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Archive for August, 2007

Google Earth’s Flight Simulator

Last week Google updated Google Earth to include the Sky above you and it looks like they also included a unpublished Flight Simulator, you can take off and fly around the world. You need version # 4.2.0180 you can get it here http://earth.google.com/sky/index.html
It work on Windows Mac and Linux. To get the Flight Sim working [...]

Make Your Own Custom Homepage With Pageflakes

Create a Personalized homepage with your favorite news, weather, sports, entertainment, photos, videos, music, email…and much more, all in one place! at Pageflakes in 3 easy steps.

Click Personalize now.

Put check marks in the categories you’re interested in, click next

Tell them where you live. and up pops your new home page. Then you can personalize more [...]

Top 10 Signs You’re At A Redneck Wedding

Send in by Dale08 via Email.
10. Rehearsal Dinner Held At Hooters
9. Instead Of “Friends Of The Bride Or
Friends Of The Groom?” Ushers Ask “Ford
Or Chevy?”
8. Bridesmaids: Pink Tube Tops
Bridegrooms: Travis Tritt T-Shirts
7. Phrase “I Do” Replaced By “I Heard
That”
6. Tender Rendition Of “The Wedding
Song” Performed By Pinkard & Bowden
5. When Minister Asks [...]

Virtual Desktop Manager For Win XP

This is another program in the free Microsoft PowerToys library. It allows you to run up to 4 individual desktops at once, each with different programs running, different wallpapers and easily switch between them. You can download it from Microsoft here.

After you download and install it here’s how to get it setup. Right click [...]

Create Icons To Shutdown,Logoff Or Reboot Your Computer With 1 Click

Do you want a quick way to Shutdown, Logoff or Reboot your XP computer using Icons on your desktop. Imagine only 1 click to shut it down instead of 3. Here’s how.

Google Earth Now Gives You The Universe

A recent update to Google Earth now lets you search the sky above you. Download it here.
With about a hundred million stars and two hundred million galaxies, Sky in Google Earth lets you explore the heavens like never before.

With Earth’s new Sky feature, you can:
Zoom in to distant galaxies and nebulae
View constellations and the movements [...]

Webb Alert A Daily Video Podcast

Your Daily Tech Round-up, is a video podcast hosted by Morgan Webb formally of Tech TV fame and more recently a co-host and senior segment producer of the G4 show X-Play.
Webb alert is a daily 5 minute slice of Technology news. Check out her site Here for all the ways to subscribe.
Here’s an episode to [...]

Why Married People Don’t Have Sex

By Tony Via Email.
Dear Wife,During the past year I have tried to make love to you 365 times. I have succeeded 36 times, which is an average of once every ten days. The following is a list of why I did not succeed more often:

Alt-Tab Replacement

This is another great addition to the PowerToys that Microsoft provides for Free. In case you don’t know what happens when you press Alt-Tab, It gives you a list of all your open applications that you can quickly tab thru. Give it a try. Hold down the Alt key then repeatedly press the Tab key. [...]

Stop A Forced Reboot After A Windows Update

If you’re like me and leave your computer all the time and have Windows updates set to auto download and install. I’m sure you saw this message before. “Windows recently downloaded and installed an important security update to help protect your computer. This update required an automatic restart.” Hopefully you saved any important things you [...]