Monday, June 30, 2008

GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers

An employee of GoDaddy had been bidding against customers for domain names. It turns out this is unbelievably not against GoDaddy's policies.
"A GoDaddy Vice President has been caught bidding against customers in their own domain name auctions. The employee Adam Dicker isn't just any GoDaddy employee; he's head of the GoDaddy subsidiary that controls the auctions. Dicker won some of the domains he bid for, and pushed up the bid price on auctions he didn't win."
It does seem however that in an effort to lessen this obvious PR nightmare that GoDaddy is changing its policy now that an employee has been caught by the public with their hand in the cookie jar. What is said to be a response from GoDaddy has been posted in this Digg comment:

"Go Daddy has reviewed the auction and found nothing improper.

Adam Dicker's knowledge on the auction was no different from what any customer coming to our TDNAM site would have had.

To ensure customer confidence and to avoid any possible future questions of impropriety all GD employees are now and in the future prohibited from participating in TDNAM auctions, purchasing, sales & back orders."

Digg - GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

The Mouse is Dead

Ok, maybe not yet but both Microsoft and Apple clearly see multi-touch input devices as the (dare I say near?) future of computer interfacing, with MS announcing that Windows 7 will be optimized for Microsoft Surface-like touch interfaces and Apple having many patents for similar multi-touch systems.

The Mouse Is Dead

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"Lots of Bots" Wall-E Featurette



I <3 Robots.

Ampbot Follows You Around, Delivers Music

This little fella with Segway-style legs follows you around your house playing your MP3 player for you. I thought of something like this a while back. My concept ran along powered tracks on the ceiling and was more of a voice-activated input/output device for a PC. I'd snatch Ampbot this thing up in a jiff when it comes out this fall, if it weren't for the $745 price-tag. Shoot, I could just about build my bot for that much.

BotJunkie » Ampbot Follows You Around, Delivers Music

Shoot the Hell Out of People While Surfing the Interweb



The Pan Tilt Airsoft Gun Mod is a kit you add to any standard Airsoft gun to make it remote-controlled by a computer. You can even attach a webcam to it for maximized shot-to-kill ratio.

Pan Tilt Airsoft Gun Mod - Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog

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SENF Finds Credit Card Numbers, SSNs on Your PC

Like most security tools, SENF (Sensitive Number Finder) seems very useful not only for those wishing to up the ante on their personal security and for security experts, but for hackers as well. From Lifehacker:

"Free, open source application Sensitive Number Finder (Senf) scans your hard drive for personally identifying data worth stealing, like Social Security and credit card numbers. The software points out these vulnerable digits so you can remove or encrypt them to keep your personal finances or identity safe."

SENF

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Laptop 2600

In my search for printable contact paper for designing my own laptop cover (which I never found... If you know where to find some PLEASE COMMENT!) I ran into this dude who used Con-Tact's Wood Grains contact paper to Atari-ize his laptop. Neat idea (and the controller is a nice touch, too!)

Jaybill.com » Blog Archive » Laptop 2600

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NES Controller Car Engine Mod

Not exactly tech, but definitely geek; This guy made his engine cover look like an NES controller. MAKE Blog notes, "Playing a game with this controller might be difficult if you are driving, although you'll be the popular one at the tailgate party."

Mods: NES Controller Car Engine Mod

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Indie Video Game Designers Finally Catch a Break

Here's a great article on how game console companies like Nintendo, Microsoft and even Sony are doing things to help independent game developers make their mark. I'm so glad I'm an applications developer and not a game developer. You guys have it pretty rough.

Indie video game designers break through - CNN.com

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Monday, June 23, 2008

Making a class private to only your assembly

Sometimes in .NET you'll want to make a class that is only accessible/exposed within your assembly. This happened to me, and for the life of me I couldn't remember how to get the thing to work, but it's actually quite simple:


In VB.Net:
Friend Class MyClass
...
End Class




In C#:
internal class Widget
{
...
}


Now, it's important to note that this will limit your class's accessibility to the assembly, but it will still be visible/accessible between namespaces within the same assembly. I'm not sure how to make a class only accessible to the namespace. If you do, how about you tell us in the comments!

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Friday, June 20, 2008

HUMAN TETRIS!!!!



I almost forgot our second installment of CRAZY HAPPY FUN POST!!!!!! For those of you who missed the first one, CRAZY HAPPY FUN POST!!!!!! brings you some of our favorite crazy, happy and/or fun things from Japan. This week, it's all about Human Tetris, which is one of the funniest things to ever exist. EVER!!!!!





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The Search For ET (a.k.a: A Huge Waste of Money)

I grew up near Kennedy Space Center, and actually worked out at NASA during my last two years of High School with the US FIRST Robotics competition. Those NASA guys are doing some great and important stuff so I'm among the first to defend this country's space program. However, there is a side of space exploration that I truly feel is such a monumental waste of time, money and just pure brain power, and that is the search for aliens.

I'm not saying this because I believe that there aren't other life forms out there (for the record: I believe there aren't), I simply think that if there are they are either not worth all the effort we put into finding them, they don't want to be found or they are perfectly capable of finding us without our help.

Let's first explore the ulterior to these three options which is of course that there is something (dare I say someone) out there worth finding. The most common and appealing reasoning for seeking life on other planets is that this life may be far more technologically advanced than ourselves. If this is the case, they will have a lot easier time finding us than we would ever have finding them - so just let them!

If they are not technologically capable enough to finding us, why bother looking for them? If they are technologically advanced but don't want us to find them, we probably should not want to bother them either!

There's always the argument, "Well, what if they're not technologically advanced but can provide something else wonderful for us humans... Like their piss can cure cancer or something." That could always be the case, but perhaps there's an unknown organism at the bottom of the ocean whose piss can cure cancer, and we know far less about that environment than our immediate universe. Furthermore, wouldn't it make more sense to spend our time, money and brains actually looking for the cures to our problems than looking around for someone who might not even be worth finding if they even exist at all?

It's ridiculous some of the things we blow millions on trying to find these alien forms that we have no reason to think exist (other than the occasional hoax or nut-job that says they saw an alien.) Take for example SETI. Their whole thing is sending out a message into space. Since the electromagnetic spectrum is far too large to send out this message on every frequency someone out there might pick up, SETI just sends out the message at 1420 MHz - 1660 MHz (mostly just at 1420 MHz, really.) The EMS goes from 0Hz to infinity EHz! That's... (twelve times infinity... carry the one...) an indefinite spectrum that our alien friends could be monitoring. Silly.

Ok, I've wasted enough breath on this. It's going to be funny when this Stan Romanek video turns out being real. I for one would welcome our new alien overlords.

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Programmable Guitar Effects Pedal

I've always thought it would be awesome to have an effects pedal that you can program yourself. Oh look, here's one!


"The OpenStompTM Coyote-1 is an open source audio effects processor built for guitar players. With the Coyote-1 users can develop custom audio effects in software (like distortion, echo, chorus etc.), mix multiple effects to build "patches", and exchange those effects and patches with the OpenStompTM community. "

OpenStomp(TM) Home

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ShareThis

You may or may not have already noticed the latest update I've made to this blog's template. As I stated earlier, I've grown so tired of the crappy articles that make Digg's front page that I decided to remove the "Digg It" widget from my blog (the one on the right of this post is just an image.)

However, I have not sworn off Social Bookmarking altogether, and I want it make it easy for you social bookmarkers out there to tell people about my blog! So, I've added a new feature, the ShareThis icon you see at the bottom of every post. From here you can not only add the article you're reading to Digg, but to Reddit, Facebook, del.icio.us, Technorati and about 20 other social bookmarking sites as well as post it to Blogger, Wordpress, Twitter, etc. or email/txt it to a friend. Enjoy and USE PROFUSELY!

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Code Execution Vulnerability Found in Firefox 3.0... Already!

It looks lie IE isn't the only one sporting major vulnerabilities these days:
"Just hours after the official release of the latest refresh of Mozilla’s flagship browser, an unnamed researcher has sold a critical code execution vulnerability that puts millions of Firefox3.0 users at risk of PC takeover attacks."

Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0 | Zero Day | ZDNet.com

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Build Your Own Vacuum Form Machine

This detailed guide complete with images, build/circuitry diagrams, and links to manufacturers explicates how to build your own "Vac-U-Form" machine. If you're not familiar with this, it's basically a device that lets you turn out a hard-shell plastic replica of about any 3D object. So you could, for example, build a prototype out of wood or foam and Vac-U-Form a plastic copy of it like the ones shown in the image to the right.

www.TK560.com: Vacuform Table IV

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Firefox 3.0: First Thoughts



The new Firefox final release is slated to be officially released today at 10am pst (1pm est.) If you are incredibly anxious, you can download it now, but it will be slated as "Firefox 3.0 RC3" not the official release. Adrian from ZDNet had a good "first thoughts" article on his favorite new features. Here's a breakdown:

  • Pretty new GUI - See screenshot above.
  • Improved password manager - Asks if you want to save the password after you successfully log in!
  • Improved download manager - Supports resumable downloads.
  • Intuitive address bar - See a screen shot here.
  • Beefed up security - Integrated phishing, virus, and porn protection!
  • Über fast - Firefox 3.0 is now the fastest browser, with one of the smallest memory footprints.

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Digg is Worthless as a News Source

The stuff you read on Digg just seems to get dumber and dumber. I swear I'm about to take it out of my feed list. For example, this front-page article's description reads:

"Despite Microsoft's efforts, the
majority of developers still aren't writing with Windows Vista in mind,
a new study by Evans Data says. Only 8% are specifically coding with
Vista in mind, while Linux is actually higher at 13% -- evidence that
Microsoft's new OS isn't catching on."

The funny thing is, a programmer almost never writes a program for one specific version of Windows, just like one hardly ever writes a program for a specific flavor of Linux. In fact, I don't think I've ever written an application geared just towards one version of Windows. The fact that this crap makes the front page of Digg goes to show that all you have to do is say something anti-Microsoft and pro-Linux - No need to substantiate anything with actual facts. As reader estvir comments:

"...but hey, it's bashing 'M$' so quick, Digg it up! Who cares about full
of rbubsh [sic] it is! Why don't you guys just submit a daily story to Digg
that says "LOL M$ HAH WINDOZ" and be done with stories like this?"


I'm taking my Digg buttons off the blog. I don't want to support stupidity. As a matter of fact, I might even start doing a "stupid Digg frontpagers" collection of articles. At the very least it would give me the opportunity to make up another word like "frontpagers".

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Monday, June 16, 2008

DIY Cheap Wireless for Your XBox 360

While we're on the subject of XBox 360's, here's a way to hack together a homemade wireless adapter for your XBox 360. This is great since the one M$ forces you to buy is about $60 overpriced.

HOW TO: Cheap Wireless For Your Xbox 360

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Repair XBox 360 3 Red Lights of Death

Everyone and their mother is trying to sell eBooks on how to repair the XBox 360 "Three Red Lights of Death" (a.k.a. "Ring of Doom") defect yourself. Of course, if your XBox 360 is still under warranty, just call up Microsoft and they'll repair or replace the thing for free. But if for whatever reason it is not under warranty, this eBook purportedly tells you how to fix this 3 Red Lights of Death problem. I'm making it available for free here because I think it's a crock to try and sell it unless you're the original author or have the author's permission to sell it. For all I know the original author of this thing never intended it to be sold (I really don't know either way - so if you are the original author and want me to take this thing down, please let me know.)



I've read the thing and from judging what I've read elsewhere and from the somewhat developed understanding I have of electronics and computers in general, it sounds like this make sense - but I don't own an XBox 360 and I have not tried this myself so I make no claim or warranty as to its effectiveness. Please, don't go opening up your XBox and fucking it all up then crying to me about how I told you this would work. As far as I know it won't, so proceed at your own risk!

If anyone out there has tried this please let us know in the comments if it works - I for one am very curious and I'm sure everyone else who happens on this page is as well.

Download the eBook. Enjoy!

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Friday, June 13, 2008

10 Audacious Ideas to Save the Planet



The folks at Popular Science bring us a list of rather absurd-sounding (but sometimes probable?) ideas scientists have come up with to help save this measly little blue sphere from impending doom.
"Making a dent in the climate crisis is going to take more than solar panels and recycled toilet paper. Scientists are finding ever more creative ways (pig pee! DIY tornadoes!) to clean up the Earth"

10 Audacious Ideas to Save the Planet | Popular Science

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Photoshopped Washington Post Photo Revealed!

The man in this photo that appears with Tiger Woods in the Washington Post is both in front of and behind Tiger at the same time!



It turns out it wasn't doctored by the Post itself, but was retrieved from Getty Images as-is and the bad Photochop wasn't noticed by the editors. Here's the image on Getty. This is a pretty hard thing to miss, also because the resolution of the man is clearly different than Tiger's. Mr. Post-man, what else did you choose to ignore?

PhotoshopDisasters: Washington Post: Unlikely

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Google and Yahoo! Partner Up

Looks like Google and Yahoo! finally sealed the deal. Here's a breakdown of some of the main aspects of the pact, from ZDNet.com:
  • The Yahoo-Google partnership is non-exclusive and Yahoo controls the user experience and where the ads run.
  • Yahoo will still use its own Panama marketplace when the monetization is comparable to what Google could provide.
  • Google and Yahoo will make their instant messaging services interoperable.
  • The agreement has a term of up to ten years: a four-year initial term and two, three-year renewals at Yahoo!’s option.
  • Either party can terminate the deal in the event of a change in control. The catch: Yahoo has to pay a termination fee if the agreement is terminated as a result of a change in control that occurs within 24 months. The termination fee is $250 million, subject to reduction by 50 percent of revenues earned by Google under the agreement. That’s basically an anti-Microsoft takeover clause.
  • And most importantly, Google will provide $250 million to $450 million in incremental cash flow. After 12 months of implementation, Yahoo expects “an $800 million annual revenue opportunity.”

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HOPE is Dead


...or at least it will be soon. The last HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) conference will be held aptly at the Hotel Penn, NYC the third weekend in July. Registration is only $75 so be sure and make this historic event if you can.

As for me, the wife and I just moved into the new place, so I can't drop the funds for the plane ticket. So it goes.

The Last HOPE - July 18-20, 2008 - Hotel Pennsylvania - New York City

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iPhone Broadcasts Live Video!

Looks like someone has finally done it! Live streaming video from an iPhone. I've dreamed about this stuff for quite some time - and I don't even have an iPhone! From the Flixwagon blog:
"We're happy to announce that our development team at the Flixwagon lab has successfully streamed the first-ever live high-quality video from unlocked iPhones to the web, using Flixwagon's alpha client."



First-Ever: iPhone Broadcasts Live Video

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New Punisher Movie Swaps Lead Actors



Punisher is arguably my favorite comic book character. This dude's nothing but balls. No magical powers. No super-human capabilities. Just pure, unadulterated, VIOLENCE!

So as you can imagine I was totally stoked when I got a shout my boy iamronburgundy that there was a trailer out for the new Punisher movie and oh boy it looks sweet!

But WTF happened to Tom Jane, the guy who played the Punisher in the previous Punisher movie? They've got this Ray Stephenson guy now (from HBO's Rome). I'll have to admit that he does have the Punisher voice down pretty well, but why must Marvel always swap out actors for it's sequels? When Edward Norton replaced Eric Bana for this years The Incredible Hulk I kept my cool since Ed is my homeboy (I have a Fight Club movie poster up next to my Punisher movie poster) but this Stephenson guy seems like a step down, not a step up.

Enough of my bitching. I'm sure we'll all enjoy the movie. Here's the trailer from IGN:

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

DIY Heat Blocking Curtains

Quite simply, just find whatever reflective material you can and hang it as a curtain.
"Summer is nearing/here, and it's getting hotter in my house. To save electricity with our super expensive A/C, I constructed reflective curtains to block sunlight from warming our house. Think auto windshield. This is super simple and kind of obvious, but it works well."

Heat blocking curtains - Instructables

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Receive an IM When an RSS Feed is Updated

From Lifehacker:
"Web service IM Feeds notifies you via instant messenger if an RSS feeds has updated—like a package tracking feed, a special friend's blog, or news site you're tracking closely."
[via]


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60 Incredible PC Mods

While researching my "How to Get and Keep Windows XP After June 30" post I ran into this site. There are some really unique mods here (most of which you've probably seen before) but still - really good stuff, kids!


60 of the Best Computer Mods | Computer Plus

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How to Get and Keep Windows XP After June 30



Did you hear XP will be buried next month? Well, according to PC world that's not exactly true.
"You may have heard that as of June 30, you're no longer able to buy the operating system or obtain support for it. But that isn't quite the case."
I found this on Digg - the land where sensationalism and mis-truth strive - of all places. If you want to help ensure XP lives on, visit saveXP.com.

PC World - How to Get and Keep Windows XP After June 30

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BestTimeMachineEver.com

From the inventor's blog:

"If you are like me, then you enjoy traveling into the future from time to time. The biggest problem that I faced is when I was away from my time machine but I needed to go to the future. In order to help facilitate my time traveling I created a web-based time machine. Now I can travel into the future from any place that has an internet connection."


BestTimeMachineEver.com

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YouTube: "We're sorry, this video is no longer available"



Do you constantly get this message? I'm willing to bet that you're either trying to watch a lot of banned YouTube content, or you're running Google Web Accelerator. I had this problem before (even with YouTube's own help videos) and found out that it was caused by Google Web Accelerator. All you have to do is get rid of Google Web Accelerator. I don't know that the thing is of much help, anyway. Mine has only saved me about 3 days of time, and I've been running it for over a year.

If you want to check to make sure it's Web Accelerator that's causing the problem with your YouTube videos, try just stopping the thing. Click on the little icon for it, and select "Stop Google Web Accelerator". (Forget about "Don't Accelerate This Website" - it won't fix it.) Then, browse around YouTube and see if the videos come in. If they don't, you're on your own!

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Superman Billboard: Metropolis, IL

Happy 70th Birthday, Superman!


"I am drawn to the glimpse of Superman history in each face. Which version did you grow up watching?"

Photo of the Day (6/11//08) - Gadling

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Hack Your Hangover

If you can remember this article before you start your drinking binge this weekend, you'll probably be much happier the next morning. It proposes that hangovers are caused by three primary things: Dehydration, "vitamin burnout", and toxins. Prepare well for these and decrease your hangover if not avoid it altogether.

How to Severely Decrease the Chances of a Hangover


If you're reading this Sunday morning, fret not! Pull yourself up off the floor and take a look at these home remedies from Howstuffworks. From eggs to bananas, it sounds like the remedies are about the same as the preventative measures. To defeat this beast that plagues us all, we must first learn to understand it!

How Hangovers Work


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"The file you are trying to open, '[filename]', is in a different format" Excel Error

On a recent project, the client asked me to allow some reports to be exported to Excel (XLS.) I've had such a request 1000 times over the years and quickly went to work rendering the grid as HTML, sending its HTML as a response and setting the Response.Header to the Excel MIME type... Simple.

Or so I thought. Turns out that Office 2007 doesn't like that much. When you open such a spreadsheet in Excel 2007 you get an error like:
"The file you are trying to open, '[filename]', is in a different format than specified by the file extension. Verify that the file is not corrupted and is from a trusted source before opening the file. Do you want to open the file now?"
(Yes | No | Help)
After searching for hours, I finally ran into this document from MS that essentially says this is a "feature" of the new Excel and no matter how much everyone hates it, they won't fix it. Here's an excerpt from that document:
"The current design does not allow you to open HTML content from a web site in Excel... So ASP pages that return HTML and set the MIME type to something like XLS to try to force the HTML to open in Excel instead of the web browser (as expected) will always get the security alert... If you use an HTML MIME type, then the web browser will open the content instead of Excel. So there is no good workaround for this case because of the lack of a special MIME type for HTML/MHTML that is Excel specific. You can add your own MIME type if you control both the web server and the client desktops that need access to it, but otherwise the best option is to use a different file format or alert your users of the warning and tell them to select Yes to the dialog." [Emphasis added]
In other words, give up because there's no good solution. Here's some bad solutions you could try, though:

  • Display a message that says something like, "If you are using Office 2007, please select "Yes" from the resulting dialog."
  • Include a registry script that the user can optionally run to change their HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Excel\Security\ExtensionHardening DWord to 0, disabling this useless prompt (more details.)
  • Only export to CSV, not Excel. Sure, it's not as pretty but it'll work.
  • Instead of using this much simpler spreadsheet generation method, instead open a template spreadsheet on the server as a data-source, write to it (using SQL), and save it with a unique file name for the user to download. Of course you'll then have to do stuff like ensuring your saved files have unique file names (perhaps using GUID) and deleting the old spreadsheets from the File System.

VSOfficeDeveloper: Known Problems, Bugs, and Fixes : Excel 2007 Extension Warning On Opening Excel Workbook from a Web Site

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ScribeFire Lets You Blog Like a Mutha!

In my recent article on DashBlog (another blogging add-on for Firefox), I asked you readers out there what software you used for publishing. Faithful reader Liz responded "I use scribefire and LOVE it!!" With a response like that, I had to check the thing out! So what is ScribeFire? Here's the description, straight from the horses puhtoot:
"ScribeFire is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser that integrates with your browser to let you easily post to your blog: you can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog."
The thing that really caught my attention was its support for uploading images. As I mentioned earlier, I hate hotlinking. What I would really like to see in a blogging tool is the ability to drag-and-drop and image from a page and (instead of the tool hotlinking the image) have it upload the image to your server and link to it from there. Although ScribeFire doesn't do this, it does allow you to select an image from your PC which it uploads to your server via FTP and links to the image via the HTTP URL. This in itself saves me a heckuvalotta time - and enabling this feature took me less than a minute to set up.

All in all, I'd say ScribeFire is a keeper. Coupled with FireShot (enuff w/ naming every Firefox plugin "FireSomething", already!) for the occasional screen shot, my blogging life (and life-blogging) is now much easier. Thanks Liz!

ScribeFire: Fire up your blogging

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What's New in Windows XP Service Pack 3?

Apparently a whole lotta' nuthin'! I finally installed it after finding a fix for the Remote Desktop bug, and searched the Interweb to find out what new toys I had just installed. Turns out it is basically just a roll-up of the patches since SP2 (which you should have already anyway) and a few minor back-end changes.


Even Microsoft says so:
"Windows® XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system. This update also includes a small number of new functionalities, which do not significantly change customers’ experience with the operating system."
I guess I should have seen that coming with Vista being Microsoft's new (sick) baby.

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Console Session and Remote Desktop Issue with SP3

If you've recently installed Service Pack 3 for Windows XP and noticed that the Remote Desktop MMC snap-in no longer continues your currently logged-in session, it's because SP3 hosed it. You can read all about it in the links below, but the fast track fix is to revert four files in your windows\system32 folder from your old SP2 install:

  1. mstsc.exe
  2. mstscax.dll
  3. mstsmhst.dll
  4. mstsmmc.dll
If you didn't backup before installing SP3... Shame on you. Now that we got that out of the way, I zipped up these files from my system before installing SP3, and you can feel free to download them here if you're feeling lucky. For all I know replacing files on your system with ones from mine could completely hose your junk, so install at your own risk and for Christ's sake BACK UP THE FILES FIRST!

Console session and Remote Desktop issue - TechNet Forums [via]

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How to Make Digital 3D Movies

The latest issue of MAKE Magazine brings us an overview of how to construct our own "stereo video camera" and 3D viewer. Now we just need 3D YouTUBE so we can all enjoy dogs humping things in 3D... Or we could just buy a dog that humps things.

Even if you don't subscribe to MAKE (which you should) you can check out the article in the free digital edition of the 'zine.

HOW TO - Make homebrew digital 3D movies

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Google Docs to Add PDF Storage

It looks like Google Docs - the web-based sharing-centric Office replacement from Google and the most sharing-centric document format around are finally going to marriage... Or at least hold hands.

We learned of this from an early announcement from the Google Operating System blog, from which we gather that Google is in the midst of implementing this new feature. You can now upload PDFs, but when you click them, you get a "Sorry, the page (or document) you have requested does not exist." error. I guess for now it's still only something to look forward to.

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Cigarettes Censorship Forced in Canadian Shops

"You can browse the latest porn magazines at Canadian shops, but tough new laws mean that cigarette packages are simply too suggestive.

Shop owners in Ontario, Quebec and a few other provinces must now hide tobacco products from their customers under rules that will cover most of Canada by year-end as the country tries to stamp out smoking by young people."


And to think people think this is logical. I guess if the "young people" can't see the ciggies behind the counter, they won't think they exist. Censorship solves everything.

Cigarettes whisked out of sight

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WARNING FOREVER!!!!


WELCOME TO OUR FIRST INSTALLMENT OF CRAZY HAPPY FUN POST!!!!!! This is the first of a new segment of posts that will bring you some of our our favorite crazy, happy and/or fun things from Japan.

Bored? Want some crazy Japanese video game fun from 2004? Go download Warning Forever.

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