Saturday, November 8, 2008

Miscellany...Lots of new links

-Send a file: http://www.usend.io/

-Search for color palette, based on existing image: http://www.colorhunter.com/

-Website patterns: http://www.bgpatterns.com/

-Back ... at the Washington Post.  The FED page: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/politics/fedpage/

-Tired of Windows nagging you to restart.  Stop it with: Start, run, type: net stop "automatic updates"  - Quotation marks are required.  Another way to do this:
Modify Group Policy settings.

    Start, Run "gpedit.msc" to bring up the group policy editor. Then navigate to the folder

    Local Computer Policy
      Computer Configuration
        Administrative Templates
          Windows Components
            Windows Update

There are two settings and both will work, so it's your choice. Either enable No auto-restart for schedule Automatic Updates installations or set Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations to a long time interval, like 1440 minutes.
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-Picture site: http://pixdaus.com/

-Pres. Elect Obama's new site: http://www.change.gov/ Submit YOUR ideas with a from via email: http://www.change.gov/page/s/ofthepeople

-Real Time STATS for the World: http://www.worldometers.info/

-SINGLE CLICK SHUTDOWN FOR XP. Here's the updated version of the popular shutdown shortcut for Windows XP. Just right-click onto an empty area of the desktop then select New then Shortcut from the menu that appears. Click the Browse button and navigate your way to: C:\Windows\System32\Shutdown.exe.
Click Next, give the shortcut a name and click Finish. Now right-click the new shortcut, select Properties and in the Target box, add the command line ‘switch’ -l (to log off), -s (to shut down) or -r (to reboot). A basic shutdown shortcut command line should look like this:

    C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -s

-Drivers: http://www.drivermax.com/

-The SITES listed in this BLOG have been gleaned from:
http://www.lockergnome.com   http://www.don-guitar.com   http://www.langa.com  www.techsupportalert.com   http://www.komando.com    http://www.us-cert.gov   http://WindowsSecrets.com   http://www.infopackets.com   http://www.jakeludington.com   http://www.junkscience.com   http://www.consumerworld.org   http://www.straightdope.com   http://spaceweather.com   http://www.scotsnewsletter.com  http://www.tricksandtrinkets.com   http://www.spywareinfo.net   http://www.InternetTourbus.com  http://www.betterbudgeting.com   http://Vmyths.com   http://www.websensesecuritylabs.com   http://marylaine.com   http://www.thisistrue.com   http://www.StellaAwards.com
www.HeroicStories.com   http://www.linkydinky.com/

-Current http://current.com/ Includes current tv schedules and shows.

-ArtPromote – art and culture online http://www.artpromote.com/  A searchable directory with thousands of annotated listings in over 200 categories of visual art, music, and literature.

-Scour http://www.scour.com/  “Scour's purpose is to bridge the gap between searchers and relevant results. By providing a platform for the user to vote and comment on relevancy, searchers connect with one another creating a true social search community, attained through innovative solutions to meet the needs of today's web searchers.”

-Search.  MSE  http://mse360.com   Returnd text AND images on same page, along with Wikipedia Rtulst and BLOG results on the same page.  Try it.  tp.

-BeyondExec - Spawn Processes and/or Shutdown Remote Windows NT/2000/XP WorkStations. Have you ever wanted to run a process such as an application installer/setup, service pack, virus definition update etc on a group of target computers without having the burden of installing any remote client on your target computers? Perhaps you have needed to Shutdown, Powerdown, Reboot, Suspend, Hibernate, LogOff or Lock a large number of workstations at the one time or at certain times from a scheduler and give the user notice and the ability to cancel the operation beforehand? http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/remoteprocess/BeyondExec.htm

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