Saturday, March 29th, 2008 Earth Hour is promoting everyone to turn their lights out for one hour between 8 and 9pm their local time. Google will be turning their homepage black for that hour as a symbolic gesture. Modern displays use no more power displaying white than they do black, but it’s a gesture.
Mar, 29 2008
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how to decline a job offer
March 28th, 2008 Posted in tips
Mar, 28 2008
I once applied for and was offered a job that I really was interested in and it seemed like it would be a welcome change of pace. Several factors lead me to politely decline the offer. What do you do in this situation? How do you handle it? It depends on the situation. Here’s what I did. Read the rest of this entry »
make Windows XP look like Vista
March 28th, 2008 Posted in software
Mar, 28 2008
As I’ve explained before, I’m not on the Vista bandwagon and will only get there when someone extricates XP from my lifeless fingers. The only feature I can actually appreciate from Vista isn’t a functional one, it’s the appearance and the graphical interface changes. Shiny isn’t enough to make me switch operating systems, but it is enough to make me look into changing the way Windows XP looks. There are a few add-ons that can make Windows XP look more like Vista but still keep the speed of your system up to par. Read the rest of this entry »
Mar, 27 2008
The skill of using the registry editor is a must for any computer tech or admin anymore. When a piece of software, or even your Windows OS needs to be tweaked, the registry is the place to turn. Unfortunately, the Windows registry is easy to get lost in, due to keys, entries, and values that resemble each other closely.
One of the neatest tricks with regedit, is to be able to get back to the value you last edited so you can either change it again or reset it to its default value. Fortunately, regedit makes it easy to do this with an often overlooked feature. It stares you square in the face when you run the registry editor, but most don’t notice it. Read the rest of this entry »
Mar, 27 2008
The public beta of Photoshop Express is available free online. That’s right, a free version of Photoshop as a web application. You can change brightness, compensate for red-eye, distort, and more! Organize your images into galleries, suck photos in from other online services like Facebook, Photobucket, and Picasa. You get 2GB of storage for your photos as well.
Check it out at Photoshop Express
I bought a Kodak Z712IS digital camera for shooting pictures to complete some web development work and got tired of feeding AA alkaline batteries to my camera. That model camera does drain batteries pretty well, but that will come later in my camera review. Anyway, the camera had shipped with a CRV3 lion (lithium ion) battery that lasted for a couple months. Not having purchased a CRV3 battery before, I was suprised at the expense. Read the rest of this entry »
easily find new versions of your freeware
March 26th, 2008 Posted in software
Mar, 26 2008
When you use a lot of different freeware titles, it’s easy to fall behind concerning newer versions that are released. Often new versions are released weekly or monthly for popular titles, and some of the updates are due to security holes that have been found by users or the developers. Read the rest of this entry »