Skip's Rambling

Friday, February 29, 2008

It's LEAP DAY! If you ever wonder why check out Time and Date for a full explanation. After, cruise over to check out the PARTIES at LeapYear.com. Have a great extra day this year.

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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Microsoft has a WINDOWS INSTALLER CLEANUP UTILITY available. With the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, you can remove a program's Windows Installer configuration information. You may want to remove the Windows Installer configuration information for your program if you experience installation (Setup) problems. For example, you may have to remove a program's Windows Installer configuration information if you have installation problems when you try to add (or remove) a component of your program that was not included when you first installed your program. It's free. Check it out.

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Monday, February 25, 2008

Another share of one of my MP3s. I set up a new one once a week and give you seven days to check it out. After that it will be gone and replaced by a new selection. Please don't link to this. Just click on the link and save it. Until I can make some money and buy some, if you get the message BANDWIDTH exceeded, just try again tomorrow. For this week:

Joel Plaskett
"Fashionable People"
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Joel Plaskett cleaned up at the East Cost Music Awards two weeks ago. Winning six awards including best group single for the one I'm sharing today called "Fashionable People". The album called "Ashtray Rock" is great and deserving of the awards. Check it out.

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Friday, February 22, 2008

LIQUID RESIZE will resize images free of distortion without maintaining the original geometry or aspect ratio. Re-targeting or content aware image resizing by seam carving or seam removal. A really interesting and free tool for anyone manipulating pictures. Check it out!

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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

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Monday, February 18, 2008

Grace Potter
"Ah Mary"
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Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, produced a great song called "Ah Mary". This song just keeps going round in my head. Since it was released in August of 2007, the lyrics have quite a punch. "She's the beat of my heart, She's the shot of a gun, She'll be the end of me and maybe everyone, ohhh, Mary mary mary america". Hope this one makes you think as you enjoy it too.
HAPPY PRESIDENTS DAY to all Americans.

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Friday, February 15, 2008

A recent report has suggested that there may be as many as five times more variants of malware on the Internet in 2007 (and into 2008) than there was in 2006. Panda Software is reporting more than 3,000 unique i.d. negative impact software per day. AV Test is reporting that there were 5.49 million samples of malicious software in 2007, which is way more than the figure for 2006.

A word to the people in the know. Help educate where you can. Teach people the wonders of Ad-Aware and AVG amongst other things! The FREE version of both programs are better then many the pay for vendors have. If you know anyone who needs a push give them one now! Make sure they install these programs and have kept them up to date. Safe Computing.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

PenDrive.com has some great tools to use with your USB Flash drives. One of special note is the one that makes your Pen Drive into a device to lock your PC or notebook. This is a great tool to use on computers when traveling or mobile computing. Check this one out.

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Monday, February 11, 2008

Becks
"Think I'm In Love"
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Beck produced one of the great albums of 2006. Called The Information, I still play this one many times a month. Here is one of my farovite cuts called "Think I'm In Love". Hope you enjoy it too.

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Friday, February 08, 2008

Here's a cute cartoon from last Monday's Rhymes With Orange It sure is accurate about my typing skills. How about you?

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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Disk Investigator helps you to discover all that is hidden on your computer hard disk. It can also help you to recover lost data. Display the true drive contents by bypassing the operating system and directly reading the raw drive sectors. View and search raw directories, files, clusters, and system sectors. Verify the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. Undelete previously deleted files. All for FREE! Check it out!

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Monday, February 04, 2008

The National Parcs
"Powerline"
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Here is some more Canadian content. Here's a cut from the 2007 album "Timberland" called "Powerline". Hope you enjoy it. From the CBC Radio3 website:
The National Parcs first joined forces for Freeworm’s 2001 live shows, which pioneered their fascination with grafting exotic and broken beats onto the rhythms of maple forests and canoeing. This was the year the city first got out of its seats for the trio’s infectious found-sound and found-image stage experience: their Club Soda performance at the Montreal Electronic Groove Festival won them the MIMI “Show of the Year” award. Two Freeworm albums later, they’re making the partnership official as The National Parcs. The French–English mash-up of the band’s new name suggests the range of their influences, while the parkland theme is a nod to preserving what matters.
Summer, fall and winter, the band went off the grid to collect the raw materials for the Timbervision album. Miles away from a studio or even a drum, they discovered echoes and ambience unlike anything heard in the city. The footage records the three-man crew in their natural environment, banging sticks, jumping on four-wheelers. The National Parcs’ new album is a reminder that freedom makes the kind of art you can move to. This is the message of Timbervision, shot and recorded in the wild: let everyone join the party, and let the party never stop.

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Friday, February 01, 2008

Free Music Zilla is quite good software - besides it silly name - that lets you download music from popular social music websites such as Mog, Imeem, Last.fm, Pandora, Myspace, iJigg, Radio.blog.club and many others that have not been tested yet. It offers the easiest way to download mp3 from Myspace and other social music sites. For some Friday Fun check out Free Music Zilla.

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