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The Newegg Newsletter emails are perhaps the only kind of spam that I like to receive. Believe it or not, I actually look forward to looking through each one to seek out the good deals and keep tabs on the world of electronics. But lately they’re starting to bore me. More

Here’s one giant Microsoft-ism for you — Outlook’s “Suggest names while typing in To, CC, BCC fields,” also known as Auto-Complete. It’s the feature that gives you a drop-down list of names & emails when setting up recipients. Except, only for some contacts. And, this only happens… most of the time. See, the programmers over in Redmond figured you’d appreciate a good test of your memory from time to time, so they slipped in a secret feature that displays the suggested contacts on all but one randomly chosen day of the month. More

So I found this awesome program called QTTabBar, and it adds tabs to Windows Explorer. If you’re like me, you use tabbed browsing a lot. So when you have to go from that to clunky ‘ole Explorer, it kind of sucks switching between more than three windows. So, make it easier on yourself and put all open explorer windows into tabs. More

Ah, the nostalgia of old games. Need for Speed High Stakes was *the* game of my childhood, and it’s pretty amazing to play it again after all of these years. Games from 1999 don’t run so well on Windows 7, but luckily there are still plenty of people who want to play them, and these people tend to come up with awesome workarounds. Fortunately, this is the case with Need for Speed High Stakes. You too can once again tear up the roads of Landstrasse in pursuit of a speeding Porsche 911 Turbo!  More

No messin’ around — they’re Winamp, Launcher 7, and aCalendar. When you finish reading this post, you will be just dying to check ‘em out. More

As I talked about in my last post, recently I set up 15 computers for an office. What a heist — we ran into all kinds of errors and incompatibilities, mostly caused by legacy software running on a new OS, Windows 7. Along the way of setting up and tweaking Windows 7, I ran into a lot of interesting discoveries — moments when I thought to myself, “why the hell does this look this way?” Poking around in the registry, checking out directories of crap, and drilling down into folders and folders of program configuration, there were instances where I needed to customize something a certain way, and after poking around in Windows 7′s innards, I realized that a lot of “stuff” hasn’t changed too much.

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Now you have! I know, no blog posts lately. But that’s okay, I don’t have many viewers anyway (yet…).

The past week I built fifteen workstations to be used in a small business. These boxes are awesome — they exemplify the new generation of computers. Only five have slimline DVD drives, which probably won’t ever be used anyway. They’re all ITX builds in the awesome Silverstone Sugo SG06 case, which comes with a 300W power supply. I really liked assembling these because there weren’t any inefficiencies, except if you count unused power supply lines. More

This morning, the top bar turned a dark shade of gray — 45/45/45 RGB. I guess they decided it needed some contrast, since generally Google user interfaces are light and airy. Nothing wrong with that, though. I notice that the bar shows up in all main Google features except Gmail, at least so far. I’d be surprised if they left it off of Gmail, though. It’s probably just a matter of time.

I wonder if this same idea will be applied across the board to other Google products like Scholar. It seems a little spotty for them to apply the update to only selected products, and not all of them. But I give it a week at most for everything to be updated.

I kept intending to blog about this, but I never had the time until now. Jeesh, summer sounded so relaxed and lazy, but I’m definitely finding myself with less free time than I thought.

So, onto the topic of discussion. I got an xbox, and I didn’t buy it. And, I didn’t steal it either. Nope — instead, my friend gave me his Red Ring’d 360 after he got the new slim one. He was aiming to chuck it, and my DIY instincts gave me the split-second motivation I needed to intercept that sucka’ before it hit the landfill. More

Finally finished Lori Scott’s new site. Check it out! LoriScottLandscape.com.

In other news, I just revamped my hobby site. Honestly it’s still a little messy here and there but for the most part I think it’s quite an improvement.

About time I got around to keeping up the site! I’ve finally fixed the crazy fluctuating font sizes, that was bothering me like none other for too long. We’re also rocking a new font. Except to see a handful of new portfolio entries, too!

Noope, haven’t forgotten about my blog! Just been busy lately, with a boatload of projects. Here’s what’s going on: first and foremost, I’m remodelling this 2001-esque website, which will have a sleek new design and much more content (and a fresh logo, to boot!). I’m also working on a microsite that would have been flash if we were a few years back. But nope, in today’s world, I get to jump headfirst into some hardcore JQuery. With my headstart on Javascript, I can’t wait to check out all of the simplifications and improvements that JQuery offers.

I am working on a Landscape Design website for a family member which is going to be powered by WordPress. Jeez, WordPress is sure valuable these days. There’s nothing it can’t do. Anyway, I’m excited about this one because it also involves generating a lot of vector art and even a new logo.

Finally, I am planning a tool called Carpooler that aims to provide a way to organize carpoolers for any group of people going on a trip. The theme will definitely be simple & easy.

As I make progress on these projects, I’ll probably post little snippets of how it’s going. That’s all for now, adios.

Just flashed Incredikernel on my Android phone. The first thing I notice about it is that the screen turn on/off is way faster. As in before, I’d pretty the button and it would take probably a half second to wake up. Now, it’s basically instantaneous. Awesome!

For my first real flash project that I coded entirely, I decided to attempt a flash “paint shop” that allows you to simply select a color and draw. Not too hard. Check it out.

The Bitmenu site has undergone that post-launch scramble to implement changes resulting from user feedback. We decided there were too many ‘attention-getters’ on the index, so that’s been simplified. There’s also a cool new navigation bar that shows up only for child pages.

There’s still a lot in the works. Oh, and I’m pretty busy with school right now, so this post also serves as my “well, sorry for no update in awhile” update.