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Your wife decides  to go out with her friends drinking and dancing.

You’re okay with it, because you get to watch sports all night.

You hear her stumble into bed around 4 and laugh knowing she’s going to have a monster hangover.

You wake up next morning and go outside to the family Volvo, which she used last night.

You sigh in relief because it’s all in one piece.

You  circle the car looking for dents and find none.

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Google Labs has now released the long awaited Offline viewing option for its famous Email client Gmail. So now you can sync your mail and read it offline if you wish. It does require you to install Google Gears found here. and it will only sync you newest 10,000 messages but that should be enough for most people.  Then its pretty easy to enable the offline settings. It works in Internet Explorer and Firefox, but if you set it up on Firefox the decide to switch to IE you will need to perforn the install again and vise versa.

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Here are a few site I found to help you find answers to your questions.

Yahoo Answers Community driven, Asking is a snap. Ask a question on any topic that matters to you, and other people will give you answers.

Dictionary.com/Thesaurus.com A good user manual for the English language.

HowStuffWorks A wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Communications, is the award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works.

Fixya Provides Free tech support and technical help for gadgets, electronic equipment and consumer products.

Instructables Is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others.

Lynda.com is an award-winning provider of educational materials, including Hands-On Training™ instructional books, the Online Training Library®, CD- and DVD-based video training, and events for creative designers, instructors, students, and hobbyists.

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The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool checks computers running Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 for infections by specific, prevalent malicious software—including Conflicker, Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom—and helps remove any infection found. When the detection and removal process is complete, the tool displays a report describing the outcome, including which, if any, malicious software was detected and removed.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everybody. I’m looking forward to an busy and exciting 2009. Hopefully our economy will turn the corner and everyone that has had troubles last year will see improvements in their lives.

Here at KevinsCrate I have a new blog design taking shape and hopefully it will be going live soon. The end of 2008 was a very busy time at my day job trying to get all our projects finished and it kept me from working on my blogs as much as I would have liked. So with 2009 rolling in look for a lot more activity on the blog, I have a few ideas I’m going to try and if you would like to see anything new just let me know.

Happy New Year.

Kevin.

Google is out with this years Zeitgeist for 2008 showing the most popular searched for items.

In Googles words:

In compiling the 2008 Year-End Zeitgeist, our search team studied the aggregation of billions of search queries people typed in to the Google search box. Except where noted, all of these search terms are most popular for 2008. All of the search queries we studied are anonymous — no personal information was used.

Here are the top 10 Global searchs.

1. Sarah Palin
2. Beijing 2008
3. Facebook login
4. Tuenti
5. Heath Ledger
6. Obama
7. Nasza Klasa
8. Wer Kennt Wen
9. Euro 2008
10. Jonas Brothers

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If you use a cell phone with internet access and use Google services check out this list of URL’s optimized for the iPhone, Android and Webkit based browsers. If you use a different browser on your phone check it out anyway it may still work.

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Many people have switched to web mail for the ease of access and Gmail is one of the best, but unlike desktop software like Outlook, Outlook Express or Windows Mail all your messages are now stored on Googles servers and not on your local computer. What happens if Google has a problem or deletes your account. (don’t laugh its happened) Here’a a program I found that will backup all your mail and attachments to your local computer and the backups are able to be opened in many desktop programs. The App is called Gmail Backup you can download it here.

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With the recent twist in our economy everyone is looking to save a buck, and buying a new car is not in the future for many people so we need to find a way to keep the old clunker on the road longer.  Here’s a site I found from AutoZone that can help the DIY’er in all of us. AutoZone is a national auto parts store and their web site is full of helpful tips and free repair guides. So grab that wrench and get to work and don’t forget about that broken turn signal.

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Hi everyone, Just a short note to let you all know Kevinscrate is still around. Its been a few weeks since I had a chance to update the blog because of my work schedule. We’re trying to complete all our ongoing projects before the end of the year and that means 50 to 60 hr weeks which is a good thing I guess considering the economic down turn this country is in. So far my company hasn’t been effected to bad. So stay tuned and subscribed and I’ll try to add new content as much as I can.

Thanks.
Kevin