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Weekly Cool Links #3 – 04.24.09 edition

Well I skipped a week.  But I have good reason when I began thinking about last weeks WCL I realized I didn’t have much to share so I just decided not to save what I had for this week.  It’s been sort of a slow “cool” links period the last couple weeks, but I’ll share what I got.

First on the home front, Kelly and I have been working lots on the house, especially on the yard this past week.  We over seeding all the grass and are in the process of putting some topper soil over it all to help the new see grow.  In addition to that our tomatoes plants have really took off and we already have a bunch of tomatoes growing, soon enough we’ll be able to have our first taste of our first home grown tomatoes!

Back to the links.  USC Football linebackers made the cover of this weeks Sports Illustrated!lbs Looking forward to the NFL Draft this weekend and seeing where the former Trojans all go.

Macs never get viruses…. Right.  That’s why they are becoming zombie computers and doing DoS attacks due to a trojan that is infecting Macs.  Glad to see a programmer taking the time to show Macs aren’t perfectly safe either.  My webhost (Dreamhost) is offering TWO FREE YEARS of webhosting to the first 1000 Geocities customers that make the switch to a real webhost.  That’s a savings of $200 bucks!  And if you aren’t a Geocities customer you can still get great service and sign up for them from this link here (although it’s not free).

Google has a great new mobile version of their product search online now!  Specifically for iPhones and Andriod phones.  Looking forward to utilizing it while I’m out and about shopping.

My favorite computer magazine, Maximum PC just released an online article where they built a $500 Kick-ASS PC that can run Cyris at 40 FPS, pretty good bang for your buck!

Don’t forget about the big gay storm and the need for the super-umbrella!

Last couple things.  I was reintroduced to a card game that I used to love to play in high school called Tien len and just wanted to share it with everyone, it’s great for 3-4 players and simple to learn.  If you read through the rules I suggest to play with the alternate rule that you don’t have to match suits on pairs and straights because that just makes it a pain in the ass.  Just remember hearts are always the high suit!

And lastly, SAVE CHUCK!  Chuck has been one of my favorite shows to watch the past 2 years and it would be a disappointment for NBC to take such and good show off the air and continue to air crap like The Apprentice.  Come on NBC!  Go here and see what us fans can do to try and help Save Chuck!  I hate Subway and I might even end up eating it on the night of the season finale just to do my part to help the show.

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Mission Accomplished!

WooHOO! We got all our services installed at home today, internet, TV, and digital phone! YES I’m connected back to civilization!

Screencast: How to Select Multiple Lines of Text in Firefox 3

Screencast: How to Select Multiple Lines of Text in Firefox 3

Pretty sweet new feature for Firefox!

Our New Baby!

So, the current computing rig has been having some issues lately with crashing and various other slight problems with it’s current setup. I had been contemplating putting together a new computer for awhile but building a rig from scratch just wasn’t going to cut it, because by the time I had finished buying all the parts it already would of been an aging computer. My demands for computing are pretty straight forward. I don’t need the best of the best. I just need a mid range gaming PC that will play the occasional game if I choose to do so. By I want something that will be great system for desktop speed and for media storage. With my company we have the opportunity to purchase Dell computers through Time Warner Cable at a slightly discounted rate. On top of that we get 0% financing up to $2000 and 26 payroll deductions to pay it off. It’s a great deal that I took advantage of years back when I purchased my Dell Inspiron 8200, which still works like a charm, it just weighs about 35 pounds! I have NEVER bought a desktop computer, I’ve always built them from the ground up, piece by piece, so this is a new experience in my personal life (I’ve bought numerous desktops in a professional role either for my department or in my consultant work). I quickly decided the only Dell desktop that was going to work for me was going to be their current XPS version, the XPS 720. 

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Here are the specs of it.

Windows Vista Premium
Intel Core2 Q6600 (2.4 Ghz, 1066)
Quad Core with 8 MB cache
2GB Corsair DDR2 SDRAM overclocked to 1066
256 MB Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS
160 GB WD Raptop, 10K SATA Drive for the OS
750 GB SATA Drive for the rest
Sound Blaster X-FI PCI Sound Card

And then I’m going to add a second DVD Burner to it (already have) and my 320 Gig SATA Drive I already has as well. Should be a nice rig for the next couple years and since it’s an XPS should be easy to upgrade if I feel like making some changes down the road. I did not get a new LCD since I already have a 20 Inch that does 1600×1200 and has been good to me.

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