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Redneck Flood Survival Guide Checklist

thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:12:49 +0200

Flood survival kit

Toilet Paper......................................check

Bud Light..........................................check

Keystone Ice.....................................check

Budweiser.......................................check
Red Dog...........................................check

Misc. other bottles of alcohol..............check

Piece of plywood to float your
old lady and booze on ......................check

Tweak Tuesdays: Shutdown Windows XP Quicker

tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:00:01 +0100

So here are two quick ways to speed up your Windows XP shutdown and if need be restart time. The first one is do away with that awful Exiting Windows .wav file that plays. It slows down the process considerably and I don't know about you but I am tired of hearing it. All you need to do to silence this slow down is to click your start button then go to: settings -> control panel -> Sound,

Mobile Monday: Google Calendar Sync

tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:53:53 +0100

Have you seen the above new red letters on you Google Calendar page? Well I have to admit that this was something that has been out for a couple of weeks and I completely missed it. I usually access my Google Calendar from Gmail via Greasemonkey script so I do not always see the new stuff that they post there. None the less as soon as I saw it I had to load it. And I am extremely happy, I can

Firefox Friday: Broadband Speed Test and Diagnostics

fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:00:00 +0100

If you are like a lot of folks on the net, you want to know your Internet speed. Well that is where this great Firefox Extension comes in. Broadband Speed Test and Diagnostics is a nice and hand built in Internet speed test and diagnostic. All you do is load it like any other extension and access it via the tools drop down. There you have four choices. You can check your download speed, your

Thursday Firefox Special tip: Backing up About:Config settings

fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:56:29 +0100

Are you like me and have made several changes to your Firefox registry file or "About:Config" file? Well just like any other changes that take time to do you want to back them up so that you will not have to go thru the trouble of redoing all that work. It is pretty easy and painless thing to do all you need to do is know where to go to get to the file that you need which is call "prefs.js" and

Tech-Weekly's Daily Twitter's

tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:12:32 +0100

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Vista Web Minute: Tips to Improve Windows Vista Performance

mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:29:52 +0100

Registry errors often cause several computer-related errors, which may prove fatal to your computer. The registry-related errors occur when it starts expanding due to the accumulation of several unwanted, invalid, outdated, and incorrect entries within it. These entries find a place in the system’s registry and leads to uncontrolled registry growth. This unwanted growth is likely to cause poor

Firefox Friday: Mozilla Weave Extension

fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:59:47 +0100

Pic: FolkenStardust's As more folks are taking there computer everything with them these days it only makes sense to have a online source to consolidate your information. I have for the past yearbeen using Google's Browser Sync. for Firefox, which has worked out okay but left more to be desired. I did not like the fact that half the time when I would restart my Firefox that I wouldbe prompted to

Web Wednesday: Radio-Locator

wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:40:53 +0100

Who needs to find a radio station these days with them being streamed online or via satellite you ask? Well some of us folks do not yet have satellite radio or HD radios and this handy little site will locate any radio station in a given area by several different ways. It is amazing how many things can be singled out and found online like this. Next week I will look at a site that can show you

Web Minute: Handy Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:00:01 +0100

I guess I am a real dummy because of all the different operating systems and applications that I have used over the years with keyboard shortcuts it never dawned on me that Firefox had some really useful ones. The one that I have gripped about internally to myself over and over again is to be able to move from tab to tab in Firefox from the key board. Well I just happened to stumble across an

Tweak Tuesdays: Speedup Firefox Page Loads

tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:00:00 +0100

In previous posting's I have mentioned several ways that you can tweak Firefox to speed it up. Now there are all kinds of different off the shelf so to speak applications that will make these tweaks for you without you having to even tinker with the inner workings of Firefox. Those are good and I have seen significant browsing speed from my previous tweaks but the one that I want to tell you

Mobile Monday: Stompbox make your vehicle a mobile access point

mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:16:04 +0100

On this weeks Mobile Monday I saw the perfect item referenced on a Systm episode, If you have never watched Systm then I encourage you to take a look. One of the best things is that they now feature Patrick Norton from the old Tech TV. So how do you make your vehicle a mobile Internet access point? Well there are now a few custom made ways to do this that can be bought ready made for your

Web Minute: Gmail Advance Filter for SPAM

fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:08:01 +0100

Upon reading Amit's Digital Inspiration recent blog post about Gmail Plus I was struck with what he talks about being a useful Gmail trick of adding a "+LABEL" after your beginning email when you sign up for something online in order to track and handle SPAM. For example I could use this email address to signup for Digital Inspirations news letter and then setup a filter to look for that

Web Minute: Make Gmail work like Outlook

fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:55:23 +0100

Are you like me you in that you really miss some of the natural ability of MS Outlook to keep you organized throughout your day but you are on the go or you don't have a MS Exchange server at your small business or at home? You can make yourself a nice portable office suite for email and productivity. I have used the following: Portable Firefox 3 beta 3 from Portableapps.com Gmail and Google

Tweak Tuesdays: Multiple hardware profiles to test services settings from login

tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:21:35 +0100

If you do not know what Windows Services are please be careful in trying anything described below. It has long been the opinion of most savvy Windows XP users that when Windows starts up there are a lot of services running in the background that are just not necessary. The trick is in knowing which ones you can completely disable or simply change from their "Automatic" setting to "Manual". I am

Web Minute: Adobe Flash Player Version Detector

mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Ever wanted to know exactly which version of Adobe Flash Player you have installed on your PC? Well since I use a variety of different versions of browsers recently I found myself wanting to find an answer to this question. Simply click on the picture above orHERE and you will quickly know.

Download of the Day: Taskbar Shuffle

mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:00:01 +0100

Today's download of the day is one that I have been looking for a long time. I like to keep my icons on the taskbar in a certain order especially when I am at work. I know this sounds silly but it keeps my workflow smoother if I have them setup from left to right in the order that I would open them first thing in the morning and do my daily work. I do from time to time have windows close

Mobile Monday's: Windows Skydrive 5Gigs and still climbing

mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:21:37 +0100

Today's quick article is on Microsoft's Skydrive. As part of our on-going Mobile Monday's posts this is another great online application that Microsoft has made available to users for free. By signing up to this service you can share Documents, Music, Pictures & Videos with friends and loved ones. One current drawback is the 50Mb size limit to each file. Sure you can have up to 5 Gigs worth of

Microsoft Weekend Minute: Vista SP1 compatibility problems

mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:45:49 +0100

Windows Vista SP1 is almost out but there will be some problems. Some security programs such as Zone Alarm Suite 7.1, Trend Micro Internet Security 2008 and BitDefender 1.0 will be blocked from even starting up once you install Windows Vista SP1. There is also at this point a problem with Windows Vista machines going into an endless cycle of boots and reboots. The fix is to remove a previous

Freeware Friday: DriverMax a great tool for OS reinstalls

fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:32:46 +0100

Any time that I have to do a re-install of Windows XP one of the major slowdowns that I face is making sure that I am able to locate all the drivers that I need to make everything work correctly. For instance for one of my motherboards require at least 4 separate drivers to be installed in order for the Ethernet, north bridge and sound card to name a few to be able to work. Well with today's

Web Wednesday: Draft.Blogger.com

wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:17:00 +0100

This Web Wednesday I am going to write about an option that I was not even aware existed until yesterday. Even though I have registered my domain name "Tech-Weekly" and run a simple tech web page currently I still rely on Google's Blogger to host my site. And one of the biggest gripes that I have had for awhile is that you cannot do any type of future posting via Blogger. I had to resort to

Rednecks Take Aim

wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:14:52 +0100

Redneck Treeswing

sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:26:42 +0100

Redneck Power Windows video

mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:12:51 +0100

You can see light at the end of the tunnel

thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:47:30 +0100

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