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Archive for May, 2007

Hak.5 A Kick As_ Video Podcast

Hak.5 is a ‘home-grown’ IPTV series about computers and technology. Shows typically last 45 minutes to an hour and combine information, do-it-yourself projects and special guests, served up with wry humor and notable spoofs on technology. Cast members have also appeared on other more well known and mainstream shows such as Call For Help, Torrent [...]

Be Careful Sharing Apples DRM Free Songs With Others

ars technica has an good article on why you don’t want to share your new Apple DRM free music. The songs sold without DRM still have a user’s full name and account e-mail embedded in them, Read the rest below.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070530-apple-hides-account-info-in-drm-free-music-too.html

IrfanView A Freeware Image Viewer

IrfanView is a freeware image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio formats. It does not have extensive image creation and painting capabilities like Adobe Photoshop or GNU’s GIMP. Rather, IrfanView is designed to be a lightweight viewer/player which is noted for its speed, ease of use, [...]

Check Your Windows Vista Experience Index Score

This handy program will give your computer a performance rating based on Processor speed, Memory, Graphics for running Aero and 3D gaming and your hard disks data transfer speed. The index ranges from 1 to 5.9 Mine is 3.5 for a few year old P4 2.4GHz with 1 gig of ram, and Vista runs just [...]

Keep Your Computer From Entering Hibernation Mode.

Don’t you hate it when you walk away from your computer for a while and when you come back it seems like it shut down and you need to hit the on button to restart it. When I first started using Vista this drove me crazy. Hibernation mode is on by default in Vista, here’s [...]

Dual Booting Windows XP and Vista, An Install Guide

Are you like me itching to try out Windows Vista but not ready to take the plunge 100%?
Dual booting is an option and it’s not that hard to do, so put on your geek hat and let’s get started.
Step 1 Use or buy a second hard drive, A 40 gig drive from Newegg is [...]

Firefox Keyboard Shortcut To Restore Closed Tabs

If you ever closed a tab in Firefox only to find you made a mistake and wished you could get it back, just use this keyboard shortcut to get it back.
CTRL-Shift-T and Bam its back.

Increase The Font Size In Web Pages

You can easily change the font size in web pages by just perssing the CTRL key and using the scroll wheel on your mouse. Works in both IE7 and Firefox.

Movies Reviewed This Week, Apocalypto, Die Hard and Unbreakable

Today I added 3 new Movie reviews to the Movie Crate.
This week we look at Apocalypto, Die Hard and Undreakable.
click below to enter the Movie Crate.
http://www.kevinscrate.com/MovieCrate2/index.html

Intellicast, The Authority in Weather.

Intellicast is a great resource for all your weather forecast needs just type in your zip code to see the wealth of info available, The Watch/ Warnings section includes Thunderstorm, Tornado, Flash Flood, Flood, Winter Storm and High Wind advisories, Data is updated hourly to display valid criteria and remove expired criteria. I relied on [...]