T-Shirt Search Engine – PleaseDressMe
PleaseDressMe is a kick ass resource for anyone that appreciates a funny, ironic or trendy tee. Search by tags, price, color for t-shirts from many fine web-based tee retailers.
Google Chrome Heats Up Browser Wars
The Browser Wars are heating up, and it’s not a two-horse race. Sure Opera’s essentially been an also ran for years, but Apple’s Safari has been scarfing up market share with it’s insidious installation tactics and entrenched iPhone base. Now our benevolent overlords at Google have launched Chrome, a new open-source browser with some innovative design. Chrome promises to bring an end to crashing all of your browser tabs and windows for one misbehaving script or plugin and improved memory management. Google has launched it all with a comic starring engineers, designers and developers introducing their intriguing new baby and explaining what sets it apart from the crowd. Hit the jump for some initial reactions.
Tech Habits to Improve Your Life
PC World has put together an excellent list of Tech Habits to Improve Your Life, including maintaining “Inbox Zero” and “Getting TV and Music from the Net”. Some you probably already are doing, some you may not have thought of. I’ve used most of these and continue to use quite a few. Certainly worthy of a little time, perhaps time not wasted?
Podcast Pick: WebbAlert
Like Tech News? Enjoy snarky commentary? Can’t get enough Morgan Webb? Well WebbAlert is certainly for you. With a new episode roughly 80% of weekdays, WebbAlert is a great tech news podcast providing headlines, insight and commentary about all the important or at least interesting or humourous tech news of the day. X-Play co-host Morgan Webb delivers what you need in about 5 minutes each episode with mild commercial interruption. Certainly a worthy and informative way to waste a little time each day.
dwot Helpdesk – Ditching Your TV with Miro
Earlier this week, in our podcast pick we mentioned the great video player, Miro. Miro is a talented jack-of-all-trades combining playback for a multitude of video formats with an integrated Bit Torrent client, an excellent content discovery and subscription system, and web video search in a sweet cross-platform open-source package.
Installing Miro is a breeze on either Windows, Mac or Linux. Grab the install at http://www.getmiro.com/ and fire it up. Browse the Miro Guide and your sure to find some interesting programming. Simply click the Add button and Miro will present you with a list of all available episodes and begin downloading the latest episode for you. Add other episodes to the download pile by clicking the blue down arrow on the thumbnail. You can edit download and retention settings for this subscription by clicking the Settings button in the channel’s header. Playing is as simple as clicking the green play button on the thumbnail. Once your ready to add more content click the Guide item on the navigation menu and you’re right back where you were. Simple, easy to understand and highly functional, what’s not to love about Miro! Be sure to subscribe to our first podcast pick Tekzilla.
Podcast Pick: Tekzilla
This week we are kicking off several new weekly features here at dwot, including our Podcast Pick of the Week. Each Monday we’ll spotlight a great podcast to help you waste a little more time. If you’re new to podcasts, you may want to pick up Miro, an excellent cross-platform podcast player with a lot of features, or of course iTunes, if you’re using an iPod, you’re probably already familiar with iTunes. (BTW: If anyone has any tips for an iTunes alternative that plays nice with podcasts and iPod classics, let me know. I’ve tried a few and was never able to find one that just worked, the closest was Floola, which I still have hopes for, but isn’t quite there yet.)
Our first podcast pick is Tekzilla, an excellent tech podcast offering daily tech tips and a full-show on Fridays reminiscent of all the good parts of the Screen Savers of TechTV before it evolved into the unwatchable Attack of the Show on G4. Hosted by Screen Savers alum Patrick Norton, Tekzilla brings you tech tips, reviews, DIY projects and more in a tasty podcast package.
Hacking Remote Desktop into Crippled Vista Versions
Vista isn’t perfect, there’s a lot it does wrong and not much it’s truly gotten right. One of the most annoying and confusing things Microsoft has done with Vista is release a multitude of variants. Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate all different variants with different “feature-sets” at scaling prices. Opt for a version other than the pricey “Ultimate” and you may find yourself lacking some key features, like Remote Desktop. Sure, there’s VNC, but it’s not quite the same and can be a bit confusing to get up and running reliably. Microsoft will gladly ransom the locked features back to you for a stiff upgrade fee or you could always do a little tweaking and unlock the functionality yourself. After a quick search, I located the following sites. Follow the instructions here and you should be up and running. If you happen to be running Vista 64, as I am, you’ll need to get the 64 bit version of the termsrv.dll, which I found here. Happy hacking!
Find Other Web Sites Hosted on a Web Server
Here’s a handy tool for performing a Domain-IP-Domain search. Just pop in a domain name and see what other Domain names reside at the same IP. DWOT apparently lives in a pretty classy neighborhood, with such notables as CoderProfile which looks pretty badass and Sexpectantparents.com which may be the most insane domain name I’ve ever seen, and that’s really saying something.
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