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Thursday, May 08, 2003[Back-dated from 2/2/04 to 5/8/03]
Ars Technica's XP Tweaking Guide. Windows XP is now the predominant consumer OS of both gamers and power users. Sure, many of us still dual-boot with Win9x, because it is faster for many games, but the joy of a true 32-bit operating system with full consumer support is too much for many of us to remain loyal to NT 4.0 or Windows 2000. Now that Windows XP has matured past its infancy and many (but by far not all) of the bugs have been shaken out of it, Ars Technica brings you the first in a series of tweak guides for this illustrious and yet somewhat finicky OS. (Kevin_Christley) [Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes]
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Langa Letter: 10 Great, Free Tools. "Fred Langa evaluates 10 valuable, commercial-quality software tools that are available just for the asking. It's not the same old freeware." - Good article on some freeware utilities that rival commercial software. Langa's always a good read.... [Peter] [Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes]
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What's On My Computer. "What`s On My Computer is a unique web search program that is intended to find information about files, documents, registry entries and programs installed on your computer. It allows you to gather online intelligence for just about anything you can put your mouse on. (WebAttack review)" - Sure, you can... [Peter] [Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes]
Sunday, May 04, 2003Why we won't help you. Scene: Newbie Designer posts a link to a test page, asking for help because it doesn't behave as expected in this or that browser. Guru Designer replies, telling Newbie Designer that their page doesn't validate, and that they should go validate their page before asking such questions. Why does this happen? Why won't we help you? (1036 words) [dive into mark]
Saturday, May 03, 2003Bookmark and revel in this one....
The George Eastman House photography collection is simply incredible and merits hours of browsing. I particularly enjoyed the color prints of Nickolas Muray and this gallery of old stereo slides. [MetaFilter] [Ye Olde Phart]
One Pixel Per Meter. The Real Ships / Buildings site has lots of images that are... ...all exactly to scale, each pixel equals one square meter. Internet Explorer users may Click and Drag the starships to compare them as you like. Below are some contemporary vehicles and buildings for reference, scroll right and down for starships. To drag the images, JavaScript must be enabled. (Thanks Heather) Permalink Created Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:09 GMT ### [The J-Walk Blog]
Amazing Art. The images at the Amazing Art site will keep you busy for quite a while. The title says it all: amazing art, artwork that makes you say whoa! It's a top collection of baffling images : optical illusions, things that can't exist in real life, and landscapes with hidden stuff in it. And those funny pictures you can turn upside down, showing something completely else. But also mysterious pictures that let you guess what it is. And there's a whole lot more... (via Iconomy) Permalink Created Fri, ...[MORE] [The J-Walk Blog]
Digital Photography Challenge....
Like digital photography? Think you're good at it? DPChallenge offers amateur photographers the opportunity to compete in a free weekly challenge. Users submit digital photos of a certain challenge topic, taken that week, and then vote (and leave feedback) on all the other submissions during the following week, allowing aspiring digital photographers to find out just where they rank, and how to improve their skills. (And if you'd like, you can buy prints of some of your favorite entries.) [MetaFilter] [Ye Olde Phart]
Ah Yes ... The Windows Serial Number.
Ah Yes ... The Windows Serial Number
Well my venture into "Scott's Tired of Incessant Crashing And Needs a Linux Box" led to "Must Clean Office" and "Must Fix Corrupted Windows Advanced Server Installation on Test Box". Which in turn led to "Must Find Serial #". And that, dear reader, led me to Cerials.net. Great site to get a serial # for virtually anything. As you can tell -- its a happy morning here at the Fuzzy#$#)($#Windows#$#($#(Group.
[The FuzzyBlog!]A site not to be missed....
Amazing Underground Movies Now Online. Take a trip down our nation's irradiated, productized Memory Lane. You'll be shocked at the shit we used to accept as gospel truth, and be forewarned about how much of the shit that we're NOW accepting as gospel truth will be judged by history. [NetSlaves.com] [Ye Olde Phart]
Eye Candy [2]....
Oh, and it gets even better: MOTCO is an online picture library about the history of Great Britain. Fab.
"This website contains a reference database of topographical prints, maps, prospects and panoramas of London, the Thames and the UK. It also provides the opportunity to purchase high quality reproductions which make excellent gifts." [The Cartoonist] [Ye Olde Phart]
Eye Candy....
Now this is amazing. The New York Public Library Picture Collection must be one of the best free picture libraries online. There are thousands of images depicting American history.
"The Picture Collection Online is an image resource site for those who seek knowledge and inspiration from visual materials. It is a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923." [The Cartoonist] [Ye Olde Phart]
Novelty tunes bonanza. Amazing collection of MP3s of TV stars singing pop songs -- goes way beyond the traditional Shanter-does-Lucy-in-the-Sky-with-Diamonds, including such rarities as Tony Randall doing "Nature Boy," Jerry Springer doing "Mr. Tamborine Man," and Ed McMahon singing "Thank Heaven for Little Girls." Lots more weird-ass rarities there -- odd Beatles and Stairway to Heaven covers, songs about chickens, und zo weiter. Link Discuss (via Memepool) [Boing Boing Blog]
I knew Keith Pleas was a natural-born weblogger. His first post pointed me to an excellent article on how to give a great technical presentation, written by Scott Hanselman. When I was running conferences, I wish all of my speakers would have been able to read this.
[The Scobleizer Weblog]The Internet Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive is one of the most fascinating sites on the Net. The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. It's like you can go back in time. A few examples: Google in 1998 (When it was a prototype) Microsoft in 1996 (back when their site was still somewhat usable) SlashDot in 1998 (it looks exactly the same...[MORE] [The J-Walk Blog]
Book Pirates And The People Who've Never Heard Of Them. Found over at Geek.com is a column from someone who has been accused of being an "ebook pirate" for downloading scanned books. In his defense, he makes the very reasonable argument that he only downloaded books he already owned or out-of-print books. He also mentions that in the case when Stephen King released an ebook well before coming out with the printed version, he (and many others) went out and bought the printed version even though they already had the ebook. One of his "accusers" suggested that people downloading free ebooks take away the incentive for publishers to put old books back in print, but this argument is dissected easily. The vast majority of books are out-of-print and have no hope of getting back into print. Your best bet is to hunt around used bookstores for a copy - and if you find it, the end result for the publisher and the author is the same as if you downloaded the ebook. Of course, you could take this argument even further. By downloading out-of-print books, new readers can discover authors they like, and later buy their newer books when they come out. Those older books act as advertising for their newer books. It's only those who look at these things in the short-term "must-profit-off-of-everything" way that don't seem to understand the potential of using "free" items that cannot be sold any more as promotional items. [Techdirt]
Zoom In. Zoomable aerial photos, at space.com. You'll find several recent photos of Iraq, including downtown Baghdad and burning oil trenches. Permalink Created Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:49 GMT ### [The J-Walk Blog]