I just got a glimpse of YouTube’s new video player and I like what I see.
The new Youtube player.
A couple of things to notice:
You can see how well the player integrates with the beta page:
So you’ve just received your fancy new Google Wave invite and activated your account. Some of your friends are on it (hopefully) and you’ve invited 10 more. Now what?
Here are a couple of cool things you can do with a Wave that you can’t do using e-mail or chat.
With the GWave Who Is Coming gadget you can quickly invite a large group of people to an event. The invited can then RSVP in a moment’s notice and even change their RSVP whenever they want. Not only will this gadget allow you get a live listing of who’s coming to your event, but anyone can also post comments below the wave and suggest revised times, places, or even post sub-event Who Is Coming gadgets.
Get it here.
Google Wave has a variety of game gadgets including Chess, Sudoku, and Magnetic Poetry (?).
Need to show someone where you’re apartment is on a live map? How about you and your friend mark the spots on the map where you want to visit on a roadtrip? There’s a gadget for that:
Maps
For more gadgets visit Wavety.com
As I was walking up to my room I saw an interesting card on the ground in the straircase leading up to my room.
It looked quite intricate and interesting at first glance so I decided to take another look. In an instant I recognized the mask as that of V. For the uninformed, V is a character from a movie that burst onto the world last year depicting a 1984ish Britain on the brink of revolution.
V
Quothe V:
But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace soubriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona. Voila! In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the “vox populi†now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.
The mystery grew as I turned the card.
Well hello there.
Such intricate patterns. There has to be more to this card. No one in their right mind would print something so detailed for no reason at all. Indeed, no one. An anonymous no one.
Expensive
Hmm, I wonder where this is going: http://www.youfoundthecard.com/
Well so much for that. Really guys? You printed this expensive card and probably wasted many hours of your life just to advertise for an anti-scientology website? Well, whatever, if that’s your ‘hobby’ than who am I to judge?
I’ve always had a knack for computers and technology in general and building a tutorials website is a goal of mine. Instead of creating a separate website for these tutorials I’m going to try to place these tutorials in this blog under the computers category. Here’s the first one:
My C640 has a Windows XP skin that allows it to look very distinctive as you can see here:
Wallpaper is here.
This can be done in two different ways. The more powerful one which involves $$ will also use more of your computers resources through extra processes. The other involves a simple patch that will alow you to use a smaller variety of skins.
Windows Blinds
The current version of WB is a program by Stardock that will use custom skins called WB files. Both the program and the skins can be downloaded from http://www.wincustomize.com. The variety of skins is virtually endless. If you don’t find a skin to like with WB then you won’t find a skin you’ll like anywhere. The installation process if self explanatory and changing skins involves a very simple right click. However I must warn that the program itself and the skins take up a large chunk of Processing power, RAM, and HD space relative to the other skinning method.
UXtheme.dll Patch
Many do not know this but Windows XP has a built in skinning ability allowing it to use “msstyle” theme files. However, for some unkown reason ‘cough’money’cough’, Microsoft configured the UXTheme.dll file used for skinning windows in order to not allow the use of 3rd party msstyles. As a result a 3rd party patch came out which allows the user to simply click on msstyles to skin their computer. The msstyles themselves load with no residual memory usage, processing power, and very little HD space. The UxTheme.dll patch can be found here and the msstyles can be found here and here. While this method is simple and has very few residual effects it is not nearly as powerful as WB in skinning. WB can also add transparency to make the Vista Skins look real—msstyles cannot.
In the end it’s your choice on how serious you are about skinning and whether to buy WB or stick with the free UXTheme.dll patch. Just make sure your desktop doesn’t look like this:
My Ugly Desktop by XxMoroDashixX
Next week. Icons and Wallpaper!