Month: June 2008

Vista pleas for Acceptance!!

Paul

I’ve heard people talking about Windows Vista and how bad it is. I’ve decided to write a post about my experiences with Vista to better show you that Vista is not as bad as people say.

“I hate the User Account Control(UAC for Short)” — I’ve hear people talking about how the UAC is so annoying, always popping up when you least expect it. It can be fixed in several ways:

  1. Disabling UAC — You can do this by clicking Start and typing in MSCONFIG and going to the tools tab. Hitting the Disable UAC click Launch button!!

  2. Tweak-UAC — This little program is supposed to change UAC to be less annoying, or if you like to disable UAC for good. This program is good for Turning on AUC, Making UAC less annoying or Disabling it!!

  3. Live with it — This one is self understanding.

  4. Buy XP before it’s too late! — Yes that is right just go out and buy as many copies of XP before it’s too late!!

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“The Aero Glass effect takes up to much of the system resources!” — I have a thought on this one. I’ve been using Aero Glass effects since I’ve had it but I’ve had to change some of the settings to better help my system handle it.

  1. Setting Aero Glass for best performance — Right click desktop, click Personalize

  3. Click  on “Open classic Appearance properties for more color options”

  5. Select one of the other propers like classic or If you want to use some of the other features of Vista put it on the Vista basic!!!

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Now with these steps you too can have a pleasurable experience with Vista.  You can always go back and change them with little effort.  I am hoping with this little blog to help people understand that “Vista is your Friend”.  Also in the news,

Vista’s big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it

So that means not a lot of programs are going to even work with Vista.  Does that seem fair, I say not!!  Shouldn’t they start worrying about Vista since XP is going off the market?  You know they seem to think XP is going to live forever!!  I think we need to start telling these people to develop for Vista so we can get more programs working with Vista.  Vista wouldn’t be so misunderstood if they’d have compatible programs for Vista.  Just some thoughts!!

3 Reason why Friendfeed is dying!!

Paul

So I been watching Friend Feed the last few days, I’ve seen Mark Trapp talking about trolling. I also seen Robert Scoble saying he finds this interesting, and I’ll quote Mark Trapps Post about it:

http://friendfeed.com/e/ffc08931-e0ab-40e9-9d21-7dfb353f5878/Are-you-a-blogger-Are-you-short-on-cash-this-week/

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First Reason — So as you can see this is what people call page trolling! They try to get people to visit there page and get a page count. I say this is a FOUL, and you need to take a time out in the booth for doing this. I don’t want to see this getting on friend feed. I hope FF comes up with a way to let you put in keywords to ignore and such that would be so nice.

Second Reason — They have to make comments about blogger and Twitter. I don’t want to hear stuff about twitter and how they can blog this stuff up all day long!! It’s like the Gilmore Gang talking about getting a Hair Cut. This really needs to change and become a better feed then it has in the past. I will get flame comments or even flame mail but it’s the truth!!

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Third and Final — Robert Scoble talked about this in his post about advertising the Gilmore gang, I guess I did that in the last reason and You can see how this will result in people see that I am actually reading this stuff, so it is going to be the death of me in the long run!! I say we can’t get sucked into these type of post or comments. We need to become a better blogger and commenter on the feed to get people to see the post!! Trust me, if you make it they will come!!!

It’s up to all of us to make Friend Feed the best it can possibly be on the Internet. Let’s make Friend Feed the next Cloud Computing!!

5 things Microsoft Vista doesn’t want you to Know!!

Paul

I’m starting off on this little epic because I’ve been using Vista for the past year and half. I have had so much fun finding these little programs for Vista. They’ve helped with making Vista a much more enjoyable platform. These programs I’ve had to search the internet for all these tips and programs.

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  1. Never Stop using MSCONFIG.EXE — This little program lets you do so many things in Vista it’s not funny. You can Enable or Disable UAC, pick the services you want to startup, or pick the startup programs. You can also use the performance monitor, or change the internet options in the Tools tab. You can speed up or slow down your start up time in vista with this little program.

  2. Shut down Auto-Defragmentation — Windows uses way to much resources with it constantly defragmenting the hard drive. This therefore slows down the startup and shut down time with Vista. This little process will greatly increase your speed. Just remember from time to time to do a manual defragmentation on your hard drive. Click Start>Click Drive>Click tools TAB>Un-Check Run on a Schedule.

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  3. Speed Up the Interface — This little article explains some of the best kept secrets about speed and making windows Do what you want it do.  Making boot up time even faster and not slowing you down.  I thought I’d just link to this article because of all the valuable tips and tricks they suggest in it.  If you have any others just put those in your comments.

  4. Enable Readyboost — using a 2 gig or higher USB interface or Card will greatly increase your startup and shutdown routines in Vista.  You will not have to wait as long for Windows vista to boot.  Extreme Tech Did a very good job talking about this so I just linked to them.

  5. Disable all non-needed programs from startup — Most of the time at startup you get all these programs that you don’t need or want.  Disabling the programs you don’t use will greatly increase your speed.  Be advised that some programs need to be run at start such as Anti-virus, Anti-Spyrware, and Firewalls and other such things like that.  Don’t advise you disabling all of them just the onces that aren’t needed or wanted.  To disable the programs run Msconfig.exe>click startup>Un-check programs that you don’t want.  Reboot and your there.

I hope you like what I posted and remember that there is much more to come in the future.  I will post more later.  Enjoy

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Hulu throws out family values!!

Paul

So here is why I say they have thrown family values out of the window. They seem to want to show clips and movies about Sex. Some talking about pregnancy and other just about how they do it. They also seem to have full movies about drugs and sex!!

National Lampoon’s

Spring Break

One of the ones I am talking about is National Lampoons which talks about the usual spring break and 18 year olds. I am guessing they are trying to get people to google the word sex and movies to get people to come to Hulu.

Totally Baked

Now about this little movie, this one is so stupid, I wouldn’t even rent it. It however has been rated “R” and talks about drugs and some sexual scenes. I also think they are doing this to get people to come to there sites. I however don’t think this is totally acceptable, they shouldn’t have to do this.


So what does that do for the reputation of Hulu? Are you comfortable with how this IPTV is showing these types of content on the internet. although you have to be REGISTERED to see these that doesn’t mean they actually prove that your 18 or older to see these movies or clips. What do you think they should do about this? Are you concerned about your children seeing this?

Can You Run it — I can!!

Paul

So you want to be able to play a game? You don’t know if your current system can play the game? Well this little website Can You Run it has the ability to show you in details of what does and what doesn’t work. It will recommend software or hardware that can be upgraded to allow you to play your game. It allows you to see where you can improve or where you Can Run it!! I’ve always have a question of what will run and what won’t. With this website, I know what will run and what won’t on my current system. If I need to upgrade, I know what needs to be upgraded and what will work. I have this site bookmarked for just that. If I have an inclination of wanting to buy a game. This is the first place I go for just that. I don’t want to buy a game a have to upgrade the whole system just to play a 40$ game. I also like to know when my system is too old for current games.
Can you Run it — I can!!