tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124005262009-11-08T13:54:44.099-08:00Get help on computer problems or read reviewes on anything from the latest gadget to the most recent movie.John D Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17773883553805246518noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12400526.post-32387700129116883972009-10-29T15:37:00.000-07:002009-11-08T13:54:44.131-08:00

If you use a program like Wallpaper Master or Display Fusion you can set you speed dial to the wallpaper image that program makes, so every time you open Opera it will match the current wallpaper you are using. The long way to do this is to open the file you want to be your wallpaper and save it as a generic name (Wallpaper.jpg might be good). You now have two copies of the image. Set your

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  OK so right now twitter is the "killer app." of the Internet. It is one of the social network sites that have near instantly seen infamous status and attention from almost everyone in the world. If you have been near a radio, TV, or computer you have most likely heard or read about twitter, and while we all celebrate this deviously simplistic site it's only a matter of time before the

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I'm sure many of you have noticed as you click from web site to web site that some of them have a bit more identity then others. Like my site for instance has a greek key as the logo or Googles new multi-color g. Opera holds all of these icons in a special area so it doesn't have to spend time downloading it later. What does this mean for us? Well it means we are normally holding anywhere from a

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Every so often as I'm sure many web developers do I tried to pop into my site just to see how thing were doing. To my dismay I was unable to hit the site, I figured it was something I did wrong so I cleared internet cache, checked that I was connected and tried again. Nothing still happened. Passed a quick e-mail to my provider, 1&1, to let them know I had noticed and wanted to know what was

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  In the last Opera hack for search sites I showed how to add search sites to Opera that would become available in the toolbar. Opera has created a far simpler way of doing this now so I thought it would be the right thing to do and show you this new method also.  When you are at a site with an input field simply right click on the field and choose "Create Search..." It will automatically know

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For some time I have been using the popular instant messaging client Trillian from Cerulean Studios. In the basic version it allows a person to connect to MSN, Yahoo, AOL / ICQ, and IRC. The four largest instant messaging communities all in one application. It saves my system memory space and removes all the crap I don't need that is installed by default on the standard IM clients. I have

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iscrybe.comFlickr Photostream of Scrybe The internet has more and more entered its way into everything we do as a society. It has become an awesome resource for information and communication. The new frontier is using the internet as an application. The beginning of this is personal information management apps or PIM for short. They usually consist of a calendar a contact list or some place

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Almost anywhere you look you can find someone or something playing music. Since the time of Napster the internet has been linked to music with little success from the powers that be to separate them. As if almost in spite of the efforts to keep a tight hold onto the rights to distribute the music places like Amazon, Napster, Real player, and iTunes have legitimized the internet as a system to

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After some years I had decided that the design of the site needed an update so I spent some time and put together something that might do better with search engines as well as looking just a tiny bit more professional. Not much has been happening for me in the past few weeks. I'll have some great new posts in the next day or so. Some things to look forward to are reviews of some great sites that

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Can't sell it on e-bay? Not able to trade with a friend or family member? The EPA has begun a new "eCycling" program to help make it easier to correctly dispose of old electronics, ink and toner cartridges, and batteries.http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/conserve/plugin/index.htm

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Hello again to everyone on the net. I'm writing again with a great tip for Opera users. This is a built in feature of Opera that allows you to add any web page as a panel. First lets understand what the panel is. The panel is the side bar or area that you can quickly choose from things like your contacts or downloads. If you press the F4 key on your keyboard you will see it hide and appear. It

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So it's been close to a year now since my last post and I have the need to blog again. Recently I have been adding myself to beta projects for Scrybe and Grand Central. Scrybe is an on-line calendar that allows you to quickly and easily view important dates of the year and drill down to the days events with a few simple clicks. use the link to check out a demo. The other site, Grand Central, is a

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This is a simple hack for Opera that you can use in many ways other then adding a calendar. First would be to find a great on-line calendar that you like. I use CalendarHub.com but you can also use Google's calendar or any other calendar that allows you to create a calendar that can be viewed without logging in. In some cases that is known as publishing your calendar. In most cases you also have

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For at least a year now I have seen Skype in the news showing advancement and becoming more and more a popular choice to using a telephone. It is a great service that offers an easy jump point into VoIP ( Voice over Internet Protocol ). My brothers and mom all have accounts that they can use to call each other and make inexpensive calls to Europe. It allows people to seek out and communicate with

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nastiest malware trends 2007 The article above talks about some nasty and evasive programs known as malware. It gets this name from the fact that it is software that in some way is malicious to your system and/or personal information. check what Wikipedia has to say about malware. It now becomes your responsibility to insure some dirt bag isn't using you or your computer to make money without you

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Here in the States it's time again to open our hearts and wallets and give, give, give. I've just been trough a great site called gifts.com. I used that site to pick out some of the better tech gadgets that I think would be great for your geek to find under the Christmas tree. So lets get into it. Skullcandy-G-I-Stereo-Headphones : Most any geek out there will have some fascination with audio.

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Just added the blog badges to the bottom of the posts so you can more easily share them with your friends on nearly every social bookmark site out there.

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Well folks here is another tip for one of the greatest browsers, Opera. This one will allow you to change how your e-mails read so you can take more control of the one part I have a problem with in Opera. As those of you that tried the software might know Opera has a built in e-mail client. That they have called M2. The way e-mail is stored in the client is much the same way mail is stored in

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If you visit my site johndgeek.com you will see I have added a new 2d image to the portfolio. It's a photograph of my grand parents, mother, and uncles in the traditional dutch costume. The picture was taken just before they moved to the USA from Holland. At the time the photographer only offered the prints in black and white. The picture endured several decades until one day my grand father

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Just a few weeks ago I broke down and, behind my wife's back, bought a BlackBerry® 8700g. If you remember reading my last review I had a cell phone that used the ToGo minutes from T-mobile®. This phone would have worked with that plan but I would not have been able to do a whole lot. So I upgraded to a standard 1000 minutes plan and added the unlimited minutes for e-mail and internet.

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T-Mobile When I went to my local T-Mobile and went looking for a good phone I was actually going to get a sidekick or blackberry. What I ended up getting was the Samsung x495. It is a great phone.I have yet to find the phone that suits me best. I'm looking for a phone that I can hook up to the PC and move data to and from it. Things like ringers and wallpapers and the obvious phone book

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It is apparent these days that corporations are doing everything they can to turn a profit. The entertainment business is no exception. RIAA is an something like a union for recording artists. More accurately RIAA's members are recording companies in America. Over the past few years the RIAA have been fighting against piracy with such a fervor that the association has now created a huge animosity

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For almost 6 months now I have played with a great DVR (Digital Video Recorder) From Panasonic. It can record a show and play it back while it's recording or play back a previously recorded show while recording another show. It uses TV Guide to get a listing of all my channels and it can play or record DVDs. The list goes on with MP3 play back, SD card playback of pictures, and the player can

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It isn't often that I come across a program that I think deserves to be mentioned. So often they miss the mark. Some programs will be intuitive and easy to use but lack the power or ability to do anything effective. Other times the application is powerful and give the user limitless potential but requires classes or several books to just learn how to use. This little application is one such

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Looking at the Opera icon I noticed that it seemed bland compared to the IE and FF icons. So I set out to create one that is updated. I found operajournal.com for inspiration. So here they are

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