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thpinpostlogoThe Week Ahead
Tomorrow Microsoft will have lots of updates for you and Adobe will update Reader.

Men Acting Like Boys
Most of us men never really grow up but we should at least act like an adult in public.
The recent TechCrunch Hackathon and Halo character controversies have reinforced the fact that some folks need to grow up:
TechCrunch Titstare Demo (video – warning, may be offensive to some and possibly NSFW)
Halo character controversy at Gamespot

Speccy
Piriform has updated their free system info tool.

You Knew This Was Coming
Instagram will have ads next year.
Happily, I never signed up there.

Random Friday Stuff

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jobsMicrosoft really wants you to buy Windows 8. Like now:
“Since a security update will never become available for Windows XP to address these vulnerabilities, Windows XP will essentially have a “zero day” vulnerability forever.” Source
“Windows XP is 21 times more likely to be infected with malware than Windows 8.”
and
“Windows 7 is 6 times more likely to be infected with malware than Windows 8.”
and
“Protection against threats begins with modern software and hardware with the latest operating system.”
Source download infographic here.

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hehe….   HaHaHaHa… If Windows Were Houses (credit to a WW-TwiTV watcher) :rotfl:

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$410 motherboard anyone? No? Me either.

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Jobs the movie is getting absolutely pummeled on Rotten Tomatoes. My favorite quotes from critics.
“When a movie presents its subject as a messiah of intuitive design who insisted that corners never be cut and compromises never struck, it should at least attempt to emulate such exacting standards.” Susan Wloszczyna
“Two movies seem to be wrestling for control [here]. One is a poor man’s Social Network that depicts Jobs as a brilliant, antisocial jerk; the other is an embarrassing piece of hagiography that treats Jobs like a messiah.” Ben Sachs
“You either already know all this about Jobs – because you were a true believer in him as The One True Tech God – or you don’t because you don’t care.” Marshall Fine

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So I was going through some very old backups and came across this:
The final version of the first logo I made for this site June 06, 2002
TweakHound.com First Logo

 

Hope you all have a safe and happy weekend!

Goodbye Geeks.com?

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geeksdotcomGeeks.com has closed its virtual doors, at least for now. Inevitable I guess but still sad.
From the wording of the announcement it seems to me they may be looking for a buyer or partner.
I’ve ordered from them many times over the years with positive results. I wish the staff good luck.

Random Friday Stuff

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hailtotheredskinsShort version today. I’m off to watch the Redskins practice!

Paul Thurrott has an interesting take on Windows 8 usage:
“So over 1-in-3 Windows 8 licenses sales were downgraded (or not otherwise used).”
Slightly surprising but understandable given many peoples feelings about Windows 8.
For those who are interested, here is How To Downgrade Windows 8.

Puran File Recovery 1.1 released. “Version 1.1 Added support for multiple languages” Those guys really need a blog or Twitter page, or something. My review here.

Hope y’all have a safe and happy weekend!

Random Friday Stuff

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isheepYou hardcore overclockers should head over to Ninja Lane. They reviewed the beautiful Gigabyte Z87X OC and they liked it.

Apple fanboys are excitedly parroting the news that Apple was named “brand of the year“. To the rest of us it affirms the moniker iSheep.

Houses and cars are predictably being hacked. I’ve always wondered why “critical systems” are connected to the outside world. For you and me our houses and cars are about as critical as it gets.

“Tweak and Customize”. These are synonyms dude. Just sayin’. 😉

Windows NT is 20 years old!

“XP Retirement Party”. This infographic made the rounds this week with many Windows pundits saying good riddance. The poster was really just cry for you to buy Windows 8. While Microsoft and many Geeks agree that folks should move on, perhaps they should ask, “why the resistance?” Maybe, just maybe, they should give folks what they want and stop trying to tell them how they should be using their PC. Start menu anyone?

Sir Mick Jagger turned 70 today. How he made it that far is beyond me. Cheers Mick (hope you get a Little T&A). :clink:

Hope you all have a great weekend! I’m headed out to a Redskins Rally for a beer or two (checking out the cheerleaders too 😉 )

Tuesday Random Stuff

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space12345Random Tuesday morning news from around the web.

Ed Bott is at it again: The Metro hater’s guide to the Windows 8.1 Preview

Tom’s Hardware has tested 31 USB 3.0 Thumb Drives. Their “winner” is the SanDisk Extreme 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Model SDCZ80-064G-A75. A comment to the article led me to check out the Newegg reviews in which 45% gave this drive one star (as of this writing). Faster isn’t always better.

Wanna know what wi-fi would look like?

Do not mess with Kevin Rose’s dog!

New pics from NASA of the Earth from 898.414 million miles (1.445858 billion kilometers) away.

Random Saturday Stuff

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www_newsI got busy and didn’t get around to posting yesterday. To me, it was a pretty boring week news wise. I really couldn’t give a rip about the Microsoft re-org which seemed to be the major headline this week.

Not new and certainly not concise but the Makeuseof Best Of Apps is the best I’ve seen.

The How-To Geek has a handy article up: How to Easily Transfer Files Between Nearby Smartphones

Not news. This week several sites mentioned an article where the author discovered that if Firefox is running slow it may help to disable hardware acceleration. This “new discovery” has been known by Geeks for some time thanks to the Mozilla support page and 2 year old articles like this one. :rolleyes:

System Ninja 2.4.3 is out. It is another good system cleaner brought to you by the same folks who do CCEnhancer.

One change to Android Apps I Use. I had to switch from AdFree Android to AdAway as it was causing too many issues navigating sites.