Flock – Browser

// May 31st, 2008 // No Comments » // Browsers, Freeware, Social Network, Useful, Windows, web tools

Anyway’s..I downloaded Flock and it’s pretty cool. It has a side bar deal you can pull up that allows you to log into all your accounts like digg, tweeter, WordPress, Live journal, Gmail, Facebook, Flicker, Yahoo, etc..etc…

You can post to your Live journal from the Flock Browser..or your WordPress or any of them really…I was on youtube checking out a video and little pop up came over the video I clicked blog and it let me post it to my live journal. *spiffy*

It’s worth a look see. I’m not saying hey change your browser this is the new it.

I’m just saying you really should check it out.

I needed a IE browser engine that was anything but IE and so I found and downloaded a browser call The World and now I use that browser everyday at work. So..you know it pays to try new stuff.

http://www.flock.com/

Just Hot

// May 29th, 2008 // No Comments » // Ibdreamy, Pictures

This picture is just hot!

Old school pic…

// May 29th, 2008 // 10 Comments » // Alice in Chains, Celebrity, Celebrity Pictures, Demri Parrot, Ibdreamy, Layne Staley, Personal Pictures, Personal Posts, Pictures, Rest in Peace, Update

I was just going through some old pictures in my Fotki albums and I found this picture of Demri and Layne..I love this picture. I miss them. This was a picture that Demri’s Mom gave me at Demri’s funeral. It was just a photo copy. I hung it on my wall and took a picture of it so that’s why it looks weird it’s hanging on my wall. This was taken at RockCndy in Seatlle during an Aids benefit..around 1992. This was during the good old days before everything fell to shit and they turned into sad reflections of their former selves….and then passed away. Demri in 1996 and Layne in 2002. Rest in Peace my sweet friends.

Demri and Layne 1992

Demri Parrott 1992

I hate Dotster!

// May 27th, 2008 // 5 Comments » // Errors, For Geeks, Hosting, Tutorial, Update, Useful, WTF, Web Hosting, Windows, Wordpress

I’m working on a website for a customer who happens to be hosted at Dotster. Can you believe I can not get a WordPress installed on his webspace after working there for a freaking year!? Me either. It’s so wack. I’m so frustrated. I know it’s not me I did everything right. Grr!

Anyway’s I ended up installing him on my webhost! Haha! WTF? Uh yeah. I was sick of messing around with their wacked out settings. I got everything installed I’m just waiting for his name servers to propagate. What I’m gonna try and do is export it over to Dotster once it’s created..will that work? Well..that’s the plan.

Ping Services List

// May 24th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Admin Tools, Blogging, For Geeks, Geeks, I recommend, Tutorial, Useful, Wordpress, web tools, webmaster

Technorati Tags: ping services,blogging tools,WordPress,WordPress Tools,traffic,SEO tools,SEO,bloggers,helpful tools,web tools

This post is mainly for my Wordpress site but I know some of my LJ friends have WordPress blogs and some who also use programs that allow them to add pinging services to Live Journal..like Windows Live Writer which I just started using myself.

What is blog pinging service?
The Blog Pinging services inform blog directories and search engines online whenever your blog has been updated and this helps more people discover your blog and increases your traffic.
Below I’ve listed some pinging services that you can add to your Blog.

How to add a list of ping services to your blog?

go to your wordpress dashboard >> click on the Settings Tab >> Go to writing sub tab >> scroll down the page and you will find “Update Services” section at the bottom of the page >> paste urls into the box >> click save

If you use Windows Live Writer:  Go to Tools >>Options >>Ping Services>>click OK

http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

My Indiana Jones 4 – Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Review

// May 24th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Celebrity, Movie Pictures, Movie Reviews, Movies, Update, WTF

LiveJournal Tags: movies,movie reviews,Indiana jones

I went to see the new Indiana Jones 4 And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull movie last night at the Cinetopia with some of my friends from Dotster which included Mike, Chris R., Justin, Annie, Jason, Chelsea, Chris M. and me.

Spoiler warning…

Steven Spielberg is again directing, and George Lucas producing..so that basically explains why things were done the way they were done..it was what I might call a mash up of Indiana Jones, E.T and Star Wars.

Huh? You might ask yourself..yeah well so did I.

The CGI in some parts of the movie were not up to par in comparison..like some of the effects were just corny while others were amazing!! Also parts of the storyline didn’t really match up or make sense or were never explained at all.

Lets put it this way.. it was just not at all what I expected of Indiana Jones and I was not alone in my opinion. I mean WTF? What in the hell was up with the aliens? I mean the CGI aliens were amazing and the last scene of the movie was way cool if it was supposed to be a sci-fi movie but this was Indiana Jones not E.T. so the whole alien concept just kinda ruined it for me! However after all my complaining..I thought it was worth watching and I had a blast going to the movies..we were taking shots of Captain Morgans and Root Bear like high school kids in my mini-van in the parking lot before the movie..I have tinted windows. We went to the late late show..it got out at 1am! We had fun. Cate Blanchet looked amazing as usual and played a perfect villain!

Indiana Jones Pictures

Ibdreamy.com and Microsoft Live Writer for LJ

// May 24th, 2008 // No Comments » // Admin Tools, Blogging, Design, Domain Names, For Geeks, Freeware, Microsoft, Update, Useful, Wordpress, web tools

Technorati Tags: live writer,microsoft,freeware,blogging,html editor,blogging tools,web tools,WordPress,Live Journal

Well I registered ibdreamy.com again and I’m extremely happy about it. So now if you want to know what’s up with me all you have to do is type in ibdreamy.com and wah-la! Like magic. Ibdreamy posts on a dish.

Anyway..I’ve been a huge fan of Semagic for years and I’ve used it to post to my LJ forever but now that I also write in a WordPress blog I wanted to find an desktop application that allowed me to post to both at the same time. I’m pretty sure you can do it with Semagic but I couldn’t figure it out.

I did some research and I downloaded a few different editors including BlogDesk and w.bloggar and the best one I found and the one with the best reviews was…*drum roll*

Microsoft’s Live Writer – yes, believe it or not..it’s pretty damn sweet! You have to check it out! Even if you only use Live Journal it’s worth it. Plus it’s Free. Allot of the other editors cost money. Lame.

I’ve also used Semagic as a quick HTML editor to create quick links, lists etc.. for years and it’s always been handy and fast but Live Writer kicks it’s butt in this category as well because you can preview your HTML in live mode, HTML mode, WYSIWYG mode and Web Layout mode all in the same window.

30+ Free Mobile Internet Applications

// May 11th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Admin Tools, Blogging, Email, For Geeks, Freeware, Geeks, Mobile, Useful, Videos, Windows, web tools

I was looking for applications to add to my phone and I found a list of them I thought I’d share with my faithful readers..helloo *echo* ah well..here they are anyway..

Search and Browse

Opera Mini – Whether you want to access your mail, RSS feeds or bank information, Opera Mini is a quick and secure way to get your data on the go. Great interface for scanning pages and zooming in and out. OS: Java

Mobispin – Your favorite news, blogs and feeds on the go

Mozilla Minimo – Multiple tabs, Social bookmarking, RSS Support, Widget and Extension support . OS: Windows Mobile

Microsoft IE for Mobile – Standard browser features, Sync the Favorites you’ve saved on your PC. OS: Windows Mobile

Mowser.com – A search and start page for mobile browsing.

Tappity.com – Discover, submit, and rate mobile sites to share with others.

WamPad.com – A mobile search engine for all sorts of information including MySpace.

Chat

Fring – Go mobile withSkype, MSN Messenger, ICQ, Google Talk, SIP, Twitter, AIM & Yahoo! First VoIP ever for the mobile phone.

Ebuddy - Mobile chat experience on MSN, Yahoo! and AIM, all in one single buddylist.

Bing - Java (J2ME), BlackBerry, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, AIM & GTalk on the go!

Cellity FreeSMS – Send text messages from your mobile worldwide FREE of charge*

Miscellaneous

Flurry.com – Access to email, feeds, update your friends and more.

Goosync.com – Sync your Google Calendar with your mobile phone or PDA.

MoMail.co.uk – Access any and all of your email accounts from one centralized mobile mailbox.

PlusMo.com – A widget service for mobile devices that has over 20,000 widgets at your disposal.

MyWaves – delivers video content from the web to your mobile for FREE!
READ ON FEARLESS WARRIOR!

20 More Free + Useful Mobile Apps after the cut…

Below are Publishing tools, RSS Feeds and Bookmarking all for your Mobil Phone….and all for FREE!

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Protect yourself from a DNS rebinding attack

// May 7th, 2008 // No Comments » // Abuse, Admin Tools, Cool Links, DNS, Errors, For Geeks, Geeks, I recommend, News, Tutorial, Useful, WTF, Windows, webmaster

OpenDNS released a free tool called fixmylinksys.com that lets Linksys users easily change their default password to protect themselves from the [DNS rebinding] hack which Kaminsky explains after the cut….

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WordPress Trackback Tutorial for newbs

// May 4th, 2008 // No Comments » // Geeks, Tutorial, Useful, Wordpress

I wrote in a Live Journal for 7 years so I didn’t have much exposure to the whole trackback link concept or at least that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.

Now I’m using word press to write my blog and I see “track back link” everywhere I turn and I wanted to know more about this little blogging mystery.

So I searched and I found a WordPress Trackback Tutorial..so now I know and if your like me..you can too!

What is a Diva Geek?

// May 4th, 2008 // No Comments » // For Geeks, Geeks

Lazy Saturday Poll: Am I a Geek or Not?

Asking myself that same question is basically how I came up with the domain name for this blog “DivaGeek“.

What is a diva geek anyway you might ask yourself..well let me explain..When your a girl it can be a little hard to be 100% geek 100% of the time because being a girl drives us to do girly things that true geeks wouldn’t get caught dead doing like going purse shopping, wearing pink lip gloss and if your a true Diva going to brunch and doing pilates.

I personally don’t do pilates or go to brunch but that’s just because I’m lazy and I eat breakfast… I do however LOVE pink lipgloss.

What I’m getting at is when your a girl in technology sometimes you just can’t fit into the mold of geek..we can’t help it if we’re a little diva and a little geek. I like to say I’m 25% diva and 75% geek or visa versa depending on my mood.

Megan Fox voted #1 sexiest woman by FHM

// May 3rd, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Britney Spears, Celebrity, Celebrity Pictures, Christina Aguilera, Lindsey Lohan, Megan Fox, Tattoos

Megan Fox is wow beautiful! If you’ve seen Transformers then you know just how truly amazing she is. Plus.. she’s has one of my all time favorite stars Marilyn Monroe tattooed on her forearm which makes her not only pretty but cool as hell in my eyes.
Britney Spears was #100!! I can’t believe she even made it on the list at all..after all her shenanigans this past year that is pretty damn shocking.

Christina Aguilera made it to #39 which isn’t bad considering she was pregnant most the year…

The fact that Tara Reid is still considered sexy baffles me but she made it to #56…she’s nothing butta hot mess..

Heidi Montag made it to #44 which also makes me ill..while Heidi may be pretty.. she’s so fake it makes her unlikable.

I’m happy to see Heidi Klum made it to #22 ..she’s on hot mama..both in the literal and non literal sense she also seems very down to earth and sweet.

Jessica Alba was number #1 last year and this year she’s only dropped down to #3 not bad..she’s also pregnant. Aww!

Kate Beckinsale is just amazing and I’m not one bit surprised that she made it to #10..

Our sweet redheaded wild child Lindsay Lohan made it in the top 20 coming in at a cool #16

The rest of FHM’s 2008 Sexiest Women after the cut….

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Button Maker Banners – Geeky Link Banners I made at Blog Flux

// May 1st, 2008 // No Comments » // Design, For Geeks, Funny, Geeks, Graphics, Update, Useful, web tools, webdesign

I made all of these using the Button Maker at Blog Flux

Feel free to take one of mine or make your own. These are already hosted and yes, you can direct link them. Let me know which ones you use..just curious which ones you guys liked or found useful. Visit my Live Journal – Ibdreamy