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  I replaced my 12AX7′s in my Peavy Windsor to get a cleaner sound, I used 2 – 12AT7′s and one 12AU7  It worked Great !!   Different 12A*7 Family Tubes in a Blues Junior Everybody talks about how you can tailor the tone of an amp by swapping tubes in various gain stages or

22:12 01 September 2011 by Celeste Biever For similar stories, visit the Quantum World Topic Guide   Quantum computer users may soon have to wrestle with their own version of the “PC or Mac?” question. A design based on superconducting electrical circuits has now performed two benchmark feats, suggesting it will be a serious competitor

Wow !!!  Get out the super glue. Maybe this will cut down the cost of surgery.   Human Artery Cross-Section Wikimedia Commons A new heat-sensitive gel and glue combo is a major step forward for cardiovascular surgery, enabling blood vessels to be reconnected without puncturing them with a needle and thread. It represents the biggest

$25 toy radio used to knock out feds Thousand dollar radio can track them too “Going to have to get one of these. You have to watch out for “Big Brother out there “ Kev —————- Researchers looking at the security of the US Project 25 radio network, used by federal agents and local police,

Samsung Infuse 4G SGH-i997     Did you mess up your phone while rooting it, installing third-party apps or playing with the settings? I rooted my phone and decided to install some stuff on it. I installed some third party apps which messed up my phone. It wouldn’t go past the Samsung and AT&T logo.

Motorola’s popular Droid 3 smartphone has finally received an easy rooting method and we’ll be guiding our readers on how to go about the procedure in this guide today.   For the uninitiated, ‘rooting’ is a process by which users can get privileged access to their smartphone. The term is specific for Android devices and

If their like me, I will flirt with pretty much anything (Grin)     Charlie is the kind of girl your mom wants you to date. She’s smart, polite, low maintenance, not to mention exotically pretty (can’t quite place her ethnic background). She’s also got a great job. Why not ask her out? Well, there’s

        The historical development of mobile has gone from the laptop to the smartphone and, more recently, to the tablet. Laptops are “destination” computing systems. By that I mean that you take the laptop from one place to another where you can use it. Laptops can do everything, but in mobile the

    A theory of reality beyond Einstein’s universe is taking shape – and a mysterious cosmic signal could soon fill in the blanks IT WASN’T so long ago we thought space and time were the absolute and unchanging scaffolding of the universe. Then along came Albert Einstein, who showed that different observers can disagree

The National Science Foundation has kicked off a successor to its popular Teragrid project, that links together 17 of the nation’s fastest supercomputer and software development centers with infrastructure support to realize the world’s most advanced applications in materials science, medicine, genomics, astronomy, biology and specialty fields like earthquake engineering. The new Extreme Science and

The Launch CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Atlantis and four astronauts rocketed into orbit Friday on NASA’s last space shuttle voyage, dodging bad weather and delighting hundreds of thousands of spectators on hand to witness the end of an era. Live TV with chat Stream videos at Ustream If you have a iphone or a

    Nokia at its Singapore event unveiled its most anticipated phone in years through the N9. The just-leaked design is the first MeeGo smartphone and centers on a rare, truly buttonless design: swipe gestures control switching apps from a pane-based interface and even include an iOS 5-style swipe to launch apps from individual notifications.

  Standing an astonishing 10,124 pixels tall, the infographic covers the life of both Apple and Microsoft ever since the infamous 1984 ad campaign Apple launched to promote its brand-spanking new Macintosh computer.     Since then, Microsoft has become the mammoth company it is today by cornering the business computing market with the Windows

This is pretty neat, but a tad to pricie. $$$         Oscium’s iMSO-104 hardware offers to turn your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch into a 12MSPS digital oscilloscope with an analog bandwidth of 5MHz. For folks like me with limited desk space & shifting work environments, that’s an interesting offer indeed. Oscium

Today is the Caldonia’s Bikini Contest finals. Here are some of the pictures from last week. Enjoy !! Related articles Caldonias Bikini Contest June 3rd Pics – By Old Fucker (cmoslabs.com)                             Related articles Caldonias Bikini Contest June 3rd Pics – By

  This got a bit lost amid all the WWDC 2011 hubbub earlier this week, but Apple quietly delivered a bit of bad news to steadfast Windows XP users with its iCloud announcement.       Unlike its MobileMe service and recent versions of iTunes, which have somewhat surprisingly supported Windows XP all this time, use of

    NASA’s final shuttle mission will feature outer space’s first iPhone, tricked out with an app to measure spacecraft radiation levels, orbital location and altitude.     The iOS-based software, called SpaceLab, will come pre-loaded on two iPhone 4s. Testing the software isn’t mission-critical, but it may lead to terrestrial commercial devices being repurposed for

    This January, Sony debuted its new gaming handheld in Tokyo. The portable’s codename was introduced as NGP, or “Next Generation Portable”. Today, at the E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles, Sony revealed the handheld’s final name, PS Vita, as well as its pricing.     The portable has dual touch pads, dual cameras,

  On June 8, NASA joins organizations from across the globe to test out the next generation of the Internet, called Internet Protocol version six or IPv6. As more devices and people come online, the older Internet Protocol version four (IPv4) addresses — those sets of numbers that uniquely identify every device on the Internet

  The periodic table of the elements now officially has two new members, its heaviest ever. The new elements, 114 and 116 weigh 289 and 292 atomic mass units, respectively. By comparison, lead’s atomic weight is 207.2. These radioactive elements won’t remain that heavy for long: they exist for under a second before they lose their

      Okay, so antimatter’s nothing like lightning, really, but bottling it in a kind of containment field? Doesn’t sound like the safest gig. More like something you’d catch Geordi La Forge trying during some wild hair zero-sum Star Trek plotline involving aliens, the Holodeck, rerouting power from life support, and a self-destruct sequence.  

  Regular readers know that CMOS can’t get enough of huge explosions on the surface of the sun. That puts us in a pretty good place right now, considering the current solar cycle is moving into a period of increased explosive activity. For those who might not understand why we love solar explosions, this video

          Why are we so attracted to prophecies of doom, from religious raptures to environmental collapse? It’s part of our psychology The latest incarnation of the destruction-redemption myth is brought to you by numerological number-cruncher and evangelical Christian radio host Harold Camping. Originally predicted to unfold on 21 May, the rapture

    Amid all the big announcements at this year’s WWDC keynote, there was an undercurrent that was subtle, but important. “It just works.” Steve Jobs kept saying this over and over again on stage. When Jobs does this, it’s never an accident. It’s a message. And it’s a message that was underscored by another word.

    Why Netflix rocks is the same reason that tomorrow’s iCloud announcements will rock. It’s not about the technology, it’s because of the technology that counts. You can feel it if you make the time to. Making time means what?     One evening last week we sat at the bar downstairs at 1

I need some of this stuff for my Bathroom (Grin) Kev__ DeconGel Pour it on, peel it off.Courtesy: DeconGel A clever technology is helping hazmat crews in Japan contain and clean up the contamination caused by the ongoing nuclear disaster there: ablue liquidthat hardens into a gel that peels off of surfaces, taking microscopic particles

  I get the feeling that the announcements at next week’s Apple WWDC are going to represent the same kind of fundamental shift in Apple’s offering that the iPod did in 2001. I don’t have any inside info, and I make a point of not trying to pry secrets from my friends who work at

      I was surprised to hear former Google CEO Eric Schmidt publicly lament lost opportunities and missed chances to catch Facebook the other day. I used to envy Google and the vast digital empire that Schmidt commanded.  Google had one of the most intricate monopolies of all time. It had the most impressive dataset

      We thought we had seen every type of app and interactive billboard campaign under the sun until we came across this brilliant one from Mcdonald’s that the company ran in Sweden recently. The concept is a simple one in that users get to control the billboard and turn it in to a

        Windows Mobile may be horrible to those who prefer choices. Well the HD2 gives us many choices. You install WindowsPhone 7, MeeGo, Android, WindowsDOS, Windows 95, and Ubuntu all on ONE phone! In this tutorial, I will teach you how to install Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread to your HD2. First please go to THIS ARTICLE and follow