Muppets on YouTube

Quick item:

Not sure if I’ve recommended it before, but ImgBurn is my favorite tool for ISO files if you are running Windows.  Even though Windows7 now (finally) has support for burning ISO files, it’s nice to create them as well (guess will have to wait another 10 years for that eh Mr Softy?).

Did I mention it’s FREE?  I’m sure I mentioned it.

Get it now from The Official ImgBurn Website

I’d be glad to here your favorites!

It is beautiful in Vista & 7.  Much like Tweetie, you have simple selections for favs, directs, mentions, etc.  The animations for moving to the settings feels a lot like the attention to experience you get in Mac programs (very nice).

So as you both know, I’ve been playing with Mac OS X at home and finally downloaded a blog client to test out. I’m kind of a client minded person (maybe it’s my age).

My previous posts have almost all been in Windows using Live Writer (highly recommended). This post is being done in Ecto

Simple enough interface. We’ll see how it goes, but since Live Writer is free and awesome, it will take more than I’m seeing at the moment to make me want to spend my birthday money on a blog client.

Later all!

(The below picture of the dogs has nothing to do with this post. They are just too darn cute, that’s all.)

Safari (on the left) is my favorite for this view style.  If you select the view menu and choose to hide the menu bar, toolbar and the bookmarks bar.  Since the new 4.0 beta puts tabs on top, you get maximum viewing space within the window.  To go to a new address, a simple CTRL+L will drop down the toolbar so you can search or enter a site.  After you press enter, it hides again very nicely.

For FireFox, you get just slightly less screen since the tabs are not part of the window title bar, but still very nice.  You can use CTRL+L like Safari to go to a new site, but it doesn’t give you the whole bar, it gives you a separate open dialog box.

Sadly, for all the good improvements in IE8, you cannot seem to hide the location bar at all.  So I didn’t bother with a screen shot.

Shane Par-Due | Candidate for Alderman in Ward 1 of Raytown

I’m not a very politically active person, but wanted to add to the possible Google & search engine hits for Shane.  If you found this page and are in ward 1 of Raytown you need to meet him.  He’s a God fearing man with a passion for this town.

For a very long time, only on a Mac did it seem you had an option to turn this off via some command line tweaks, but it seems those of us still stuck in Windows finally have relief!!  I recently searched again for options and found the following…

1. Hold down the Windows key and press R.

2. Type %appdata% and click OK. (Yes, you could manually navigate there, but why?)

3. Open the Apple Computer folder.

4. Open the iTunes folder.

5. Open the iTunesPrefs.xml file using Wordpad. (Not notepad, Wordpad will be much easier to read the file as it formats it much better.  You can right-click and choose Wordpad from the Open with… dialog.)

6. Scroll down to the User Preferences section. There should be a couple of lines that say:

<key>User Preferences</key>
<dict>

7. Below that line, type in the following (I personally copied & pasted):

<key>create-filenames-with-tracknumber</key>
<data>
AA==
</data>

8. Save and close the iTunesPrefs.xml file. iTunes will no longer import track numbers on your imported CD’s now.

I would expect you should do all this while iTunes is closed.  I didn’t try while open & expect that could cause issues.

I must give credit to the first site I found this on, Technipages.  My apologies if someone else was the original person to discover the trick.  I’m just glad this nightmare is over.  Apple, if you are listening, please focus on adding features, not removing them.

I allows several ways that you can automate text or html that you need to use regularly.  For example, we now use posts in WordPress to post the links for the audio of our weekly church ministry fellowships at KCBT.  Every week the html for the links need to be added to a new post for each class pointing to a file name using the class name and the date (i.e. crossover020809.mp3 as part of a href line).

Thanks to Joe’s plugin, now I just go to my Insert options and choose the dynamic template…

Then choose what class I need it for…

Then the following code drops in:

<a href="http://kcbtmedia.org/media/crossover020809.mp3">Download</a>

There’s a lot of potential in this (more if you know what you are doing more than me).  Great short video examples on Joe’s site showing examples & usage.  Worth checking out!!

When you have a full screen of activity such as this.  Sometimes you just want to see how the upload of your pictures is progressing (or a download, or any quick view of a window you have open).

Sure you could click on the window for the app you want and then minimize again, but why bother when you can peek at it!

Simply point your mouse at the app you want on the taskbar and then point to the preview window that you want to see and you get this…

Just the window view you want, much like peek can give you the whole desktop.  Once you move your mouse away again, you are right back with your normal layout as it.  Pretty slick I must say.