Friday, March 30, 2007

From Chicago to London in 4,703 minutes suggests Google maps

You have to see this google idea of traveling. If you'll seek a way from Chicago to London, you'll find very interesting to swim over the ocean to get there.

Here you'll find the path that Google proposed. I thing it is a good exercise for travelers, 'cause getting there on plains and boats aren't so ecological like swimming.

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Time is not the same

The time is not the same in the whole world, an we all know it. It is a different time in Washington and in London, or Ulan-Bator, and most of the time we don't need to realize that, but sometimes we do. Let's say that a friend of yours went abroad, or in to the other end of the country, or your boss sent you to the far away kingdom, or your brother is on holidays in Ethiopia, and you started to talk with some of them on a instant messaging program, or voice call program, and he tells you "Good morning!" at five o'clock in the afternoon. Then you start to ask yourself what time is it there (especially when it is your boss and you don't want to ask his time, you should add/subtract hours), but your head don't respond to your question. When you have a problem you solve it, you could create a table with your and theirs hours (me : 7 - boss : 11, bro' : 3 ...), or make your application, use something that exists already. I am lousy and I choose the las one. I found a MS TimeZone application that is very useful.
Locations with time zone
It looks like that when it is installed and runs in your system tray. And to perform this first step (the installation step), go here. The second step is to set your locations in options (right click on the tray icon) and your locations could be like this: To create your custom named locations just go in the Option dialog box to the add button under the Available locations list.

More informations about this application you can find here.
Or maybe you want a screen saver with time zones: here's a screen saver.
You could choose a less user friendly interface but mybe with some more power (i dont't realy know about it) by using this app.
One more thing: all these applications here are free, an work for windows.

Monday, March 12, 2007

[Funny] Interesting conversation

A telemarketer calls you, sometimes he has something interesting to tell you, but must of the time you don't want to talk with him. There are many ways to finish the conversation. You could tell him you're not interested in the offer, you are busy right now, you could just hang out or tell him that you can't hear anything, make some noises or something like that. But why finish the conversation if you could make fun of it. There is a guy that found a funny situation to put in the telemarketer and he made the conversation public on the net. It is about somebody called mr. Mabe, and at the office we had a good laugh listening to this, on the page it is presented you'll see the subtitles of this talk. Get in the mood by seeing this. (You'll have to wait a little to let the sound loading completely).

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Your Windows show a "Low disk space" warning again!?

Sometimes you get tired of these warnings, and this is one that most of the people will gladly disable. But for that you need to go editing registry of your operating system. On the Downloadsquad website you'll find the line below like an alternative to registrar editing. Just copy the line and paste it in a command prompt. (To open a command prompt you need to type cmd in Run dialog box, to show this dialog box type Window key + R).
 
regini HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks" = REG_DWORD 1
But this warning i find sometimes useful. I start to download a little bigger file, and may be I do not have enough space on the disk, and this warning will make me find some space before the downloading process is finished or download the file on a different drive. So it is your choice to disable the warning. I didn't do it on my computer, because it shows not so often, and it still appears useful to me.