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By Brent on December 21, 2009  |  Comments 0

Realtimesoft.com Releases Ultramon 3.0.8 Beta

I am truly amazed the WIN7 Team did not just include these cool dual monitor tools, but since they did not check it out.

http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/download_beta.asp

Current version: 3.0.8. Released Dec 21, 2009.

For 32-bit Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000:
UltraMon_3.0.8_en_x32.msi
2.51 MB

For 64-bit Windows 7/Vista/XP:
UltraMon_3.0.8_en_x64.msi
3.19 MB

Release Notes for UltraMon 3.0.8

Please note that this release is less mature than UltraMon 2.7.1, and is mainly recommended if you:

  • are using Windows 7 or Vista,
  • are affected by an issue which was fixed in this release,
  • or want to try the new features
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By Brent on October 25, 2009  |  Comments 0

WIN7 Upgrade to 64bit – A Story to tell your kids about…..

 
Some workarounds list here for the following issues: http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/clean_install_upgrade_media.asp

** Great post by Ed Bott about workarounds and real Win 7 Upgrade answers – CLICK HERE **

I have just made the transition to WIN7 from XP and I have to say its been a rocky road so far. So here is the story in case you want to use it for the show or possibly you can shed some light on the issues.

So early on I went from XP to WIN7 on my laptop with basically no issues  using the RC.

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By Brent on October 10, 2009  |  Comments 0

MSE: Microsoft Security Essentials – 1 Week in…..

Issues with Microsoft Security Essentials:
Here are mine so far:

1) Upon Install on two of my XP machines – Both used to have MacAfee Security Suite (Fully Removed) and BLINK from Eeye (Fully Removed) Both Machines will display the XP Windows Firewall Warning Box on startup intermittently. This is the box saying you have no firewall operational. This is only on boot and only till the boot sequence catches up and then the dialog is gone and the Firewall shows good to go. I have submitted a support ticket. The Result of which is two suggestions: Add MSE to firewall exceptions (Which I had to do manually because it did not seem to add itself) and also run MS Install Cleanup Utility (which I did to look for previous security related installs and none were found) – Firewall Dialog still in intermittent.

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By Brent on June 17, 2009  |  Comments 0

Tweetdeck goes mobile and big changes for the desktop application

Repost from the Tweetdeck blog:

TweetDeck goes mobile and makes for the clouds

When I started developing TweetDeck, almost a year ago, I was trying to solve a very specific problem. Twitter provided an amazing new source of information but was already becoming unwieldy. When I missed a tweet from one of my real world friends I realised there was no way to weight the importance of people I followed or easily digest the avalanche of information. Thinking about this I realized that this was an increasing problem across the entire Web – not just with Twitter. More and more, sites are serving consumers streams of information rather than static web pages. And today’s browsers aren’t set up to help us filter and digest this new format.

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By Brent on May 05, 2009  |  Comments 0

Panda Cloud Antivirus – Hmm Cloud you say…..

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Here is the link to the software: http://www.cloudantivirus.com/

Here is the description to how they configured this new technilogy… Very interesting concept.. now I need to find a computer to try it on and determine overhead vs. the other solutions I have tested.

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By Brent on April 18, 2009  |  Comments 0

Photos showcased on CameraDojo.com

The guys over at CameraDojo.com were cool enough to showcase a couple of my shots I did using their new B&W Lightroom Preset Pack….

Check them out over there and grab the presets they work great and the price is right.

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Porn Detection Stick

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Find Pornographic Images on Your Computer

Paraben’s Porn Detection Stick is a thumb drive device that will search through all the images on your computer, scan them for pornographic content, and create a report of suspected pornographic images.
Product Features

  • Portable – Because the porn detection software is embedded in a USB thumb drive, you can easily take it anywhere and use it on any computer you own.
  • Fast – A search of a 500 GB hard drive with over 70,000 images takes only about an hour and a half. Imagine how much time it would take you to manually find and search that many images.
  • Accurate – The Porn Detection Stick uses advanced image analyzing algorithms that categorize images as potentially harmful by identifying facial features, flesh tone colors, image back grounds, body part shapes, and more. With less than 1% false positive indications, your search for contamination on your computer won’t waste your time.

For more information, please visit www.paraben-sticks.com

** Happily I have no problem finding porn on my computer…. but maybe that’s not the point **

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Seriously: Nacho Lip Balm?

 

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Nacho Lip Balm

Next time your lips start to feel as dry as tortilla chips, treat them to a generous coating of this Nacho Cheese Lip Balm. Each tube is 2-1/2" long with a twist bottom dispenser.

2.95

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Microsoft Password Checker

Check your password — is it strong?

Your online accounts, computer files, and personal information are more secure when you use strong passwords to help protect them.

Test the strength of your passwords: Type a password into the box.

Note: This does not guarantee the security of the password. This is for your personal reference only.

What is a strong password?

A strong password should appear to be a random row of characters. It should be at least 14 characters long. It should include a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and symbols.

For tips about how to create passwords that are easy for you to remember but difficult for others to guess, read Create strong passwords.

About this password checker

This password checker does not collect, store, or transmit information.

The security of the passwords typed into this password checker is similar to the security of the password you enter if you log on to Windows. The password is checked and validated on your computer, but is not sent over the Internet.

HERE IS THE LINK: https://www.microsoft.com/protect/fraud/passwords/checker.aspx

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Muppets….

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F16 vs. C-130


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A C-130 was lumbering along when a cocky F-16 flashed by.
The jet jockey decided to show off.

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The fighter jock told the C-130 pilot, ‘watch this!’ and promptly
went into a barrel roll followed by a steep climb. He then finished
with a sonic boom as he broke the sound barrier. The F-16 pilot
asked the C-130 pilot what he thought of that?
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The C-130 pilot said, ‘That was impressive, but watch this!’
The C-130 droned along for about 5 minutes and then the C-130
pilot came back on and said: ‘What did you think of that?’
Puzzled, the F-16 pilot asked, ‘What the heck did you do?’
The C-130 pilot chuckled. ‘I stood up, stretched my legs, walked
to the back, took a leak, then got a cup of coffee and a
cinnamon roll.’

When you are young & foolish – speed & flash may seem a good thing !!!

When you get older & smarter – comfort & dull is not such a bad thing !!!

Us older folks understand this one.

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Building Collapse in China

(1) An underground garage was being dug on the south side, to a depth of

4.6 meters

(2) The excavated dirt was being piled up on the north side, to a height of 10 meters

(3) The building experienced uneven lateral pressure from south and north

(4) This resulted in a lateral pressure of 3,000 tonnes, which was greater than what the pilings could tolerate.

Thus the building toppled over in the southerly direction.

First, the apartment building was constructed

Then the plan called for an underground garage to be dug out.

The excavated soil was piled up on the other side of the building.

Heavy rains resulted in water seeping into the ground..

The building began to shift and the concrete pilings were snapped due to the uneven lateral pressures.

The building began to tilt.

And thus came the eighth wonder of the world.

If the buildings were closer together there would also have been a domino effect.

They built 13 stories on grade, with no basement, and tied it all down to hollow pilings with no rebar.

Repost from the web.

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A very comprehensive list all about Twitter

This is easily the longest most comprehensive list of Twitter related items you would ever want to see.. or possibly not want to see.

http://www.curledesign.com/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-twitter/

It covers everything – Analytics, Backgrounds, word shorteners, etc

Here is a Tiny Example – See the site for the rest…..

Browser Plugins

  • TwitterFox - TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends’ status on Twitter
  • TwitterBar - Post to Twitter from your address bar
  • Power Twitter – Makes Twitter better
  • TwitterLine - Twitter headline extension for Firefox
  • Twitter Search – Twitter search
  • Tweetfox - helps you to post excerpts from the websites you visit with a click of the button and attach a short URL to the source page.
  • StockTwits - Links stocktwits tagged ticker on Twitter back to StockTwits
  • Twitzer - Lets you post text longer than 140 characters on Twitter
  • TwitterJobSearch - The world’s first job search engine to harness the power of Twitter
  • TweetIE - Twitter IE plugin
  • AddATweet - AddATweet’s mission is to make every page on the Internet commentable.
  • Instant Tweets – Instantly send pages, pictures and tweets to Twitter from any where on the web
  • Tweecious - Listening to your twitter feed and submitting all the links to your delicious account
  • TwitKit - TwitKit is a Twitter sidebar
  • TwittIE - Make your Internet Explorer tweet
  • Twitbin - Allows you to keep up with all of your Twitter conversations right from your browser sidebar
  • DashBlog - Lets you collect videos, images, text, songs and screenshots from any web page and publish them to your blog or twitter
  • Social Whale Extension – Create short URLs for use on Twitter
  • shortText - Twitzer is a Firefox extension which lets you post text longer than 140 characters
  • TwitThat - Post current page to Twitter via twitthat.com
  • Song.ly – Lets you share music links on Twitter
  • TwittyTunes - Allows to post your currently playing songs to Twitter
  • Tweetstalk - The simple way to stalk Twitter users without having to follow them
  • Yoono - Yoono simplifies your social life by centralising all your social networks and instant messaging in one easy to use browser sidebar
  • Twippera - Twitter widget for Opera
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