Originally posted by Robtard
Lumenon HID Xenon headlights. Size: H11 Color: 5000K "Pure White"Not installed them yet, but if they work the same as the last pair, these are a really nice upgrade to the halogen headlights the car came with, night driving in close to complete darkness is vastly improved in both light range and intensity. They are virtually "white" as advertised, with almost no blue tint (I hate blue headlights). The one drawback is they only last about 18months before they start to shift in the color spectrum, turn darker and eventually go out. But for $8.99 a pair, that's fine with me. Next pair I'll likely try these in the 4300K range, which will add a very slight yellow tint, or what most halogen or OEM headlights look like.
Important: You shouldn't use these in a halogen headlight assembly (reflector style) as the light will refract incorrectly and blind oncoming traffic, which I've seen more than a few douchebags do. These should only be used in projector style headlamps. You'll also need to buy a 35w or 55watt ballasts to go with these, those are also fairly cheap these days, mine cost under $20.00 and I've had them running for 3 years now. Installation is usually plug-n-play for most ballasts sets. Mine needed minor wire cutting, crimping and connecting.
What car is this going on?
Mchoice Slim Wireless Mouse. Standard two button w/ wheel unit.
It's a very cheap unit as in my experience cheap computer mice generally work as well as the fancy more expensive ones and why spend $25.00+ when $6.00 will meet my needs.
Only once was I disappointed by a cheap mouse, thing was flimsy right out of the box, wheel didn't work right, buttons felt crunchy and the optical unit would periodically skip. So I literally crushed it to splinters in my hand after about 20mins of use due to abject disgust, installed my spare HP wired unit.
For black friday I bought a bunch of movies that were on sale to give my dad for Christmas, Step Brothers, Argo, Skyscraper, Equalizer 2, Warrior, and some others. Last night for myself I bought a couple of ebooks that I've been wanting to read - The Three Body Problem and American Gods, both on sale for $3.
I'm also considering building a new computer because my current one has been having some problems. One of the ram slots in the main lane died so I'm forced to use two other slots which means I'm forgoing on some speed currently, also my computer is pretty old now, built this one about 6 years ago.
Dunno if I want to build a new one now or hold off until next year when AMD will release their next gen of hardware, which sounds as if it will be really good. Also want to get a new monitor, may get that soon.
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
I am in the market for a region-free blu ray player. My current one is a few years old, and the manufacturer has stopped supporting it with software updates, so I cannot play movie files from USB anymore.
Have you ever looked into Plex? It's a fantastic free service that you may find useful.
Originally posted by BackFire
How do you request a show? I just use it to stream things I download myself. Is that a part of the premium membership or just some functionality I'm not aware of? It sounds very useful.
Seems like a Plex service for people who share they Plex library with others.
Originally posted by BackFire
Oh, gotcha. Will have to look into that.
I was going to look into the sharing feature for my Plex Library for my BFF, but instead I just gave him my entire library and set up a Plex server on his computer/his house. Whatever new I download, I also save to an external drive and update his library every 1-2 weeks. He lives very close.
The nice aspect here, if my harddrive ever takes a dump and I lose everything, I can restore it off of his.