Archive for October, 2009
YouTube XL supersizes YouTube for your T.V.
Oct 28th
Have you been browsing around YouTube from your Media Center connected to your TV or some other web enabled device that is shown on your big screen?
If you have you have noticed that the site is far from optimized for your huge display. Google has heard all your belly aching and have super sized YouTube for you TV.!
So if you got an itching to play some YouTube videos on your TV now is as good a time as any to try it out. YouTube XL is another interface for accessing YouTube. You can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/xl
5 Reasons Google Wave Is Not Ready via GeekLad
Oct 26th
I was fortunate enough to receive an invitation into Google Wave shortly after the initial 100,000 invititations went out last month. Initially, I was a bit overwhelmed and did not really know where to begin or what to do. Bwana was kind enough to engage in a real-time wave with me, and show me around a bit. Afterwards, I began to see the potential. However, I think there are many reasons why Google Wave still is not ready for prime-time.
Lack of Access Control
Google Wave does not have any sort of access control for managing waves and wave participants:
- Anyone can be added to a wave by a participant in the wave.
- Any wave participant can add a bot to the wave (because bots are simply treated as participants).
- It is not possible to remove participants (except for bots) from a wave.
- Anyone can modify any part of the wave.
Here is what I think Google Wave needs to implement to resolve the access control issues:
- Allow the wave creator do add/remove any participant from a wave.
- Allow the wave creator to assign/modify the following permissions that can be set at the wave and participant level:
- Permission to add bots to the wave.
- Permission to invite other participants to the wave.
- Permission to remove participants from the wave.
- Read-only or read/write access to the wave.
- Permission to grant/modify each (or all) permissions for other participants and/or the entire wave.
Without access control, things can quickly get out of hand if you are trying to work on a collaborative project that is only intended for certain people. Even if you do manage to maintain control as to who has access to a wave, you may only want to allow certain people permission to perform certain functions.
Where is the startup folder in Windows 7? Help!
Oct 26th
Now that Windows 7 is out on the market, and the Microsoft marketing machine is in full gear, people are starting to go out and purchase their Windows 7 upgrades to finally release them from the oppression that is Windows Vista, or they finally want to upgrade now that their is a decent replacement for Windows XP. With the upgrade will come a few changes, so getting used to your new operating system will require a little bit of a learning curve.
One item that Windows XP users will have to understand is the location of the Startup folder in Windows 7. For you Vista veterans, you can go about your day, because it is in the same place in Vista as Windows 7. For you XP folks, who haven’t played with Vista or Windows 7 Beta, I’ll give you the low down.
In Windows 7 the location of your personal startup folder is:
%systemdrive%\users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
For all users, you will find the startup folder in:
%systemdrive%\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
I hope this little tid-bit of info helps in your transition!
Know of any other good Windows 7 tips/tricks? Hit us up in the comments!
Written by El Di Pablo of Bauer-Power.
Thanks El Di Pablo!
XKCD Pays tribute to GeoCities today
Oct 26th
So normally we would post a XKCD image and link but this article is not warranted by today’s cartoon. It is actually regarding the XKCD web page itself. To pay homage to (or make fun of) XKCD redid their site early 90’s style with lot’s of blink tags! Check it out before it is gone:
For those of you not old enough to remember GeoCities – this is where i first published a web page and messed with HTML tags. Oh wow do I remember my first javascript that made a word follow the cursor – remember that?? Good Times, Good Times!
Oh an RIP GeoCities!
Adding your own options to the XP right click menu.
Oct 26th
As avid Windows users you have seen how applications add right click menu options. For instance Mcafee antiVirus adds a shortcut to Scan For Threats in the selected folder or Resco’s options to encrypt or de-crypt a folder.
Now you want to add useful right click options for yourself and AtA is here to show you how!
It is actually pretty easy and involves NO registry editing like you might have expected. Simply open up my computer choose Folder Options and then File Types
And then click the advanced button and then the New button to associate an Action with this file type. For this example I am associating JPG files with editing in Adobe CS2. In the action line I type what I want to show up on the right click menu and the application used to perform action is the command line for the magic behind the shortcut.
I advise you to use the Browse button to browse on over to the EXE associated with the application you want to open. Here I browsed over to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Photoshop.exe . It puts this in quotes leave them there and put a space after the last quote and add another quote followed by %L and another quote. This passes the selected file name to the application. Without this it will just open Photoshop and what good it that?
But after you are finished and click ok on all the open windows you can go check out your handy work by right clicking on a JPG…
And what do you know? It actually works! Ah what a great way to start the day shaving valuable seconds off of my work flow. It might give me an extra 15 minutes over the course of the day to play with FireNes!
AskTheAdmin is Back! Thanks Google!
Oct 26th
So after 2 weeks of waiting on pins The Google has reinstated our Google traffic. This morning there was already 1500 hits this morning. So hopefully we will be back to full swing soon! Be on the lookout for more posts! Shoot any ideas or topics to Karl at AskTheAdmin dot Com.
