Thursday, September 27, 2007

Amazon MP3

I wonder if Amazon will allow associates to link to MP3 and get a % of the sales, such as it does with its other offerings. If so there could be hundreds of media applications that use the Amazon web service APIs and link to MP3 as well as play them. One of them would emerge as the killer app and then Amazon would reign supreme. One reason DRM fails is that it adds complication. Anything that adds complication to technology must be avoid like the plague.

Glen
Zenfar

Monday, September 24, 2007

Spyware

I don't care that much about privacy, but I do care about ownership and it is your PC and you should know what is on it and stop people from watching your every move. Here are some great programs that can help with this:

Ad-Aware

Spy-Bot Search and Destroy

Enjoy.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Vista

Know what you are doing and want control of YOUR PC back read on.

Vista has a built in administrator that is more powerful then the default one. To enable it right click on Computer from the start menu and select manage.



Next you can enable this account if you need a real administrator account. Right click on the Administrator account and select properties, and uncheck disabled.





You should log out at this point. Next log in add administrator and add a password. You can do this in Control Panel by selecting the User Accounts option.



Now you can log in as a real Administrator, this is called Built-in Administrator in Vista, but I like to call him su (super user). But do we want to use this account all of the time, I would say no. I would want to use the Admin account I made on install or perhaps a new one, but I want it to act like a real super user account. More on that next post.

Thursday, September 06, 2007

BioShock

BioShock buy it! Play it! One great game and creepy too. I consider it a MasterWork along side of Oblivion...

MasterWorks is my term for a game that finally realizes the vision of the developer, other games before it hint at what is to come and then the MasterWork hits:

System Shock 2 -> Freedom Force -> BioShock
Daggerfall -> Morrowind -> Oblivion

Feel free to post about any other MasterWork chains in the comments.

Cheers!