magoo

Member since: Aug 23rd, 2006

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New NASA theme for Windows 7 is intergalactic awesome (Download Squad)

Apr 14th 2010 9:22AM FWIW, you can open *.themepack files using WinRAR Archiver

A big list of ways to make Tiny URLs (Download Squad)

May 24th 2009 4:07AM If you're worried about what happens when your URL shortener of choice dies (because some / many of them will !!!), you can build your own.

I've used Google's URL Shortener service ->> http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewListing?productListingId=5143210+6352879591152674960

Full instructions at http://www.labnol.org/internet/setup-tinyurl-like-redirection-service/8333/ Setup Your Own TinyURL Like Redirection Service in 2 Minutes

"Beacon Sucks" sums up SXSWi Facebook keynote (Download Squad)

Mar 12th 2008 3:48AM Once you guys get away from scouring the 'net for usefull utilities (Remember ? the download part of your name ?) you start to act like drunk frat boys - paying someone else $20 to heckle shows us where your balls are.

So the interview is SOO boring you can't get off your arse and go find something interesting for us ... at SXSW ?

Ten Tips for Web Design Magic (Download Squad)

Dec 17th 2007 9:23PM Speaking as a programmer / scripter, who plays with web stuff in his spare time, I find good design the hardest part of building a website.

To be blunt, HTML / Script writing is a commodity, but it takes good design and content to lift one (otherwise equivalent) site above another.

Google map your way to Stockholm (Download Squad)

Mar 30th 2007 2:12AM After a bit of experimentation (I tried with Quebec, New York, Chicago, Miami on the US side, and Belfast, London, Madrid, Rome on the European side), I found you always get told

- Turn right at Long Wharf
- Swim across the Atlantic Ocean
- Slight right at E05
- At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto E05/Pont Vauban

What's significant about these places ?
Long Wharf is Aquarium Station, Boston massachusetts

E05 is Le havre, France

How-To: Run your own network wiring (Engadget)

Aug 23rd 2006 10:05PM Wireless ? I'm pumping video, sound and data through my house and wireless G doesn't cut it an peak times (me, the missus and three teenagers).

Gigabit wiring and NICs have future proofed the house for a few months anyway.