Tom’s Hardware Guide PCs & How-To: Pepping Up Windows - Introduction
The average Windows user tends to be less than satisfied with Windows. And that’s no surprise, either, given the rather woeful state of its default applications. Consider that both Wordpad and Notepad refuse to open larger files, the integrated audio recorder limits recordings to 60 seconds, and Paint, the integrated graphics program, offers only the most rudimentary of features. Worse still, Internet Explorer can neither be considered modern nor safe for browsing, while Outlook Express is known for its affinity for contracting any number of worms and viruses. In short, the out-of-the-box Windows configuration is usually outdated and problem laden.
The good news is that there’s hope for improving your Windows experience. There are many alternatives to these and other default Windows apps - many of them open source and freeware - that can help you pep up your Windows installation and boost your productivity, making life with Windows more bearable.
This is a great article with a ton of resources for making you computing experience better. free up a night and try these tips and tools. They are truly some of the best out there.
I know someone right now is saying but what about xyz I know no list has everything but Tom’s Hardware has a good article that anyone can learn something from.
Good Modding!!!
Last NTP patent ruled invalid — RIM says “na na na-nana”
Score one for the People at RIM. This is good news for all you BB users out there, BlackBerry is a cool product and the ways patents work in this country can drive anyone crazy.
The Battle Of The Blogs
This is one of the most fun and frustrating things on BLOG EXPLOSION.
You put your site up against others Blogs. I have been doing this for a while now and have achieved a dubious honor. I have hit the Bottom of the list in rankings.
If you want to see how your Blog stacks up in the blogging world, then join and enter the Battle of the Blog.
No matter what every battle gets you at least 15 visitors to your site, and people see what you have to say
PCWorld.com - The 100 Best Products of 2005
The top 100 Products of 2005.
1 Mozilla Firefox Web Browser
2 Google Gmail Web Mail
3 Apple Mac OS X Version 10.4 (Tiger) Operating System
4 Belkin Wireless Pre-N Router and Notebook Network Card Wireless Networking
5 Dell Ultrasharp 2405FPW 24-Inch Wide-Screen LCD
Cool that Number One is Firefox great Browser.
and number 2 is gmail.
The top two products are free. You can aford that right.
Check out the list when you have some time.
TIME.com: The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth — Oct. 03, 2005 — Page 1
There was a time–yes, my children, the legends are true–when J.R.R. Tolkien was not cool. Really. Very much not cool. Also video games, and Spider-Man, and the X-Men. There was a time, not even that long ago, when you could get beaten up by jocks in the woods behind the backstop for being down with the X-Men. Not that this happened to me personally. Friend of mine. Friend of mine’s cousin, actually. Lives in Canada. You wouldn’t know him.
The point is, things like that don’t happen so much anymore. Over the past few years, an enormous shift has taken place in American culture, a disturbance in the Force, a rip in the fabric of space-time. What was once hopelessly geeky–video games, fantasy novels, science fiction, superheroes–has now, somehow, become cool.
Thank God. I have been out of fashion so long I am finally in fashion. I am a geek born and bread. First Job I got was to buy an Atari 2600 and Vic 20. I also got DnD books and minitures and set landscapes up. OK yes I am a geek, and I am proud!!!
What do you get when your office did not move out before construction starts on your current office building????
Your freaking power lines cut during the Demolition. Lost power today at 515. My own fault for working late.
Not all power, just to the T1s and the Phone system, switches, and Wan connection. Murphy had a rule on that.
Came back up 40 minutes later. All except one 10 year old 3com switch. Full of dirt, notice I said dirt not dust. Dust of this magnitude gets an upgrade to full fledged dirt. This thing was filthy and now so is my shirt and probably lungs. Could not get it working.
my many years of working systems time taught me to improvise.
I stole the 3com hub from the lobby area leaving the wireless (The Big Wigs are upstairs along with the rest rooms.;) ).
People actually wanted me to get their palms synchronized when they saw me there late. Freaks.
So I got the upstairs working. Lobby is also working wirelessly. So I am now waiting in the port authority for a 730 bus so I can get home, sleep, and come back for more tomorrow.
How was your day?
At least there were no storms, winds or invading armies. Knock wood.
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Five reasons for Palm’s slide | Tech News on ZDNet
When Palm ruled the handheld-computing market, few thought it would ever have to partner with Microsoft.
But a series of missteps, from manufacturing gaffes to strategic blunders, eventually made Palm’s partnering with its longtime rival seem like a possibility–and, for both parties, a palatable one at that. While no one mistake can be blamed for Palm’s difficulties over the last five years, many analysts agree that a combination of events both strengthened Microsoft’s hand in the mobile market and made Palm more open to partnering with its old adversary
I work every day supporting systems. Every day there is an issue with PALMs. I hate these devices already. We have people with Blackberries and Windows devices that can synchronize wirelessly. But those freaking PALMS want outlook installed local, the correct version of palm desktop (Don’t sync a Treo on an old Palm Desktop or an old Palm on the Treo’s Desktop trust me it will lead to problems.) And when it screws up it will duplicate meetings, contacts, messages. Not only in the Palm but in the Exchange server as well.
People look at us like it is our fault.
We have told them for several years that we do not like Palms and that the company prefers to support Blackberries. But we are a little screwed. They are mostly independent contractors we support. They buy their own devices and we just support.
But please remember:
Friends Don’t Let Friends Buy PALMS!!!
I have always wish I could draw and the only way to improve is through do.
So here it is my first Comic Strip, I hope you enjoy.
Thanks and let me know how much it blows 
The Palm Treo 700w (aka Treo 670) - Exclusive first look! - Engadget - www.engadget.com
This looks cool. treo is a nice phone but I have not been a fan of Palm software for a long time. I’d love to try this phone out.
CNN.com - Guide aims to help bloggers beat censors - Sep 22, 2005
PARIS, France (AP) — A Paris-based media watchdog has released an ABC guide of tips for bloggers and dissidents to sneak past Internet censors in countries from China to Iran.
It is sad that the world has to be at this point. Where countries are so afraid of the voices of it’s own people that it wants to control all communication. I hope this guide frees the peoples voices and free’s them from government control. And we think the FCC is bad….Well they are but not this bad.