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Apps and Tools – I can’t live without…

// August 12th, 2008 // 5 Comments » // Admin Tools, Apple, Applications, For Geeks, Freeware, Geeks, I recommend, Ipod, Live Journal, Microsoft, Mobile, Social Network, Twitter, Update, Useful, Wordpress, web tools, webdesign


There are a few app’s, clients and website’s online that I can not live without This is a list of things that make my life at home and work easier..I’ve done this type of post before but a few have changed.

  1. Infranview – image editor, viewer, manager and several other things. This is an amazing program that everyone who uses it loves it. It takes a minute to get used to it but once you do you can’t imagine life with out it. I’ve been using it for 5-6 years..daily. Download Client – Infranview Tutorial
  2. Fotki.com – image hosting provider
  3. FileZila – FTP client
  4. Color Cop – HEX color dropper desktop app (can’t live without)
  5. Clipomatic – Clipboard manager (absolutely can’t live without)
  6. Shareaholic – Social Networking Firefox plugin Shareaholic makes it possible to share, bookmark and e-mail web pages quickly without leaving your browser. (cool and useful)
  7. Semagic Live Journal blogging client – also use as an HTML editor in a hurry.
  8. Windows Live Writer – Blogging client – Posts to multiple blogging platforms
  9. ABC 3GP Converter (converts .AVI movies to .MP4 file format so I can upload movies to my IPod)
  10. Digsby – multiple network chat client I can also post to my Twitter – Checks my Facebook and Myspace updates.
  11. Notepad – write HTML and general blank page for notes and such
  12. Photoshop - We all know what Photoshop does – (can’t live without)
  13. Google Desktop (search for my files, documents, emails and basically anything on my computer)
  14. Gmail – My primary email client. Yep I do not use Outlook at home. I use Gmail.
  15. Wordpress - I use Wordpress to manage and write my Blog – Love it!!
  16. LiveJournal.com – been writing in my journal for 7 years so I guess you can say it is a staple in my online life. Love it. Can’t live without it. Must write in my journal.

– Web 2.0 and grudge free buttons generator!

Make a link button in a snap. It’s Free, easy and the end result looks really nice. I use this when customers call in and need a custom button made instead of doing it in Photoshop which I could do but this is so much faster. Very cool.





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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


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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.




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Errors Installing Windows Service Pack 1? Problems with Vista’s Event Log Viewer? A FIX!

// April 13th, 2008 // No Comments » // Admin Tools, Errors, For Geeks, Freeware, Microsoft, Useful, Windows


Tech Support Cat

I run Vista on my computer at home and about 3 months after I bought it some of the Windows services stopped working out of the blue namely the Windows Event Log Viewer. Not having it hasn’t really caused me problems yet and I assumed the only way to fix it was to reinstall Vista..

So..I just ignored it.

Until a couple days ago when I was prompted to install the new Windows Service Pack 1 the installation failed and it returned Error Code 800706B5 on SP1.

So, I was forced to figure out how to fix the issue and I found a work around that worked like a charm. I finally got the Event Log Viewer running and I successfully installed the service pack.

I think what happens when you try to install the update is it trys to write to the system event file, finds that it’s non-operational, and then quits. That’s just a guess, though.

According to the forums it was discovered that the the issue has to do with permissions that have been configured incorrectly at some point. The evil lies within this folder… C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\WMI\RtBackup and so you if you either delete it or rename the folder and reboot it will automatically re-create the folder and your issue will be fixed.  First I tried to rename the RtBackup folder but all I got was permission denied errors so I downloaded a client called Unlocker which worked. Some claime you can rename the folder in Safe Mode with UAC off. I already had UAC disabled; I just used the Unlocker application and I didn’t even try it in Safe Mode.

I’m such the tech rebel.. I know..

Download link: Unlocker

More detailed instructions on how to do it after the cut…..>

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Microsoft Threatens Hostile Takeover if Yahoo Does Not Agree to Buyout in Three Weeks

// April 10th, 2008 // No Comments » // For Geeks, Geeks, Microsoft, News


Microsoft CEO gives Yahoo board deadline for deal
April 5, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp. has set a three-week deadline for Yahoo Inc to accept its current $31 a share cash and stock offer or Microsoft will take its case to Yahoo shareholders, Microsoft said on Saturday.

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said in a letter dated April 5 and addressed to Yahoo’s board of directors that “now is the time” to negotiate final terms of a deal, one which would mark the biggest takeover yet in the high-tech industry.

“If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders, including the initiation of a proxy contest to elect an alternative slate of directors,” Ballmer writes.

If the Yahoo board does not agree to the bid Microsoft has threatened to launch a hostile bid, creating an “undesirable impact on the value of your company”. Microsoft may also attempt to get its own candidates onto the Yahoo board at the AGM.

“If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders, including the initiation of a proxy contest to elect an alternative slate of directors…” said the letter.

Sources: ap.google.com
Eric Auchard in San Francisco and Daisuke Wakabayashi in Seattle

News Corp. May Join Yahoo Bid With Microsoft

News Corp. is in talks with Microsoft over a joint bid for Yahoo. Meanwhile, Yahoo and AOL are in advanced talks about combining their Web operations, a deal that could thwart Microsoft’s effort. Yahoo also said it will carry ads from Google, which could lead to a broader partnership. Resource: nytimes.com – 8 hrs ago – Full story

April 9, 2008 4:57 pm
Yahoo to test Google search ads
Yahoo will test displaying Google search ads in a small number of its search engine queries, a move likely to be interpreted as the latest in a series of Yahoo maneuvers to resist Microsoft’s acquisition attempt.





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Hacker Super Bowl – PWN 2 OWN – Mac goes down in two minutes

// April 10th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Abuse, Apple, For Geeks, Geeks, Microsoft, News, Videos, WTF, Windows


Most Mac users today live in a fantasy land. Mac’s can’t get Hacked? DOH! Read on my Mac friends…you’ve been pwned!

It’s the most anticipated matchup in the hacker world: Linux versus Mac OS X versus Vista. Who will get hacked first?
That’s what organizers of the CanSecWest security conference hope to discover this week as they give show attendees a shot at hacking into the three laptops they’ve put on display here in Vancouver.
The catch? They have to use a brand-new “zero day” attack that nobody has seen before. The prize is $20,000, plus you get to keep the laptop.
Show organizers are calling the contest PWN 2 OWN. It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned.

He took the first of three laptop computers — and a $10,000 cash prize — Thursday after breaking into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference’s PWN 2 OWN hacking contest.

Show organizers offered a Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810 and the MacBook as prizes, saying that they could be won by anybody at the show who could find a way to hack into each of them and read the contents of a file on the system, using a previously undisclosed “0day” attack.

Nobody was able to hack into the systems on the first day of the contest when contestants were only allowed to attack the computers over the network, but on Thursday the rules were relaxed so that attackers could direct contest organizers using the computers to do things like visit Web sites or open e-mail messages.

The MacBook was the only system to be hacked by Thursday, however, the word on the show floor is that the Linux and Vista systems will meet with some serious challenges on Friday.

Miller, a former National Security Agency employee best known as one of the researchers who first hacked Apple’s iPhone last year, didn’t take much time. Within 2 minutes, he directed the contest’s organizers to visit a Web site that contained his exploit code, which then allowed him to seize control of the computer, as about 20 onlookers cheered him on.

Vista Falls on the Last Day

The Vista laptop fell on the last day of the conference.

Since it was the third day of the contest, which saw a MacBook Air get hacked on Thursday, the TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative relaxed the rules even further. On the first day of the contest, only the operating system could be targeted, but on the second day that was expanded to include standard applications. An undisclosed Safari flaw led to the MacBook Air’s downfall.
But on Friday, hackers could target any “popular” piece of application software that you might find on a system. The Fujitsu laptop, running Vista Ultimate, was compromised by a previously undiscovered flaw in Adobe’s Flash software.

More….

Read: Adobe already knew of Flash flaw that allowed Vista attack By Emil Protalinski | Published: April 05, 2008





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