Before sharing the links for the day I wanted to talk a little about the new application Hulu just released. The application allows you to view all of Hulu’s content on your PC or Mac computer and use a remote control. This means that you could easily hook up a laptop or desktop to a TV and have an awesome solution to watch TV. If you could get live sports on Hulu I could easily get rid of my cable. It’ll be interesting to watch what happens with this company. Here’s a video to explain the new application.
http://www.hulu.com/embed/EgF07I6lLJ94Hqma-6Fi5w
On to the links:
- What We Know About The Apple Tablet So Far
- The Dish on Dishwashers
- How to Get a Great Suit
- Ferris Bueller's Ferrari House Now For Sale
- Download Torrents Without A Client Via Torrent2Exe [Windows]
- 5 great program downloaders and updaters for Windows
- Samsung's 240Hz HDTV Is the Best LCD Around
- Make House Wine Taste Better with Soda Water
Windows XP: the industry standard. Get a nice clean, stripped down pirated version and you have the best OS I have ever seen. Very fast, very intuitive (perhaps biased since I’ve spent so much time there), and – honestly – quite stable. I have never seen a BSOD, and any difficulties were due to my own fault installing a .exe I found on my computer whose identity I was not sure of (happened once).
appearing prompt. Nevertheless, it’s much faster and much sexier. There isn’t a huge interface upgrade in my opinion. The start menu is still not as good as my “classic” XP version (even on XP I didnt use the new version – nor the control panel’s “simplified” version). But it looks nicer. I like the white icons in the bottom right. I think the network stuff works better even though it seems less transparent (i’d like that “repair connection” button back, but it’s possible windows 7 is smart enough that i really don’t need it… time will tell). I really liked that when my browser window and instant message window overlapped, i could see my IM window’s title bar blink behind the semi-translucent broswer title bar. To be fair, vista can do this too. On the other hand, all the software and drivers I’ve installed have worked beautifully on Windows 7, even though they were designed for XP or, in cases, Vista. Altogether, I see no reason to switch from a nice hacked version of XP, however, as it is still faster and more… customizeable.
DOS: easily the best OS available today. Text-based operating systems have never been sexier. For a good one, see MS-DOS
wireless signals in the area. It comes with firefox, IM clients, and games already installed. You almost never work in the terminal (which is a lot different from 1.5 years ago). It figures out NTFS partitions automatically, and the hard drive is entirely available without any programming (which is what i call terminal work, even if you copy/paste it from sites). If there’s a program you don’t have that you want, just install it optionally and easily. All that said, I usually just use windows XP because why bother? I still see Ubuntu as a tool or novelty rather than a native OS. It will probably never overcome that hurdle for me or the masses (as, say, firefox did over IE), but it’s still worth keeping on my computer and using every couple weeks.
OSX: So here’s my position on Mac’s these days, and probably for about 2-3 years now. It’s probably a better OS than Windows XP. My friends that are really into IT and computers that have played with Macs all use them exclusively now. The guy that introduced me to firefox and digg and ubuntu 6 years ago is now a mac user. I bet I’d love macs to and switch over if I gave it a try and saw how much better it is. But I’m not about to spend 3x the amount of money on the same damn computer for one that’s a mac just so i can try out the goddamned OS. My next purchase is a $250 netbook, not a $1250 macbook. That said, I’ve heard of making hackintoshes out of netbooks, so maybe i’ll try that.
I have a terrible time keeping up with people’s birthdays and I wanted a better way to manage them. If you’re on 
I was reading a blog post by Fred Wilson on the 
I was forced to write this post because over the weekend I realized how many people who use web-based email clients (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc) don’t have them set up as the default email client in 
Here’s the stuff we didn’t bother writing about this week. Enjoy.
Google introduced Gmail back in 2004 and it has changed the way people use email. Gmail offers more space, a new way of following conversations, filters and many other little features that make it a great experience. You may not use it if you have had an older Hotmail or Yahoo account and you just didn’t want to deal with the stress of switching. No longer is that an excuse. For all new Gmail accounts created (existing accounts are slowly being enabled for this feature), there is an option to import your contacts and email from AOL, Hotmail and Yahoo. 
I think we have mentioned Google Sketchup before but I wanted to go into a little more depth about the product. If you are moving into a new apartment or home, Google Sketchup will help you build a room with a 3D model so you can see how thing are going to fit. I have tried 3D building software before and none of them were very useful or easy to use. But with about 2 hours of messing around I was able to actually put together a product I had intended to draw on a napkin and it didn’t turn out too bad. 
If you need to convert any video file so you can use it on your phone or your AppleTV, I found this program that will make it very easy to do that. 
I found this particularly useful over the last couple days. I never knew there was anything out there like this. I am creating a slideshow for my wedding and of course the largest collection of pictures of myself and Kristyn is on Facebook. It was extremely tedious right clicking and saving each individual picture. So I came across this little program that allows you to download a full album with the installation of 
Have a great weekend fellow nerds. Here is some stuff to keep you busy today.
If you ever have your Google account compromised you’ll be glad you listened to the information in this post. When someone gains access to your Google account and Google notices it, they will immediately disable the account. When you try logging in again to your Gmail for example, you won’t be able to. You have to fill out a form and Google will look into the problem and you may never be given access to your files again. This happened to my brother and it can be a huge hassle. There is a way to makes this process very easy and pain-free.
Have you ever wondered why the text messages on your phone are limited to 160 characters? Well you can thank German fellow Friedhelm Hillebrand. He is considered the father of the text message according to the LA Times. He invented these blimps of messages to inform workers on a jobsite big things going on back at the homebase/office. 
It’s May and I just may, go down to the bay and lay in some hay. Here’s the best of the week. Feel free to leave any sites of interest in the comments.