How to become a computer Power user.

Click the bellow link and preview or download the .doc file. The file is a document I wrote giving suggestions on how to be a computer Power user.
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Homemade Vista

I’ve been working a lot with my system, optimizing it, changing some settings etc. I installed Vista Start Menu and I realized that Vista Start Menu and using TrueTransparency together with a few more minor programs, you could build a Vista without the price or sacrificing functionality.

You have to stay current.

I wasn’t making any new posts or pages recently and my views were declining. I was freaking out. So after awhile of getting 2 views tops I went and made a couple updates, edited a few pages and added a few posts. My views went back up to 20+ a day. This going to show that you have to keep your posts current and keep posting.

I thought this was interesting…

I was reading The Story Of Mankind and I saw the following picture:

Eternity.png

I thought that that was kinda interesting, that’s what the author thought eternity looked like.

Wanna know what Vista is like?

If you wanna know what it’s like running Win Vista then check out these steps, but first I want to say that I love using Firefox, its fast and renders all the webpages just fine. But anyway:

Download Firefox 3 Beta 5 and run it. Make sure you don’t set it as the defualt browser!

To do this you will have to have the following: A dimdim account, another computer or a different internet browser than the one your going to do Join Meeting on at Dimdim. On that other computer or internet browser go to dimdim and login. Now host a meeting filling the box “Meeting Name” as the same as your username. Now go to dimdim.com and click Join Meeting. Put the box “Email” as your user/email and the box “Meeting Room” as your user/email address. Once you’ve get everything right then click “Join”. Now there you should see a window checking your browser, internet etc. Now it should ask you to install a Dimdim plugin. Install it. It doesn’t work right? Now you know what the people that rubn Vista feel like!

Dimdim.com

I am currently running a Dimdim webmeeting. It’s pretty cool. It looks a little klunky but overall it’s pretty cool. It doesn’t “drop calls” like Skype, I can see their screen and they can hear me but they can’t see me. I can see and hear them via their webcam though. Overall It’s pretty cool. It doesn’t take up a lot of CPU usage either so I can be doing more than one thing at a time.

I’ve noticed….

I’ve been noticing that when I got to my feeds: Linux Blogs, Microsoft Blogs and Apple Blogs, that I haven’t been seeing as many good posts as I have in the past. I don’t know why but that’s just how it is I guess. There’s a lot of hype about Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, Ubuntu in general and Win XP SP3. That’s really not ground braking stuff. The only way people will keep comming back to your website is if you 1. Have something unique, 2. You are a really interesting blogger 3. You are keeping all your posts up-to-date and keeping them on subject. Basically the same thing as reason 2. I really don’t have anything totally awesome or unique, yet I have gotten 300 views and counting, all unique! Now why? Why am I getting this many? If I’ve get nothing totally awesome and/or ground breaking then why am I getting so many views? The answer is: I don’t know. You do.

WordPress isn’t the only contender anymore.

I made a website at Freewebs.com for my discussiong group Technology Discussion. I expected the boring, limited feature, Freewebs I used to use. I was totally shocked. Freewebs doesn’t have all the features that WordPress has and it puts ads on your page but it’s really impriving, Fast.

Firefox is stable.

Despite Firefox 2 (and 3 beta 5) not passing the Acid 3 tests (Firefox 3 beta 5 passed the 1st and 2nd acid tests, not Firefox 2) I finally got it stable. If you’ve been reading my page IE7 V.S Mozilla Firefox you would know that I was having problems with Firefox. The problems were that I couldn’t check my email, or log into any Yahoo! service, without Firefox crashing. You would also know, if you have been reading my page IE7 V.S Mozilla Firefox, that I downloaded SpywareBlaster yesterday and it blocked the add-on that was crashing Firefox whenever I checked my email. So thanks to SpywareBlaster Firefox is now stable for me. Before I had SpywareBlaster I blogged and read websites in Firefox and then went to IE7 to check my email. That was not fun. So I’m very happy that Firefox is stable for me.

I’m about to kill Firefox.

I had this huge post on a PC Magazine forum and Firefox crashed losing all me work I just typed up! I’m just about ready to go back to IE7. When IE8 comes out I think I’m moving back.

They’re ending support for XP! So what?

So what if Microsoft’s ending support for Windows XP soon, there are probably about 1,000,000,000+ websites that have tips and tricks and support for XP on the net. Nice try Microsoft.

The only reason Microsoft’s getting rid of XP is because they’re hoping that it will force Vista down the throats of the econonmy.

Free Music!

I finally figured out how to get free music. Just follow the following instructions and you’ll never have to buy music again.
First visit This website and follow the instructions.
Second, go to This website and follow the instructions.
I’ve been having problems if I save them as ,mp3 but if I save them as .wav and as
MPEG Layer-3 56 kBit/s, 24,000 instead of PCM then it works fine. Just a tip of your having problems too.

Now that’s it.

Enjoy never paying for music again.

The genesis.log from God’s Unix System

This is pretty funny, enjoy!

#In the beginning was the computer. And God said
:Let there be light!
#You have not signed on
:God.
#Enter user password.
:Omniscient.
#Password Incorrect. Try again!
:Omnipotent.
#Password Incorrect. Try again!
:Technocrat.
#And God signed on 12:01 a.m., Sunday, March 1.
:Let there be light!
#Unrecognizable command. Try again!
:Create light.
#Done.
:Run heaven and earth.
#And God created Day and Night. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God signed off at 12:02 a.m., Sunday, March 1.
#And God signed on at 12:00 a.m., Monday, March 2.
:Let there be firmament in the midst of the water and
#Unrecognizable command! Try again!
:Create firmament.
#Done.
:Run firmament.
#And God divided the waters. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God signed off at 12:01 a.m., Monday, March 2.
#And God signed on at 12:00 a.m., Tuesday, March 3.
:Let the waters under heaven be gathered together unto one place and let the dry land appear and
#Too many characters in string specification! Try again.
:Create dryland.
#Done!
:Run dryland.
#And God created Earth and Seas. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God signed off at 12:01 a.m., Tuesday, March 3.
#And God signed on at 12:00 a.m., Wednesday, March 4.
:Create lights in the firmament to divide the day from the night.
#Unspecified type. Try again!
:Create sunmoonstars.
#And God created Sun, Moon, Stars. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God signed off at 12:01 a.m., Wednesday, March 4.
#And God signed on at 12:00 a.m., Thursday, March 5.
:Create fish.
#Done.
:Create fowl.
#Done.
:Run fish’nfowl.
#And God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that creepeth wherewith the waters swarmed after its kind and every winged fowl after its kind.
0 errors.
#And God signed off at 12:01 a.m., Thursday, March 5.
#And God signed on at 12:00 a.m., Friday, March 6.
:Create cattle.
#Done.
:Create creepy things.
#Done.
:Now let us make man in our image.
#Unspecified type! Try again.
:Create man.
#Done.
:Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over of the fowl of the air and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth.
#Too many command operands! Try again.
:Run multiplication.
#Execution terminated. 6 errors.
:Insert breath.
#O.K.
:Run multiplication.
#Execution terminated. 5 errors.
:Move man to Garden of Eden.
#File Garden of Eden does not exist.
:Create Gard.En.
#Done.
:Move man to Gard.En.
#O.K.
:Run multiplication.
#Execution terminated. 4 errors.
:Copy woman from man.
#O.K.
:Run multiplication.
#Execution terminated. 3 errors.
:Insert woman into man.
#Illegal parameters. Try again!
:Insert man into woman.
#O.K.
:Run multiplication.
#Execution terminated. 2 errors.
:Create desire.
#Done.
:Run multiplication.
#And God saw man’nwoman being fruitful and multiplying in the Gard.En.
#Warning: No time limit on this run. 1 errors.
:Create freewill.
#Done.
:Run freewill.
#And God saw man’nwoman being fruitful and multiplying in the Gard.En.
#Warning: No time limit on this run. 1 errors.
:Undo desire.
#Desire cannot be undone once freewill is created.
:Destroy freewill.
#Freewill is an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
#Enter replacement, cancel, or ask for help.
:Help!
#Desire cannot be undone once freewill is created.
#Freewill is an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
#Enter replacement, cancel, or ask for help.
:Create Treeofknowledge.
#And God saw man’nwoman being fruitful and multiplying in the Gard.En.
#Warning: No time limit on this run. 1 errors.
:Create good’nevil.
#Done.
:Activate evil.
#And God saw he had created shame.
#Warning: System error in sector E95. Man’nwoman not in Gard.En.
#1 errors.
:Scan Gard.En. for man’nwoman.
#Man’nwoman cannot be located. Try again!
:Search Gard.En. for man’nwoman.
#Search failed.
:Delete shame.
#Shame cannot be deleted once evil has been activated.
:Destroy freewill.
#Freewill an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
:Stop!
#Unrecognizable command. Try again.
:Break
:Break
:Break
#ATTENTION ALL USERS: SERVER GOING DOWN IN 5 MINS FOR REGULAR
DAY OF MAINTENANCE AND REST. PLEASE SIGN OFF NOW.
:Create new world.
#You have exceeded your allotted file space. You must destroy old files
before new ones can be created.
:Destroy earth.
#Destroy earth. Please confirm.
#SERVER SHUTTING DOWN. SERVICES WILL RESUME ON SUNDAY MARCH 8
AT 6:00 A.M. YOU MUST SIGN OFF NOW!
#And God signed off at 11:59 p.m., Friday, March 6.

Bye Firefox, happy crashing!

I’m getting tired of Firefox crashing, it’s gotten to the point where I can’t check my email because when I log out Firefox crashes, and I can’t go to zinio.com and read a magazine because Firefox will crash as soon as I get to zinio.com. Now I’m juggling between Firefox and IE7 and it’s not fun. Hopefully this problem will be fixed in Firefox 3.

They’re trying to get rid of XP!

Microsoft is set to discontinue XP on June 30, 2008, follow this link below and complete this petition. Hopefully, if enough people complete this petition, Microsoft will decide not to discontinue XP due to the fact that so many people like it.
Please complete this petition. We’ve only got a little longer!

If Microsoft does discontinue Windows XP then you’ll still be able to get it on most sites, including here if they do discontinue it, I’m going to put it up for download.

Okay Firefox, shape up or ship out.

Firefox is crashing at Zinio.com and Yahoo.com. When I’m on IE, like I am now, IE doesn’t crash, but no, Firefox does, the alleged, “Superior” browser.

Yahoo’ gone wrong.

Firefox has been crashing every time I log out of my email and I couldn’t figure out why. The reason was the Yahoo! homepage. Whenever I visit it  Firefox crashes. That’s odd.

I need a new name

I need a new name for my website, any ideas?

Free Adobe Photoshop.

There’s a website in the Beta version by Adobe where you can sign up and then use the Adobe Photoshop programs free. The website is called Adobe Photoshop Express Beta. It’s pretty cool.

Diddim.

I recently checked out Dimdim.com and it’s pretty cool. It’s like Skype and Remote Assistance combined. I plan to try it out at Lego in a couple days.

A New Computer in the house.

Today my mom got a new INSPIRON 1520 Dell Laptop. It looks nice and I’d like to say it ran very fast but I can’t. I was installing my basic software choices, CCleaner, AdAware and Firefox and it wasn’t noticeably fast. This might be because I was downloading them from IE(6). The boot up wasn’t extremely fast either. Well not noticeably faster than my INSPIRON 9300. Oh well. At least it’s new.

Oh my gosh. To many options.

I decided earlier today that I would make an HTML website. This sounds stupid but it really wasn’t. I had the makings of a page already, a template, CSS file, and I knew enough HTML to get me by. I want most of the features that are here at WordPress with more control over the look of my page. I realize that I can do that with the Edit CSS feature but it costs about $15 U.S dolors. That’s way to much for just that. But anyway. I was looking for a way to have a form on my website where people could email me about my site. The normal (<form method=”post” action=”mailto:emailaddress@wherever.com”etc) did not work for me. I then did a Google search for HTML form creators (which would hopefully work, i figured if someone else made it then maybe it would work) and I found a couple good results. The problem. One result was WuFoo WuFoo sounded great but it 1. sends all the comments to the WuFoo website and I can only create three forms before I can’t make any more. I got other results like htmlbasix.com and others but I finally figures it just wasn’t worth it. I’m not giving up, ho no, but it’s just this. I have a great website that is getting lots of views a day. If I were to change websites then I would be totally throwing away all this work and starting over again. The other reason was this. I now have 30+ posts on my home page. If I were to move my site then I would have to go into 30 individual posts and copy and past them. Not a good idea. I have tried moving my website to places like Google Page Creator, Microsoft Small Business and I have tried doing a HTML website before. None have worked.

Posting on the right website is great.

I posted a comment on Wade’s Geekport and I’ve had tons of visitors click on my comment I posted on Geekport to get to my website. This just goes to show that if you post on the right websites you’ll get the visitors streaming in.

Just a tip for some of you who want to start getting posts, if you can, put your blog stats (hits) on the sidebar and if you get a lot of visitors then people will be more likely to post.

Ooh, your on the bleeding edge, so what?

There’s a whole bunch of new things coming out all the time. There’s new software, hardware such as, faster hard drives, better graphic cards and the oh so cool new headset the really hasn’t changed any from your last one. As for software, there’s new security programs coming out all the time, such as IE8 Beta, Firefox 3 beta 2 and a host of other programs. Then on top of that, after you’ve downloaded the new version of Firefox, Firefox 3 Beta 2, you figure out that it wont work for all the things you want it to! and the same for hardware, you buy a new flash drive and then, lo and behold, the next time you go to the store it’s marked at half the price it was when you bought it! my point being, there’s no point in being on the bleeding edge of technology, sure it’s fun going up to your friend and saying, “oh, check out my sweet iPhone” or “IE8 works so much better than IE7, I can’t believe your using IE7 still” that’s all great but not everyone needs to have the newest. If something works for you and doesn’t compromise your productivity keep it. With the exception of security software. Always want to be on the bleeding edge there.

Where did you come from again?

I’m having visits to my site, that is, people clicking on links to my blog to get to my blog from places like Microsoft Technet, PC Utilities, PC Magazine and PC Advisor. I have commented on PCMag.com and PCadvisor.co.uk but Microsoft Technet? PC Utilities? You can’t comment on those websites. So, how are they directing traffic to my website?

Getting the word out.

How to get the word out about your site. Well you can do a few things, you can go around and post INTELLIGENT comments on other peoples website showing that you know what your talking about, you can put your website on a site like craigslist.org, you can email other people about your site (though that’s not very effective), and adding your site to Google doesn’t help, I did awhile ago with perfect keywords and I haven’t got one person from a Google search come to my website. This is all fine and dandy but the best way to get more traffic is to 1. Post on other peoples websites, 2. wait. Eventually the word will spread and little by little you’ll get more and more visitors.

Remote Assistance vs Remote Desktop?

Remote Desktop let’s you connect to a computer and have total control over that computer as long as you have the computer’s password. Remote Assistance is where you can get control of a computer but someone has to be on both ends, whereas in Remote Desktop your the only one that needs to be a t a computer. Also in Remote Assistance, along with someone having to let you see said computer someone also has to let you have control, not with Remote Desktop. Remote Desktop is a good option but you “can’t” get it in XP home, or at least that’s what most think. That’s not true though. You can download third-party widgets that will let you use Remote Desktop via Yahoo! widgets or you can go to this website. This website will tell you how to make XP Home think it’s XP Pro. This is pretty complicated though. I wouldn’t recommend it, just download something with a good review from Yahoo! Widgets.

Bravenet-Ugh

I got an account at Bravenet.com and I thought it was great. At Bravenet.com you get a TON of features, almost any widget you could want! there’s only one problem. Their website hosting is horrible! you get this tiny page with ads on the top that stand out like a sore thumb. Lame lame lame! Great widgets but that’s it. And the only place the Widgets work is probably on the lame Bravenet site!

A great website.

There’s a great website if your looking for fighter planes called Fighter Planes Great info and pictures also.

Upgrade your system.

Crucial.com is a great place to find out what your system is using hardware wise, decide what to upgrade and in general, learn more about your system. Cpuid.com is another great website that will do just about the same thing.

A computer needs sleep to.

A computer needs sleep to. Recently I wasn’t turning off my PC and it was getting really slow. I was getting pretty mad because I had been running CCleaner, AdAware and a virus scan about daily and I couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Then I actually turned the computer off and it was like it was brand new (compared to what it was like)! I couldn’t believe it! since then I usually turn it off for the night as much as I can. And another thing. You can’t leave a program running. I, okay, my mom, left Firefox open and it gradually took up more and more CPU usage as it was left on there longer, kinda like a person after him/her has been working for awhile. I knew that it kept taking up more and more because when you open Firefox it takes up about, oh, 5 to 10% tops and when I opened Windows Task Manager later on it was taking up about 50-70%! and all it was doing was sitting with Firefox open to a Amazon shopping cart. And running programs like TrueTransparency will drain my resources too. As I got to shit down the computer it takes awhile to open the window with the option with TrueTransparency. And if you’re running Microsoft Office 2007, don’t get me started! it takes up a pretty good amount of CPU usage! and that’s because, just like all of Microsoft’ new software, it’s looks go hand-in-had with Vista. And what happened what’s happening to Vista? IT’S FLUNKING!

Handwriting.

Handwriting, like giving change, is probably becoming a lost art. There was an article some time age called The multitasking generation. This article was a great article, along with Turn it off kids! to bring people to a relization about how much we, (kids and adults) rely on technology. Just about a week ago I went into a gas station to buy some water. I got it and went up the the counter. The attendant then proceeded to attempt to count my coins that I had brought. He had a very hard time, resulting in just taking what I told him was the price and then me leaving, with a smile and a laugh later on. Later my Dad said that people used to be able to count change ! like that. Not anymore. That’s just like handwriting. In another article called Don’t fear the digital by STEVEN JOHNSON, he said “A penmanship expert would look at that sorry trend and say, “What a disaster! The adoption of the personal computer has led to a marked deterioration of an important communication skill.” But that assessment would be meaningless without factoring in all the benefits I’ve enjoyed from switching to the keyboard. Not only can I put words together at 10 times the speed of using pen and paper, but I can also transfer those words to the digital realm, where they can be edited, spell-checked, e-mailed, quoted, blogged and Googled.” this is probably true with most people today. If you can either painstakingly write so that other people can read it or speedily type and spell check your words all at once, which would you choose? now if I had the Fly pentop computer then that would bedifferent. Then I wouldn’t need to be at my computer to record my thoughts for a blog, I could write them down then later sending them to my PC. Ahh, technology, it’s two sided. Great and bad at the same time.

Why write a Blog.

The only reason to write a blog is to 1. keep track of some of your thoughts on the subject of your blog 2. to share your life with other people 3. to share your thoughts with other people. Thats why I write this.