Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Get Orb

On a broadband connection, it should take less than 2 minutes to download Orb. Once downloaded, it takes an average of less than 2 minutes to install and set up.

McAfee and Norton users: Orb Networks is a Microsoft Authenticode certified software provider with the highest level of security.

To run Orb, you'll need a computer with:
A broadband connection
Windows XP Media Center or Windows XP
2.4Ghz Intel Pentium IV processor or equivalent
512MB of RAM
100MB available disk space

Once you've downloaded and installed Orb, you'll be able to get all your stuff from any Internet-connected device with a Web browser and a media player that supports Real Media formats, Windows Media formats, or 3GP formats. Just log in to my.orb.com and start Orbing!

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Charity Navigator - How You Can Help The Victims Of Hurricane Katrina

Ways to help out, besides donating your boat.

I hope they start distributing those drinking straws that filter water, and the solar filtering kits.

Sunday, August 28, 2005

NOLA.com: Cams Central - Katrina Webcams

Good luck and God bless....

Some webcams to watch the storm come in...

Flickr: fd's Flickr Toys

Flickr: fd's Flickr Toys - The Magazine Cover, The Badge Maker, The Trading Cards... collect 'em all...

Magazine Cover

Magazine Cover - big on popularity, create a magazine cover with any photo...

stamen: vox delicii

More heat maps.. this one social bookmarks

The stripes you see at top are a near-realtime cumulative view of popular sites posted to the Del.icio.us social bookmarking service (if you don't see green and red stripes, you need Flash), organized by date and popularity.

Windows XP Commands

Nice.... bunch of obscure and useful commands for XP shell....

Windows Marketplace: Free Downloads Hub

5,000 Free Windows Files...

GooglePark: "Scoble goes to google" ;)

GooglePark: "Scoble goes to google" ;)

Am I the only one who finds this funny?

Saturday, August 27, 2005

How to make Google Maps™ using ASP Classic when you don't have the longitude or Latitude

Doesn't get much easier than this...

This is going to be BIG! - 10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company

Stars to descend on Toronto | DigitalHit.com

Time to book some dinner reservations in Yorkville....


The Toronto International Film Festival® also welcomes the best international stars. The list of actors and special guests of the Festival, including documentary subjects, are: John Abraham, Kristen Adams, Danny Aiello, Ayad Akhtar, Michael Angarano, Kevin Bacon, Liane Balaban, Alec Baldwin, Eric Balfour, Juan José Ballesta, Jay Baruchel, Sean Bean, Camilla Belle, Maria Bello, Annette Bening, Andre Benjamin, Juliette Binoche, Seema Biswas, Jolene Blalock, Rachel Blanchard, Cate Blanchett, Brenda Blethyn, Orlando Bloom, Helena Bonham Carter, Lindy Booth, David Boreanaz, JR Bourne, Jeff Bridges, Krista Bridges, Cameron Bright, Adam Brody, Pierce Brosnan, Rob Brydon, Geneviève Bujold, Jackie Burroughs, Arabella Bushnell, Gerard Butler, Gabriel Byrne, Marcello Cabezas, Michel Côté‚ Antonio Canales, Jesús Carroza, Isabelle Carr‚ Nick Cave, Caroline Cave, Jackie Chan, Joan Chen, Sammi Cheng, Jonas Chernick, Margaret Cho, Tenzin Chokyi Gyatso, Tommy Chong, Babz Chula, Presley Chweneyagae, Leonard Cohen, Toni Collette, Clifton Collins Jr., Steve Coogan, LL Cool J, Douglas Coupland, Billy Crudup, Jane Curtin, Elisha Cuthbert, Vincent D’Onofrio, Bryce Dallas Howard, Claire Danes, Bruce Daniels, Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, Zooey Deschanel, Caroline Dhavernas, Cameron Diaz, Martin Donovan, Robert Downey Jr., David Duchovny, Kirsten Dunst, Aaron Eckhart, Sam Elliot, Jonan Everett, Patricia Fagan, Edie Falco, Dakota Fanning, Jodelle Ferland, Will Ferrell, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Brendan Fletcher, Morgan Freeman, Kelli Garner, Ben Gazzara, Frank Gehry, Richard Gere, Marie Gillian, Cuba Gooding Jr., Macha Grenon, Rachel Griffiths, Luis Guzmán, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jake Gyllenhaal, William H. Macy, Sun Haiying, Woody Harrelson, Ed Harris, Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Hazel, Kim Hee Seon, Martin Henderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kris Holden-Ried, Ashton Holmes, Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, Felicity Huffman, William Hurt, Eugene Hutz, Joris Jarsky, Tommy Lee Jones, Hu Jun, Peter Kastner, Abdellatif Kechiche, Catherine Keener, Bruce Kidd, Val Kilmer, Greg Kinnear, Keira Knightly, Kris Kristofferson, Jessica Lange, Hanna Laslo, Isild Le Besco, Heath Ledger, Lauren Lee Smith, Kris Lemche, Sarah Lind, Laura Linney, Ray Liotta, Alison Lohman, Eva Longoria, Sunny Mabrey, Matthew Macfadyen, Daniel MacIvor, Shirley MacLaine, Andy Maize, Steve Martin, Trevor Matthews, Dylan McDermott, Frances McDormand, Bruce McGill, Debra McGrath, Sir Ian McKellen, Mads Mikkelsen, Max Minghella, Liza Minnelli, Colin Mochrie, Gretchen Mol, Michelle Monaghan, Fernanda Montenegro, Julianne Moore, Louis-David Morasse, Viggo Mortensen, Fatemeh Motamed Arya, Matt Murphy, Cillian Murphy, Brittany Murphy, Liam Neeson, Cynthia Nixon, Michelle Nolden, Nick Nolte, Eduardo Noriega, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vincent Pastore, Josh Peace, Guy Pearce, Barry Pepper, Piper Perabo, Joaquin Phoenix, Rosamund Pike, Joe Pingue, Benoît Poelvoorde, Sarah Polley, Louise Portal, Natalie Portman, Lou Pucci, Charlotte Rampling, Lisa Ray, Keanu Reeves, Jeremy Renner, Bjarne Riis, John Robinson, Freddy Rodrìguez, Isabella Rossellini, Tygh Runyan, Kurt Russell, Sarala, Jason Schwartzman, Emmanuelle Seigner, Mallika Sherawat, Elisabeth Shue, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Sarah Silverman, Michael Snow, Jason Statham, Paprika Steen, Julia Stiles, Kiefer Sutherland, Tilda Swinton, Lilian Taublib, Charlize Theron, Ulrich Thomsen, Justin Timberlake, Fernanda Torres, Luke Treadaway, Harry Treadaway, Vince Vaughn, Karin Viard, Julie Walters, Lesley Ann Warren, Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving, Aaron Webber, Courtenay Webber, Samantha Weinstein, Forest Whitaker, Michelle Williams, Reese Witherspoon, Elijah Wood, Robin Wright Penn, Vivian Wu, Karen Young, and Kevin Zegers.

Business 2.0 - Magazine Article - Printable Version - The $50 Million Giveaway

Wrap up:
$4M A KILLER APP FOR CONVERGENCE
$8M HOME PATIENT MONITORING
$5M PLUG-AND-PLAY MOBILE SERVICES
$2M CUSTOMER SERVICE OVER IP
$3M SOCIAL NETWORKS MEET THE TOWN CRIER
$3M OPEN-SOURCE IT CENTER
$3M AN EVEN SMARTER SMARTPHONE
$5M SUBSCRIPTION PCS FOR SENIORS
$5M THE ULTIMATE ONLINE UPSELL
$7M BACK-OFFICE BANK SYNDICATE
$5M Mobile ID for Credit Card Purchases

Friday, August 26, 2005

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Connection Strings

Connection Strings: "Welcome to the world's largest collection of ADO and ADO.NET connection strings on the Internet! On this web page, you'll find links to sample ADO and ADO.NET connection strings for .NET Data Providers, OLE DB Providers, and ODBC Drivers (DSN/DSN-Less). "

Knowledge Management Resource Center: Introduction to Knowledge Management

Way too much information...

CCH Business Owner's Toolkit

Great guide for starting and running a business...

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

iMedia Connection: Web Analytics Breakthrough!

I'm not sure how many times I've tried to define a visit, hit, unique visitor count... every product does it differently.

Hopefully this helps.

Visual Studio Express Editions - Microsoft Technical Forums

More Ajax fun! (or is it Atlas?)

Monday, August 22, 2005

frankarr - an aussie microsoft blogger : Top 10 Names of Tech.Ed Attendees, Mate!

Top 10 names for computer geeks. (I'm #2...)

Fone Finder query form

Fone Finder query form

Telcodata.US Full Area Code / Single Exchange Query

Telcodata.US Full Area Code / Single Exchange Query

Local calling guide: 2005-08-22

Local calling guide: 2005-08-22

Reverse Phone Directory - Reverse Phone Book and White Pages Reverse Lookup Directory of Telephone Numbers Street Addresses and Names to Find People

Reverse Phone Directory - Reverse Phone Book and White Pages Reverse Lookup Directory of Telephone Numbers Street Addresses and Names to Find People

frankarr - an aussie microsoft blogger : Top 10 Names of Tech.Ed Attendees, Mate!

Top 10 names for computer geeks. (I'm #2...)

RssFwd : Reading RSS the way you are already reading your emails

Why re-invent the wheel or run yet-another-application to read your stuff? Create another set of folders, sub-folders, filtering, spam-filter training,... when your existing E-mail application has done it all - tried and tested - and finally just the way you like it?
This site allows anyone to subscribe to any RSS / Atom feed and receive the updates in their email inbox. You can get more technical information at the blog (e.g. download source codes, updates). I can be reached at choonkeat at gmail.

Sunday, August 21, 2005

Protopage - AJAX personal bookmarks springboard

Interesting new concept for a web-based desktop.

Bucks for blogs - Yahoo! News

When it comes to blogging, big corporations are turning to twentysomething mavericks for advice. If they can't lick them, they may have to join them.

So it was Thursday, as 21-year-old blogger Matt Mullenweg navigated the hallways of San Francisco's Palace Hotel, giving select corporate and other confidants a sneak peak at his latest offering: a special blogging software tool for companies.

Saturday, August 20, 2005

Action Figure Authority Featured Toy Archive

I wouldn't mind having any of these...

Friday, August 19, 2005

Howard van Rooijen's Blog : Conchango.Build.TaskBuilder: A Visual Designer for Microsoft SDC Build Scripts

Conchango.Build.TaskBuilder: A Visual Designer for Microsoft SDC Build Scripts
TaskBuilder was my second xmas holiday project. I started it before AssemblyReflector, but then needed a mechanism for Code Generating all of the shape classes so that I could save hours of time by not having to write all the classes by hand. I used AssemblyReflector to generate the shapes from interfaces I had derived from the Microsoft.Sdc.Configuration.Build.1.2.xsd schema.

The genesis of TaskBuilder came from two sources – firstly my desire to really get to grips with Francois Vanderseypen’s amazing Netron Project and secondly my desire to make the creation and maintenance of build scripts something far less laborious and prone to easy mistakes.

The idea for a visual designer for creating Microsoft SDC Build Scripts has been floating around in my head for a long while; I just lacked the time and the tools. Then at the beginning of December I read Sam Newman’s post “FreeMind as an Ant GUI” and it made me realise that Netron would be the perfect enabler for build script visualisation.

The image below shows TaskBuilder editing the demo DailyBuild.Config file.

Virtual PC Guy's WebLog : Tweaking the performance of Virtual PC 2004

Tweaking the performance of Virtual PC 2004
Most people who use Virtual PC are running it on a uni-processor computer - and are trying to run other programs at the same time; however, Virtual PC can be very demanding on CPU resources at times. To help people deal with this - we have provided the following performance options under Virtual PC:

Run Virtual PC at maximum speed

Selecting this option will result in Virtual PC always getting the CPU time that it needs - and this is the option that provides the best performance inside of Virtual PC. The problem with this option is that if the virtual machine attempts to use 100% of its CPU it can bring other applications running on the host computer to their knees. It should be noted that a virtual machine does not have to be 'busy' in order to use 100% CPU. Some operating systems / applications (like DOS) do not implement an idle loop - which means that they will always use 100% CPU.

This option is best for users who are spending the majority of their time inside of the virtual machine and are only doing light processing on the host computer.


Give processes on the host operating system priority

With this option selected; Virtual PC will throttle its CPU usage whenever it is in the background. This allows the host system to remain responsive - but can result in terrible performance inside of the virtual machine (users have reported that operating system installs can take > 6 hours with this option selected and the virtual machine in the background - as opposed to the ~1 hour with the other performance option).

This option is best for users who are spending the majority of their time using the host operating system and are only doing light processing inside of the virtual machine. This option should *never* be selected if you are performing an OS installation inside of the virtual machine.
A third option is to choose the 'Run Virtual PC at maximum speed' option and then launch Virtual PC using the following command:

Start /low "" "Virtual PC.exe"

This will run Virtual PC at a lower priority than other applications, which will allow it to get all of the CPU resource that is available, while letting other host applications remain responsive. The problem with this option is that it can conflict with other low priority applications like Seti@home.

A final comment on all of this is that as Virtual PC runs all of its virtual machines on one thread - if you have a dual-processor computer - you can just select to 'Run Virtual PC at maximum speed' and not worry about performance as your host applications will run on the other processor.

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

MyProgs

MyProgs Social bookmarking for applications

Free Bookmark Managers

Free Bookmark Managers

Saturday, August 13, 2005

The Trump Blog

The Trump Blog - you're fired!

farmslutdvda: MythTV + iPodder = Internet Tivo

farmslutdvda: MythTV + iPodder = Internet Tivo

I need to scrape together a few bucks to buy a PC for my media setup.... this is starting to get useful.

The Bacon Show

The Bacon Show ONE BACON RECIPE PER DAY, EVERY DAY, FOREVER

This is wrong in so many ways.

I was at a destination wedding in the Dominican a couple of years ago, and they were serving the usual helpings of bacon stacked up on a plate. The next day they had only 'bacon toast', what appeared to me to be french toast & bacon bits. It was actually the toast they use to sop up the grease.

'scuse me for a second...

I couldn't get the salt taste out of my mouth for days, my cholesterol went through the roof, and I'm sure I lost about 5 years off my lifespan. (but there were 2 other guys who ate the same thing so I didn't feel too stupid)

I'm no longer a Bacontarian....

Richard Koch's web site

Richard Koch's web site - The Pareto principle, or how to live lazy and happy...

I totally believe in the 80/20 rule... do more of what you want, and cut out all the noise.

Friday, August 12, 2005

Geo F Trumper - shaving tips

Geo F Trumper - shaving tips A little off the usual tech stuff, some good tips on getting rid of that razor burn.

My barber owns the Terminal Barber Shop in Toronto, at Bay/Dundas. Talking to him yesterday I found out that he spent five years at Geo F. Trumper, one of the best barber shops in the world and the Royal Family's barber of choice. Not to mention Tunisia, Algeria, and Dubai.

Where else can you get a 40 GBP shave for $20 Canadian?

Walken 2008 - Official Website

Walken for President 2008 - Official Website

"At its best, life is completely unpredictable." - Christopher Walken



Actor Christopher Walken to run as Candidate in 2008 Presidential Race
For Immediate Release


New York - Early today, actor Christopher Walken, 62, held a private conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York in which he announced his intentions to run for the Presidency of the United States in the 2008 Election.
Said the Queens native, “I have always been a follower of politics. My father was friends with the mayor of Schodack (NY) back in the 1940’s. We would walk the streets of Schodack and the people, they would wave to him. The children adored him. That is what I love to be, a man of respect and love.”

From a statement by Walken's agent, Toni Howard: “Mr. Walken has greatly admired the celebrities who have entered politics and he wants to be able to give a good name and reputation to the acting community as well as the political community. As for going national with this news we have not made any plans for the immediate future."

Because Mr. Walken is currently contracted for more than one film production, the Walken campaign manager Michael Hansee admitted that there would be relatively minimal publicity at this early stage. "[Mr. Walken] has a full plate right now, acting in a number of different films, and can't start any personal campaign work until these obligations are fulfilled," he commented. "We're looking to spread the word and build a little support base with our website, in preparation for a full campaign in early 2007."

The campaign website is patriotic-themed, with the tag-line "To Get America Back on Track." Hansee stated that the campaign is hoping to drum up early support through their online presence, much like Howard Dean did in the 2004 race.

Family Guy

Family Guy Blog!

Best Brands Of The World - Search

Best Brands Of The World - Search This is a really good site for grabbing logos for your Powerpoint presentations or other advertising...

360hacker.net :: View topic - How-to: Install OS X x86 natively on your PC!

360hacker.net :: View topic - How-to: Install OS X x86 natively on your PC!

Youth Technology Mentoring Program

Youth Technology Mentoring Program A great cause that needs volunteers in Toronto. Teach computers to young students!

VoIP Signaling - Talking Gets �Skinny� (TECHTip)

VoIP Signaling - Talking Gets �Skinny� (TECHTip)

This is a good overview of the various telecom technologies - past and present.

Sunday, August 07, 2005