February 2007

2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race Update: A Day of Surprise and Heartache

It’s coming up on three and a half days straight of racing for the Flight Simulator Geeks… Earlier today the race around the world was extremely close as SimOuthouse pulled a surprise manuever by interpreting the rules differently than other teams and used a jet to get to an Atlantic corridor in addition to using [...]

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3DConnexion Space Traveler

I’ve been tooling around Google Earth for the last couple of days while following the 2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race and would love a better way to fly around the application when I remembered my visit with Logitech at CES. 3Dconnexion, a Logitech company, has an award-winning 3D navigation devices that unlocks the power of [...]

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2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race Update

The race is starting to get interesting as the teams reached the Pacific Ocean last night. There were a number of different “corridors” that were available. Inside a corridor, subsonic jets are allowed, and the leg distance/time restrictions are waved, but you must hit all the airports listed in the corridor assignments. Team AVSim and [...]

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Play MP3 Files on Your Home Stereo Without a Computer

Ready To Put Your CDs In Storage? If you are like many music listeners, you have ripped all of your CDs into digital music files, which are probably sitting on your computer and/or a portable MP3 player. Wouldn’t it be convenient to play all of those files on your home stereo unit, effectively eliminating the [...]

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Planon System Solutions DocuPen RC800 Portable Scanner

Planon System Solutions’ DocuPen RC800 Portable Scanner is the smallest full color page scanner available today and the latest in DocuPen pen scanning products from Planon. It’s the size of a really big pen with the flexibility of storing scans on the go with a MicroSD slot. You can scan on the go and connect [...]

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2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race

Mad Mike has taken a break from the NonPCGeeks site for this week while he’s flying around the world in the 2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race. The race pits teams from AVSim, FlightSim and Sim-Outhouse against each other in a race around the world with special rules, conditions and bonuses. Check out the post on [...]

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Celestron Sky Scout: Personal Planetarium

One of our readers sent in this cool suggestion for a Gizmo of the Day and we couldn’t agree more. The Celestron Sky Scout is one of the new wave of high-tech telescopes for personal use. In fact, we even noted a brand new product from Celestron at CES. Back to the Sky Scout. No [...]

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Choosing the Right Display for Your Computer

A computer display, also called a monitor, is the screen people use to view images and interface with their PC. There are a few different hardware technologies that display output generated by your computer, but the three main ones are: Plasma, CRT (cathode ray tube), and LCD (liquid crystal display). Techlore breaks down these main [...]

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Lightmare LED Watch

I must say I’m slightly confused as to how you tell time on this watch, but it’s pretty cool nonetheless. I would guess the outer ring of LEDs represent every five minutes while the inner ring of LEDs are for the hours. The four LEDs above the center of the watch would represent the minutes [...]

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R2 Gaming Mouse Mark II

Are you sick of being frag-fodder because you come around corners looking the wrong way or pointing your weapon at your feet? Well, that’s what you get by using a keyboard and your old school roller ball mouse. You need to upgrade your setup to include a gaming mouse like R2′s Mark II. This 1600dpi [...]

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