Entries from May 2006

May 31, 2006

On Exercise

Very good article on exercise and the myth of the “perfect workout”.  I’ve been preaching this for a couple of years now; just 20-30 mins. of exercise here and there will do wonders for your body.  Also, matching your workout to your stress level has huge benefits.  Link.

May 30, 2006

Excellent FF Plugin

Check out Browster. It’s a plugin for Firefox (and that other crappy browser) that allows you to hover your mouse over any link, on most webpages, to see a preview of what’s there before you click. Kind of like ask.com’s search but more efficient (has a page caching system).
update:  I’ve used this plugin [...]

May 29, 2006

Best Paper Airplane

I’m going to try this tomorrow for sure.  Also has a Google video to go along with it.  Link.

May 29, 2006

Resetting Windows Passwords

An article on resetting passwords in most flavors of Windows, with links to respective tools.  Check it.

May 27, 2006

Tips for Men…re: Your Body

Pretty cool list of “tips” about a man’s body.  Everything from why eating cheap tuna is better for you, to picking out the perfect pillow.  Yes, all tips are written with your body in mind.  Link.

May 27, 2006

Huge Gamer’s Cafe

Holy crap!  This has got to be the badass of all gaming cafe’s in the world.  Howie’s Game Shack is located in Southern California and contains over 200 computers and 45 Xbox 360 stations, all with big-screen TVs attached.  The guy who wrote this article said he waited 30 mins. for a computer station to [...]

May 27, 2006

Offshore Banking

Yeah, you wan to be l33t like me and open up a Swedish bank account.  Here’s how you do it.

May 27, 2006

9800 Free Fonts

…yes, that many.  I like how the site previews the font for you, in any text you type.  Link.

May 27, 2006

.htaccess Generator

Excellent .htaccess resource.  Just fill out the rather large form and get good, clean code in return.  Link.

May 27, 2006

Motorola Q

Well, it has been released and has received a very strong review from PCMag.com.  They loved the damn thing.  I will love it too, as long as I get the same email results as I do with the Blackberry.

May 27, 2006

Canvas for WordPress

As Drew pointed out, Canvas 1.1.2 is now released for WordPress 2.0.  I think this will be great for some “on-the-side” designer types, wanting to do a quick blog, change things around on the fly, etc.  Personally, to get a theme that you have written to work with Canvas is a pain in the ass.  [...]

May 22, 2006

Nice Site

I have to remember to use this one for some people at work.  Get a lot of email forwards from your friends and/or family?  You know…those emails with 100 other people in the to: list?  Yeeeeah.  Well, send the sender here next time.