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Easier Installs
Better Installs!
Now there is a little utility to help… Ninite basically groups the installs together and installs everything at once (wow, that is totally awesome) you can get a little more details on it, at this link.
Twitter: Humorous Intro
As I have mentioned in a previous post, I don’t really get the whole twitter popularity thing. Its probably just cooler than I am, or maybe an early example how new technology and innovation is going to be passing me by in my old age.
I came across this video which is a humorous introduction (PG) of what twitter is and how people use it.
Disk space cleanup
WinDirStat screenshot
While installing some software over the weekend, I noticed my computer was starting to run low on disk space. In my current setup, I have a 116 GB drive and it was showing that I had only 10 GB free. What in the world do I have on my computer that is taking up 100 GB, I asked. You would think being an IT guy, I would have an answer to that… nope. But where do I start to look? Is it several large files, or old software I have installed taking up space? Windows does not really have a good utility for reporting disk space usage. I thought about writing a script to give me a basic report, but figured I would check the Internet via download.com first. What I found was WinDirStat, its free and does exactly what I want. I was able to remove over 40 GB of stuff I dont need/use anymore… problem solved!
Five Best Screen Capture Tools
Nice writeup from the folks @Lifehacker if you like to use screenshots (or portions thereof) to spice up stuff.
Firefox 3 and Google Apps Email
Since I recently start using Firefox 3 and even more recently using Google Apps For Your Domain (GAFYD) as my primary email client, there has been one little annoyance I wanted to fix.
When coming across a mailto: link (a link you click on in a website to start a new email message) it would not bring up my proper email. There is a Gmail option in Firefox 3, but that is only for the public hosted @gmail.com addresses. I need something for GAFYD email, so I began searching.
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I don’t get twitter, tweet tweet
I have noticed a lot of stories and news about twitter recently. A few of my Facebook friends are twitter diehards. Celebrities like Ashton Kutchner, some CNN hosts, members of Congress, and even Fast Money on CNBC (one of my favorite market info shows), are all using twitter.
I try to stay up and the latest technologies, but I must admit this is one I just don’t get. Normally I would hang my head in shame if members or Congress were progressively using a technology before myself… but in this case, I have tried to figure out how to make use of it, and it just doesn’t seem to fit for me and my very unexciting lifestyle.
Maybe I will grow to appreciate it more in the future, but as of right now, I have a hard enough time coming up with content for this blog, let alone micro-blogging. Quite honestly I dont think my friends and family are terribly interested in stuff I write about once a week or so, let alone a blow by blow account of how my day is going.
I don’t know what the future will hold, but I can say for sure right now, I just don’t get twitter.
GoDaddy WordPress permalinks and a custom 404 page
Yesterday, I spent some time configuring permalinks in WordPress and setting up a custom 404 error page. The GoDaddy default 404 page is lame. I also wanted to add some JavaScript that Google provides to make some suggestions and ultimately provide a Google search of the site when the page you are looking for can not be found.
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Tech Shift
The last week or two I have been working on switching a number of our tech services. This was primarily an exercise in cost reduction, but there have been some nice functional pickups, but those have been accompanied by minor losses also.
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