SATN.org: Comments from Bob Frankston, David Reed, Dan Bricklin, and others. Interesting to see what the deans of the personal computer have to say. A great blog. And, no, I don't know what satn stands for.

Home Theater Advice for this Month

Remote Central is the place for automating your remote controls. I personally think the Philips Pronto are the absolute best price/performance leader. Plus I love programming it. Remote Central lets you do that, find other task based user interfaces and codes for all your home theater equipment.

Time Synchronization Explained

Time Synchronization Software is the central place where all information on syncing time across the Internet with your PC. Some great utilities to keep things in sync.

AtomTime98This is the way to automatically updae the clock on Windows 98 machines. Wih Windows XP, it has is own sync software built in so you don't need this. Double click on the time on the lower left and it is the third pane.

Network Time Protocol (NTP) Explained. Windows XP has a time synchronization utility. Very valuable for geeks like me to have my watches exactly on time. Doesn't work on my HP XP machine, but does on my home one. It complains about being in the wrong stratum. Didn't understand this until I read all about NTP at this URL.

Small Form Factor PCs

Panel PCs Prices.Best price list for Panel PCs, they are expensive at $3,000 for a 15" LCD with a PC in it, but haven't checked them all out yet. These are in Australian dollars, but give you a sense of cost.

Universal Currency Converter(tm) I was on an Australian site looking at Panel PCs and was reminded that most folks don't know about this great currency converter.

Panel PC OK, Star Trek here we come, here is a PC built into an LCD flat panel by It doesn't have a price on it, but it sure is cool. Might get one of these for Grace...

Book PC A true book sized PC, might get one just to see if it really works at. It is from EZgo Portable PC Barebone. Smallest PC in the World. Upto 1GHz, CD-ROM ( DVD, CD-RW, CD-RW/DVD Combo optional)

Build Your Own Mini-PC. OK, so I fried Alex's computer by plugging in the power supply. Replaced it, but I'll need another. I bought a monitor already, soee the next blog, but now is the time to build another machine. Thank goodness, Tom's Hardware gives me the spec for a micro machine with a Flex ATX board. Pretty cool.

Greetings

Blogger Rich's first post of a new blog. Hopefully I'll update this as I find interesting new sites on PCs, consumer electronics of all sorts, and bicyclng as well as strange wireless gadgets.