Archive for May, 2008
Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Free Wallpaper Image Of The Day – Mika Hakkinen
Free 1900 x 1200 pixel widescreen wallpaper of Mika Hakkinen. Click image to view full size [284KB 1920×1200].
You can also click HERE to view full list of free wallpapers for download.
No Comments » - Posted in wallpaper by brett
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Slipstream Service Pack 3 into Windows XP
This tutorial explains how to slipstream service pack 3 into a windows installation CD, including screen shots of each step. You can use programs like nLite and Autostreamer to do it for you, but if you’re like me you find it much more satisfying to get your hands dirty and do it yourself. Some might [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in software, tutorial, windows by brett
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
How to View .htaccess with Filezilla
This tutorial explains how to view hidden files like .htaccess with the free open source FTP client FileZilla. These instructions are for version 2 and version 3 of the software.
Filezilla Version 2
To view hidden files in FileZilla 2 you need to digg into the settings. Select “Edit -> Settings -> Interface settings -> Remote file [...]
20 Comments » - Posted in software, tutorial, windows by brett
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Free Wallpaper Image Of The Day – Space Shuttle Atlantis
Free 1900 x 1200 pixel widescreen wallpaper of Space Shuttle Atlantis. Click image to view full size [268KB 1920×1200].
You can also click HERE to view full list of free wallpapers for download.
No Comments » - Posted in wallpaper by brett
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
How To Create Shutdown and Restart Buttons on your desktop
Want to be able to click a button on your desktop to shutdown your computer instead of having to click “Start -> Turn Off Computer -> Turn Off” every single time? All you have to do is create a shortcut on your desktop that points to shutdown.exe with the right switches. When you have finished [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in tutorial, windows by brett
Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Free Wallpaper Image Of The Day – Central Park New York
Free 1900 x 1200 pixel widescreen wallpaper of bridge in Central Park New York, view from bridle path looking southwest. Click image to view full size [708KB 1920×1200]
You can also click HERE to view full list of free wallpapers for download.
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6 Comments » - Posted in wallpaper by brett
Friday, May 16th, 2008
Jesus Christ Struck By Lightning
The worlds largest statue statue of Jesus, Christ the Redeemer was struck by lightning. This is according to the Daily Mail among others with at least one suggesting it might be a hoax. There seems to be only one image floating around the Internet and it’s low quality so the chances of it being a hoax are real, although the statue is likely to be the highest point for miles around so it probably gets struck by lightning quite frequently.
Some interesting facts about the statue: it sits on top of Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is 39.6 metres tall, weighs 700 tons, took nine years to build and was completed on October 12, 1931. That’s one hell of a statue (pun intended).
3 Comments » - Posted in news, religion by brett
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Free Wallpaper Image Of The Day – Young Lion
Free 1900 x 1200 pixel widescreen wallpaper of a young lion. Click image to view full size [524KB 1920×1200].
You can also click HERE to view full list of free wallpapers for download.
No Comments » - Posted in wallpaper by brett
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Customize Windows Explorer With Switches
Want to be able to open Windows Explorer and have it automatically open a certain folder instead of having to drill down through the folders? It’s easy to do with switches that can be used with windows explorer.
Explorer switches:
/n -opens a new explorer window
/e -opens in explorer view
/root, -selects root folder in left pane
/select, [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in tutorial, windows by brett
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Free Wallpaper Image Of The Day – Bavenhausen Germany
Free 1900 x 1200 pixel widescreen wallpaper of Bavenhausen Germany. Click image to view full size [776KB 1920×1200].
You can also click HERE to view full list of free wallpapers for download.
3 Comments » - Posted in wallpaper by brett
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
What does %SystemRoot% mean?
%SystemRoot% is a system wide variable which refers to the path and folder name where system files are located. Typically this is C:\Windows, although you can designate a different drive or folder when windows is installed. you can use %SystemRoot% in place of the actual location of the folder that contains the windows system files.
For [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in registry, tutorial, windows by brett
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
A Plane On A Conveyor Belt
I came across this interesting if nerdy physics thought experiment…
A plane is standing on a runway that can move (some sort of band conveyer). The plane moves in one direction, while the conveyer moves in the opposite direction. This conveyer has a control system that tracks the plane speed and tunes the speed of the [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in offbeat, opinion, science by brett
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Free Wallpaper Of The Day – Freudenberg Switzerland near St Gallen
Free 1900 x 1200 pixel widescreen wallpaper of Freudenberg Switzerland near St Gallen. Click image to view full size [1.3MB 1920×1200].
You can also click HERE to view full list of free wallpapers for download.
1 Comment » - Posted in wallpaper by brett
Monday, May 12th, 2008
Facebook CEO and Co-Founder Announces Departure
Numerous sites are reporting that Facebook Chief Technology Officer Adam D’Angelo is leaving Facebook. Yesterday I speculated about the actual reasons behind the announcement to discontinue Network Pages and less than 24 hours later comes the news of the departure of the co-founder and CTO. According to All Things Digital the loss of their CTO [...]
No Comments » - Posted in facebook, internet, news by brett
Monday, May 12th, 2008
Free Wallpaper Image Of The Day – Cathedral De Segovia
Free 1900 x 1200 pixel widescreen wallpaper of Cathedral De Segovia. Click image to view full size [456KB 1920×1200].
You can also click HERE to view full list of free wallpapers for download.
No Comments » - Posted in wallpaper by brett
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Facebook Network Pages will be discontinued soon
Facebook networks are great way to connect with people in your city, country, area, or topic of interest, and C|net is reporting that Facebook will be discontinuing network pages soon. I have confirmed that this is indeed true as the following message now appears on my facebook account…
Network Pages will be discontinued soon
Facebook will soon [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in facebook, humor, internet, news, video by brett
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Free Wallpaper Image Of The Day – The Great Alpine Road
Free 1900 x 1200 pixel widescreen wallpaper of The Great Alpine Road Australia. Click image to view full size [556KB 1920×1200].
You can also click HERE to view full list of free wallpapers for download.
No Comments » - Posted in wallpaper by brett
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Doh! The Technorati Monster escaped again
I added this site to Technorati.com barely a week ago and things were going great at first but in the last couple of hours I have been getting constant errors. When I visit Technorati I get the following friendly message:
Doh! The Technorati Monster escaped again. We’re scouring the blogosphere attempting to find it. Back in [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in internet, news, opinion by brett
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Free Wallpaper Image Of The Day – F18 Taking Off
Free 1900 x 1200 pixel widescreen wallpaper of F18 taking off. Click image to view full size [180KB 1920×1200].
You can also click HERE to view full list of free wallpapers for download.
No Comments » - Posted in wallpaper by brett
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
How to Defeat a Hardware or Software Keylogger
A keylogger records keystrokes which is an obvious security threat to sensitive information like your banking password. Some Keyloggers can be very hard to detect as they dont appear as a process and aren’t detected by anti-virus software. Keyloggers work by recording every single keystroke that is entered via keyboard, so a person with access [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in internet, software, tutorial, windows by brett
Friday, May 9th, 2008
Free Wallpaper Image Of The Day – Sunset Portugal
Free 1900 x 1200 pixel widescreen wallpaper of Sunset Portugal. Click image to view full size [236KB 1920×1200].
You can also click HERE to view full list of free wallpapers for download.
No Comments » - Posted in wallpaper by brett
Friday, May 9th, 2008
How to change your Windows XP product key without reinstalling
This tutorial explains how to change your windows xp product key / xp serial / xp license without using software or reinstalling. To do this you need to edit the registry to deactivate windows, then run msoobe.exe to enter your new product key.
You can download software to help you do this, but that’s for girls. [...]
27 Comments » - Posted in registry, software, tutorial, windows by brett
Friday, May 9th, 2008
Free Wallpaper Image Of The Day – Kestrel Falcon
Free 1900 x 1200 pixel widescreen wallpaper of a Kestrel Falcon. Click image to view full size [352KB 1920×1200].
You can also click HERE to view full list of free wallpapers for download.
No Comments » - Posted in wallpaper by brett
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Is Firefox 1.5 better than Firefox 2?
I know this sounds bizzare so hear me out before you get your knickers in a knot. I wanted to add a link to the blog from the main page at www.intreipd.com.au, so I changed the name of an existing flash button and gave it an appropriate name. When I uploaded the new page and [...]
No Comments » - Posted in opinion, software by brett
Monday, May 5th, 2008
MacGyver movie rumor
Gizmodo are reporting that the creator of the Macgyver series Lee David Zlotoff has announced a MacGyver movie is in the works. They say he announced it at “Maker Fair 2008″ but there isn’t anything on makerfaire.com about it. This is one rumor I hope is true.
UPDATE: Unfortunately it seems that this rumor was incorrect [...]
