I Help Stupid People

Google Releases “Google Chrome”

Tym Phillips — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:00:56 +0000

Google released their browser named Google Chrome a few weeks ago. It is still in BETA but Google has done a really good job. I have used it over the last few weeks and really like it. If you’re a Google fan you will love this browser. [Download]

Alt-Tab for Mac OS X

Tym Phillips — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:46:18 +0000

If you are a Windows user who switched to Mac OS X you may miss the Alt-Tab feature from Windows. Mac has its own feature, using the Command + Tab keys. You can also use Expose to quickly switch between opened programs.

Gmail - Contacts

dm — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:42:02 +0000

Gmail finally came out with a “some what of a” solution to adding every email address you send to, to your contact list. They now have a category labeled “Suggested Contacts” So now when you email someone from craigslist post12345@oklahoma.craigslist.com wont end up in your contact list. But BE CAREFUL don’t just go deleting everything in there at first, google doesn’t seem to do a good job filtering right away. I had several of my contacts I imported end up in the suggested contacts.

Can’t afford MobileMe???

Tym Phillips — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:01:00 +0000

Not everyone who is a Apple fan can afford or wants to pay for the new MobileMe service. There is another way of getting some of the features of MobileMe without having to pay for them. Read this article by LifeHacker.com about Mail2Web.

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Message from Microsoft

dm — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:53:07 +0000

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Xoopit

dm — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:30:05 +0000

Xoopit connects with your email and lets you browse photos & videos, find files, and share them with your friends. You can use their website to search though your attachments, but I suggest you install the Firefox plugin for xoopit. It allows you browse your attachments inside gmail without having to visit their site and it integrates beautifully. Xoopit offers quick, easy searches for you pictures, videos, and files without having to search through your emails. Only gmail is available at this time but they are looking to add Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, & .Mac. Xoopit is currently in private beta, but I have a few invites and if your interested just post a comment in the section below.

Things I liked about Xoopit:
its quick
integrates well
easy upload to facebook

Things I’d like to see:
image rotate
select and download multiple files
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I’m Feeling Lucky

dm — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:30:36 +0000

This is a must check out!!!

Go to -> Google.com
insert -> Find Chuck Norris
click -> I’m Feeling Lucky

Cucku

dm — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:47:17 +0000

But seriously I have searched for quite awhile looking for a good peer-to-peer backup system and I’ve found it. Cucku, a social backup system, is a great solution to saving your files offsite. Why do you need to save your files offsite you ask…

For one you should always have a backup of your important files. Whether is be to a jumpdrive, portable hard drive, extra internal hard drive, or offsite. Personally, I have a backup run weekly of my documents and pictures and save that to an extra internal hard drive and I try to burn my pics to dvd after they build up and put them in a safe deposit box at my bank. The only problem with burning dvd’s is it’s not automatic, and lets face it if its not automatic your going to slip up. The reason to have an offsite backup is in case of natural disasters, fire, tornado, earthquake, anything that could ruin your computer.

Cucku offers offsite backup through peers in skype. Chances are you have someone you trust with extra room on their hard drive, and if they don’t buy them some extra space it only a one time fee instead of monthly with some online storage services. Your files are encrypted so you don’t have to worry about your friend seeing those pics you took of your wife in the shower while she wasn’t looking.

The only draw back to this program is the first download is slow and will take awhile. But after that it only syncs the changes that have been made. You can set it to backup daily or weekly and the program runs in the background and doesn’t seem to hinder your bandwidth at all. You can also setup multiple offsite backups with different contacts in skype. The software is very user friendly and either party can pause or stop the transfer.

Check out Cucku - Social backup here

Attention NES Fans!!!

dm — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:43:09 +0000

If you are not using Firefox download it now, you will thank us later. Now on to the good stuff, FireNES is an add-on to your Firefox browser that gives you over 2000 of your favorite old school Nintendo games. You can browse the games in your sidebar and you even have the option to select favorites, although it doesn’t seem to be working at this time. Once you find your game just double click and it will open in a little java applet, you don’t even have to blow on the cartridge.

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Regain 20% of your bandwidth

dm — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:24:58 +0000

Limit reservable bandwidth
Determines the percentage of connection bandwidth that the system can reserve. This value limits the combined bandwidth reservations of all programs running on the system. By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20% of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use the setting to override the default.

Here is how to reclaim your bandwidth:

Click Start -> Run -> and type gpedit.msc
Got to Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Network -> QOS Packet Scheduler -> Limit Reservable Bandwidth
Double click Limit Reservable Bandwidth, tick Enable and change the Bandwidth limit (%) to 0