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Archive for December, 2007

Add An Onscreen Keyboard to Win XP

Windows XP comes with a virtual onscreen keyboard that you can use in an emergency if your regular one fails, but only if you have a shortcut to it that you can click with your mouse. This has saved my bacon once already so I thought I’d pass it along. Now I’m not saying [...]

How To Remove Orphaned Entries In The Add and Remove Programs List

It happens to almost everyone, you use Add and Remove programs to uninstall a program and next time you go back the deleted program is still listed. The most likely cause is a incomplete uninstall or a badly written uninstaller. Here’s a way to get rid of that entry for good. All you need [...]

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate Available For Download

Service pack 3 is now available for download form Microsoft, get it here if you dare, is it a craps shoot, probably, I don’t think I’d install it on a production machine but that’s up to you. its about a 340 mb download. I have it installed on one of my test machines and [...]

Merry Christmas Everyone

I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas.
Kevin.

Scott Sigler’s Infected Hits Book Stores April 1st 2008

Ok listen up junkies, you listened to the Podcasts for free, so here’s a chance to pre-order the book and help out that sick twisted Sigler push more content to us. Infected will hit the bookstores on April 1st 2008. Click the link below and pre-order the book on Amazon and lets make that fucker [...]

Change The BSOD or Blue Screen Of Death To A Different Color

Everyone’s seen them before the dreaded BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) Hopefully they don’t happen too often. But did you know that you can change the background color and the text color, so if you wanted you could have RSOD (Red Screen Of Death) or a GSOD (Green Screen Of Death) or many other [...]

Hang Things with ease Using The Accu Mark Gecko Grip Level

Black & Decker’s 36-inch Accu Mark Gecko Grip Level is designed to perform any basic leveling job with ease. Now you can hang pictures, shelves, decorative items and much more with all the precision of a professional — and none of the guessing and re-guessing that damages walls with repeated drilling or nailing. The [...]

FloorPlanner.com, Create The Perfect Room

Buying a new home, rearranging your room, or moving into a new office? You can save time and have more fun if you lay out your ideas ahead of time.
Floorplanner is the easiest, quickest, and best looking way to create and share interactive floorplans. Using point-and-click, drag-and-drop tools, you can make your floor plan [...]

If Corporations Ran Christmas

An oldie but a goodie. sent in by Stan33.
If Microsoft ran Christmas…Each time you bought an ornament, you would have to buy a tree as well. You wouldn’t have to take the tree, but you still have to pay for it anyway. Ornament/95 would weigh 1500 pounds (requiring a reinforced steel countertop tree), draw [...]

Use Testdisk To Make Your Non-Booting Disks Bootable Again

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy. Get [...]