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President Bush’s library destoyed by fire. Details here. What a waste.

geek, bush, funny

Since I have been using a plugin to Miranda to check my POP3 account, during the time period where I couldn’t use Miranda I had to look for a small footprint POP3 checker. My requirements were:

• low memory footprint, the smaller the better
• message preview - I want to see who it’s from and the subject before launching my mail client
• mimize to tray
• freeware

I found a TON of POP3 checkers and here were my results for the ones I tried:

• eprompter - 5.8MB - too much memory
• emailchk - 5 MB - too much memory
• magic mail monitor - 5.5 MB - too much memory
• mailchecker - 3MB - no preview
• natty - 1.6 MB - no preview
• mailpeek - 500kb - no system tray
• PopPeeper - 1.7 MB - WINNER

So, I ended up using PopPeeper. It met all my needs and only used ~1.7MB of memory when running. Of course, now that Miranda works again, I don’t need it any more. Oh well. Maybe this info will help someone else in the future.

PopPeeper website

geek, windows, freeware, software, email, pop3

Part 1 of an interview with Adam Savage from Mythbusters is up at The Sneeze. Great interview if you like Mythbusters (one of my favorite TV shows right now).

Adam Savage Interview Part 1

UPDATE: part 2 is up

geek, mythbusters, tv

How sad is it that in this Wired article I knew what arcade game this art came from:

Highlight this to see the answer:

I’m an arcade geek, no doubt about it.

geek, arcade, art

After a few days of downtime, Miranda finally works again. Miranda is a multi-protocol IM client and it seems AOL cut off its access. They released a patch that fixes the AIM support. WooHoo! I was using Gaim in the interim and it was painful. Miranda really is a much better client than Gaim, IMHO. It has a very low memory footprint, is totally customizable via plugins, is freeware/open source, does all the major IM protocols, runs from a flash drive, and just works and acts like I want it to. Check it out if you haven’t already.

Miranda homepage

geek, windows, freeware, IM

If I were 15 years younger, I might get some of these. The Space Invaders are cool!

[via Wonderland]

I don’t know why I bother posting with the Technorati tags any more. Everything was fine at first and they were indexing my site, but for the past month or so, nothing. None of my posts show up in Technorati any more. I can’t figure out why. I even have an account with them and I have tried pinging them multiple different ways but nothing seems to work. I thought it was because my page wouldn’t validate, but I fixed that and still no love. Anyone have any ideas?

Technorati Profile

After reading this article about a live transparent desktop on a Mac, (and he actually hints at this near the end)….imagine this….. a big-screen plasma/LCD TV in a windowless room but there is a webcam mounted on the outside wall and the feed from it is connected to this TV mounted on your wall. It would be like having a window in a windowless room. Maybe someday when the prices of LCD/plasma/whatever TVs come down, this would be a possibility.

geek, window, webcam, idea

Here’s a handy little freeware Windows application that just might save you a lot of grief at some point. It’s called Snadboy’s Revelation. It does one thing and one thing only - it reveals hidden passwords in applications. For example, Just the other day I needed my database password out of the program I normally use to connect to the database, but the password was hidden behind *******. So, I ran Revelation and got the password out.

Here is how it works. Run whatever program you have that has a password you need revealed. Now run Revelation. Drag the crosshairs from Revelation and point it to the password field. The password text should appear in Revelation.

Another nice feature is that it can run from a flash drive and it’s only 116 KB. Just run the Revelation installer to install it on your computer, then copy the Revelation.exe and the RevelationHelper.dll to your flash drive. I keep it on my flash drive all the time just in case I ever need it in a pinch.

Sadly, Revelation does not reveal all passwords though. Most notably, it can’t reveal passwords in Firefox. I know of another way to get the passwords out of webpages in Firefox though - we’ll cover that at a later date. Revelation does work in Internet Explorer though and it works in almost all of the other Windows applications I have tried it on. Give it a try. If you don’t need it now, you may need it in the future (and it’s fun to play with).

FYI: This post is also at TipMonkies

geek, windows, freeware, passwords

I made this image with the Online Ribbon Generator. Is anyone else sick and tired of seeing ribbons on cars?

tags: geek, hate, ribbons, funny, irony