Computer and Web Services
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The New York Times > Magazine > It’s a Flat World, After All Something I have long felt was happening has been written up in a recent NYT Magazine article and I suggest *ALL* good Americans read it. Bottom line, we are lazy and better get up! Changes in the world are going on while…
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Google Search: weather 97477 Google Weblog reports yet another feature of Google searching it to find the weather at any zipcode. In the Google Search just type ‘weather 97477’ for Springfield Oregon weather or ‘weather new paltz, new york’ for my old home town’s current and future weather. But wait! There’s more! Google News has…
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Caedes Desktop Backgrounds – Photography, Abstract, 3D – Caedes Desktop Wallpaper – Caedes.net I should just make a Wallpaper catagory here. I like to change my desktop wallpaper fairly often just to keep it fresh. This site is full of beautiful artwork from around the world. I hope you enjoy it as much as I…
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BACKGROUNDS – GNOME – art.gnome.org Been looking for Desktop Wallpaper? This is a view of over 200 graphics from the Gnome Desktop for Linux Library. Most or Gnome related but others are not and all are beautiful. This page will load all their thumbnails, a long dial-up load. 🙂
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Automobiles (Seat Belts) I was taught how to fly airplanes when I was a teen and actually soloed in a Cessna 150 before I got my drivers license. I knew the value of seat belts (bumps in the air can literally put you on the ceiling faster than you can imagine!)…
Make Firefox Faster at Forever Geek If you aren’t using firefox and you have been reading my blogs, you have learned nothing. 🙂 If you are this link from forevergeek.com has a very good suggestion on how to speed firefox’s browsing. It is for broadband (cable/DSL) connections and basically tells you haw to make Firefox…
I actually moved to using Firefox back in version .8 and I *HIGHLY* recommend it. For many reasons, security, features, speed, to name a few I find Firefox browser much better than MS Internet Explorer or it’s derivatives. (I used Netcaptor which was a fuller featured IE instead of IE before I upgraded to Firefox.)…
Update 1-21-2021: Looking over old posts I see this project was abandoned 2012. But a new “clone” has come up I have yet to test. But for those interested it is Miranda-NG Miranda Instant Messenger If you use Yahoo IM or AOL IM or MSN IM or ICQ or Jabber or just want in house…
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Can you believe it? My parents are rolling in their graves. This is what kids today get to see on their textbooks and some suggestions of what they might add over the stickers. Textbook disclaimer stickers If you don’t have time for any of the above, but are not opposed to being horrified and entertained…
PSPad – freeware editor,PHP editor, XHTML, JavaScript, ASP, Perl, C, HEX editor Once in a while I run into a real gem of a program and can’t believe it’s not better known. I’m not a programmer but I play one on the web. 🙂 As such I need to work with text files and read…
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Article: Pollution triggers bizarre behaviour in animals�| New Scientist “Hyperactive fish, stupid frogs, fearless mice and seagulls that fall over. It sounds like a weird animal circus, but this is no freak show. Animals around the world are increasingly behaving in bizarre ways, and the cause is environmental pollution.” I should list this under ‘Things…
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The Void at LBStone.com Some great videos, MP3’s and browser files of ads and plain great clips. Try ’em!