Kewl

Toogle - "Toogle is a Text version of Googles Image Search. Currently it creates images out of the very term that was used to fetch those images".Very cool.Check it out.

Everything GMail

GMail Wiki - Its a treasure trove of information for all you GMail users out there.Its got Tools And Utilities,Tips And Tricks and so much more.Just visit the site and save me the trouble of explaining what the site is all about.
LibGMailer - "GMailer (libgmailer) is a PHP library/class that helps you accessing/checking/using GMail through PHP scripts."Found this software via Matt Read.

GMail GiveAway

Hehe probably get some traffic with this title.But its true,Matt Read is giving away some GMail accounts.Drop by his website.By the way its a great site.Hurry before its gone.

UPDATE:EatinWokOut has about 4 GMail invites link left(last i checked).

Who Do You Trust?

Who Do You Trust,the Wiki Or The Reporter? - A taste if it," On Wednesday I posted a story linking to an article suggesting Wikipedia was somehow untrustworthy. While I can understand why, at first, the concept of Wikipedia seemed a little scary to those who hadn't seen it in action, I figured the reporter in question might want to know a few more details about it, and perhaps correct some of his misperceptions."

Which OS Are You?

Which OS Are You? - It tells you what operating system you resemble most based on your personality.

Well i did the test and this was my result:

Let me know what your result is?

First To Click Wins

Suprise Suprise - I didn't want to type in the G name since people can find it easily by doing a search on technorati etc.But you see,it pays to visit my site once in a while.

Lava Lamps Put To Good Use

Mike Clark Has A Guide On How To Hook Up Lava Lamp's To Your Computer - The lava lamp turns on when your program fails to compile or the test fails.

Untitled

To Do List - When You Buy A New Computer/Install A New OS - Some good advice written by Jeremy Cohn over at Lockergnome.

Free C++ And Java Books

Books written by Bruce Eckel For Free - Bruce Eckel lets people download his book for free through his website.He has written books like "Thinking In C++", "Thinking In Java" among others.These books cost you about 50$ on amazon.

IE - Hate It or Love It?

Do you Hate IE?

Computer Security

Foiling Spywares, Browser Hijacker's, Dialers

Google Fun

Type in bastards in Google and click on "I'm feeling lucky".You will be glad you did.Found via Kevinrose.If you know of any other cool search terms,please leave a comment.

Who Wants GMail?

Ok send me an email at kentville(at)GMail(dot)com.I will give them out to some of you.If you have a website that you wish to add a link to my site(that would give you more chances).Ok whatever,just send me an email.

How To Make Pizza

How To Make Pizza - Walks you through the process visually.

Is Liquid Nitrogen Safe?

Liquid Nitrogen Is Bad For You

The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security

Keith Brown has a wiki for his book "The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security".You can actually read the entire book online.Preety neat concept.

Temporary Email Add

Ok,so you have to register for an account and you dont want to give them your email address?What do you do?Well,you can sign up for a spam account and give them that email address or you could create a temporary email address using Jetable (not the most appealing name, i know).What you do is go to Jetable's Website and enter in your real email address, choose a time frame that you want the temp email account to be valid(24 hours to 8 days) and Jetable will create an @jetable email address for you.After that use the Jetable email address to register.All email sent to the Jetable address during that timeframe will be forwarded to your email account.This is useful since some websites sends your password to your email address.

UPDATE:Robert recomends Mailinator where you dont even have to give an email address to be forwarded to.You can create a temp email account and come back to check your inbox on their site.Thanks Robert.

Online Photo Management

Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application.

Temporary Online Storage

YouSendIt - Upload your file(upto 1 gb) to their server and put in the recipient's email address.The recipient will be notified of the file with a link to download the file.The file stays on the server for 7 days after which it is deleted.
DropLoad - "Dropload is a place for you to drop your files off and have them picked up by someone else at a later time. Recipients you specify are sent an email with instructions on how to download the file. Files are removed from the system after 4 days, regardless if they have been picked up or not. You can upload any type of file, mp3, movies, docs, pdfs, up to 100MB each."

How To Fold Clothes The Quick Way

This is the fastest way to fold your clothes neatly.I am impressed.

Cool and Interesting Links

Why I'm the best programmer in the world* - "Well, it's because I'm so humble!"
How To Use an Ipod as a Bootable Drive - "This week’s HOW-TO is a handy one for the Mac folks out there who want to run multiple operating systems, but not install them to their hard drive, all using an iPod as a bootable FireWire drive."

More Firefox Tweak

Flexbeta Firetweker Xp - It "is a tweaking and optimizing software for Mozilla Firefox. Flexbeta FireTweaker XP bundles more than 20 different tweaks to optimize or customize Mozilla Firefox.This is a beta software so you will/may encounter bugs".

Microsoft Links

Microsoft Discussion Groups - Answers to most problems related to Microsoft products.Do a search?
Technical Career at Microsoft - Journey inside the world of recruiting.
Watching Microsoft Like a Hawk - All news related to Microsoft.
Microsoft Live Meeting - Tom Peters will be doing a Live Meeting on August 19th from 12-1pm eastern time.The topic would be "Outsource-Proof Your Career".
All links found via Scoble.

TECH TIPS

Leo Laporte has a bunch of great tips on his radio blog.Check them out.

SuperFicial

The SuperFicial - "The Superficial is a brutally honest look at society and its obsession with (obviously) the superficial. It is not satire. It is not social commentary. It is the voice of our society at its worst. It is first impressions without sense of social obligation. It is the truth of our generation. It is ugly racism. It is jealousy. It is honest".Found via AutoBlog.

MYIE2

I just installed MYIE2 on my computer.For those of you who do not know what MYIE2 is,"MyIE2 is the most powerful and fully customized browser on earth. It can open multiple web pages in just one window, and comes with tons of other nice features".It is not a standalone software,it requires InternetExplorer for it to run.It has tabbed browsing,mouse gestures,ad hunter,skins and much much more.The reason i went hunting for a software that will allow me to use IE with tab browsing is because with the installation of SP2,Mozilla Firefox has become sluggish.When i click on a link,it takes a while before it responds.I am still not sure whats the cause of this.Anybody else experiencing this?

UPDATE:Copied from Make Firefox As Fast As Opera,"I've heard it said, here and other places, that Opera is the fastest browser available. It is fast - there's no denying that - but there are ways to make FireFox render pages every bit as quickly, with just a few easy "tweaks." I had thought these adjustments were pretty well-known, but it's beginning to seem as though they may not be. So I thought it was worthwhile to bring these "hidden settings" more into the light. To get started, type "about:config" in your FireFox address bar. The settings you're looking for are: 1.) network.http.pipelining
2.) network.http.pipelining.firstrequest
3.) network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
4.) network.http.proxy.pipelining
5.) nglayout.ititialpaint.delay Set #1, #2, and #4 to "true". Set #3 to a high number, like 32. Set #5 to 0. Enabling the pipelining features allows the browser to make multiple requests to the server at the same time. The "maxrequests" is the maximum number of requests it will send at once. I've heard that 8 is the most it will send at once, but setting it higher won't hurt, just in case. The initialpaint.delay is the length of time (in milliseconds) after the server response before the browser begins to paint the page. Adjusting those settings will help pages render much faster in FireFox. In fact, my own observations have been that, tweaked in this manner, FireFox will render faster than Opera (and yes, I realize that others may experience different results)."
After optimizing Firefox,its blazing fast.I am not kidding,try it out for yourself.

Waht dit yous sayt?

100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases In English

Spyware Removal Tools

Ok,so you've just found out that your computer has been infested with spyware/adware or you suspect something's wrong with it and when you run your antivirus software,the software doesn't detect any virus(make sure your antivirus definitions is upto date though).What do you do then?This is when i recomend downloading all these softwares and also updating the definitions of each of these programs.Here is my list:
Lavasoft Adaware - Detects most spyware/adware but not all.
Spybot Search And Destroy - detects some spyware/adware that Lavasoft missed.
CWShredder - "A small utility for removing CoolWebSearch (aka CoolWwwSearch, YouFindAll, White-Pages.ws and a dozen other names)".
HijackThis - "HijackThis lists the contents of key areas of the registry and hard drive--areas that are used by both legitimate programmers and hijackers. The program is continually updated to detect and remove new hijacks".
Webroot SpywareSweeper - Thanks Henry for the recomendation.
SpywareBlaster - So after ridding your computer from spyware using the above tools,install this software to "prevent spyware from installing in the first place".
Ok now stop going to those nasty websites(j/k).Let me know of any software that you want me to add to this list.
Also read up on how spyware works.Found via Scoble.

Slipstream SP2

Slipstream SP2 into Windows XP

GetMail

I was asked by Zhiyang in the comment section if i " had any experience of transfering your mail from Hotmail to Gmail" using GetMail.So i downloaded it and tested it out.I downloaded the Getmail file and also the Update file.Apparently the update file contains "New Executable And Any Required Files".So i installed the .exe file which i downloaded.When prompted if i want to start GetMail,i said no.After doing that,i unzipped the files in the Update to the default directory c:\program files\paulb\Get Hotmail\Get Mail\.This overwrites some file that was in the directory.After that was done,i started GetMail.There should be an icon on your taskbar.Right click on it and choose "Mail Settings".Put in your Hotmail account name,password and the email address you want to forward to in their respective field.I have sent a few emails to my hotmail account and the email was forwarded to my GMail account.I did not get "incorrect credentials" that Zhiyang experienced.I have not tried the "Mail Migrate"feature as of yet.The only thing that i have tried is forwarding new email that i receive on my hotmail account to a GMail account.

From GetMail FAQ - I've downloaded GetMail but no mail appears to be forwarded (0 messages)?
Some Ad-Blockers etc will stop GetMail from working. This is because the first reponse from the Hotmail servers is a redirection that some software blocks. If you are not running this type of software then you must make sure that you have entered your correct hotmail address, correct hotmail password and correct forward to address. If these 3 are correct there is no reason for GetMail to not forward on mail. If you are sure there are correct check the errorlog.txt file in the install directory.

Installed XP SP2

I just finished installing XP SP2 (Download Link is From Microsoft).I have some screenshots on my moblog.The installation was a breeze.So far there has been no issues with it.From Neowin.Net,"On the first run, Microsoft also loads up the new Security Center (screenshot). The Security Center monitors your Antivirus, Firewall, and Auto Update situation. If it detects anything that is potentially damaging or hazardous, it will prompt you with a warning and give you advice on how to resolve the issue. Microsoft has saved a lot of hassle for users in that if you have Zone Alarm installed, they leave the Windows Firewall off to prevent conflicts (screenshot). Internet Explorer has been updated (screenshot) and the new features seem helpful. As well as a new version of IE, Outlook Express, Microsoft's free mail client bundled with Windows has been updated with better protection against email spread viruses and worms. I spent a few hours using the improved browser and it does seems somewhat nippier than before. With additions like pop-up blocking, IE becomes a slightly more attractive prospect. However, it still lacks features like tabbed browsing and standards compliancy that make some of the new features moot points. To really start winning back people, Microsoft need to get IE 7 out the door with these features (Before longhorn though?). I'd like to say i was impressed, but IE in SP2 is playing catch up, not adding features."To read more about it,visit Neowin's Website.

UPDATE: Since i first installed SP2 on a computer that uses an ethernet cable to connect to the internet,i was not aware of this problem.But when i installed it on the laptop,i could no longer connect to my wireless network.Cant figure out whats wrong.So right now i am doing system restore on the laptop and hopefully find a solution in the near future.Thats my only issue,atleast for now.
Link To Order XP SP2 Cd(Available later this summer).

Tor Reilly

So i watched Bill O Reilly interviewing Michael Moore on his program "The O Reilly Factor".The program is preety interesting.And as you all know i live in Canada(therfore no FoxNews).I am wondering if anyone know of any torrent sites that have "The O Reilly Factor".I have searched around but so far no luck.Thanks for your help.

Crazy Stunts and Stuffz

Video Of Drag Race in NY City - All his videos are taken using a camera attached to his helmet.Its not on the fastest server but "Patience is a Virtue".Found via Engadget.

Julie Chen Then And Now

B4 And After Pic Of Julie Chen(Host Of Big Brother) - "Julie Chen, host of Big Brother on CBS, was just another local TV anchor back in 1996. She decided to aim for the big time and be a national reporter. In order to do this, she needed a new look. So, she had eyelid surgery and a rhinoplasty".Its a preety drastic change.She looks so much better now.So all i have to say is moderate plastic surgery is good.Extreme plastic surgery(Michael Jackson) is bad.

GMail Tools/Apps

GMail Apps - Links to many applications that make the use of GMail easier.Its like an all you can eat buffet for GMail user.

MSN Web Messenger

MSN Web Messenger - It "lets you talk online and in real-time with friends and family using just a web browser! Use it on any shared computer - at school, at work, at a friend's house or anywhere you can't install the MSN Messenger software".Pretty cool.But its in beta right now.Check it out.

Timelapsed CNTower

Timelapsed Video Of CNTower - Got it from Daily Dose Of Imagery.

Like FHM???

Canadian FHM - Not really,but it has some good content that guys might be interested with.Its a fairly new site.I bet in time it will be as good as FHM(lets hope so).It has features like "Advice For Men","Etiquette","August's Web Stud" and much much more.Take a look and let me know what ya think about it.

On Your Mark,Get Set,Go.

Since i have asked people to email me for a GMail account, i have gotten quite a few emails .But i dont have enough to give to everyone.So i thought why not just post it on my blog and whoever is the first one to register gets it.Sorry thats the only fair way(that i can think of).
Click For A Free GMail Account
I plan on posting more GMail accounts here.Stay tuned.

Wednesday - Hump Day

Google Hacks - need i explain.
Google Guide
NewYork Times Link Generator - provides you with a link to read articles on the NewYork Times without registering.
The 25 Most Difficult Questions you'll be asked on a job interview

Jokes For Programmer

Programmer Jokes - A sample "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you have to support for a lifetime."