We love our AVR Dragon programmer. It is a small board with a lot of functionality: in-circuit serial programming, JTAG, debug wire, and high voltage serial programming. Unfortunately, out of the box it is not quite ready for action. The Dragon ships with an unpopulated prototyping area and missing a pin header for the HVSP. For most people this means soldering on pin headers and a ZIF socket then jumpering between the various programming headers and the header for the socket. Tired of working with jumper wires, [Jussi] designed a small PCB to make the connections (original link in…

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Saying that [Ian] had some overheating issues with his iMac G5 would be an understatement. After losing three hard drives due to heat he decided to do something about it. The first step was replacing the thermal paste with Arctic Sliver. The solution for the hard drive was a little more unorthodox.
[Ian] picked up a 320GB Western Digital Caviar Blue drive because of its very low noise rating. He used rubber grommets to mount it outside the case and ran SATA data and power extension cables through a quarter inch hole to the motherboard. He mentioned to us…

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WinZip reg is the most trusted way to work with compressed files No other compression utility is as easy to use or offers the comprehensive and productivity enhancing approach that has made WinZip the gold standard for file compression tools With the new WinZip you can quickly and securely zip and unzip files to conserve storage space speed up e mail transmission and reduce download times State of the art file compression strong AES encryption compatibility with more compression formats and new intuitive photo compression make WinZip the complete compression and archiving solution Microsoft Windows 7 is here and WinZip…

There are two primary types of online advertising: direct sales marketing and branded ad campaigns. Direct sales models like online affiliate marketing or email marketing have already been proven. However large brands have only begun spending billions of dollars online, because there have been very few ways to monitor the effectiveness of campaigns. Let’s say that you set up a Facebook application which millions of users interacted with. How do you then measure the ROI of that program once it’s complete? Given that large companies spend hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars on advertising everywhere, it’s difficult to…

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Kaspersky Anti Virus 2010 ndash the backbone of your PC rsquo s security system offering protection from a range of IT threats Kaspersky Anti Virus 2010 provides the basic tools needed to protect your PC Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 ndash the all in one security solution that offers a worry free computing environment for you and your family Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 has everything you need for a safe and secure Internet experience Kaspersky Internet Security 9 0 ndash is a new line of Kaspersky Labs products which is designed for the multi tiered protection of personal computers This product…

Keep your computer running like new PerfectDisk 10 Professional 39 s industry leading defragmenting features speed up everything you do from browsing the web to downloading music and editing pictures Plus you 39 ll see faster machine boot times and fewer software crashes and hangs PerfectDisk 10 Professional 39 s patented SMARTPlacement feature is the most sophisticated defragging solution available It identifies the files you use most and then organizes them according to your unique usage patterns This comprehensive process yields faster subsequent defrag passes quicker computer boots slower rates of fragmentation reduced resource consumption and improved performance of desktops…

Have you ever been too busy to check in with your voicemail service? PhoneTag might have the solution for you.
Some of us might have done it before, let voicemails pile up if we know nothing urgent or important is coming down the pipes. Wouldn’t it be much simpler and more convenient if those voicemails played by our rules? PhoneTag is a speech to text service that converts a voicemail into text and sends it via email or SMS which you can read through and reference at will. The accuracy on this type of service is usually pretty good,…

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Although it may seem like an easy solution to major financial difficulties, it is best to avoid bankruptcy at all cost. There are many reasons for avoiding bankruptcy and many tips for helping those in financial difficulty avoid resorting to bankruptcy. Before beginning to consider bankruptcy, it is best to weigh the negative consequences.
Although it may seem like an easy solution to major financial difficulties, it is best to avoid bankruptcy at all cost. There are many reasons for avoiding bankruptcy and many tips for helping those in financial difficulty avoid resorting to bankruptcy. Before beginning to consider bankruptcy,…

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