Mind of Tim


Free AntiVirus : Protection doesn’t have to cost anything
July 30, 2006, 8:22 pm
Filed under: Essential Software, Link, Technology, Tip of the Day

There are so many people out there who do one of the following with their computer:

1) Go out and spend $50+ on a packaged version of antivirus (normally Norton or McAffee)
2) Go without anti-virus because they can’t be bothered to pay $50+ on security
OR
3) Just too damn lazy to install an anti-virus

For people in catagory 3 get off your lazy asses! And for the people in the first two catagories, listen up because i have some good news! You DON’T have to spend money on anti-virus. You can get anti-virus for FREE. It’s even GOOD anti-virus. Some may argue that its BETTER anti-virus than the packages you spend $50+ dollars on! So I am here to enlighten the masses (or at the very least the 3 people that actually read this blog) to a couple options for FREE anti-virus.

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WiFi Range Extender – I love ingenuity!
July 23, 2006, 6:16 pm
Filed under: Personal

The fun folks over at Instructables have a great post on how to create a sort of parabolic dish for wifi!  It includes a USB wifi adapter, some length of usb cable, and a metal strainer of some sort  :)   If your looking for a way to extend your wifi signal and have some spare time, check it out!



An Animated Me! :)
July 17, 2006, 4:50 pm
Filed under: Fun, Link, Weird

I found this fun website (actually Rachael did… thx Rach!) that lets you create a virtual you. This is what I made…. head on over to Meez to make your own virtual you!

Edit: Btw… the animation is more fun when your listening to the Gorillaz :)



Satiracal mac ads…
July 11, 2006, 3:01 pm
Filed under: Apple, Entertainment, Fun, Television, Video

Okay… i love this… i think my favorite is the third one… but watch em all :)



Adobe Flash Player 9 + ActionScript 3.0
July 11, 2006, 2:48 pm
Filed under: Design, Macromedia Flash, Technology

Oh man I must be a geek because it just took the mere mentioning of ActionScript 3.0 to get me excited! Or am I just a flash geek? Hmm… well I’ll leave that up to you. But none the less we have a new Flash Player 9 Beta with AS3.0 support, as well as a new download from Adobe that allows you to start developing AS3.0 apps in Flash 8.

Learn more about Flash Player 9 here, or download it here.

Learn more about ActionScript 3.0 here or download the preview here.



Fullscreen Video in Quicktime
July 11, 2006, 1:01 pm
Filed under: Apple, Technology, Tip of the Day

This is a Mac only tip for my mac buddies out there. I know a lot of you get frustrated at the fact that you can’t fullscreen stuff in Quicktime without upgrading to the Pro version. Well now you can. Macworld has a simple little script hack that allows you to fullscreen your videos easily.

Basically you just enter the following script into the script launcher, save the script as an application, open your video in quicktime, and they run the script you just made… and voila… Bob’s your uncle. Here’s the script:

tell application “QuickTime Player”
present front movie scale screen
end tell

You can see the full tip here.



Wow… i really am alive!
July 10, 2006, 1:01 pm
Filed under: Personal

Hey everyone… sorry I haven’t posted here. Its been over two months since my last update. To be honest I kinda forgot I had a blog :) But i’m back… hopefully I will remember to post some new things for you guys.

The scary thing is, even without updating this site, im STILL getting tons of hits for the post I did about the bouncing boob simulator!
I got 350 hits in the last 30 days! People really do love boobs i guess :)

Peace.