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January 29, 2008

The Roundup from 2008-01-29

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Feature: Use a Single Data Store When Dual Booting http://tinyurl.com/3xn7pp Intersting concept. Use the same extensions/data in XP & Linux #
How To: Suck Less at Photoshop http://tinyurl.com/yrjbst #
How To: Install OS X on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required http://tinyurl.com/ytam2j #
Featured Windows Download: Put Documents Online in One Click with Google Docs Uploader http://tinyurl.com/3avebe #
PDFs: Pull and Format Text from PDFs with PDFTextOnline http://tinyurl.com/2gzjl7 #
What is svchost.exe And Why Is It Running? :: the How-To Geek http://tinyurl.com/2lpwhz #
Geek to Live: Laptop tips http://tinyurl.com/ytk37n #
Featured Windows Download: Download Flickr Pics by User, Group, or Tags with FlickrDown http://tinyurl.com/38c8h3 #
Featured Windows Download: Get Informative File Tooltips with InfoTag Magic http://tinyurl.com/3dh9bu #
Feature: Access Your Computer Anytime and Save Energy with Wake-on-LAN http://tinyurl.com/2mutck #
How To: Make Your Own Customized Linux Distro http://tinyurl.com/2bgq9j #
Paperwork: Replace Bulky Document Binders with Chicago Screws http://tinyurl.com/2rgqza #
Make a Mobile Friendly Version of your Blog with Google Reader http://tinyurl.com/2dsp3c #
Speaking: Convert Any Text to MP3s with VozMe http://tinyurl.com/2rug53 http://vozme.com/index.php?lang=en #
75 Tips to Keep Your Car in Top-Notch Condition: Operating Your Car | Auto Care | Reader’s Digest http://tinyurl.com/2z6rq4 #
Stress: Relax with Deep-Breathing Exercises http://tinyurl.com/2bagaq #
Why isn’t C&P on the iPhone yet? – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) http://tinyurl.com/ywcjet #
Babbel: Help Me, Help You Learn A New Language http://tinyurl.com/325sy4 #
Free: Ten Universities with Free Online Courses http://tinyurl.com/2bu38l #
Technophilia: Discover the .EDU Underground http://tinyurl.com/2ftd79 #
Picnik Launches API for Web-Based Photo-Editing http://tinyurl.com/36ern2 #

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January 27, 2008

The Roundup from 2008-01-27

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Cheryl Cole Kicks Out ‘Rat’ Footballer Husband Ashley Cole After Sleazy Sex Romp http://tinyurl.com/2dhurq You are who you roll with, Cashly #
Here’s something I didn’t know: "Cole is a distant cousin of singer Mariah Carey." That explains some things! #

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More Evidence That The Today Show Sucks

Filed under: Apple, Katie Couric, Macbook, TV, Tech, iPhone — Tags: al_roker, Apple, Edward-R.-Murrow, faux-journalism, iPhone, Katie Couric, Macbook, Macbook-Air, matt-lauer, meredith-vieria, milli_vanilli, morning-show, nbc, softball_interviews, Tech, The-Today-Show, TV, Walter-Cronkite — webadmin @ 1:47 am

I’ve made no secret of my disdain for Katie Couric and her Morning Show brand of “news,” replete with softball interviews, oversimplifications and gimmicks. So I laughed out loud when Engadget uncovered in 2 great clips that show just how crappy these shows really are. They make The Daily Show, nee, Weekend Update on SNL seem like Cronkite and Murrow. Look at how they parrot the Apple company line on these two product showcases all for the sake of “the get” – including an unfortunate Milli Vanilli / Ashlee Simpson moment:

There’s nothing quite like hearing a group of network talk-show hosts heaping praise on a piece of technology they barely understand to jumpstart your day. We think you’ll agree that listening to Matt Lauer loudly declare “It’s awesome!” and watching Meredith “You’re blowing the whole schtick” Viera vigorously mime licking the new MacBook Air is pretty wretch-inducing stuff — though Al Roker informing us that if you want the SSD, you’ll only have to pay “a little bit more,” was definitely one toke over the line. Thanks for ruining our breakfast guys. Every breakfast.

Today Show with the Macbook Air

Today Show botching the iPhone demo

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January 26, 2008

The Roundup from 2008-01-26

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COOL! – http://tinyurl.com/yo34db doPDF5.3 installs itself as a virtual PDF printer driver and will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. #
Food: Fifteen Foods that Burn More Calories than They Contain http://tinyurl.com/22bw6w including oranges and watermelon! #
20 Foods To Snack On For Enhanced Productivity – Lifehack.org http://tinyurl.com/25vhfd including almonds, avocados, green tea, and melon!! #
Web Worker Daily ? Archive 5 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Career ? http://tinyurl.com/2xdtpe #
Featured Mac Download: Set Your Online Status for Multiple Apps with MoodBlast http://tinyurl.com/2jxudj #
Featured Windows Download: AnyTV Streams Internet Video to Your Desktop http://tinyurl.com/yntmsc #
Ying Yang Twins http://tinyurl.com/yu4a5y are scheduled to appear on an upcoming episode of Dr. Phil to debate saggy jeans! #
Jesse Camped Out in Hollywood – TMZ.com http://tinyurl.com/25cxwx Where are they now – MTV Vee-Jay Contest winner and now – strung out! #
Fat Joe has decided to drop his Diddy Sean John-assisted cover of Eddie Murphy’s "Party All The Time" http://tinyurl.com/yoqapt #
Rumors: Michael Jackson May Return To Grammy Stage, May Not Open His Mouth While Appearing http://tinyurl.com/2duj3g #
http://tinyurl.com/ysvtk6 Ashlee Simpson’s forthcoming album has apparently been pushed back yet again, after being moved from last November #
The city of Compton is attempting to run Suge Knight out of town as part of an anti-gang enforcement strategy http://tinyurl.com/39uwjm #
Firefox Tip: Improve Firefox’s Responsiveness While a Page is Loading http://tinyurl.com/2r4xe4 #
Lifehacker Code: About This Site add-on (Firefox) http://tinyurl.com/3cbcph #

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Digging In The Youtube Crates

Filed under: Humor, Jokes, TV — Tags: Art-Fern, Carnac, Funk-&-Wagnalls-porch, hermetically-sealed, Humor, Johnny-Carson, Jokes, Karnac, Karnak, skits, Slauson-cutoff, TV — webadmin @ 3:02 pm

Classic comedy will never die even if it’s mouthpieces do. I was reading ATP and his journey to LA and the nightmare of the roads and such and it reminded me of these Carson comedy classics – which I never thought would have been on YouTube. Enjoy them while you can!

Tea Time Movie 1

Tea Time Movie 2

Karnac The Magnificent 1

Karnac The Magnificent 2

Wisdom

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January 25, 2008

Microsoft XP on a Cheap Dell PC

Filed under: Microsoft, Tech — Tags: 530, 530n, 530s, 531, 531s, AMD, away-mode, dell, forceware-release-162, frustrations, GeForce-6150-LE, graphics-drivers, Microsoft, motherboard-driver, nForce-430, nVidia, Realtek-driver, Realtek-R175, sound-card-driver, Tech, vista, wdm, windows-vista, windows-xp, winxp, xp-drivers — webadmin @ 4:16 pm

A while back I found a very good deal on a Dell 531 slimline – part of its 530 budget series computers. Like $300 good. And they’re having it again. The systems in question, and indeed the one I bought were shipped with FreeDos. I figured I could just install my own copy of XP or 2000 on it. The comparable systems shipping with Windows Vista cost more, plus there was no way I was going to deal with the frustrations of Vista.

When I got the machine and went to Dell’s site to download the sound card, mobo and graphics drivers, I noticed that they weren’t there. All they had were Vista drivers. WTF? Seems in an effort to push Vista on the consumer, Microsoft has forced PC Makers not to support XP on their machines. So to find the XP Drivers for this machine I had to hunt around the internet. Thank goodness I found them:

Graphics Driver: GeForce 6150 LE – nVidia ForceWare Release 162
Sound Card Driver: Realtek Onboard R175 WDM Driver
Motherboard Driver (incl Ethernet, USB, etc): nVidia nForce 430 chipset

I’m now happily running XP on a cheap Dell and will never have to deal with Vista.

UPDATE: There was one missing device driver that showed up in SysInfo and Device manager as ACPI\AWY0001\2&DABA3FF&0 – which is the AMD Away Mode – download these 2 files and use the Device Manager to update the drivers.

AMD Away Mode Drivers amdaway.cat
AMD Away Mode Drivers amdaway.inf

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Djo Djo Slayed The Dragon

Filed under: Tennis — Tags: Australian-Open, Novak-Djokovic, Roger-Federer, Tennis — webadmin @ 6:58 am

One day after unseeded Jo-Wilfred Tsonga beat #2 Rafael Nadal in the other Australian Open semifinal, Rod Laver Arena saw another giant-killing as Novak Djokovic took out the undisputed #1 Roger Federer, he of the infinite match streak at non-clay majors and chasing down Pete Sampras’ record of majors wins:

Novak Djokovic reached his first grand-slam final with a stunning upset of Roger Federer, the top seed and reigning champion, at the Australian Open.

The Serbian triumphed 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 and will play Jo-Wilfred Tsonga, the 22-year-old Frenchman in Sunday’s final. Tsonga put out Andy Murray, the British hope, in the opening round.

Defeat ended Federer’s hopes of winning the Melbourne tournament for the third consecutive year and, similarly, he will have to wait to move within one of Pete Sampras’s record of 14 grand-slam titles.

Novak Djokovic beats Roger Federer in the 2008 Australian Open

There were several times when it looked like Federer would mount a charge and come back but each time he was answered. Djokovic’s first serve was nearly nonreturnable while he often turned back Roger’s serve. Had the match gone into the 4th set perhaps Roger’s fitness would have been an issue but on this night he didn’t have enough. Epic match.

Serbia might bag this Aussie Open with Ana Ivanovic and Djokovic both in the mens and womens finals, respectively.

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January 24, 2008

Congrats, Maria …

Filed under: Maria Sharapova, Tennis, Video, ass, babes, bikini, cameltoe, downblouse, hotties, sexy, skimpy, upskirt — Tags: ass, babes, bikini, cameltoe, downblouse, hotties, Maria Sharapova, sexy, skimpy, Tennis, upskirt, Video — webadmin @ 10:29 am

… for beating Justine Henin and Jelena Jankovic

Video

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January 23, 2008

The Roundup from 2008-01-23

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FRYS.com http://tinyurl.com/yo558o 4GB Memory Stick Pro Duo Price:$34.99 #
http://tinyurl.com/2hfwc5 AT&T broadband subscribers will now get free access to AT&T wifi hotspots in B&N, McDonald’s, airports, etc. #
Cell Service For The Commitment Phobic: AT&T Offers SIM Card Without 2 Year Contract http://tinyurl.com/268prf #
Personal Finance: Get Tax Advice Over The Phone With FreeTaxQuestion.com http://tinyurl.com/2szvoc until Jan. 31 #
Canon Mini DV Digital Camcorder only $154 Shipped at OneCall – Dealhack http://tinyurl.com/24rn6l #
ESPN – Federer downs Blake in straight sets, to meet Djokovic in semifinals – Tennis http://tinyurl.com/2ae6xj #
Team USA Adds another American!!! – ESPNsoccernet – England – Fulham sign Kansas City Wizards striker Johnson http://tinyurl.com/2y7zym #
FA to investigate Adebayor-Bendtner clash http://tinyurl.com/2fgygy So instead of disciplining Fergie who was CAUGHT ON VIDEO they do this?? #
Fergie gets away with murder and the kid from Havant & Waterlooville gets strung up. Good going FA #
http://tinyurl.com/3az9ya President Bush and 7 of his top officials made 935 false statements about Iraq in the 2 years following 9/11. #

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January 21, 2008

It’s Giants vs Patriots in Super Bowl 42

Filed under: Bill Parcells, Brett Favre, Green Bay Packers, NFL, New England Patriots, New York Giants — Tags: Bill Parcells, Brett Favre, Eli-Manning, Green Bay Packers, Jeremy-Shockey, Kevin-Faulk, Ladanian-Tomlinson, Lawrence-Tynes, New England Patriots, New York Giants, NFL, Norv-Turner, San-Diego-Chargers, super-bowl, Super-Bowl-42, Super-Bowl-XLII, Ted-Cottrell, Tiki-Barber — webadmin @ 1:39 am

The wind was making it hard to throw to the edges and Moss was being blanketed. But that didn’t stop the Patriots from finding other guys like Faulk and Moroney to put the gimpy Chargers out of their misery and come one step closer to making Mercury Morris eat his words.

The Chargers were too inept on offense – settling for too many FGs, and too vanilla on defense. That’s not the way to beat the Patriots. What they should have done, and what I’d like to see in the Super Bowl, is for them to be defended with a 1 or 2 man line. Line up in a typical 4-man front with 1-2 blitzers threatening, then at the snap, drop off into coverage to clog the passing lanes. And when you rush the 2 guys, rush them from the same spot overloaded on one side. Remember the Pats did that to the Colts’ pass-happy offense to great effect a few years ago? Now it’s the Patriots that have the pass happy offense.

Honestly, you will not beat the Pats playing straight up D. You have to gamble and guess, morph and disguise. Otherwise Brady will always know what he’s looking at and always find a Faulk open – who looked like he was just finding the open space in the zone. Norv (or rather Ted Cottrell) simply got outcoached. It’s ok – only 2 or 3 teams really were an equal match coaching and strategy wise all season.

The worse scenario for the Pats today was having to play the Giants. They are now the hottest team not named the Patriots. The Chargers were crippled and they didn’t get creative. The Packers played well, but just not well enough. Eli Manning (not Peyton) played well down the stretch and and will be rewarded with a spot in the Super Bowl. Scotsman Lawrence Tynes overcame 2 missed kicks to end the game in overtime with a game winning kick.

But here’s what I like about this most. Tiki Barber is left to stew over the fact that he left an average team and they became a great team all the while fending off his barbs (pun intended) about Eli not being a good QB. Thats called the Ewing Theory, buddy. A high profile player leaves an underachieving team and they suddenly rally and achieve something. And since there are no more games on NBC Tiki won’t have to answer to it.

Well, I guess you could say the same thing about the Giants going on a run after Jeremy Shockey’s injury, but since he’s from The U I’ll leave him alone.

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