Author Archives: Brian

Neutron – automatic time-syncing

All-purpose utility applications that slice and dice and do 100 different things are cool, but sometimes you want an app that does one thing and one thing well. This app falls into the latter category. Neutron synchronizes your system clock with the atomic clock automatically. Just put a link to it in your startup folder and Neutron will sync up your time automatically every time you reboot and will exit automatically after the syncing is done. It’s freeware and the download is only 6kb. Robin has some other good freeware in his software section too – check it out.

Neutron homepage

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Backups and Contact Info For Your Flash Drive

I was reminded of this by Penny Arcade and some other site I read today (I forget which one). Flash drives don’t last forever. If you have anything important on your flash drive, back it up now. I backed mine up today. I have all my code from pipasoft.com on it, and a few other things – nothing I can’t live without, but still…. Another thing you should do is put a text file in the root of your drive called something like “if_found_read_this.txt” which contains contact info – just in case someone honest ever finds your flash drive. Maybe you’ll have a chance of getting it back.

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Come Clean

Found this today via Jimmy Jett’s Podcast About Nothing: http://comeclean.com. Make sure you have sound turned up and headphones on when you visit. It’s a site that you can “come clean” and confess your wrongdoings or you can view what others have confessed. It’s narrated by a woman with a beautiful (Indian?) accent. It’s actually a very funny site – keep an eye on the bottom too – funny things pop up there – mine said “We have received a lot of murder confessions – we hope you were kidding.”

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