Flashlights at Mounting Solution Plus (MSP)

Flashlights at Mounting Solution Plus (MSP)

Mounting Solutions Plus (MSP) is both a manufacturer of quality firearm accessories, as well as a distributor of firearms related products. Mounting Solutions Plus, is happy to add Tactical Flashlights and Lasers products to the rest of our tactical accessories. Included in our current lisitng are: Fenix Flashlights , NEBO Flashlights , Inova Flashlights , Streamlight Flashlights and Surefire Flashlights.

In addition to our Flashlights we carry a verity of Flashlight Mounts

Mounting Solutions Plus specializes in tactical mounts and gun accessories for professional and competition shooters.

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Barcode Scanners For eBay Listings

When I first started using eBay as a means of supplementary income, it was a daunting task and it literally took all day to list a large number of items such as CDs and DVDs. Typing the title of every CD and looking up the pre-filled information might seem like a quick and easy way to list items, but it still takes quite a bit of time. A couple of years ago I started using a handheld barcode scanner that would automatically look up the CD or DVD information right from the barcode. I was able to list items much, much quicker, which enabled me to make money faster and easier than ever before. The first barcode scanner I used was a cheap bargain brand scanner and it had a few problems. Since then I have upgraded several times and I am now using the Symbol LS4278. This particular scanner does cost quite a bit more than you might expect to pay for something as simple as listing items on eBay, but, for someone who lists several hundred items at a time, it is really worth the investment. I highly recommend a barcode scanner as a means of listing items on eBay. If you haven’t ever used one, pick up a cheap barcode scanner and give it a try. You will not be disappointed.

Data Center Repair and Maintenance

A friend of mine works for a company that offers data center services. He always goes out to local data centers to make repairs and perform various maintenance checks. If a data center server goes down, he gets a call and determines what caused the crash and how to recover any lost data, if possible. He’s very good at what he does. I’ve been thinking about going to school to get some kind of certification in computers, I just haven’t found the time.

Phillips DVP-5990 and Western Digital WDTV HD

About 6 months ago a friend of mine purchased a new Samsung HDTV. He got it for a pretty good price and I’m pretty impressed with the picture quality. We don’t really watch BluRay movies on it, but his Phillips DVD player (model DVP-5990) with 1080p upconversion via HDMI cable and USB video playback looks very nice on it. We compared playing DVDs with the standard RCA cables and the HDMI cables and there is a very noticeable difference when watching a movie with upconversion. I didn’t really think it would really play movies back much clearer with the HDMI cable, but I love it. I would definitely recommend the Phillips DVP-5990 to anyone who is looking for a great DVD player that has 1080p upconversion and also plays DivX/XviD video formats. We hooked up a few different USB devices, such as a standard USB flash drive, an external Western Digital 1TB MyBook, a 16gb SDHC card with a USB card reader, and a 500gb Western Digital Passport drive, and everything played flawlessly. The only thing you have to do is be sure your USB device is formatted to FAT32 instead of NTFS file system. Videos also loaded quite a bit faster from USB, compared to load times from CD and DVD media. I own the same Phillips DVD player. You can even download custom firmware to load on the Phillips DVP-5990 to change how the menus look, add your own splash screen while the player is loading and add more functionality to the player, such as skipping to a specific time while watching DivX videos. The Phillips DVP-5992 is the same DVD player, but it is silver instead of black.

Another video player I would recommend is the Western Digital WDTV Live HD player with network support. You can find it for about $99 and it plays nearly every video format you can think of. It even plays HD .mkv x264 videos, which I have been using for my home videos, to save space and video quality.

I Prefer Desktop Computers

While everyone is raving over laptops, I’ll prefer desktop computers any day. Yeah laptops are convenient for those on the move but desktop computers are more durable and not to mention it is less costly than a laptop computer. Desktop computers are also cheaper to repair and not to mention you can keep replacing your keyboard if and when it goes bad. I’ve switched to desktop from my laptop and very happy about this move.

Philips DVP-5990 With USB 2.0

I recently picked up a new SD card to use with my Philips DVP-5990 DVD player with a USB 2.0 port. You can plug in just about any USB mass storage device, such as external hard drives, USB thumb drives, SD cards with USB card readers, and so on. It has become my favorite new media player. I’ve been using a Transcend 16GB SDHC card (SD High Capacity) with Transcend compact card reader combo. It’s so nice being able to play videos I edit and that sort of thing right from USB devices without having to burn the video onto a DVD-R first. I recommend the DVP-5990 to anyone looking for a great and affordable USB media player. It’s also a 1080p upconverting DVD player.

Thinking About Buying A PDA

Lots of people at my office carry PDAs to keep track of their schedules, use them for navigation while driving and that sort of thing. One of the other office managers asked if I wanted to buy his old PDA from him. It wasn’t even that old, he’s just one of those people who always have to have the newest version of something as soon as it comes out. I’m thinking about buying it from him. He only wanted $100 for it and it’s goes for over $400 brand new. My girlfriend would probably kill me if I wasted the money on a PDA, but I kind of enjoyed playing around with it.

Creative Zen Rocks

Today I won a new 8gb micro SD card during a raffle at my office. My digital camera uses normal SD cards, so I sold the micro SD card that I won to a friend of mine. One of the guys won a brand new 16gb Creative Zen. I have a 4gb Creative Zen with a 16gb SDHC card in it and I absolutely love it. I haven’t had any kind of trouble with it and it’s probably my favorite gadget. You can find the 4gb model for under $100. I pretty much keep the internal 4gb memory filled with music that I rip from my CD collection and I fill the 16gb SDHC card with videos and things like that. It comes in really handy if I’m flying somewhere or any other occasion where I don’t have anything to do but sit there. The battery life is about 20 hours or so for music playback and 5 hours or so for video playback. You can’t beat that.

Finishing My Media Computer

I am about to give one of my computers a much needed memory upgrade. The computer that I use for everyday stuff like surfing the web and that sort of thing currently has 2gb of DDR PC3200 ram. The one that I’m going to upgrade still only has 256mb. I’m really trying to turn the other computer into my new media station. I do a lot of video editing, graphics, web design and that sort of thing, so I really need a computer that can keep up with everything.

Upgrading Some of Our Computers

The other office manager’s have asked me to take care of upgrading some of the computer’s in our main office. So far they’ve asked me to upgrade the ram, hard drives and monitors. I think I’m going to make a bulk order of some Dell memory from 4AllMemory.com and order the rest of the stuff from a local computer distributor that I always go through.