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Wednesday, August 31, 2005

I received a nice note from Ned Wolf after commenting on his fantastic Freeware site last Tuesday. I haven't checked this out but in his note he commented that he had come across Partition Manager. He thought it was more robust then the Partition Logic program that I mentioned yesterday. I haven't checked it out yet, but I've seen the quality freeware listed on Ned's site and I felt obliged to pass his comment along.

Skip at 7:46 AM

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

If you are looking for a free disk partitioner check out Partition Logic.
Partition Logic is free software, based on the Visopsys operating system. It boots from a CD or floppy disk and runs as a standalone system, independent of your regular operating system. It is intended to become a free alternative to such commercial programs as Partition Magic, Drive Image, and Norton Ghost.

Skip at 6:08 AM

Monday, August 29, 2005

The second share of one of my MP3s. Each week I'm going to try this. I'll set up a new one, once a week and give you seven days to check it out. After that it will be gone and replaced by a new selection. I'm not sure what day of the week to pick. I'm staying with a Monday but that may change. Please don't link to this. Just click on the link and save it. My new one for this week:

Nicklebacks How You Remind Me

I wanted to continue with another great Canadian band. Newer then last weeks but still a real favorite of mine. This one is the live performance of a new classic. A strange love song but compelling in its telling. I really like Nickleback and hope you will too.

Skip at 7:36 AM

Friday, August 26, 2005

Friday treat - Short Film

If you think you would like to go back and change things.....
Check out this film...
Spin

If for some reaason the link gives out go to Doubleedgefilms and select "SPIN".

Skip at 7:31 AM

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Imagine a bunch of locked-out auto workers standing outside the factory gates and saying, "All right, let's build our own cars."

As background, in Canada the CBC, a major broadcaster of TV and radio, has locked out its employees over a labour dispute. I'm sure this is of interest to Canadian only, but Across Canada, locked-out CBC employees are working together to put out their own radio programs, under the collective name of
CBC Unplugged.
If you are missing your daily dose of CBC check it out. You can get news, views and music podcasts.

Skip at 4:42 AM

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Just in case you haven't heard it's here.......Google Talk.

Skip at 9:07 AM

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

FYI: Another site with a great list of Freeware, complete with descriptions and links to the software, is here at NedWolf.com. I love this quote from his site:
"We have now reached a point where the average Joe never has to buy a single extra piece of software outside of his operating system (and not even that if you don't want to)." Music to my ears!!

Skip at 5:31 AM

Monday, August 22, 2005

I thought I'd try a new thing and share one of my MP3s each week. I'll set up a new one, once a week and give you seven days to check it out. After that it will be gone and replaced by a new selection. I'm not sure what day of the week to pick. I'm going to start on a Monday but that may change. Please don't link to this. Just click on the link and save it. To start off with this I picked:
Eat My Brain by Odds
The 1995 album "Good Weird Feeling" was my introduction to this group. They only produced a few ablums together but they remain my favorites to this day. I don't know why but this song always made my mind go crazy with wild images and weird thoughts. Just like the album title suggests.

Skip at 7:00 AM

Friday, August 19, 2005

For some Friday fun, enter your birthday here.
If you were born today,

Happy Birthday!

You entered: 8/19/2005

You were born on a Friday

under the astrological sign Leo.

Your Life path number is 7.

The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2453601.5.

The golden number for 2005 is 11.

The epact number for 2005 is 19.

The year 2005 is not a leap year.

As of 8/19/2005 11:27:44 AM CDT

You are 0 years old.

You are 0 months old.

You are 0 weeks old.

You are 0 days old.

You are 11 hours old.

You are 687 minutes old.

You are 41,264 seconds old.

There are 365 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 1 candles on it.

Those 1 candles produce 1 BTU's,
or 252 calories of heat (that's only 0.2520 food Calories!) .

You can boil 0.11 US ounces of water with that many candles.

Your birthstone is Peridot.

The Mystical properties of Peridot

Peridot is used to help dreams become a reality.

Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewlers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources)

Sardonyx, Diamond, Jade

Your birth tree is

Cedar, the Confidence
Of rare beauty, knows how to adapt, likes luxury, of good health not in the least shy, tends to look down on others, self-confident, determined, impatient, wants to impress others, many talents, industrious, healthy, optimism, waiting for the one true love, able to make quick decisions.

There are 128 days till Christmas 2005!

The moon's phase on the day you were
born was full.

Skip at 8:31 AM

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Check out this blog from India called Brilliant Ignorance for a great list of essential-freeware. This is a great compalation of freeware, most of which I use.

Skip at 11:21 AM

Friday, August 12, 2005

I'm alive, just busy. Just so I don't go a whole week and because it's Friday, I have a site to post that will give some of you a little fun. Check out
Create a smiley, where you can customize your very own smiley Face and save it as a PNG. Add some glasses, or teeth, or lots of different features to make your unique statement.

Skip at 7:42 AM

Friday, August 05, 2005

A little Friday treat. Printable Cheat sheets for all your geeky pleasure, including:

Skip at 5:30 AM

Thursday, August 04, 2005

From a posting by Pete Bevin: Like you, I love Firefox for many reasons, including popup blocking. So over the last few weeks I’ve been surprised to see occasional popups.

It turns out that some clever people figured out that you could launch popups from Flash, getting around the Firefox default settings.

Fortunately, you can get around it:

Type about:config into the Firefox location bar.

Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer.

Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins

Set the value to 2.

The possible values are:

0: Allow all popups from plugins.

1: Allow popups, but limit them to dom.popup_maximum.

2: Block popups from plugins.

3: Block popups from plugins, even on whitelisted sites.

Skip at 5:06 AM

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