: on-street, in-the-open, most in-vehicles, some in-buildings) (Moderate: on-street or in-the-open) + for 3G Mobile Broadband

T-Mobile
2G: Good, Good, Satisfactory, Satisfactory
3G/4G(1700Mhz): Excellent, Excellent, Good, Good

OLD: coverage incleased 1, 3+, 4+, 3+, 3+ ((5 dropped), 4: outdoors, car, most buildings) (3: outdoors, car, some buildings) (2: outdoors) (1: ...) + for 3G

Quick Reference on often used Ghostscript PDF options

Quick Reference on often used Ghostscript PDF options

merge pdf files:
gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=fileout.pdf filein.ps filein2.pdf

How to concatenate PDFs without pain

Phone Finder Results (Phone Scoop)

have GSM 850
have Memory Card Slot (MMC or RS-MMC 3v or RS-MMC 1.8v / MMCmobile or MMCmicro or SD / MMC or miniSD or microSD / TransFlash or Memory Stick Duo or M2 (Memory Stick Micro))
have Speaker Phone
have Video Capture
have Wi-Fi

Repair an RPM database safely

cd /var/lib
tar zcvf rpm.tar.gz rpm
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm -vv --rebuilddb

Digital Pianos with good Hammer Keyboards

Brochure of many Digital Piano models

Yamaha

GranTouch
Natural Keyboard
Graded Hammer 3 GH3, damper with half pedal effect
P140, N100, CP33, CP330 Premium Graded Hammer Effect GHE GH
P70, P85, MM8 (initial touch), YPG-625, DGX620, Graded Hammer Standard GHS
P65, CME VX8 (initial aftertouch), Weighted Graded Hammer Action
S08 (initial touch), MO8 (initial touch), S90, S90ES, MOTIF XS 8, Balanced Hammer Effect BH BHE initial touch / aftertouch
S70 synthesizer, balanced hammer, initial touch, after touch

GranTouch real grand piano keyboard and pedals
Yamaha Advanced Sound Technology: Keyboard Touch Response
YAMAHA 的技術
Clavinova Piano Finder

Graded Hammer 3 (GH3): 2 sensors, Damper with half pedal effect CLP-230 CLP-240 CLP-270

"Natural Keyboard": wood with sensors CLP-280

Natural Keyboard: wood with 2 sensors and 6 steps in grading instead of 4 in GH CVP-900

Natural Wood Keyboard: wood with 2 sensors and 8 steps in grading CLP-990

Yamaha Japan Digital Piano

CME VX8 controller graded hammer-action weighted keyboard, initial after touch, $1000, distributed in the US by the Yamaha Corporation of America

Yamaha Electone STAGEA electronic organ (ELS-01C with horizontal touch)

Pedal keyboard  Concave Radiating 32-note AGO spec, MIDI, 61-note keyboard manual
Expression pedal swell, volume
Allen Organ Video
Rodgers 905B 3-manual digital (with MIDI) integrated with a pre-existing (1950’s vintage) Moeller 4-rank pipe organ digital organ, 905b
Lothar Bandermann church
Find an Organ Teacher, Find a Substitute Organist
Pipe Organ Encounters, POE at Stanford (8/7-13/2016)

LDS Organs
Viscount Unico CL6 toe pistons AGO-spec 32-note radiated/concave pedalboard

Rodgers Classic 559 10 piston AGO-spec 32-note radiated/concave pedalboard

Allen Historique I 6 piston AGO-spec 32-note radiated/concave pedalboard, or compact
Johannus Studio 170 61 + 61 + 30 RACO or AGO concave radiating
Hauptwerk Organ Console

Wersi Scala 61 + 61 + 25-note parallel pedalboard
Hammond Sk2 61 + 61 + 25-note radiated pedalboard
Roland AT-900 Platinum Edition 56 initial + 76 initial/after + 25 radiated
Roland C-330 61+61+30 parallel concave
Lowrey Marquee EX5000 61+61+25 parallel

Kawai DT9 61+61+25 radiating
Yamaha Electone DDK-7 Stagea 49+61+20-note pedalboard

Roland portable digital pianos
FP-7 Progressive Hammer-Action II Keyboard $1900
RD-300GX PHA alpha II Keyboard $1500
RD-700GX PHA II Ivory Feel Keyboard with Escapement $2500

Roland pianos with Escapement:
KR-107 intelligent upright
HPi-7 interactive piano
HP-207
HP-203
HP-107

Best keyboard, "Solid Progressive Hammer-Action Keyboard Ivory-feel with Escapement" and “Natural Look Effect”, Wood-tone sides, PHA II, Touch sensitivity: 100 levels

Roland Fantom-S88 Fantom-X8 Sampling Workstation with Progressive Hammer-Action mechanism and channel aftertouch $3000

Korg portable digital piano with Real Weighted Hammer Action 3 (RH3)
SP-250
Korg M3 Workstation / Sampler with RH3 and aftertouch $3500

Japanese RH3

Casio
CASIO Celviano PS-20 PL-40R AL-100R Naturally Scaled Hammer Action (lighted)

Kawai

Digital Piano Actions
AWA PRO Wooden-Key Graded-Hammer Action

ES4 portable digital piano with AHA IV Advanced Hammer Action with Acoustic Reaction AR Technology

Suzuki Deluxe Hammer Action, Velocity Sensitive pianos
Deluxe Hammer Action

Fatar Fatar  keyboard

Central Music CME USB Midi Keyboard, 中音, CME, Virgin Musical Instruments Video

CME Xkey, 2013, 2014 XKey37, midi controller, velocity sensitive, polyphonic aftertouch
XKey News
XKey Compatible Apps
XKey Piano  free
Free One Red Dog Media XK-1 Sounds $2 sound library
Arctic ProSynth $10
Grand Piano  $0
WI Orchestra free + 3*sections
FL Studio Mobile $15
Animoog $30
Cubasis $50

silent mouse

Buffalo BOMU-SL

hand held GPS

Magellan eXplorist XL 3.5", 176x220, 16-color, 30MB Map, 30MB data, SD card, 14 channels, 4AA, 19 hours, 2.9"W x 6.4"H x 1.33"D, 12.25oz, Hot: 20 seconds, Cold: 60 seconds, Initial: 2 minutes

MotionBased supported GPS

Garmin Comparison of Handhelds
Comparison of 3" mapping handhelds
Topo Map supported products
Garmin Oregon 400t 3", 400x240, microSD, 2AA, 16 hours, 2.3" x 4.5" x 1.4", 6.8oz, Electronic compass, Barometric altimeter, 300 does not have Topo map
Garmin eTrex Vista HCx 2.14", 220x176, 256-color, microSD card, 2AA, 25 hours, 2.2"W x 4.2"H x 1.2"D, 5.5oz, Electronic compass, Barometric altimeter
Garmin nüvi 360 3.5" 320x240, 5.1oz, 8 hours, 3.87"W x 2.91"H x .87"D (9.83 x 7.39 x 2.21 cm)
Garmin nuvi 660 4.3" 480x272, 6.2 ounces (176 g), lithium rechargeable 7 hours, 4.9"W x 2.9"H x .9"D (12.4 x 7.4 x 2.3 cm)

Lowrance iFINDER H2O C 2.83", 320x240, 256 colors, MMC/SD card, 16 channels, 2AA, 14 hours, 2.5 x 5.6 x 1.2, 8.7oz

WAAS

Top 10 GPS

SiRF star III chipset
SiRFStarIII
STMicroelectronics Teseo
NemeriX low power
u-blox

Garmin eTrex H series uses MTK chipset
GPS Chipset comparison MediaTek MT3 SiRF Star III Semtech XE
Solar GPS Solar Bluetooth GPS receiver (MediaTek MT3), Transystem iBlue-757 (NemeriX)

Garmin GPSMAP 60Cx 2.6", 240x160, 256-color, microSD card, 64MB card, 12 channel, 2AA, 18 hours, 2.4W x 6.1H x 1.3D, 7.5oz, Warm < 1 sec, Cold < 38 sec, AutoLocate < 45 sec

GPS market SiRF vs Global Locate

Best Buy Expands Private-Label Lines

Wal-Mart iLo Walmart Durabrand
Bestbuy Insignia
Circuit City NexxTech
Target TruTech
Radio Shack Accurian

Children First Dictionaries

Preschool Dictionary

The American Heritage Picture Dictionary 144 pages, 900 words, ages 3-5, grades k-3, 2006
Best Picture Dictionary Ever! 128 pages, 700 entries, baby-pre k, 1998
Scholastic First Picture Dictionary 112 pages, 800 words, 16 illustrations, ages 3-5, 2005
DK My First Dictionary 96 pages, 1000 words, 4-7 years, 1993
My Big Dictionary 40 pages, 170 words, age 3-5, grade pre k-k, 1994

First Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Primary Dictionary 448 pages, 1000 entries, 3000 words, 700 illustrations, grades k-2, ages 5-7, 2005
The American Heritage First Dictionary 416 pages, 2000 entries, 700 photos, drawings, 5-8, 1994, ..., 2003, 2006
Macmillan First Dictionary 400 pages, 2200 words, age 5-8, K-3, 2008
DK First Dictionary 256 pages, 1000 entries, 4000 words, 700 illustrations, 5-8 years old, 2002
Scholastic First Dictionary 256 pages, 1500 words, 600 photographs, 4-8, 1998, 2006
Kingfisher First Dictionary 176 pages, 1500 words, ages 5-9, 1995, 1998, 2002
The Little Dictionary 176 pages, 1500 words, ages 5-8, 2003

First Thesaurus

Kingfisher First Thesaurus 144 pages, 100 key words, 1000 secondary words, grades K-3, ages 5-8, 2004

First Encyclopedia

+DK First Encyclopedia 160 pages, ages 5-8, 2002
The Kingfisher First Encyclopedia 160 pages, grades k-3, ages 5-8, 2005
Usborne internet-linked first encyclopedia series

Children Dictionary

+DK Merriam Webster Dictionary 960 pages, 35000 definitions, 3900 illustrations, 8-12 years, 2008
Webster's New World Children's Dictionary 2nd ed, rev, 944 pages, 33000 entries, 750 illustrations, ages 8-11, 2006
The American Heritage Children's Dictionary 864 pages, 8-12 years, grade 3-6, 13000 main entries, 1000 photos, 2006, new version coming? 1998
Merriam-Webster's Elementary Dictionary 624 pages, 32000 entries, 600 full-color illustrations, grade 2-4, ages 8-11, 1994. 842 pages, 2009
Macmillan Dictionary for Children 832 pages, 35000 entries, 1100 color photos, ages 8-12, grades 3-6, 2001, 2007
Webster's II Children's Dictionary 800 pages, 1200 drawings, 8-12, 2003
Scholastic Children's Dictionary 656 pages, 9-14, 2005

The Kingfisher Children's Illustrated Dictionary and Thesaurus 320 pages, 4000 words, 5000 headwords, 600 illustrations, grade 2-5, 7-10, 2003

Children Thesaurus

Simon & Schuster Thesaurus for Children 296 pages, 800 main entries, 5000 synonyms, ages 8-12, grades 3-7, 2001
+The American Heritage Children's Thesaurus 288 pages, 4000 main entries and 36000 synonyms, 8-12, grades 4-6, 2003, 2006, 2009
Scholastic Children's Thesaurus 240 pages, 500 entries and 2,500 synonyms, grades 4-8, ages 9-13, 2006

Children Encyclopaedia

DK Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia 6th edition 800 pages, 500 entries, 2000 subentries, 4500 full-color photographs, ages 8+, 2006, 600 pages for 2010 edition
Scholastic Children's Encyclopedia 720 pages, 600 entries, 2000 full-color illustrations, ages 9-12, 2004
The Kingfisher Children's Encyclopedia 480 pages, grades 4-6, ages 10-14, 2004
DK The New Children's Encyclopedia 304 pages, 6-9 years, 6 2009
+Children's Encyclopedia of American History

Science

The American Heritage Children's Science Dictionary 288 pages, 2,600 definitions, 350 detailed, full-color photographs and illustrations, 150 biographies, grade 4-6, 2010
+DK Encyclopedia of Science 448 pages, 280 major entries, 1900 subentries, 10+ years, 2006
+DK Encyclopedia of the Human Body 304, 2002

Kids Almanacs

+Scholastic Kid's Almanac 8+
+The World Almanac for Kids 2012, ages 9-12
+Time for Kids Almanac 2010 256
+The Old Farmer's Almanac for Kids 2009
+National Geographic Kids Almanac 2011 352, age 8-12
+Geography of the World 304 pages, 8-12, 2003
+National Geographic United States Atlas for Young Explorers

Usborne Illustrated Dictionaries
Illustrated dictionary
Illustrated dictionary and thesaurus
Illustrated dictionary of biology
Illustrated dictionary of chemistry
Illustrated dictionary of maths
Illustrated dictionary of physics
Illustrated dictionary of science
Illustrated thesaurus
Junior illustrated maths dictionary
Usborne Quicklinks

Student Dictionary

+Macmillan Dictionary for Students 1216 pages, 90000 entries, 1900 illustrations, grade -7, ages 9-12, 1984
The American Heritage Student Dictionary 1088 pages, 65000 entries, 2000 photographs, grades 6-9, ages 10+, 2009
Webster's New World Student's Dictionary 1056 pages, 50000 definitions, grades 5-8, 1996
Merriam-Webster's Intermediate Dictionary 998 pages, 70000 entries, 1000 photos, grades 5-9, ages 11-14, 2008

Student Thesaurus

Merriam-Webster's Intermediate Thesaurus 896 pages, 30000 main entries, grades 5-8, ages 11-14, 2012
The American Heritage Student Thesaurus 384 pages, 6000 entries, grade 7+, age 12+, 2009
Scholastic Student Thesaurus 208 pages, 1000 entries, grade 5-12, ages 10-18, 2002
The American Heritage Student Science Dictionary 384 pages, 4500 entries, 425 full-color photographs and drawings, and 175 fascinating feature notes, 2009

High School Dictionary

The American Heritage High School Dictionary 4th new ed, 1664 pages, 200000 entries, 2500 illustrations, grades 7+, ages 12+, 2007 2010
Merriam-Webster's School Dictionary 1280 pages, 100000 entries, 1000 illustrations, grades 9-11, age 14-17, 2015
The American Heritage High School Dictionary 5th, 1104 pages, 70,000 definitions 2016

High School Thesaurus

Merriam-Webster's School Thesaurus 704 pages, grades 9-11, age 14-17, 2004

College

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition 1664p 2003
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition 2112p 2011
Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition 1728p 2014
New Oxford American Dictionary (3 ed.) 2096p 2010

YourDictionary

Alphabetilately: G is for G stamp; All non-denominated US stamps: pictures and rates

Alphabetilately: G is for G stamp; All non-denominated US stamps: pictures and rates markup mark-up

STORES magazine annual Top 100 Rerailers ranking

Progressive Grocer

The 2006 Super 50 Supermarkets Groceries

Supermarket News's Top 75
SN's Top 25 Worldwide Food Retailers

THE NATION'S RETAIL POWER PLAYERS 2005

Retail Grocery Trends Best information on page 3, 4

Supermarket Strategic Alert: Annual Industry Reviews

Nikkor Lens Information by Thom Hogan

Nikkor Lens Information by Thom Hogan Lens Acronyms
Nikon F-mount - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Designations
G ED-IF AF-S VR DX Zoom-Nikkor Micro-Nikkor