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Bookmarks for November 3rd 2009 through November 10th 2009

techlifeblogged@gmail.com (Scott Kingery) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:00:22 -0800

Sites that I found interesting for November 3rd 2009 through November 10th 2009:

Computer Security Company Takes Out Enormous Botnet – Security firm FireEye has reportedly struck a massive blow against spam. The so called "Mega-D" or "Ozdok" spam botnet was effectively dismantled by these intrepid security researchers. After studying the beast, FireEye launched an attack by notifying ISPs, having command and control (CnC) domains removed, and then registering unused CnC domains.
Kindle Gets Windows App -- Mac Version Coming Soon – Amazon released it's Kindle for PC app this morning. It's available for download at Amazon.com now and allows you to read Kindle eBooks on your computer
Ninite Easy PC Setup and Multiple App Installer – Great For Win7 Upgrades – 1. Pick the apps you want. 2. Start your customized installer. 3. You're done! Heard about this on Windows Weekly last week.
Study Says Pirates Buy Plenty of Legitimate Digital Music – A United Kingdom research group, Demos, discovered that those people who confessed to pirating music were also those who spent the most on music. Pirates spend, on average, $126 per year on CDs, MP3s, and vinyl. Non-pirates (landlubbers?), on the other hand, only spend, on average, $72 per year.

Bookmarks for November 3rd 2009 through November 10th 2009

techlifeblogged@gmail.com (Scott Kingery) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:00:22 -0800

Sites that I found interesting for November 3rd 2009 through November 10th 2009:

Computer Security Company Takes Out Enormous Botnet – Security firm FireEye has reportedly struck a massive blow against spam. The so called "Mega-D" or "Ozdok" spam botnet was effectively dismantled by these intrepid security researchers. After studying the beast, FireEye launched an attack by notifying ISPs, having command and control (CnC) domains removed, and then registering unused CnC domains.
Kindle Gets Windows App -- Mac Version Coming Soon – Amazon released it's Kindle for PC app this morning. It's available for download at Amazon.com now and allows you to read Kindle eBooks on your computer
Ninite Easy PC Setup and Multiple App Installer – Great For Win7 Upgrades – 1. Pick the apps you want. 2. Start your customized installer. 3. You're done! Heard about this on Windows Weekly last week.
Study Says Pirates Buy Plenty of Legitimate Digital Music – A United Kingdom research group, Demos, discovered that those people who confessed to pirating music were also those who spent the most on music. Pirates spend, on average, $126 per year on CDs, MP3s, and vinyl. Non-pirates (landlubbers?), on the other hand, only spend, on average, $72 per year.

Bookmarks for November 3rd 2009 through November 10th 2009

Bookmarks for October 29th 2009 through November 2nd 2009

techlifeblogged@gmail.com (Scott Kingery) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:01:53 -0800

Sites that I found interesting for October 29th 2009 through November 2nd 2009:

Recovering from Twitter Phishing – Nice little how-to. via @chelpixie on Twitter.
Enough, Microsoft. No One Is Endorsing Piracy. Obviously. – Hey, Microsoft. Duh.
DIY Windows Home Server Build – JukeBox MkII – Nice article from Automated Home. via @isdixon on Twitter

Bookmarks for October 29th 2009 through November 2nd 2009

Bookmarks for October 23rd 2009 through October 25th 2009

techlifeblogged@gmail.com (Scott Kingery) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:00:05 -0800

Sites that I found interesting for October 23rd 2009 through October 25th 2009:

Upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 – Help & How-to – Upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7? Use this guide from Microsoft.
How to automatically skip commercials in Windows 7 Media Center – Ben Drawbaugh has a great guide on commercials skipping in Windows Media Center and as we all hate commercials its well worth looking at. via @isdixon on Twitter.
Clean Install Windows 7 with Upgrade Media – While you can't simply use Upgrade media to do a clean install of Windows 7 on an unused PC with a blank hard drive, the workaround this time is easier than ever. Assuming you know the trick.

Bookmarks for October 23rd 2009 through October 25th 2009

Bookmarks for October 20th 2009 through October 22nd 2009

techlifeblogged@gmail.com (Scott Kingery) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:01:11 -0700

Sites that I found interesting for October 20th 2009 through October 22nd 2009:

How to Use Digital Cable Tuners with CableCARD in Windows 7 Media Center – Last month at the CEDIA EXPO trade show in Atlanta, Microsoft made a major announcement regarding CableCARDs: the company announced that consumers would now be able to install digital cable tuners with CableCARD into their Windows 7 PCs…all by themselves.
Thymer – Super easy Planning, Task and Project Management – Project management and task planning for people who hate project management and task planning.
For the Sysadmins: Software Compliance Tool – Software Compliance Tool is a small application designed to reduce the overhead in managing unwanted applications in a business environment. via @sintaxasn on Twitter.

Bookmarks for October 20th 2009 through October 22nd 2009

Bookmarks for October 15th 2009 through October 18th 2009

techlifeblogged@gmail.com (Scott Kingery) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:00:53 -0700

Sites that I found interesting for October 15th 2009 through October 18th 2009:

DIY Tennis Ball Photography Stabilization Unit – DIY web site Instructables details how to make an image stabilizing unit to supplement your steady hand using a tennis ball and a few nuts and bolts.
PowerPlaylist 2 for Windows Media Center in Windows 7 Now Available – Highly customizable by the consumer resulting in a highly personalized Windows Media Center experience.
Google Voice Extends Invitations – Those testing Google Voice will be allowed to invite friends to use the service.

Bookmarks for October 15th 2009 through October 18th 2009

Twitter – It's All About The Gestures

techlifeblogged@gmail.com (Scott Kingery) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:30:42 -0700

Are you an ‘insider' in your industry? Go to all the smart cocktail parties? Get all the breaking news before it breaks? No? You should be.

What if I told you you could find out what smart leaders in your industry are reading about and thinking right now? What has their attention or what they have marked as important. Wouldn't that be cool?

That, dear reader, is why I am on Twitter. Granted, as a technologist it is easier as the thought leaders are early adopters and using Twitter to its fullest. If you are in other industries then you may not have others that have truly grasped the power of Twitter. You have an opportunity, in those cases, to be the leader and help the others find the way.

You see, the more you are on Twitter the more you realize that it is all about the gestures. People find something interesting that they want others to see and they retweet it. Showing you, that is, gesturing to you, that they have paid attention to that topic and are assigning value to it.

An often overlooked Twitter feature are Favorites. The gestures here are very interesting. New favorites don't show up in your normal twitter stream but if you go to the page of someone you follow you can look at them. People use these for all kinds of things. Sometimes they are kind of ego centric, marking their own tweets that have been retweeted. More often they are used as a kind of book mark. These are the really useful ones. These say ‘this tweet is important. I may want to return to this topic in the future.' This really gives you a kind of insider peek into what is going on. Follow them long enough and you'll start to really feel like an insider. Trends start to become clear. Sometimes these indicate ‘what's next' and other times they indicate what your fiend is into. The added benefit to following retweets and favorites is that you find new people as often these tweets are from people you don't yet follow.

Next time I'll show you the tools I have cobbled together to keep up to date with people who share great information.

Keep sharing.

Twitter – It's All About The Gestures

Bookmarks for October 10th 2009 through October 14th 2009

techlifeblogged@gmail.com (Scott Kingery) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:01:00 -0700

Sites that I found interesting for October 10th 2009 through October 14th 2009:

Running WHS on Server 2008 Hyper-V Part 1 – Microsoft MVP Philip Churchill discusses running MS Windows Home Server on Hyper-V.
Windows 7 demo: Search tools – ZDNet's Ed Bott takes a closer look at the search tools in Windows 7 and shows you how you can use them to make your digital life a little more organized.
RAW Image Support -- W7/Media Center 32/64 bit – Barb Bowman explains how to get support for RAW in 7MC
Use iPodifier to add Windows Media Center TV Recordings to Your iPod – The free app automates transcoding DVR-MS files (and other formats) to MPEG-4 or H264 and then adds them to iTunes and syncs to the device

Bookmarks for October 10th 2009 through October 14th 2009

Bookmarks for October 9th 2009

techlifeblogged@gmail.com (Scott Kingery) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:02:53 -0700

Sites that I found interesting for October 9th 2009

Microsoft adds free root certificate authority to Windows – Out-of-the-box in Windows 7 free digital certificates issued by StartCom will be inherently trusted by the operating system and its applications.
Windows Home Server Add-ins: Lights-Out, WebGuide, and Whiist – Handy add-ins for Windows Home Server.
How To Backup Your WordPress Blog In Three Easy Steps – Helpful article for all Wordpressers out there. Via @davedelaney on Twitter.

Bookmarks for October 9th 2009

Bookmarks for October 5th 2009 through October 8th 2009

techlifeblogged@gmail.com (Scott Kingery) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:00:04 -0700

Sites that I found interesting for October 5th 2009 through October 8th 2009:

NASA preps to shoot the moon – On Friday morning October 9 at 4:31:19 a.m. PDT, NASA plans to have two spacecraft crash into the lunar surface to dig up some moon dust and search for water.
CopyTransManager is a Snappy and Light-Weight iTunes Alternative – If all you really want out of your iPod experience is the ability to load music, movies, and podcasts onto your iPod without any bulk or bloat, portable and free CopyTransManager is a speedy iTunes-alternative. via @isdixon on Twitter.
Gravatar – Globally Recognized Avatars – Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. via @MrsNatalie on Twitter.

Bookmarks for October 5th 2009 through October 8th 2009

Bookmarks for September 29th 2009 through October 2nd 2009

techlifeblogged@gmail.com (Scott Kingery) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:01:21 -0700

Sites that I found interesting for September 29th 2009 through October 2nd 2009:

App for the milk – Desktop client for Remember the Milk – Adobe Air client program for syncing with Remember the Milk web service.
Add a Google Reader sidebar – How to use a minimalist Google Reader in the browser sidebar.
Can you upgrade an old XP PC to Windows 7? Should you? – Ed Bott ponders whether he should upgrade a 4 year old XP computer to Windows 7. Gives guidance to those considering a similar upgrade.

Bookmarks for September 29th 2009 through October 2nd 2009

Bookmarks for September 25th 2009 through September 27th 2009

techlifeblogged@gmail.com (Scott Kingery) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:00:51 -0700

Sites that I found interesting for September 25th 2009 through September 27th 2009:

It's Official: Water Found on the Moon – New observations from three different spacecraft return what has been called "unambiguous evidence" of water across the surface of the moon. via @Macht_Nichts on Twitter.
Install Picasa 3.5 In Linux – Want the same kind of facial recognition, name tagging and easy geo-location of Picasa 3.5 for Windows and Mac on your Linux desktop? There's no official release, but you can fairly easily plug Picasa into your system.
Microsoft's Chiller-less Data Center – Microsoft today announced that its huge facility in Dublin, Ireland is running without any chillers. Outside air is drawn into the facility to cool the thousands of servers powering the company's "Live" suite of online services for users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Bookmarks for September 25th 2009 through September 27th 2009

Bookmarks for September 21st 2009 through September 23rd 2009

techlifeblogged@gmail.com (Scott Kingery) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:00:31 -0700

Sites that I found interesting for September 21st 2009 through September 23rd 2009:

Indian space mission finds water on moon – An Indian space mission claims to have found water on the moon, raising hopes that a manned base could be established there within the next two decades.
WWW FAQs: How do I design web pages for the iPhone? – Handy CSS tips to get your page to display nicely on an iphone.
TV on your Media Center PC: a 30-second primer – Ed Bott has a quick run down on the current state of getting TV on you PC.

Bookmarks for September 21st 2009 through September 23rd 2009

Bookmarks for September 17th 2009 through September 21st 2009

techlifeblogged@gmail.com (Scott Kingery) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:00:20 -0700

Sites that I found interesting for September 17th 2009 through September 21st 2009:

AT&T to Let You Patch the Dead Zone in Your House for $20 per Month – The telco has started offering the 3G MicroCell, a wireless network extender the company claims acts like a mini cellular tower in your home. With it, users can expect enhanced coverage for both voice and data for up to 5,000 square feet, with support for up to four users at any given time
Batch Converting a Directory Tree of Videos Recursively with Handbrake for Streaming to an Xbox360 – This script takes every *.avi file in the current (.) folder, and all folders underneath it (-R), and for each of this files, creates a new filename with the word "-convert" inside. It then calls the HandBrake command line (yours may be in "C:\Program Files" so you might need to change that. It uses the Xbox360 preset.
Media Center Studio – Media Center Studio is a free application for Windows Vista and Windows 7 that enables you to customise Windows Media Center. It is the successor of MC Menu Mender, bringing it up to date for Windows 7 and adding support for theme application and editing.

Bookmarks for September 17th 2009 through September 21st 2009

Bookmarks for August 26th 2009 through August 29th 2009

techlifeblogged@gmail.com (Scott Kingery) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:03:08 -0700

Sites that I found interesting for August 26th 2009 through August 29th 2009:

IBM 'X-Rays' A Molecule – IBM scientists claim to be the first to image the inner structure of a molecule, opening up new possibilities in building smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient computing components.
The Evolution of Retweeting – Twitter has announced that a user-generated communication technique called retweeting–reposting someone else's message, similar to quoting–will be formally incorporated into Twitter. Some experts say Twitter's approach will hinder the conversational aspect of retweeting; others predict that it will create a new way of communicating.
Fewer Unencrypted QAM & Analog Cable Channels Coming Soon – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled to allow cable companies to use cheap, one-way digital set top boxes with encryption on them via a three-year granting of a waiver to the FCC rule that had prohibited the use of set-top boxes with integrated security functionality. Sounds harmless enough, but its really a bad thing for many consumers -- especially HTPC users.

Bookmarks for August 26th 2009 through August 29th 2009