I was listening to my new podcasts on the way home last night. My heart nearly stopped when I came to Geek News Central and Todd Cochrane announced that he had just found out his father was killed in a car accident.
Losing a parent is tragic enough. I went through that 4 years ago with my dad. But for life to just end so suddenly in an accident like that seems so senseless.
My condolences to the Cochrane family. Todd, know that you and your family are in our thoughts and prayers.
Tags: podcasting, gnc, geek news central
Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
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Pre-order Microsoft Windows Vista! The following items are now available in the TechLifeWeb Corner Store
Here is the price list:
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate DVD-Rom $399
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Microsoft License Pack Additional License $359
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade DVD-Rom $259
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade Microsoft License Pack Additional License $233
Microsoft Windows Vista Business DVD-Rom $299
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium DVD-Rom $239
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Microsoft License Pack Additional License $215
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade DVD-Rom $159
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade Microsoft License Pack Additional License $143
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic DVD-Rom $199
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic Microsoft License Pack Additional License $179
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic Upgrade DVD-Rom $99
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic Upgrade Microsoft License Pack Additional License $89.95
Note: These items will be released on January 30, 2007
TechLifeWeb Corner Store
Tags: microsoft, windows, vista, price, upgrade, amazon, shop, buy, order
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 |
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 |
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Hey Xbox gamers, get yer Prima strategy guides (in PDF):
* Madden NFL:07 Defensive Strategy (2.9 MB)
* Madden NFL:07 Offensive Strategy (2.8 MB)
Tags: xbox, 360, strategy, prima, guide, nfl, madden
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Monday, August 28, 2006 |
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Google announced today that they are selling advertising space on eBay auction sites outside the US. There will be a link in the ad that lets buyers contact sellers via there computer or handheld.
Forbes: Internet auction site eBay last year bought Skype, an Internet phone service. Google has its own messaging and phone service. Both services will be used in the new partnership, but details weren't immediately available.
That last bit is was sparked my interest. This could be interesting to watch for everyone with Skype and or Google Talk.
Update: 29 AUG 06 12:45am: From
GoogleTalk Blog:
Just as exciting are our plans to explore interoperability between Google Talk and Skype, making it easier for our users to chat with one another.
Tags: google, ebay, skype, talk, communications
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GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging).
Tags: gparted, disk, imaging, open source, gnome
[via: Jon's Geek Stuff]
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Saturday, August 26, 2006 |
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BBC news reports that Toshiba is going to be the builder of the forthcoming Zune portable media player.
* 30GB
* Wireless
Tags: microsoft, toshiba, zune, ipod, mp3
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Thursday, August 24, 2006 |
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006 |
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If you use Feedburner you know that it's kind of fun to log into your Feedburner account and see how many subscribers you have to your feeds. For those times I want to do a quick check I thought I'd create a web page that would display my feed counts so I didn't have to log in. Cool part is, there's no tricky programming or anything. Just a little bit of set up on the feed burner side and some copy/paste operations.
Here we go...
Open Notepad or some similar text editor and paste in the following HTML code:
<html>
<head>
<title>Stats from Feedburner</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Next, log into Feedburner. Go to your feed, click the Publicize tab and then click Feed Count on the left hand side. If you have not activated Feed Count, click the Activate button at the bottom. When Feed Count is active you'll see some HTML code where it says 'Copy this HTML'. Copy the code. Back in Notepad, between the body tags, type the name of your blog followed by <br /> then paste the Feed Count Code. Add another <br /> after the code.
That's it. If you have other feeds, get the Feed Count code from them and paste it below the previous Feed Count code.
You can get as fancy as you want by coloring your Feed Counts or adding CSS to your stats page. Go crazy. For me, it's just for a quick glance so I didn't care about all that.
Now you can save your page. Anytime you want to see your stats, just double-click on your file. No log in! Heck, you didn't even need a web server! Though you could put it on a server if you have some space out there some where. Mine is here to give you a visual if you had any trouble following what I said above: TechLifeWeb Feedburner Stats
Tags: feedburner, statistics, count, analytics, html
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
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MediaGuardian: Smoking scenes are to be edited out of classic Tom and Jerry cartoons, following a complaint to the broadcast regulator that they are inappropriate for a show aimed at children.
Weren't those shown before movies back in the day? Movies adults went to? Not that smoking is in any way to be glamorized but perhaps these cartoons weren't meant for kids to begin with.
Tags: smoking, tom, jerry, cartooons
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Microsoft has hired the Office’s Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant to do a training video. The Google Video can be found here: David Brent's Microsoft training video
Tags: microsoft, the office, brent, gervais, merchant, video, google
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Interesting new service has launched called Feed Crier. It is an IM bot that delivers real-time RSS feed updates to your desktop over popular instant messaging protocols. For end users, no account creation is necessary --
just send a message to the bot containing a feed URL and start getting feed alerts. Basic services are free, with premium services costing just a few dollars a month. Currently, Feed Crier is in beta using the AOL Instant Messenger protocol. Support for other IM protocols including Yahoo, MSN, and Jabber (Google talk uses Jabber) is under development.
I can't see using it for most sites that I read. However, for say job listings or maybe Craig's List where being the first to know is really important it might be worth signing up.
Signing up is easy. Just send an instant message to the screenname "feedcrier" and say subscribe your-feed-url.
Site authors might be interested in code they can add to their site to offer their feed via IM. Visit Adding Feed Crier to your Site for instructions and some html code. You'll end up with a button like this:
Get instant messenger update alerts with Feed Crier FREE.
Tags: rss, feed, im, instant messanger, feed crier
Saturday, August 19, 2006 |
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Back in Feb of '04 I wrote a short post on Lotus Notes 6.5.1 on Linux and Wine. One of my readers sent an email to let me know there is now a wiki page devoted to Lotus Notes on Wine over at winehq: http://wiki.winehq.org/LotusNotes
Why would you want to now that there is a native Notes client for Linux?
* the native version doesn't include a Designer
* the native version seems to have significantly higher system requirements
* some sites require an older release of Notes
Tags: linux, lotus, notes, wine, wiki
Thanks, Dan!
Friday, August 18, 2006 |
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The Flight Simulator X Trial Version includes two airports, three missions, and three different aircraft. All of the missions take place at St. Maarten in the Caribbean.
Tags: microsoft, software, flight simulator, trial
Thursday, August 17, 2006 |
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Apple released Boot Camp 1.1 containing many updates and is intended for all new and previous Boot Camp Beta users.
Boot Camp 1.1 Beta includes:
* Support for the latest Intel-based Macintosh computers
* Easier partitioning using presets for popular sizes
* Ability to install Windows XP on any internal disk
* iSight camera support
* Support for built-in microphones
* Right-click when pressing the right-hand Apple key on Apple keyboards
* Improved Apple keyboard support including Delete, PrintScreen, NumLock, and ScrollLock keys
NOTE: If you previously installed Boot Camp beta, you should update to Boot Camp 1.1 beta. You don't need to partition your hard drive again (unless you want to change its size) or reinstall your Macintosh and Windows software or documents, but it's very important to update the Boot Camp Assistant software, create a new Macintosh Drivers for Windows CD and install the updated software it contains on Windows XP. Complete instructions are provided in the Installation and Setup Guide included with the Boot Camp 1.1 beta software.
Tags: windows, apple, boot camp
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 |
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Saturday, August 12, 2006 |
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006 |
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Here is a step-by-step guide providing many examples, explanations, and external references to help you have a full understanding of extension development.
Firefox Extension Development Tutorial
Tags: mozilla, firefox, extension, development, programming
Tuesday, August 08, 2006 |
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Lifehacker points to a really useful application based on the wonderful Auto-Hotkey utility. Based on the wikipedia article on common misspelled words, the little app is designed to auto-correct common misspellings and because it uses Auto-Hotkey's engine to watch what you type, it works across all your applications.
Lifehacker: Download of the Day: Universal AutoCorrect
Tags: lifehack, autocorrect, universal, hotkey
Monday, August 07, 2006 |
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There was a fireworks show after the baseball game last night. I took a few photos that came out well.
Tags: fireworks, photography, petco, padres, baseball, mlb
Sunday, August 06, 2006 |
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Google maps now lets you save locations if you are logged in. This is a great feature and one that has kept me using Yahoo! Maps for a long time.
The next time you start entering an address or a label into Google Maps, we'll offer to auto-complete it for you if it's in your saved locations. Auto-completion is also available when you're searching for businesses. If you've labeled the address "1600 Amphitheatre Pky, Mountain View, CA" as "work" (as some Googlers would), when you start typing [pizza near work], we'll offer to auto-complete it as [pizza near 1600 Amphitheatre Pky, Mountain View, CA].
Nice.
Tags: google, maps, suggest, auto-complete
Friday, August 04, 2006 |
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I just heard about a cool page called gethuman database. There you'll find customer service numbers for various US companies. These numbers either get you direct to a human or you'll see the necessary number sequence to press or things to say that will get you there.
Tags: customer, support, how-to, human, direct, code
Thursday, August 03, 2006 |
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So there's this new Bloomberg survey that was just released the other day. And some numbers caught my eye:
About 50 percent of companies either won't deploy Windows Vista at all or will wait at least 13 months after the system's November corporate release to begin installation, said Jupiter analyst Joe Wilcox, who surveyed 207 companies with more than 100 employees. An additional 13 percent had never heard of the new operating system.
Notice anything strange about that? Business never deploys right away. Some have policies never to install a 'dot zero' release so that isn't it. But how about those
13% who've never heard of the new OS??? I'll buy never looked at the beta or read all the articles, etc. But never heard of it?? Who the hell did they talk to at these companies? And if it wasn't the CIO (or equivalent) then all their numbers are skewed.
Tags: microsoft, windows, vista, bloomberg, survey
Wednesday, August 02, 2006 |
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Better news: 1898 tax on long-distance phone service used to fund the war has finally been discontinued.
ZDNet: 3% Telecom tax imposed in 1898 finally ends
Gotta love temporary taxes.
Tags: long-distance, tax, war, spanish-american
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006 |
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So maybe you are a do it yourselfer with a knack for writing how-tos. Here is your chance to shine and get a well placed link back to your personal blog or other site. What's going on? Well, Chris Pirillo and Jake Ludington have created a new site called Lockergnome's Doing It. The idea is that you sign up and post drafts of your articles. They'll approve them and post them with a link back to your own site.
Chris: "a DIY/GTD group blog that anybody can join at any time. Sign up, post a draft immediately, and never post again for all we care (or continue to post, if you get enough cross-promotional or search engine traffic from the coverage)."
Sounds interesting. Fun to watch and see what happens. Subscribed.
Tags: pirillo, ludington, lockergnome, diy, gtd
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Telegraph.co.uk reports on eggs imprinted with thermochromic ink that appear after three minutes to indicate a soft-boiled egg, after four minutes for medium and after seven minutes for a hard-boiled egg.
Now it would just scramble itself and pop the bread in the toaster you could have a complete breakfast.
Tags: eggs, self-timing, thermochromic
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