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GMail is Here!
YES! I just got an invite to GMail, Google's new email service with 1 GB of storage. I don't know how I'm ever going to use up that much space, but I guess I'll never have to delete email again. I haven't had much time to play with it yet, but I plan on telling you all about it so stay tuned. Goodbye Yahoo, hello GMail....
Why can't IE do it right?
You'll notice on my site that the category icons on the right of each post are "png" files with a transparent background. However, if you use IE, you won't notice this because microsoft are retards. They've been promising that they would get IE to render png's properly for about six years now, and have yet to do so. So if any of you are using IE then go and get Mozilla Firefox....
My Home Weather
Well, I'm sure you don't care but I just put the weather in my side bar on the right. It is showing the current weather here in my home town of Ottawa. Currently I'm just showing the tempurature but I'm thinking of including cloud cover, winds, and wind chill. What do you think? Leave me a comment....
G4TechTV Sucks
The picture below says it all. Thats what the new G4TechTV is all about, SAD :(...
Freakin Crazy Video
I found this article on kevin rose dot com and thought it was freakin crazy video; 11may04jdamwsep.mpg and 11may04jdambda.mpg (right click and choose 'save as'). And try watching in slow-motion, it'll really knock your shorts off. It looks like the entire earth moved a bit....
Selfish Money Grubbing Bastards
I was in the support forums on WordPress.org the other day and someone posted an ad for their new business. It was for cheap web hosting. This forum was put up for WORDPRESS help and here is this retard posting ads. I and many others participate on the forums and spend lots of time trying to help others and get help, and it's just selfish and greedy to post ads on a forum like that. Anyone that would SPAM like that should be taken out back and beatten for a day. Actually let's just give them a gun and a ...
New Site Design
I just completely finished my new site design tonight. I booted into windows and everything was fine on IE and Mozilla. I have also heard that it looks good on Mac too, but I have not seen it personally. I would like to here any comments you guys have about the new design. And if you find anything wrong please email me....
Leo Laporte is Back in Canada
YES, Leo Laporte will being doing a new show on G4TechTV Canada. It will be similar to Call for Help but will only show in Canada, and will start sometime later this summer. It's a beautiful day to be Canadian. Glad I am. Here is the article from Leo's Site: Call for Canada...
Fix Your Blurry Monitor or TV
I found this article on TweakHardware.com. It will walk you through adjusting the focus on that old computer monitor. It will also help you adjust the color and brightness of your monitor. ...
Links Added
I have just added a links section to the site. I will link to your site if you wish, but you must link to my site as well. I will review every request for a link to ensure spam free and valid links. I will put your logo there to if you want as long as its not a huge graphic. So lets make both our site show better on google, submit your link now. ...
Free MP3 Encoding on Media Player XP
The information in this article applies only to:
Microsoft Windows Media Player for Windows XP ...