Very often I get people asking me what Linux distribution I use. I used to be a big fan of Linux Mint, but in the past year I have moved to Ubuntu. This is why I no longer use Linux Mint.
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Today Zune realised the new Zune 4.0 software. Here are my initial impressions…. (this is by no means a full review) I like: The new Zune mini player (Zune 1.0 had one and it was one of the best things about the program, but for some reason they got rid of it in Zune 2.o, [...]
As part of my summer internship I was given a G1 phone for the summer. Also, I recently was invited to the google voice beta. Naturally I wanted to use google voice on my G1 and thankfully google recently released a G1 app for voice. This guide will walk you through the setup process for [...]
I just made the source for the WebPage Downloader public, you can get it from http://naterocks.com/php-coding/webpage-downloader/.
Have you ever been online and wanted to download a webpage but didn’t want to use internet explorer’s or safari’s propritary formats? Well after about an hour of work I have created a solution… the WebPage Downloader. The WebPage Downloader will let you save files to your computer as DOC files and HTML files with or without [...]
Hal 9000(Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer)…Microsoft’s Project NatalThey both track your body movements and use your voice. They both even can reconogise you… scary.
I finally set up my sister Barbara’s blog. It is located at http://thebarbara.com/ .
It looks like in a effort to boost their dwindling console sales, sony has decided to attempt to appeal to the anti-semitic market by banning words like “Jew” from their “home” service. Read the washingtonpost for more info.
Every fiscal year Wikimedia (the organization behind Wikipedia) produces an annual report that talks about what it has accomplished and how it spent money. This year’s report can be viewed here. Like most reports of this type, wikimedia’s report has nice graphics and is visually appealing. However, unlike most reports of this type, wikimedia uses the [...]
A fun past time of mine at the mall is to go into the Apple store, go to a few computers, open the web browsers and open myorangepc.com. Then I’ll stand outside the store with the people that I am with and watch the shopper’s reactions. It can be really funny. So anyways, last night [...]
About 3 weeks ago I got around to bulding a new computer for myself. I have yet to post its specs… that is until now: More details about my computer Component Details Subscore Base score Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz 5.6 5.6 Determined by lowest subscore Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB [...]
I really hate it when developers change something when the old system worked just as well if not better than the new one. Mozilla did it when they got rid of the lock icon if FireFox and it looks like google just did when they moved the tabs in iGoogle. The old iGoogle had tabs [...]
Want to piss off your friends? Here is my list of the top five keyboard shortcuts to use on people. (these will only work on Windows computers) 1) Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow — This key-command will rotate your monitor 180 degrees, it can be very funny to watch someone go to login to a computer and find [...]
According to apple co-founder Steve Wozniak the ipod is destined to die out, just like the Walkman before it. Steve Wozniak founded Apple with his kid friend Steve Jobs. Wozniak seems to be a human being unlike Jobs who often seems to act more like a donkey (see here). According to Fox News , Wozniak [...]
Apple has long been known for its amazing business practices (It was hard to type that without laughing). However in a bazaar turn of events today it seems like Apple is stealing a business practice that has long been one of Microsoft’s flagship practices. Even since the Zune 30gb was released Microsoft has always given away [...]
I just finished installing google chrome. It is very good looking and seems to render pages correctly. However there are a few minor annoyances that I have encountered so far. The first is that google was not kidding when it said that this is a minimalist browser, there are not many menus and there is [...]
A few days ago I had a problem with gmail SMTP. Well as visitor Thad points out, it may have not been a problem with my computer after all, it seems like google forgot to renew their SSL certificate, which caused problems for people who were trying to send emails via google’s secure SMTP port.
If you have an Iphone or Ipod touch beware, your device checks in with Apple servers without you knowing and checks if Apple is OK with your app usage. See Engadget for more info.
I know what you must be thinking… “Is it really that time of year all ready!!?!?!?”. Well I have some news for you, IT IS! Yes that is right today is Bill Gates Day! And with today being Bill’s last day in office I thought of no better way to celebrate it than to put [...]
Do you think that Firefox is the best browser ever? Well the site firefox myths has some news for you!
Download this video in DVD ISO format here. On Windows: After download use UlitimateZip to right click the file and click extract all, next burn the ISO image using ISO Recorder. On Mac: The file should extract itself after download, next use Disk Utility to burn the ISO image to a DVD. Note: By clicking [...]
If you are ever on the Internet and come across a piece of software called “Vista OSX V3″, ”Vista OSX Transformation Pack”, or something like that then don’t, I repeat DO NOT install it. According to Microsoft (via windows defender) it comes with a Trojan virus. Also, it is not possible to remove it and it does [...]
All right, so I know that normally this blog is anti-mac, but I am posting this for a misguided friend of mine. What is this you ask, well it’s a zipped folder that has two different things in it. The first thing that it has is icons that you can use to replace the old [...]
While IE8 has some really neat features, I had a few problems with the beta. My main problem was how it rendered pages. Many pages that worked correctly on IE7 have extra spaces between lines and have messed up tables. Also my other problem was that when ever I tired to open a page from [...]