[donspatch] 2005-04-15
- From: "Don Crowder" <guitarman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Don's Patch" <donspatch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:53:05 -0500
Don's Patch Issue #2005-04-15 from http://www.don-guitar.com
Whew, I only thought I was busy during the last few issues. This
time I know I'm busy. Over the next few days I've got to get my
income tax return filed, complete this issue of the ezine, and
continue with the ongoing preparations for my wedding. Yes, I'm
getting married again. After the big event, I'll post some wedding
details and photos on my site and provide a link in my next issue
for interested readers. If you'd like more information now, send
me some feedback and I'll reply with details.
Remember, your input is always welcome. I value your suggestions
and comments, and I'm always willing to help you find answers to
your computer and Internet questions.
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The amazing story of Kudzu. http://www.cptr.ua.edu/kudzu/
A day in the life of Africa. http://www.ditlafrica.com/
A photo a day. http://www.aphotoaday.org/
Details of a very interesting home can be found under "The House"
on the menu of this commercial site.
http://www.subiacosustainable.com.au/auniqueproject.cfm
Back in the days when I was a well paid electronics technician
with some "expendable" income, one of the things I spent that
income on was the Mother Earth News magazine. Now that I
can no longer afford such frivolities, I can still read it, online.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/
Make your own cursors. http://www.gdgsoft.com/anituner/index.aspx
Alien Soup is an alien-themed general chit-chat community where
thoughts come to be seen. http://www.aliensoup.com/
An interesting and costless app for Mac users.
http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/ape
A great site for information on religion or philosophy.
http://www.island-of-freedom.com/index.htm
An Assistive Technology resource from the University of Maine at
Farmington Center. http://specialed.umf.maine.edu/at.htm
I enjoyed this article, written by Lon Barfield, on consumer product
designs. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4432317.stm
Yet another NotePad replacement.
http://www.badevlad.com/bdvnotepad_en.htm
Speaking of NotePad replacements, every new programmer needs
a first project to "test their wings" and a basic text editor is a
very popular choice. That's why there are so many of them but,
as you might expect, there are a few really interesting programs
"hiding in the herd". For a compact but full featured text editor
I like MetaPad. http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
For a tiny, fast, nicely featured editor I like TheGun.
http://www.movsd.com/thegun.htm
Lastly, even though I finally broke down and purchased NoteTab
Pro for editing my web pages, this ezine is written in NoteTab
Light. http://www.notetab.com/ntl.php
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I don't "do" desktop themes. I'm utterly intimidated by the prospect
of installing so much stuff, but I downloaded one of these cool themes
just to get the screensaver from it. I like the entire set of TV programs
which American public television (PBS) simply calls the "British
Comedies" but my special favorite is The Vicar of Dibley and I'm now
using the Vicar of Dibley screensaver. http://www.beebfun.com/
"How did I do that?" you ask? After unzipping the file "dibley.zip"
into a folder, I located the file "dibley.scr" and copied it to the
appropriate folder on my system. Here's some additional information
on that subject, and on screensavers in general.
http://www.axialis.com/tutorials/tutorial-pssp009.html
http://www.help2go.com/article94.html
http://www.viewz.com/aol/dijit/dijtip51.shtml (lots more info too)
A few interesting screensavers.
http://www.mapmaker.com/sunclock.htm
http://www.maddogsw.com/flurry/
http://www.byzantines.net/download/
http://www.jag-lovers.org/brochures/screensaver.html
http://www.greenland-guide.gl/masks/default.htm
http://www.fourmilab.ch/skyscrsv/
http://al.virtuart.org/al3d.shtml
http://www.raritet.com.ua/vlsoft/flycube/index.html
Costless apps.
http://www.freesoftlabs.com/
http://www.falsinsoft.altervista.org/index.php (click on Products).
http://www.gphotoshow.com/controlss.htm
http://www.gphotoshow.com/gpshow_free.htm
A (computer) wallpaper utility.
http://www.gphotoshow.com/wallpaperss.htm
The history and making of butter.
http://webexhibits.org/butter/index.html
More to explore from the same source. http://webexhibits.org/
Some nice articles and other "goodies" from Camtech2000.
http://camtech2000.net/index.htm
(I've listed Camtech before, seven times in fact, but the site
is more than worth mentioning again)
Have you kept up with the growing list of features offered by google?
http://www.google.com/options/
Ludic Synergy: Games and gaming from a philosophical perspective.
http://www.ludism.org/index.html
Changing Places is a very cool project from the UK.
http://www.changingplaces.org.uk/home.htm
I enjoyed exploring Christian Sauve's official website.
http://www.christian-sauve.com/index.html
(the "About" page was interesting reading.)
Cinemagic is a "film thing". http://www.cine-magic.com/
Urban Agriculture Notes by City Farmer,
Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture.
http://www.cityfarmer.org/
Forgotten Realms is a Dungeons and Dragons (RPG) world.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/fr/welcome
http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~tojan/fore/forefaq.htm
http://www.o-love.net/realms/
http://www.masterao.com/
http://www.forgottenrealms.dk/
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/2566/index.html
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This seems to be a multi-authored movie-TV blog "thingy".
http://www.cinematical.com/
Cleandesk is a small application from Itec that enables you to clear
your desktop with a single click of its tray area icon.
http://www.itec.xoot.net/cleandesk.html
An online color scheme generator.
http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html
Fighting poverty with laughter. http://www.comicrelief.com/
Conservation International. http://www.conservation.org/xp/CIWEB/
They call them "Cover chains". http://coversproject.com/
Crossword of the day. http://www.quizland.com/cotd.htm
Current releases of Films on DVD.
http://www.currentfilm.com/dvdindex.html
Prepare now for the international celebration of Charles Darwin's 200th
birthday on February 12, 2009. http://www.darwinday.org/
The U.S. Department of Labor. http://www.dol.gov/index.htm
A virtual fish tank. http://www.virtualfishtank.com/main.html
There's something fishy about these computers.
http://nobispro.com/aquatank/
http://www.amherst.edu/~camiller/macquarium.html
Scroll down the page for some very nice costless apps.
http://www.littlebitsmultimedia.com/littlebits/html/littlebits_downloads.htm
Each year in the USA alone, 2.2 million people under the age of 35 get
divorced. http://www.ojar.com/
An electronic magazine for active adults. http://www.doublenickels.com
Various views of the earth and moon from fourmilab.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html
Celebrate every day. http://www.earthcalendar.net/index.php
Earth Day is April 22.
http://www.earthday.gov/
http://www.earthdaybags.org/
http://www.planetpals.com/earthday.html
http://www.earthday.ca/EDy2k/Home/homefrm1.html
http://www.earthday.net/
Earth Science picture of the day. http://epod.usra.edu/
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The awesome Eartha Kitt. http://www.earthakitt.com/
Weblogs, sorted and rated. http://portal.eatonweb.com/
Ok, so a bunch of people get together, move to New Hampshire,
overwhelm the political system and start running things their way.
Sounds like a movie right? Guess again.
http://www.freestateproject.org/
An individual's photojournal of French towns and villages.
http://www.franceinfocus.net/
May 7, "Free Comic Book Day". http://www.freecomicbookday.com
Gina Trapani's collection of stories, links, photographs and
programming projects. http://scribbling.net/about_scribbling
You will eventually encounter a file you can't open or view
because it has a file extension your system doesn't recognize
When that happens, one of these sites may come in handy.
http://filext.com/index.php
http://www.stack.com/file/extension/
http://www.file-ext.com/
http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html
http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/fileextensions.asp
http://www.prepressure.com/library/extension.htm
http://www.techadvice.com/tech/F/file-extensions.htm
http://www.computerhope.com/dosext.htm
http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/reference/fext/fexta1.htm
http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/fileextensions/
Here's some additional, useful information
that relates to file extensions.
http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,113758,00.asp
http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/security/trojanext.html
Windows utilities from cursorarts.
http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_ai.html
Genius Ignored: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Bach, Thoreau, Melville, Van
Gogh, Nabokov, and Casablanca (online book by Lucius Furius).
http://www.serve.com/Lucius/GI.index.html
Girls, exalted. http://www.girlsinc.org/
My friend Paul ( http://remsset.com/ ) who raises emu's and shares
my interest in things-computer recommends a nifty little utility called
TClockEx. http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/
Paul's site, like mine, is a mixture of all the things he finds interesting
and he has some nice computer wallpaper on this page.
http://remsset.com/papers/wallpaper.htm
Paul and I are both members of the Highland Lakes Computer Club
group at Yahoo. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hlcc-tx/
Sean, another member of the HLCC group, recommended Skype
for calling other people on their computers or phones.
http://www.skype.com/
Do you get bored seeing the same desktop wallpaper each time you
turn on your Windows computer?
http://www24.brinkster.com/KundanG/Softwares/GDesk.asp
Exploring jazz through a single photograph. http://www.harlem.org/
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Hackers Network is fairly "geeky" and may or may not have content
that isn't particularly family friendly. http://www.hackernetwork.com/
Here's a way you can test your Samsung hard drive if you suspect it
has problems but beware, there are some risks.
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/hutil.htm
Hard drive info from Hitachi.
http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/
Complimentary cursors from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University. http://www.unirel.vt.edu/funstuff/vtcursors.html
How Stuff Works is a pretty cool site I haven't mentioned since
December of 2002. http://www.howstuffworks.com/
Costless goodies from Iconico.
http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/index.aspx
http://www.iconico.com/desktopRenamer/
http://www.iconico.com/easyRead/
http://www.iconico.com/magnifier/
http://www.iconico.com/viewSourceEditor/
Iconico will ask you to sign up for one of their mailing lists but on
the lower right hand side of the sign-up form there's a link that's
labeled "Skip Joining and Download Now".
Iconoid is a Windows desktop icon manager. http://www.sillysot.com/
This utility extracts icons or icon arrays from files (EXE, DLL, OCX, etc.)
and has the ability to scan folders to search for files, which contain
icons.
http://www.raritet.com.ua/vlsoft/exico/index.html
As a part of our recent research into gardening-related topics, Lisa and I
found a number of interesting sites which offer a variety of information on
the topic of "composting".
http://www.dreamsalivemagazine.com/autumn2004/compost/index.html
http://snipurl.com/e037
http://www.compostguide.com/index.html
http://www.weblife.org/humanure/
http://www.compostinfo.com/tutorial/methods.htm#Worms
http://www.abe.iastate.edu/PigsGone/Operations.htm
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1189.html
http://www.eco-action.org/dt/mulch.html
http://www.mastercomposter.com/worm/wormcomp.html
http://www.cityfarmer.org/wormcomp61.html
Because the stories they tell are often grim and gruesome, the fairy
tales collected by the brothers Grimm are no longer considered to
be suitable fare for children but they were popular when I was a kid.
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/
http://www.grimmfairytales.com/en/main
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/index2.html
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html
http://www.familymanagement.com/literacy/grimms/grimms-toc.html
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~wbarker/fairies/grimm/
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/ReadingRoom/Fiction/FairyTales/
http://www.fln.vcu.edu/grimm/grimm_menu.html
When you're in the military, "Jodie" is a generic term for the guy
back home who's going to steal your girlfriend while you're gone but
"Jodie" also refers to the marching and running songs used in training.
http://afrotc.syr.edu/CadetResource/jodies.htm
http://basic.armystudyguide.com/general/cadence.htm
http://www.army.mil/soldiers/june95/p52.html
The riveting tale of Kilroy began in World War II.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian/issues04/oct04/object.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A508277
http://www.skylighters.org/encyclopedia/kilroy.html
http://www.kilroywashere.org/
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This issues collection of news/magazine sites
(chosen for maximum diversity regardless of spin).
http://abc.net.au/
http://aggressive-voice.com/
http://www.atimes.com/index.html
http://www.biz-day.com/
http://christiananswers.net/home.html
http://www.cmt.com/
http://www.emediawire.com/
http://www.nationalreview.com/
http://www.newsday.com/
http://www.oldtimeherald.org/index.html
http://www.sfpnn.com/
http://www.rieti.go.jp/en/index.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/
http://www.djc.com/
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/
http://www.techweb.com/
http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/main.cfm
http://www.theworldjournal.com/
http://www.womansday.com/
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Websites Everyone Should Know About
These aren't sponsors, they're the best of
Internet publications and I highly recommend
them all.
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http://www.langa.com
http://www.tourbus.com
http://www.lockergnome.com
http://www.neatnettricks.com
http://www.scotsnewsletter.com
http://www.tricksandtrinkets.com
http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html
============== Quiz ==============
Quiz:
1. How long did the Hundred Years War last?
2. Which country makes Panama hats?
3. From which animal do we get cat gut?
4. In which month do Russians
celebrate the October Revolution?
5. What is a camel's hair brush made of?
6. The Canary Islands in the Atlantic
are named after what animal?
7. What was King George VI's first name?
8. What color is a purple finch?
9. Where are Chinese gooseberries from?
10. What is the color of the black
box in a commercial airplane?
Answers to quiz are at the bottom of this issue.
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Cindy L. O'Neal is "Mrs. Wizard". This is her site.
http://mrswizard.com/
A Windows 95 tutorial.
http://www.chilibsys.org/CE/w95/toc.html
A Windows 95/98 tutorial.
http://www.hpedsb.on.ca/ec/est/tutorial/
A Windows 98 tutorial.
http://www.baycongroup.com/win98/win9800.htm
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In the last couple of days Lisa and I have gotten a marriage
license, taken care of the catering, bought the rings, flowers
and my clothing for the wedding, completed and mailed our
income tax returns and changed automobile insurance
companies. Meanwhile, I've continued to work every night
and managed to put this ezine issue together. Granted, this
issue is a little smaller than average but only a little.
Yeehaw! The geek is on a roll. See you next time.
Don Crowder - Friday, April 15, 2005
2:48 PM CST - Tow, TX, USA
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Answers to Quiz:
1. The Hundred Years War lasted 116 years.
2. Panama hats are made in Ecuador.
3. Cat gut comes from sheep and horses.
4. Russians celebrate the October Revolution in November.
5. Camel's hair brushes are made of Squirrel fur.
6. The Canary Islands in the Atlantic are named after dogs.
7. King George VI's first name was Albert.
8. Purple Finches have crimson (red) feathers on their head.
9. Chinese gooseberries come from New Zealand.
10. The black box in a commercial airplane is
orange in color.
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