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So this little company called mark/space likes to kick on my pet peeve: paying for a point release of an update of their product. I paid for 4.0 version of their missing sync for palm (mainly for a way to make the mac send web pages to the palm) and they want money for 5.0. Sure, i get a 15 buck discount, whoopee. I can’t STAND companies that force me to buy their products a second time for a release that doesn’t have much improvement to begin with. its insane. You’ve gotten my money, give me updates for life. It’s just…..grrrr. I don’t want to pay for an app i’ve already bought. It’s not worth it, i already have it. Just give me the fricken app.

When i see a company do that, i just head straight for my favorite hacker site and download and crack the latest version. You moochers, you think we’re made of money? bite me. Long live Open Source!

RAWRRRRRr

Ok, i have a secret little addiction: 24, the TV show. David and them up north got me hooked with season one, so now i’m flying through the other seasons stopping as little as i can to get through the seasons.
Mind you, i don’t want to start watching it on tv, no that would NEVER work for me. I can’t have commercials or waiting weeks for the next episode; i’ll just wait till season 5 is done then find it and watch it.
If you’ve never seen it a whole season takes up 24 hours, so a season is one day. Jack Bauer, a rougue Counter Terrorist Unit personell goes out and trys to stop them crazy terrorists. That and we finally have a black president, who keeps seeming to be fought against in any possible way. I think the coolest thing is that it all takes place within one day; and none of them sleep ever, so they seem invincible. So Jack is awesome, 24 is awesome, go see it.

Ok, so for one i love remote controlling computers. It means i Don’t have to turn around to mess with the windows box. it’s happiness

And i’m looking for a good template that works with internet explorer. You may be looking at it when you go here, so far i’ve tried one and found it fails in IE, it’s sad the stuff we have to go through to in the web world to get something to work on all web browsers. it annoys me

So for now i’m not gonna try to modify other templates, i’m just gonna take stuff people have made for IE. I plan on getting my own look and feel more original, but at a later date. Like when i have time. So for now, a default template for wordpress.

Enjoy

Ever heard of Happy Tree Friends? If you haven’t , DON’T GO THERE AND NEVER EVER GO THERE.

If you have and you have downloaded itunes, i found the funniest thing in the podcast directory: Happy Tree Friends Video Downloads

automatically get it to your itunes! AAAAAHAAHAHAHAH. Oh god, this is sad

What could be funner than creating a new template in less than a day? I did this mostly in one weekend, and the biggest issue is with internet explorer not putting the posts where they should be, though my guess is those images didn’t help much. We’ll see how it goes.

New features include a dropdown menu at the top that allows you to make the background be black instead of bright white for you late night readers or just don’t like bright colors.

All-in-all, if your running the right browser, it looks great. The top logo is transparent, revealing a glowing keyboard, and on the left is a macbook pro turned sideways

I’ve got something else planned, don’t know if i’ll do it…..You’ll just have to find out

moo Some people really go outta there way to have a mac without actually buying one. This is an insane project called Flyakite OS X, and they’ve just released version 3 of their bundlement of software that makes windows look like one of the best Mac OS X clones out there. And incredible

This is INSANE. It even has the “baseball” wireless signal sign, and it works. The whole outfit is made out of multiple programs used in harmony to create the OS X experince.

The people are even crazy enough to make their site act like OS X. It boots up and everything. It’s really incredible the detail they have. I commend them on the huge effort it must’ve taken to get this up and running. Good Job!

In other news for the mac’s among us, i’m being distracted by the next thing i’m gonna talk about: tickr for flickr. Search for tags in flickr and they scroll wherever you want them till they run out. It’s amazingly awesome.

Finally, i’d like to get your opinion on something: should i make a separate blog just for my geek stuff, and try to keep this blog more generally general? I’d appreciate any feedback on that matter, the comments or email will be fine.

And how can you live without tabs?

…Apple released some cool stuff

I’m in a ranting type mood so i’m just gonna let it fly. Windows Windows Windows. Royal pain in the bud. OK listen: in order to use windows you must become a security expert. Sound fun? I’d hope not. The fact is the only reason Microsoft got a leg up was the price of the machines and advertising. XP Professional, the ONLY windows that you should get if you want to do anything, is $400 alone. That’s more than most people bought there precious machines for. The companies are getting discounts from MS for including it on the machine. It’s annoying, it’s pissing me off. And the question is “what operating system should i use?” Well thats where it becomes difficult, because in order to get a mac you have to buy new hardware and if you try linux you have to instantly become a complete tech geek to get it running well. So, by default, Windows wins out always. That’s one of the biggest things that pisses me off. I can only hope that Apple will release OS X for any intel machine, and that costs $129 and theres no pro people you get a full OS for that.
Suggestions for stuff to install on the crappiest OS alive:
— MS Antispyware: Microsoft bought one of the best antispywares out there, and were smart enough to make it free forever. Still in beta, but stable enough. You MUST have antispyware in this day in age, and one that’s actively searching
— AVG Antivirus: FREE Antivirus; if you think that your norton 2000 that you haven’t resubscribed to get the latest virus definitions is keeping you safe it’s not; this is free forever
— Firefox: The only internet browser you should use day to day; it’s less powerful than IE which is a good thing because then you don’t get those “cool mouse pointers” that are spyware. Plus firefox is way better than IE to begin with (like tabs!)
— A router: This is a physical thing you buy. Routers make you safe cause no one can see your machine (with a benefit of sharing your internet connection). Don’t think your safe with the cheaper option of a switch or hub, a router is the only thing that will help you
— Theres a new thing coming out called the D-Link SecurePort. it goes in between your internet and your router or computer and has antivirus, antispyware, pop up blocker, everything. The box is 100 bucks, the yearly fee is 80
The only reason to keep internet explorer (IE) is for Windows Update. Run Windows Update RELIGIOUSLY. These are the only ways to save your machine. Is all this really that hard compared to a couple days of reinstalling everything and hoping you backed everything up (you do back up don’t you?)

Now, the wonderful world of Apple.

Apple’s got intel inside now, and there 3x better than previous models. These things will also run windows, which means you can have one machine that runs mac and windows.

This honestly makes me very happy, i would be estatic if I could actually afford to buy one. These things FLY. It’s worth the money. And for the geeks among us its got dual cores. So by the end of the year all macs will be intel and we’ll have the next version of OS X.
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So what about MS? Where will they be? They MAY release Vista, which by the way isn’t worth the money. DON’T BUY IT. It’s worthless. It’s OS X, and sad

Optimus keyboard

my next keyboard It changes the keys for what you are using at the time. Its awesome

I wasn’t going to post anything, but listening to an audio cast and just had to say something:

10 year olds do NOT need cell phones. Yet Verizon and Cingular have ‘em. Ok, i can see the benefits of them having GPS to see where they are and the 4 buttons to restrict them to calling just parents, but really? Be serious here, at age 10 i wanted one of those little battery powered trucks you drive. Maybe it sets a sense of security, but COME ON!

In my mind, the ONLY people needing cellphones that are kids are ones that can drive. I’ve yet to own one, and even then i’ve seen them, used them, and they really aren’t that important. You won’t die if you don’t have one.

That being said, i’m a gadget freek, and want the cooler phones (RAZR black and such) hehee, thats about the only one actually

meh
nate