TheTechBin

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Quite a few people ask me about my specification on my primary machine so I thought it would be easier for me to make a video and then refer anyone who asks to the video.

My specs are:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 (Wolfdale) Processor
4096MB Corsair DDR2 RAM
nVidia GeForce 9800GT 1024MB Graphics Card
Biostar G31-M7 TE Mobo

Hope this helps!

Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hawk12online .

Visit my blog at: http://www.thetechbin.com .

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I do a weekly tech broadcast every Saturday at 2pm Pacific, 3pm Eastern, 4pm Central and 10pm GMT at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/weekly-… . Come and take a look if you’re not too busy!
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A budget microphone, but its my first studio consender microphone so I thought I’d go with a not-too-expensive one to see how it goes. Here is the video:

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A few minutes ago I bought a Behringer C1U studio condenser microphone, a pop filter and a Microphone Swivel Stand, these things should help increase my audio quality which you will see isn’t great.

my blog: http://www.thetechbin.com .

Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hawk12online .

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I do a weekly tech broadcast every Saturday at 2pm Pacific, 3pm Eastern, 4pm Central and 10pm GMT at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/weekly-… . Come and take a look if you’re not too busy!
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I review the Kodak EasyShare C913 Camera. Its a 9.2 MegaPixel camera which has a 3x Optical Zoom and 4x Digital Zoom. It has video and image HD capabilities as well as various colour and scene modes (e.g. Sepia, Black and White etc.). This camera also features Blur Reduction which is good for action shots (e.g. whilst travelling in a vehicle).

I would definately recommend this camera and it is available for not-too-much at around £70-£90 GBP or $140-$180 USD.

Check out my blog @ http://www.thetechbin.com .

Follow me on Twitter @ http://www.twitter.com/hawk12online .

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I do a weekly tech broadcast every Saturday at 2pm Pacific, 3pm Eastern, 4pm Central and 10pm GMT at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/weekly-… . Come and take a look if you’re not too busy!
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You may have noticed my last video was in Widescreen (16:9) format but it looked a bit stretched; this was because it was made into Widescreen format after the raw video has been captured in Non-Widescreen (4:3) format. Since it looked stretched I think I will do the rest of my videos in Non-Widescreen (4:3) format.

Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hawk12online .

Visit my blog at http://www.thetechbin.com .

Thanks for watching!

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I do a weekly tech broadcast every Saturday at 2pm Pacific, 3pm Eastern, 4pm Central and 10pm GMT at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/weekly-… . Come and take a look if you’re not too busy!
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If you follow this blog daily, or even every few days, you may have noticed that I have posting a lot about the Live broadcast, but this is one final one to advertise the show. Sorry for the repetitiveness!

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** Yes all my other videos have gone, new year - new videos **

We had the first broadcast last night and I think, despite a few technical issues, it was a success. We talked about Linux, Digital Cameras, Laptop Stands, Zune’s and more. Thanks to those who attended. As you will hear in the video the broadcast happens weekly every Saturday at 2pm Pacific, 3pm Eastern, 4pm Central and 10pm GMT.

Next week we will be talking about the X Rocker Sound Chair, Phillips SHC2000 Cordless Headphones, nVidia GeForce 9800GT, Linksys WAP45G Wireless Access Point and more.

The broadcast happens here: http://www.ustream.tv/weekly-hawk12on… .

My blog is here: http://www.thetechbin.com .

And to follow me on Twitter I am here: http://www.twitter.com/hawk12online .

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I do a weekly tech broadcast every Saturday at 2pm Pacific, 3pm Eastern, 4pm Central and 10pm GMT at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/weekly-… . Come and take a look if you’re not too busy!
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Well tonight was the first live broadcast of my new Weekly show (every Saturday at 10pm GMT, 2pm Pacific, 3pm Eastern and 4pm Central here) and I think it went quite well.

I had some people (which due to my crappy memory, I can’t remember their names) who stayed all the way through (I think it was ‘dadycupcake’ and  ‘cyber’eclipse’  - can’t remember but you know who you are) and we also had Sam, and a few other “Ustreamers” come and join the tech discussion.

Despite a few internet outages it went without any other problems and some people even commented on good quality audio and video (on the PC, definately not laptop) despite the lag. Thanks to those who attending; even though it wasn’t many compared to other Ustream shows it still means quite a lot to me, thanks again!

I’ll be doing another one, next Saturday 10th January 2009 (for times see above) at the same Ustream page; here.

Ben

I am doing my best to promote the Live Broadcast, hopefully one of many, which I plan to do every Saturday at

* 10pm GMT
* 2pm Pacific
* 3pm Eastern
* 4pm Central

Todays (Saturday 3rd January 2009) is taking place at the usual time (see above) on my Ustream page, HERE.

The schedule for todays broadcast can be seen HERE.

And more info on the broadcast is available HERE.

If you want to know the latest news regarding the broadcast, follow me on Twitter.

Please try to attend if you are available, thanks!

As you should know, I am now holding a weekly broadcast every Saturday. starting at 10pm GMT, 2pm Pacific, 3pm Eastern and 4pm Central at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/weekly-hawk12online-broadcast.

The schedule for this week is as follows (based on GMT times, just apply to your time zone).

10.00 - Welcome
10.05 - General Tech Talk
10.15 - Product Reviews (including Canon EasyShare C913 Camera and 3 other tech items)
10.30 - Questions
10.35 - Off-Topic Discussion
10.45 - General Tech Talk
10.50 - One more review (HP iPAQ HX2490 PDA)
10.55 - Closedown, information on future broadcasts.

The broadcast will be held on my Ustream page, please come and visit us if you are available.

Thanks and hope to see you there!

So what did I get this Chrsitmas? Well this is some of it.

New PC (Intel E8500, 500GB SATA2, nVidia GeForce 9800GT, 4GB Corsair RAM)
Kodak C913 9.3 MP Digital Camera
Digital Photo Frames
22″ LCD HD TV (now connected to my PC as a second monitor)
New iPod (which I’m listening to now!)
Ben Sherman Wallet
New Pen-drive, SanDisk Cruzer
New Binoculars
Few new portable wind up radios and torches etc (for when I go walking).
Lots of chocolate!
New desk
Couple of funny little bits and bobs; a dancing chicken
New Deodrent
Couple of proper board games, which I do play every now and again.
Loads of new DVD’s and PC Games
and some other bits and bobs.

In time I will be writing about all the ones I get time to review, which should be pretty much all of them; expcept the iPod because I’ve done reviews of the iPod before (I think :P), but I might make the odd post about them.

What did you get for Christmas?