November
28
Category: Laughs
Sent in by Billy Ray
10. The monitor is up on blocks.
9. Outgoing faxes have tobacco stains on them.
8. The six front keys have rotted out.
7. The extra RAM slots have truck parts installed in them.
6. The numeric keypad only goes up to six.
5. The password is “Huntin”.
4. The CPU has a gun rack mount.
3. [...]
November
26
Category: Firefox, Windows Tips Crate, XP
If you are using Firefox as your browser you know automatic updates are turned on by default and sometimes when a new version comes out it breaks some of your extensions, so I normally wait to install an update until my extensions will all work with the latest version. Unless a major security issue [...]
November
25
Category: Website Crate
If your shopping online for some Christmas or Hanukah presents this year don’t forget to check if any coupon code are available before you checkout. Just about all sites will have a place at checkout where you can enter a coupon code if you have one, and that could save you a ton of [...]
November
24
Category: Program Crate, XP
Windows Vista new Hard Drive icons show a little bar under the icon showing how much disk space is left. Now Vista Drive Icon, changes the drive icons shown in Windows XP “My Computer”, to a nearly Vista drive icon, showing the drive’s free space with a smooth colored horizontal bar.
The progress bars are [...]
November
23
Category: Website Crate
ars technica has a great review of the new Movie download site ZML Its like AllOfMP3.com but for movies. Read the review here.
I tried it out and it works like advertised although the downloads were a little slow, and the files are large.
Thousands of hot movies that you dare to watch. Movies are playable [...]
November
19
Category: Site
Happy Thanksgiving to my American readers, See you 11-24-07
Kevin.
November
18
Category: Gadget Crate
Here’s a great gift for the Beer lover in the family.
The A truly portable kegerator, the Avanti MBD5L Mini Pub can be used in the home, boat, RV or camper to cool and dispense beer straight from the tap. This compact beer dispenser is designed to hold any standard 5-liter mini keg ( [...]
November
17
Category: Windows Tips Crate, XP
Fast user switching allows multiple user accounts to log on to a computer simultaneously and quickly switch between them with out restarting the computer.
Enable or Disable Fast User Switching.
Log on to the computer as an administrator.
Click Start, click Control Panel.
Click User Accounts.
Click Change the way users log on or off.
If it is not already [...]
November
16
Category: Windows Tips Crate, XP
Here are a few Windows shortcut I use to make my computing life easier.
Alt-Tab switches to a different active applicationAlt-Shift-Tab moves backward through the active applications Alt-Space opens the active window’s Control menu Ctrl-Esc opens the Start menu Ctrl-Shift-Esc opens Task Manager Windows-M minimizes all windows and gives you immediate access to the desktopWindows-Shift-M [...]
November
14
Category: Windows Tips Crate, XP
If you do a lot of work with the command line wouldn’t it be nice to customize it the way you want. change the size, the color and the fonts with ease.
First lets open the Command Processor window.
Click Start > Run.
Type CMD into the Run dialog box.
Now that the Command Processor window is open right [...]