t a n j e n t s d o t c o m

Let’s make a better wifi (wiffy) antenna using a Pringles / Coffee can!

~ via Ask Computer Jim & P Nort in the checkered shirt is a certified hottie

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My other new-to-you tech podcast find is Digital Nation’s Tim Taylor

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Looking for a replacement for AVG either because it bogs down your system or you are tired of all of the false positives? Please take a look at AVIRA because it comes highly recommended from a reliable source and if you find yourself willing to try a different free anti-virus.. check this one out.

If you are willing to PAY there are many others out there available other than the unacceptable Norton and McAfee. Please consider VIPRE because for 29.95 this is a sleek all-in-one solution that will NOT bog down your system. It takes care of virusi, rootkits, malware and spyware efficiently and quietly in the background PLUS it runs in real-time and covers your email as well.

~ AVIRA and VIPRE via Cate

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How To Create a Hidden File

So there was a mention of a driver back up solution for clients by putting the drivers in a hidden file on the client’s PC. When all goes FUBAR you can access this file and restore the known good drivers.

But how to create a “hidden file?” OMG so easy!

To make a document hidden
1. right click the document
2. select properties.
3. select the box Hidden under Attributes.

Now this can be undone if the folder properties are set to show hidden folders but that is NOT a default setting so this WILL WORK for the majority of your computing-but-struggling users. It is NOT in any way declared-by-me a super-stealthy trick, but for the average Joe, it prevents them from deleting this important file, hence, it becomes very mentionable.

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I have been having issues with all of these Twitter followers that are just obvs spam. So I thought I would figure out how to control who can follow me so that who follows does not heavily outweigh who I follow.

Trying to keep it real

If you want to stop people from receiving your updates unless you allow them to, just go into your Settings, and check the box at the bottom to protect your updates.
You’ll be able to approve/deny people who try to follow you.

~ via Ingenioustries

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You Are Required To Consider

A new community for financial news, ideas and tips:

Tip’d

This is an interesting project that I would like to see grow because this is an area on the internet that is lacking in sharing information. I have been watching it for a few weeks and have grown further impressed with the linked stories. Watching it grow.

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Let’s Pretend!

This is a project I am working on for my mother. She used to listen to this radio show from 1949-1952 and I am trying to find some archived shows for her to present to her this Christmas. She speaks fondly of this show she listened to as a child. I only learned of it because she was telling my children what she did for entertainment without television.

She never ever makes it easy these “hints” she drops. She always makes me flex my internet muscles finding these obscure requests that are never found in normal avenues. If anyone out there in the blue nowhere can help me with this request — much obliged. I am struggling over here.

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Looking For an Epic Infection

I have a bench machine that I want to badly infect in the worst way. I already know to use no antivirus or router or firewall or any kind of protection at all. That is a given. I will open it up to D to travel his internet allies when the family is away but I feel it will not be enough even considering the limewire downloads without scanning.

I want incestual, sick, twisted, beastiality, pissing, open sore kinda digital infections that make you wanna slap a user for lying to your face…..

… so I can learn how to clean the PC without reinstalling Windows, of course.

Taking suggestions … you can remain anonymous, of course.

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Chose Your Candidate

Tonight D and I took a couple of online tests to see which Presidential candidate matched our views. We found candidate_calculator to be the best because there were links explaining the issues and they were not slanted in any way. Great for the confused!

I was on the phone with a client (fixing a PC of course) when I saw McCain’s face pop up after D was done with this one. I laughed so hard because his face was like WTF?

Worse still.. the next three sites revealed the same thing. I almost felt bad for him. I took the same tests but I paid more attention to weighing the importance (which I think he did not do) and my first chosen candidates were Independents but Obama was always the next closest with McCain being the bottom of the bucket. Yay me!

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So it took a particular Amazon seller roughly 147 days to send me D’s surprise CD he bought for me. I eventually gave up checking the mailbox after week three but it finally came! Grownup -Valerie Lansburg had finally arrived due to my request 6 months ago watching all of those tv show FAME episodes and I decided to look ole Doris up and I was impressed. Astounded. And now I finally have grownup. I grin as I listen to it like right now throughout this post it is on it’s second play.

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In between all of this, I applied to be a moderator for Kid Rock’s Website:

Think I am lying? Here is the email (TY SmileeSeger)

Are you the world’s biggest Kid Rock fan? Do you want to work for the American Badass himself? Kid Rock is currently looking for a community manager for his official site, kidrock. com.
Your job will be to moderate the kidrock. com & TheKRC. com communities, manage user submitted photos, videos, and blogs, and help out with posting news on kidrock. com.
If you think you’ve got what it takes to be Kid Rock’s right hand man or woman, send us a letter about why you’re perfect for the job as well as links to you personal or public Web site, and a sample news article that you’ve written about Kid Rock.
Got it? Good, then it’s time to get started because Kid Rock is waiting! Please email all submissions to webmaster@kidrock. com

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On another high note… I caught a glimpse of a new release by my boy Eminem:

“I’m Having a Relapse”

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okay .. just one last epic find:

Obama Roasts McCain at Al Smith Dinner



~ via Zaibatsu (a.k.a BANNED)