Desktop Fun: Windows 8 Wallpaper Collection Series 1

From How-To Geek
"The recent Windows 8 Developer Preview release has generated a lot of excitement and the upcoming beta will add even more to that as the system gets one step closer to being complete. Display your enthusiasm for the next step in Windows evolution on your desktop with our Windows 8 Series 1 Wallpaper collection."

Build a phone charge extender in 5 minutes inside Radio Shack. Robots Anywhere!

Schematic at http://www.robots-everywhere.com/re_wiki/index.php?title=Ersatz_battery_booster
Sometimes you need to make sure you can livestream an event, but have little prep time. Phones usually eat up batteries like crazy then. So here's how to improvise an extender that uses AA, C or D batteries. Best of all -- no soldering, you can build it directly inside a radio shack!

Warning: Pay attention to the polarity!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RVUbIMncjqM

Windows 7 Integrated With SP1 ISO – Official Direct Download Links

http://techdows.com/2011/07/download-windows-7-integrated-with-sp1-iso-official-direct-download-links.html

Downloading these ISO images from Digital River is legal and free of charge. Downloaded ISO images will be of virus and malware free as Digital River is official Download Channel. However you need to purchase a license key to activate Windows 7 after using for 30 days. We’re not sure by using  command “ slmgr -rearm” you can use evaluation copy further for 120 days

Download Windows 7  Integrated SP1 ISO  Images

Windows 7 Home Premium x86  SP1 (bootable)
http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-24208.iso
Windows  7  Home Premium x64 SP1 (bootable)
http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-24209.iso
Windows 7 Professional x86 SP1 (bootable)
http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-24280.iso
Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1 (bootable)
http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-24281.iso
Windows 7 Ultimate x86 SP1 (bootable)
http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-24394.iso
Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1 (bootable)
http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-24395.iso

Qiqqa: Organize your research

For some reason, this software caught my attention. Perhaps, its because I am sloooowwwly trying to organize the multitude of articles, snippets, quotes, urls, etc. etc. that I have collected over the years. This blog is in essence also part of this evolution.

The essential software for academic and research work

Get your next exam, paper, or project done better, quicker:

• Super-charged PDF management and search.
• Collaborate, source essential metadata, cite your references. 
• Brainstorm new ideas, visualize your topics, and much more. 

Magazinify: Webpage to PDF, emailed for your convenience

From the homepage:
If you ever find yourself missing out on some interesting articles because you wanted to read something later and forgot, then Magazinify is for you.
Magazinify seamlessly organizes all the articles you wish to read into beautiful text, order, removing all the annoying ads and popups, converts it to pdf format and mails you the magazine at the end of the day.

Android 4.0

http://www.tested.com/news/android-40-ice-cream-sandwich-features-hits-and-misses/3049/
Is this going to be great or "ah, well. maybe next time".

KARA – Winter Magic Single Album (Limited Edition C)

Artist: KARA
Genre: Ballad Dance Pop
Language: Japanese
Release Date: 2011.10.20

Tracklist:

01. Winter Magic
02. Whisper
03. Winter Magic (Inst.)
04. Whisper (Inst.)
05. Winter Magic (X’max Ver.)

Girls’ Generation (SNSD) - The Boys [3rd Album]

Artist: Girls’ Generation (SNSD)
Genre: Dance Pop Ballad
Language: Korean
Release Date: 2011.10.19

Tracklist:

01. The Boys
02. Telepathy
03. Say Yes
04. Trick
05. How Great is Your Love
06. My J
07. Oscar
08. Top Secret
09. Lazy Girl
10. Sunflower
11. Vitamin
12. Mr. Taxi (Korean Ver.)
13. The Boys (Eng Ver.)

The LiveCD List

If you're still not able to make the leap into Linux, a liveCD maybe the answer. LiveCDs allow a user to boot into a complete operating system without installing to the hard drive. So you get to "kick the tires" of the operating system on the CD, and easily go back just be rebooting!

An excellent source for information on LiveCDs can be found at The LiveCD List.
Not only are the systems listed but also categorized by function. Looking for a system to game on, do a recovery, and many others. Give them a look.

Audacity: The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor

Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

 If you've ever wanted to make your own mixes or even just take a sample of Stewie from Family Guy annoying Lois to use as a ringtone. Audacity is the software to use. Plug-in support, click and drag interface, multi-channel support. The list of features goes on and on!
Best of all, its FREE!!!

Mp3tag - The universal Tag Editor and more ... now at version 2.49

So you ripped your CD to mp3 and are ready to start listening to the digital wonderfulness. The music is playing and you are just getting into it when you decide to look at your player... You see artist and title but where is that fantastic cover art that initially caught your eye as you perused the shelves in the store and the album producers paid lots of money to have made. And Holy Crap! You misspelled the artists' name. WTF!!! Grrr!!!

from the homepage:
"Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of common audio formats where it supports ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags."

Now get in there and correct those mistakes so you can enjoy the music experience.
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

Be-ppin – MY・EYE・AH [2011.10.12]

Like I said...

Tracklist:
01. MY·EYE·AH
02. You were my love
03. MY·EYE·AH (Instrumental)
04. You were my love (Instrumental)

Chiaki Takahashi – Konya wa Chupariko [2011.10.05]

I admit that I am sometimes swayed by cover art to listen to an artist...

 Tracklist:
01. Konya wa Chupariko
02. Juicy
03. Konya wa Chupariko (instrumental)
04. Konya wa Chupariko (acapella)

[Album] heidi. – Sixth Sense [2011.09.21]

So since my taste in music varies radically, and rather frequently. I manage to stumble across artists that I have never heard of and they have a sound, rhythm, something I like.

Tracklist:
1- Sixth Sense
2- Under
3- Twiligh t town
4- Taion
5- Mikansei
6- Utagoe

Posts on RE

Thus the name of this blog...

Highschool of The Dead...

Highschool of the Dead (Gakuen Mokushiroku, "Academy Apocalypse", abbreviated as H.O.T.D.)

 This anime came out in 2010. The manga was getting really good reviews and initially there was quite a bit of interest in the anime. The anime hit and ran for 12 frikken episodes. Period. Nadda. Pau.


The manga of course continues and is up to like volume 5 chapter 3 or so. Something like 29 chapters. Anime = 12. Come on! This series was smokin' and they're letting it die out!


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Not all physicists are boring.

The Official website of Dr. Michio Kaku (http://mkaku.org/)

Ok. So I don't really remember which program I first saw Dr. Kaku. I kinda think it was on interstellar travel or some such. And for some reason I thought "Hey! This guy actually sounds like he knows what he is talking about!" Considering the rest of the speakers have equally impressive credentials(?), for whatever reason, said it in a manner that kept my interest.

I know. I'm weird like that...

So as much as I like Firefox... I decided to test out Palemoon.

Pale Moon project (http://www.palemoon.org/) seems to be offering people an alternative to the bloatware (which I personally haven't experienced) that is Firefox. I have used Firefox from looong ago. About the time that it was first introduced.

From the homepage:
"Why settle for a basic build of your Firefox browser on Windows Operating Systems when you can have one that is specifically made for getting the most out of your system? Mozilla does not provide optimized browser packages for Windows, meaning you may be losing speed and efficiency when you use your browser; and truth be told, most people use their browsers all the time! That needs to change, so, here is the Pale Moon project: Custom-built and optimized Firefox browsers for Windows Operating Systems. Make sure to get the most speed and efficiency out of your browser!"

The nice thing so far that I really like about Pale Moon is the fact that almost all the plug-ins from mozilla.org will run.

The interesting observation so far is, if you use SpywareBlaster (http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html) as part of your installation. It will not recognize Palemoon and refuse to install the mozilla protection. The workaround I used was to simply install Firefox (ver. 7.0.1) and then Pale Moon. After installing SpywareBlaster, delete Firefox. The protection and updates have worked since then.

The testing continues...

Computer programming legend Dennis Ritchie has died

Dennis M. Ritchie (September 9, 1941 - October 12, 2011), who helped shape the modern digital era by creating software tools (father of the C programming language and UNIX operating system), that power things as diverse as search engines like Google and smartphones, was found dead on Wednesday at his home in Berkeley Heights, N.J. He was 70

Upgraded to Internet Explorer 9. Now everything is blank!

So on my laptop after a factory restoration. I did the usual patches for Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. Imagine my surprise after Internet Explorer 9 installs (without a hitch I might add) that regardless of what site I visited the browser window was blank. Mousing around the window indicated that the page was open just couldn't see anything. While this was kinda amusing at first (find the hidden link...) it did get irritating. After contacting the manufacturer of the laptop and being told "Oh, no problem. just ship back the unit and we'll take a look."

After surfing around I found this:
Internet Explorer 9 is always blank, no matter which website I visit.
1. In Internet Options> Advanced> Accelerated graphics (first in the list) try "Use software rendering" checked and unchecked.

Now IE9 is happily displaying websites as it should.

Steve Jobs has passed away...

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)