How to easily save all open Word documents

So you have a whole bunch of Word documents opened at the same time and you want to Save or Close them all. Before selecting the File dropdown menu hold the Shift key down. Notice the new menu items: Close All and Save All.

Easy, huh?

Windows Live OneCare no longer in beta

Windows Live OneCare: "Help get the confidence and peace-of-mind with round-the-clock protection and maintenance—virus scanning, firewalls, tune ups, file backups, the whole nine yards. Delivered to you in a smooth, hassle-free package."

Unsupported Web browser: Of course it doesn't support Firefox if you're looking to buy - go figure, MS not supporting Firefox.

Levels of HTML knowledge

Levels of HTML knowledge: "describe a few different levels of HTML knowledge."

What level are you?

Microsoft Office Live Essentials

Microsoft Office Live: "Get the essentials for establishing and managing your business online. Create your own Web site, access e-mail, share documents, and track projects — in or out of the office from almost any Internet-connected computer."

And you wanna be my latex salesman?

If there's one show I like above all others its Seinfeld. Not only have I seen every episode about 20x each but I have seen Seinfeld live in concert twice. Here is a website offering complete scripts to every Seinfeld script, from every episode.

Link:
http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/

Gadgets for Windows Sidebar

Windows Vista Gadgets for Windows Sidebar:

AllYouCanUpload.com

Free Image Hosting at AllYouCanUpload.com: Is an online space where you can store (host) images to embed in pages elsewhere on the Internet.

Why would anyone want to make their own font?

BitfontMaker is a way to make some really horrible looking fonts - and slowly at that.

Instead, use a site that provides free fonts and I'm sure you could find one to fit any need.

Exe Library or Process Library?

Exe Library or Process Library?

Process Library wins, hands down. Process library goes well beyond just executables and the information on executables is better than the Exe Library provides.

Exe Library:
http://www.exelib.com/

Process Library:
http://www.processlibrary.com/

The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time

PCWorld.com - The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time: "These products are so bad, they belong in the high-tech hall of shame."

Amazing Storm Pictures

Images by Year of some amazing storms.

Announcing IE7+

Announcing IE7+: "announce that we will be naming the version of IE7 in Windows Vista “Internet Explorer 7+”. While all versions of IE7 are built from the same code base, there are some important differences in IE7+, most significantly the addition of Windows Vista-only features like Protected Mode, Parental Controls, and improved Network Diagnostics. These features take advantage of big changes in Windows Vista and weren’t practical to bring downlevel."

Be in the know about Windows Vista Beta 2

Download details: Windows Vista Beta 2 Product Guide: "A comprehensive feature by feature guide to the Beta release of Windows Vista. With contributions from people who actually worked on the product, this is the definitive resource to learn about Windows Vista. THe Product Guide is available as either a Microsoft Word download or the new XPS format, viewable from Windows Vista."

Windows Media Photo Specification

Windows Media Photo Specification: "Windows Media Photo is a new file format for continuous-tone still images that surpasses the limitations of existing image formats. Windows Media Photo supports a wide range of features including:"

ReferenceGuides.com

ReferenceGuides.com is located on the Yahoo! servers. Hmm. what will it become?

Those are some expensive toys

Top 10 Gadgets for the Filthy Rich

I'll take #10 or #4 if anyone is unsure what to get me for xmas.

Google Software To Be Installed On Dell PCs

Google & Dell Partner: "The Wall Street Journal reports that Dell will be installing Google software on 'millions of Dell personal computers.' That means software like Google Desktop search, the Google Toolbar, and the default search engine will be set to Google on these Dell PCs."

More crap that I have to clean off a system when I get it. I really wish computer manufactures would let you purchase a computer with nothing installed but the OS.

Microsoft Soccer Scoreboard

Microsoft Soccer Scoreboard: "Follow your favorite teams and players during the FIFA World Cup tournament with Microsoft Soccer Scoreboard. This fun program allows you to access all the latest tournament news and information with the click of a button! Live game data allow you to monitor your favorite teams progress in real-time. Want more? Check out your team’s fixture (schedule), standing, and news as they advance through the tournament. If you are a soccer fan, don’t miss a minute of the action. Download Microsoft Soccer Scoreboard today! "

Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...

LinkedIn: What's the point

Really whats the point of LinkedIn and does having a profile at LinkedIn actually help anyone? If anyone uses this site and has actually had some results I would love to hear about it.

Link:
http://www.linkedin.com/

My Profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile...

How to setup a web hosting company from the tech side

The Perfect Setup: "This is a detailed description about how to set up a SuSE 10.1 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.)."

Link:
http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_suse_10.1

Go ahead and give the new Office a try

Microsoft Office Beta Community

$2,430 != $500

SAMSUNG's Digital World - Press Release: "Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the leader in digital media technology, will release the world’s first PCs embedded with a 32-Gigabyte (GB) NAND flash-based solid state disk (SSD). This marks the first time that NAND flash has moved into a commercial mobile computing application and is a breakthrough that will pave the way for replacing hard disk drives with NAND flash-based memory disks."

And they said the Orgami devices would be in the $500 area. Yeah right. An Ultra-Mobile PC for $2,430 is just not worth it - Go get a tablet or Sony Vaio

Amazon Online Reader

Sample of the new Amazon Online Reader. Not too sure about this but will give it more time to grow on me.

Resuming Normality part II

Parents just left, some long running projects have completed, racquetball tournament weekend ended (I lost), and life is getting back to normaility. Although the visit from the parents was great and the time away from the computer was needed there's something about the comfort of a routine.

FlexGo: Introducing pay-as-you-go computing

Introducing pay-as-you-go computing: "Microsoft FlexGo makes it possible to lower the entry cost of PCs and let people pay for computers as they use them. This technology supports two models today: a pay-as-you-go model enabled by prepaid cards or a subscription model with monthly payments."

Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/flexgo/default.mspx

MeCanBe

MeCanBe approached me several months ago to review what they were going to be offering and possibly blog about it. What they are offering is a web 2.0 site where you can create a goal-list and share this with others or just keep to yourself to help you achive your goals.

At the time I wasn't all that impressed with the current state of the project and really wasn't interested in telling anyone else about it.

Well, I have seen the future of this website with some preview screenshots that was emailed to me and now I think they have finally created something that people may find useful. Not sure I would use it but some of you may.

My suggestions (without trying MeCanBe since there currently is nothing for the public to try):

• Create an FAQ as there isn't enough documention on the website and people visiting once may not ever go back
• Goals should be built on tasks and tasks should be tracked. Kinda like a group of tasks can become a goal. This could take the place of the Outlook Task List - which I use heavily
• Tasks can be emailed, SMS'd, or even pushed to Google Calendar on a reminder basis as set when the task is entered
  
• Tasks and goals can be 'tied' to other users of the site for assistance. This is what I believe the current thought process is for the website

Basically, Goals is great but tasks will appeal to a far wider audience.

Link:
http://www.mecanbe.com

Critical Word Vulnerability Uncovered

BetaNews | Critical Word Vulnerability Uncovered: "The exploit is spread as a Word document attached to an e-mail. Users who open the attachment with Word XP and Word 2003 are then infected with a trojan that contains rootkit-like features in order to hide itself from antivirus scanners."

Slow days

Things have been slow the past few days and will be for the next few days as I try and complete several projects and while my parents are visiting. Trying to juggle all this and I have a racquetball tournament this weekend. I need a vacation.

Windows Media Player 11 Beta

Windows Media Player 11 Beta: "Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP offers you unmatched choice and flexibility for your digital media. Easily manage your libraries of digital music, photos, and videos on your computer, and then sync with a variety of portable devices so you can enjoy it all wherever you want."

The new Yahoo! homepage

Yahoo!

What do you think?

I don't like it at all. Too busy.

Little balls of music

Whitney music box: "a musical realization of the motion graphics"

Sound, color, and balls, who could ask for more.

Link:
http://www.coverpop.com/whitney/index.php?var=v8

Google Notebook

Google Notebook makes web research of all kinds – from planning a vacation to researching a school paper to buying a car – easier and more efficient by enabling you to clip and gather information even while you're browsing the web.

• Clip useful information. You can add clippings of text, images and links from web pages to your Google Notebook without ever leaving your browser window.
• Organize your notes. You can create multiple notebooks, divide them into sections, and drag-and-drop your notes to stay organized.
• Get access from anywhere. You can access your Google Notebooks from any computer by using your Google Accounts login.
• Publish your notebook. You can share your Google Notebook with the world by making it public.

Link:
https://.../ServiceLogin?service=notebook

New Firefox 2.0 Features Line Up For Release

New Firefox 2.0 Features Line Up For Release: "Among the most noticeable user aspects of Firefox 2 alpha 2 is that each tab now has a close button. IE7 beta 2 has a close option on each tab as well."

Microsoft's web designer application: Expression

Download details: Microsoft Expression Web Designer CTP1: "Microsoft Expression Web Designer is a new designer-focused product that provides powerful tools you need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites the way you want them."

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Vista; Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2

Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...

Evolution of Dance

YouTube - Evolution of Dance:

CSS3 Preview

CSS3 Preview: "Many exciting new functions and features are being thought up for CSS3"

Instead of posting some of the new features I just provided a link to a blog that tells about some of the new features and shows some examples.

The question isn't what is new but when will browsers become compliant once CSS3 is a released standard.

In case you're looking for a great Quick Reference Guide for CSS2 then check out the one I threw together. What I did was print and laminate it, which gave me a very handy guide. Additional guides can be found in my Resource Center.

Top 10 Strangest Watches

Top 10 Strangest Watches: "Watches can be used for just about everything these days, from watching TV to learning Japanese, we’ve selected ten of the strangest (or coolest) for your enjoyment. Which ones are your favorites?"

Dynamic Drive re-invents itself

Dynamic Drive used to be a DHTML repository website which offered DHTML help and samples. Well, Dynamic Drive has now changed its offerings to CSS. The layout is well done, and the examples are actually pretty good. This is worth checking out.

Link:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/

Leonardo da Vinci designed that?

A collection of designs from Leonardo da Vinci. Shows 3D models so you get a better sense of the design. Damn, this guy had a lot of time on his hands.

Link:
http://www.leonardo3.net/leonardo/machines_eng.htm

Now that's magic

Very Funny Magician

Google Desktop 4

Google Desktop 4: "The newest version 4 of Google Desktop Search features “gadgets” - mini-applications that run on your desktop ala Yahoo/Konfabulator widgets.

Add a Gmail, wireless signal, todo list, calendar, weather, stocks, maps or media player gadget - they’ve escaped the Sidebar! - right to your desktop with Google Desktop 4, which has improved indexing and can also keep deleted files in its index."

Link:
http://.../google-morning-google-desktop-4-173043.php

Google Trends

Google Trends lets you see how often search terms are being entered in Google.

"With Google Trends, you can compare the world's interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they've been searched for on Google over time. Google Trends also displays how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and which geographic regions have searched for them most often."

Downloads at Microsoft as of this date

Most Popular:
#1
Windows® Defender (Beta 2)


Least Popular:
#13511
Duwamish Books Phase 3.5: Running in MTS


Newest:
5/9/2006
Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Installation Guide


Oldest:
1/16/1997
Word 97 Templates: Sales and Marketing


Who cares, right?

Videogame History 101

Classic Video Game History: "The point of this site is to cover the varied and interesting 40 year history of all those eater of dots, whether they be the pixels on the screen or the quarters in our pockets, from the invention of the very first game displayed on an oscilloscope in a nuclear laboratory to the latest megabit home console sensation"

Link:
http://www.thedoteaters.com/

AlltheWeb Livesearch Beta

AlltheWeb Livesearch Beta launches from Yahoo!. What makes it different? It makes suggestions as you type for a search term. Very similiar to Google's Suggest.

The results come from the same index as Yahoo!.

Cons:

• Not needed for copy and paste searches
• Seems like 98% of a phrase has to be typed in for it to give you your search term (unless searching for Britney Spears).
• If you type fast the suggestions can't keep up
• Just feels weird using it

Pros:

• Can offer alternate search terms as you type. Might be able to get you a more relative search phrase
• The Refine Search options could be a useful feature. Most users have no clue about the power of Google's advance searching (or any search engine for that matter) and an Ajax powered 'Refine Search' could make it easier for users (hear me Google)
  
• Looks kewl
  

Link:
http://livesearch.alltheweb.com/?ek=1

BMW Night Vision (video)

BMW Night Vision (video): "BMW has released a video of BMW 7 Series Night Vision System with FIR (infrared) camera in front air dam."

Myspace launches IM

MyspaceIM has launched. And so it gets worse.

I, for one, can't stand IM but am forced to have Trilian installed for clients.

Link:
http://.../index.cfm?fuseaction=im.download

Like MySpace would be hard to out design

AOL is going to be releasing a MySpace killer website. Not like it would take much to design a better site than MySpace. Not sure how people can stand looking at any pages on the MySpace website - looks like sites designed back in 1997.

Preview:
http://www.techcrunch.com/.../aim-pages-first-screenshots/

Video: FedEx planes avoiding a storm

This video is actually kind of cool to watch. Shows several FedEx planes avoiding a thunderstorm.

Link:
http://video.google.com/...FedEx

Learning More About Sketchup

You've probably by now heard of SketchUp and now want to learn a bit more about using it.

Link:
http://learningmoreaboutsketchup.blogspot.com/

Where's the technology?

It seems strange at some of the things I do today, as it was done in the past. With all the advances in technology then why am I still doing things the same way?

Why?

• Do I still have to fill out a deposit slip at the bank? Can't I have my debit card scanned to grab all my information and sign some sort of display. Can't they use biometrics to know I am who I am. Can't they electronically scan my check to grab the amount?
• Do I still need to wait in line at the grocery store to check out? Can't I be given a scanner that I walk around with in the store and scan things as I put them in my cart (checking out would be some sort of verification and final payment process) Can't they scan my whole cart in one swoop with RFID's? Can't they get the self-checkouts to actually work right without being so damn annoying with touch product here and place product there and don't move the bags now.
• Do I really need someone to checkout a movie at Blockbuster? Can't I perform a self-checkout with my credit / debit card?

The reason for the post is the past week the above three thing annoyed the hell out of me.

Report a Spam Result to Google

Report a Spam Result right from inside of a special location inside of Google.

Finally!

Technology is great but...

I am glad that I grew up in a time when there wasn't so much technology available to kids. Spending long days outside wandering through the neighborhood finding kids to play with and join up with the traveling pack helped develop social skills that so many kids just don't get anymore. Instant Messaging for conversations, MySpace to develop a friends list, and video games that can suck you in for hours on end is a childhood I'm glad I didn't have.

Just thinking back to some of the times I had as a kid and it made me appreciate the lack of technology that was around at that time. Hell, Pong was a great game and the Atari 2600 was simply amazing.

If you could change things would you want to be a kid in the technology age of today?

Preview of the new Google Health

Google Search's new Health results

Try to not think about penguins

Thing to do when you're bored

Try to not think about penguins
(Amusement Potential: 1-5 minutes)
This is especially hard, because by trying too much, you remember what you were trying to avoid thinking of. If you try too little, you end up thinking about penguins anyway.

Link:
http://www.urban75.org/useless/bored.html

Bill Gates wishes he wasn't richest in world

Bill Gates wishes he wasn't richest in world: "The corporate leader says he doesn't like the attention of being the world's richest man."

If he wants to send some my way I wouldn't complain.

Stellarium

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

Available for Windows, Linux or Mac.

Link:
http://stellarium.sourceforge.net/

One fast car that doesn't need gas

A car that could save the planet—fast: "Silicon Valley's big brains think they can beat Detroit and Tokyo and save the planet - all while doing 0 to 60 faster than almost anything on the road.

Engineer Ian Wright uses processors, flash memory and software to get top performance out of standard parts."

Link:
http://...business2_wrightspeed/

One very cool free PDF magazine on older games

The Older Gamers Paradise provides a large (57-page) free PDF magazine on Gaming. This is one amazing magazine for free and much props have to be given to the authors and contributors.

Good Job!

Link:
http://www.2old2play.com/...

Best of .NET Open Source/Freeware

.NET Freeware: "The best C# and VB.NET freeware & open source software"

I really didn't want to link to this in case the site goes away. I was going to regenerate the list but its Friday and I'm too lazy today.

Link:
http://www.dotnet-collective.com/...

Consolas font part II

For those who may be interested in the new Consolas font from Microsoft and see that its only available to users of Visual Studio 2005 there may be a workaround.

Microsoft has made a free version of Visual Studio 2005 available called Visual Basic Express 2005. This application may be enough to get the new font installed. Might be too much trouble for you but I really like the font and would have gone through the trouble to get it onto my system.

Consolas Font:
http://.../consolas-font-hits-homerun-with-me.html

Visual Basic Express 2005:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/

Korean Scientists Develop Female Android

Korean Scientists Develop Female Android: "she can understand others, speak, blink with her eyes and makes several facial expressions."

Pervs get in line.

Self-Heating Latte

Self-Heating Latte is Being Withdrawn from Shelves: "curious coffee drinkers got more than they bargained for when the cans began exploding, melting or not heating up the coffee enough to create the “fresh-brewed” latte the technology promised"

Ya think. I saw this a couple months back and had wanted to try it but the steep price coupled with the small amount of coffee you get just made turn around and go to Starbucks.

Link:
http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3028

Stuff being made

Watch videos of stuff being made: "Cool Stuff Being Made is the Internet's largest collection of videos of how everyday things are made that we use. A new video, free to watch, can be found here each week. "

Consolas Font hits a homerun with me

Microsoft has come up with a new font that has been designed with developers in mind. Consolas, the new font, looks great and I think will become my font of choice to develop in.

The Microsoft Consolas Font Family is a set of highly legible fonts designed for ClearType. It is intended for use in programming environments and other circumstances where a monospaced font is specified.

Then check out Cfont Pro to manage your new font and all your fonts.

(be warned that they are only allowing users of Visual Studio 2005 to use it but it may work for you - download and try it)

Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...

What were we thinking

The Best of the Worst in weird electronic devices, internet startup businesses, and just some strange products and services.

Link:
http://...mod=hpp_us_at_glance_most_pop

Did you know?

A member of the Power Users group may be able to gain administrator rights and permissions in Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, or Windows XP: "A member of the Power Users group may be able to gain additional rights and permissions on your computer, and may be able to gain complete administrative credentials. A member of the Power Users group may also be able to expose your computer to other security risks, such as running a virus or running a Trojan horse program."

The new Yahoo!

Have you seen the new Yahoo! yet?

I don't like it. Its too cluttered, too far from their original design, and just reminds me way too much of being in Yahoo! mail.

Thanx to Search Engine Watch.

ASCII Maps - Why?

ASCII Maps

New version of Firefox out today (v1.5.0.3)

A newer version Firefox has been released to which includes a Security fix for denial of service vulnerability.

Link:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Beta Engine Preview

Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Beta Engine Preview (KB917013): "Windows Desktop Search 3.0 enables fast search on your PC using indexing technology."

Samsung's 'Origami' PC Makes Debut

Samsung's 'Origami' PC Makes Debut: "Samsung on Monday announced the U.S. availability of the Q1, the company's first device to fall under the Ultra Mobile PC platform. The unit would retail for $1,099 USD"

Sphere: A new kind of blog search?

Sphere says their "advanced search algorithm helps you discover high-quality, relevant, and timely blog posts that match what you're looking for.". Did a quick comparison between Sphere and Google's Blog Search (or Blogger Search) and its not as fresh as they say. The other blog searches produce results that have been posted within hours where as Sphere is producing results from 1 to several days old.

I searched for UMPC as the test phrase.

Link:
http://www.sphere.com/

New Event Viewer in Windows Vista

What's New in Vista - Event Viewer Changes: "Event logs are often the first thing troubleshooters look at when problems arise. Microsoft recognized this and has made some major improvements to the Event Viewer in Vista. "

Office Online File Converters and Viewers for MS Office

Office Online File Converters and Viewers is a collection of utilities to help people view MS Office files (Access, Word, Excel, Outlook, Project, Visio, and Powerpoint) who may not have Office installed or have the correct version installed. Also included is a bunch of converters to convert from one version to another - also can be very helpfull when supporting older Office versions.

Link:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/...

VideoDownloader can download videos from most of the popular sites

Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion... and other 60+ video sites with VideoDownloader! And all embedded objects on a webpage (movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, etc) ! Directly !

Link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/

Blogger Buzz: Word Verification For All

Blogger Buzz: Word Verification For All: "Today we’re very happy to add an audio verification alongside every word verification in Blogger. Now almost everyone will be able to create blogs, post comments, and prove to our spam classifier that they’re not a robot."

The best CAPTCHA that I came across used very skewed and marked letters that spelled out actual words. Just making it spell an actual word, and a three strike rule, made the process very, very easy to use. This is something I wish more sites use as there are some CAPTCHA's that give you a headache trying to figure it out.

Link:
http://.../word-verification-for-all.html

Experimental RSS Feeds of Watches, Warnings, and Advisories

NOAA's National Weather Service - XML warning/watch product data feeds: "Access to NWS watches, warnings, advisories, and other similar products several different formats. Select a state or product name to view a list of active alerts in your web browser. These files are updated about every two minutes. Tropical Prediction Center/Storm Prediction center feeds are updated on an as needed basis. RSS and CAP/XML lists based on state and NWS forecast zones are provided to aid the automated dissemination of this information."

Surprised this didn't happen a long time ago.

Link:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/alerts/

Super Mario Brothers Live

Mario - Live - Google Video

Yahoo! Tech

Yahoo! + Ajax + Web 2.0 + Technology + Lack of Content = Yahoo! Tech.

I give new things one shot since I just don't have a lot of time to screw around with things. Especially when there are so many 'clones' of websites around. I searched for UMPC (Ultra-mobile PC) and came up empty handed. They should have at least something on it by now (before you say its listing products there are some products showing up even though they aren't for sale).

A quick note: The Refine Results slider is a nice touch.

Link:
http://tech.yahoo.com