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 LCD TVs - How and Why They Break Down - Nearly everyone has upgraded to an LCD or Plasma TV since the big digital television switchover. Many of us are now experiencing how these very expensive sets fail. After having two models fail in three years, I want to share what I’ve learned, so others can try to avoid the same pitfalls.
 Best Internet Radio Ripper Freeware - Wouldn’t it be great if you could magically transfer your favorite tunes from the radio directly to your iPod or to an MP3 disc that you could play in your car deck? There are thousands of exciting internet radio stations out there, including many locally broadcast stations simulcasting on the web.
 How to Interface PC apps to a Soundcard - You can get freeware programs to turn your soundcard into a test instrument, but how do you safely interface equipment under test to the soundcard. This article explains how and shows some suggested crcuit ideas.
 Best USB Audio Interface Devices - 2011 - The world has changed from PCI soundcards plugged into tower PCs to USB audio interface devices suitable for pro musicians or for test and measurements. Here are two top candidates to compare.
 Best Free Online Cloud Storage Sites - With the rising popularity of laptops and tablets such as the iPad, online file storage has become quite popular. There are many competing services but only a few good free ones. Eight different services are reviewed.
 Best Freeware Photo Editors for Windows - Microsoft Paint comes bundled with Windows but falls far short as a flexible photo editor, much less a serious graphics creation tool. Fortunately, there are some excellent freeware programs that can do these functions well. Here are four good alternatives.
 Chromebooks - How to Try Chromium OS for Free - The first Google Chromebooks shipped on June 15, 2011. Only one model is currently available – A Samsung model for $500. Chromium OS is the open source project version and you can download the nightly beta codebuild as an ISO image for free to test it from a USB jump drive on an existing laptop.
 Best Freeware Site List - You had me at FREE! Everyone loves something for free. Since I first owned a Windows PC, I've searched out the freeware and shareware sites for goodies. Most sites mix both, using the classic bait and switch to get you to buy something better.
 Zimbra - Free E-Mail Client - E-mail used to be simple - you just used Outlook Express. Then came the security issues and Windows started leaving the mail client program out of Windows. I came across Zimbra today because their purchase by VMware from Yahoo had created some tech news buzz. concurrently. For those of us just looking for an e-mail program, the client e-mail app works fine as a standalone replacement for Mozilla Thunderbird.
 Best Online Scientific Calculators -Windows comes with a calculator, yes, but you can do so much better! Besides all the myriad freeware apps you can download, now there are Web 2.0 cloud calculators. Why number crunch in the cloud?
 Best Freeware Scientific Calculators - Tired of hassling with replacing batteries in that handheld calculator? Maybe the built in Windows calculator fulfills your number crunching needs, but for some, we need more. Custom formulas, more than one memory, RPN style entry, graphing, adding machine tape, last entry retention when re-launched are all features missing in the Windows calculator!
 Best Weather Sites - Not all weather websites are created equal. All give you a few key current conditions and a 3-5 day forecast. Some give you more, like animated maps with webcams, current temps, etc. and that is what we’re going to compare here in this post.
 Best Hobbyist and Design Engineer Electronic Magazines - Once upon a time in America, in a tech era far far away, there were electronic hobbyists and ham operators and kids excited over the space program and hi-fi enthusiasts building their own loudspeakers and amplifiers. This was the 60’s and we had magazines like Popular Electronics, Electronics Illustrated, Radio-Electronics....
 Electronic Hobbyist Kit and Part Suppliers - Electronic hobbyists these days have to buy their parts online. Even in large cities, large parts distributors have closed their doors to walk-in customers, dealing only with online orders. Here is a list of the 17 best parts and electronic kits suppliers on the web.
 Learn Electronics Online for Free - With college tuition soaring, there are still opportunities to learn new skills for free using the internet. While you won’t get a degree or even college credits using these free sites, you still will increase your knowledge of electronics and gain a feeling of accomplishment by studying the tutorials.
 Need Tech Help – Who You Going to Call? - Most of us tech geeks have a dirty little secret – we get most of our solutions off the internet. If I have a weird computer problem, I Google it, sort through the answers and nine out of ten times fix my issue on the first try.
 Good Product Design Guidelines - Anyone can design a mousetrap…. But not everyone can dominate the mousetrap market with runaway profitability (unless you are Apple and it is the iMousetrap). Below are some good rules to follow if you want to succeed.
 Be a Better Engineer - Learn new skills. Sooner or later there will be downsizing, layoffs or frustrating experiences with bottlenecks in other departments. Knowing programming or pcb layout or even graphics design will help these bottlenecks along.
 Free Online Image to Icon Converter - The ProDraw Graphics website isreviewed. This cloud based image to icon converter works very well and is free makingone less tool widget to load on every workstation.
 PDFescape - Free Online PDF Editor - This is another fine example of cloud computing in the form of a great pdf editor. Upload your pdf that you want to modify and add text, images, highlights and add and subtract pages.
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