So King Kong opens this week, actually technically at midnight tonight, and people seem to love it. Whos with me for an outing friday? Any of the gang up for a trek to some theatre to gorge on popcorn and watch Peter Jackson’s latest flick?
Kong Koming Kuickly Read Post »
A few months ago, Yahoo! aquired Konfabulator, software that creates little mini applets on your desktop. For several months, nothing happened. Then a new version arrives. It has a bunch of changes and improvements to the various widgets, along with the expected integration of various Yahoo! functionality into the calendar/mail/weather widget. All fine so far.
Yahoo! Does Konfabulator Read Post »
Wow, kudos on this page of National Geographic pics. Amazing! Update: Page has been pulled 🙁
Amazing Nature Pictures from National Geographic Read Post »
Well, microsoft released Local.live.com which is a competitor for google maps. I took a quick look and the birds eye view (of selected areas) is nice, except that the areas that are shown are very small and you can’t really scroll that far. Oh well, takes lots of time to get that low level photos
Microsoft Does Maps Read Post »
Gotta give props to my buddy Dana, who recently release Scorpion Software’s latest tool, a Firewall Dashboard system that runs under windows, and takes firewall data from either the windows firewall or anything that logs to the WELF format. He’s even had a very nice review over at TiGra Networks (though the thumbnail images are
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My $ex-boss gilgamesh has a good thought or three on an article about how offensive the movie Narnia – The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe is to non-christians, and how they will need a ‘sickbag’ handy at the religious undertones. First of all I believe that this woman, Polly Toynbee has written this article
So Microsoft has announced that a new feature in Vista will be something called the Vista Restart Manager (/. discussion). Describing what this is in the article: “If a part of an application, or the operating system itself, needs to updated, the Installer will call the Restart Manager, which looks to see if it can
Thoughts on the New Microsoft “Restart Manager” and Reboot-less Updates Read Post »
More snow last night, and this morning the street was basically a skating rink. Took me about 5 tries to get out of the driveway, just working up the speed and momentum to get up the hill from the bottom to get up to the street. This of course avoiding any of the kiddies walking
I have been having some problems with Firefox not wanting to play flash or quicktime over the last week, and with the recent release of Firefox 1.5 release, I figured I’d do a full uninstall and reinstall to make sure everything is installed properly. First thing to do is backup your profile. Hell, back it
Re-Installing Firefox without Losing Your Data Read Post »
First Snow of 2005 Originally uploaded by abailward. Last night I was told by a couple of people that we were getting snow… since my spidey senses didn’t detect incoming snow, I scoffed. However, come the evening, lo and behold a few dots of white were falling. Not more than a sprinkling, hardly enough to
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