CrunchGear » Archive » NVIDIA makes up a manly slice of Vista Crash Pie – wow, the pc business bites msft in the ass hard. i don’t see how msft can let this stand long run.

BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : Boren considering OSU after departing Michigan – wow, UM takes another hit. Michigan is going to get worse before they get better.

nytimes article today mentioned beatunes at www.beatines.com, and also a roundup at snipurl.com/228ai.

Snelflight Jump Jet – seriously, who would not want one? What a great way to terrorize the housepets.

My Damn Channel » You Suck at Photoshop » You Suck at Photoshop #9 – this entire series is awesome. and helpful.

* TeraCopy – asynch copying with pause, resume, error handling * Doublekiller – find and kill file dupes. And then RED to kill empty dirs * Defraggler – individual file defraggler. UPDATE: faulted when I ran it. not going to use a defragger that faults * Drivermax – backup all your drivers. UPDATE: pretty cool, MSFT should buy this thing. * Xinorbis hard disk analyzer. Also windirstat. UPDATE: both nice and useful. Man do I have a lot of storage committed to FLAC * Process Scanner or Taskpower3 to figure out what all those running processes are. UPDATE: process scanner doesn’t really provide any more detail than task manager, and taskpower wants money from me to try. * Netsharemanager to manage network shares in bulk * InFormEnter to complete webforms * HD Tune for checking hard disk health * Ed Bott’s list of 10 best utilities * Fix stuck pixels – does this actually work?? * Powercfg to control which devices can wake Windows. Or at least see which ones can

Physicists show electrons can travel over 100 times faster in graphene than in silicon – and faster than in copper.

Brett on Stuff » A Backpackers Dream – wow this site is really awesome, who needs to hike anymore? Top 10 survival tools over on wired – handy. Micro LED light – another ultralight goodie from brett

blog.pmarca.com: Brad DeLong on trade and wages – excellent articulation of the China strategy that makes sense to me – basically, lets be great friends with them. (I guess this should be our strategy in dealing with almost every nation in the world, excepting a very very very few)

My time capsule was easy to setup to back up my macbook but I also wanted to use it a file share for my windows PCs. It was not obvious at all how to connect to it from Windows. The Time Capsule doesn’t show up in any of the network browsing UI. I finally downloaded the Airport utility for Windows and installed it, this let me look at the Time Capsule properties and I observed the default name of the Time Capsule – “John Ludwig’s Time Capsule” – is converted to a usable network name – “John-Ludwigs-Time-Capsule.local”. I was able to connect to this name in the Windows Explorer and map a drive to it and now all is well. There are also options in the Airbook utility to set the Workgroup for the time capsule and the WINS server, but in a home network, who knows where the freaking WINS server is??? I sure don’t.

Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Setting Sun? The “End of the Beginning” for Solar Bonanza – turmoil in solar. Supply issues, tax credit concerns, etc. As far as I am concerned, this is good for investing – unstable markets represent opportunities for new entrants and for change.

Sequoia’s Gospel of Startups More True Than Ever – good list of criteria to use in evaluating companies.

Contemporary jewelry by Moshiko – awesome looking stuff