Articles Archive for July 2008
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Some time ago I wrote a post about Cuil named: Life After Google With Cuil?. Back then it wasn’t possible to use this new search engine, but today I noticed that it’s up and running! As I was curious about this I wanted to check it out.
Cuil wants to compete with Google and there for I’m going to compare it with Google.
While Google’s background color is White, Cuil’s background color is black.
You can display Cuil results in 2 columns or in 3 (This is a part which I don’t like.. …
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When I was surfing around I noticed that there are a lot posts on the mmo (Make Money Online) blogs about Google’s pagerank being updated.
To be honest I never look to a site’s page rank, cause I have the Google Tool Bar hided in Firefox and the pagerank doesn’t tell me if I’m going to like the site. So at first I didn’t pay any attention to it but then suddenly I checked my main page I noticed that Google has updated my pagerank as well! I have been giving …
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Two musicals in 6 days. Jep, as you might have guessed we’ve been to another musical last Saturday. After Les Miserables it’s time for Tarzan the musical. We’ve been to this musical before but we liked it very much so we wanted to see it again. The musical plays only in The Circustheather which is located in Scheveningen. Jep, our favorite town besides Eindhoven.
Tarzan & Jane
As the show would start at 14:30 and we wanted to make sure that we were on time we left our house a bit early …
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In my last post I wrote how you can enable cleartype in Windows XP. By enabling the cleartype the text will look much more sharper and therefor much easier to read. Anyway, enabling the cleartype is very easy but there is a way to fine tune the cleartype in Windows XP to your needs.
Method 1:
You can use a online tuner which is able here. To fine tune cleartype, you only have follow the steps till your satisfied!
NOTE: In order to do so, you HAVE to use Internet Explorer. That’s why …
Tips & Tricks: PC »
If you didn’t knew: Windows XP has cleartype but unfortunately this option is disabled by default. I don’t know why it’s disabled cause the text looks much sharper with this option enabled.
To enable this option follow the steps below:
Click Start
Click Control Panel
Click Display applet
Click the Appearance tab
Click the Effects box
Select ClearType from the second drop-down: “Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts” menu
Click OK
Click Apply
By now you’ll see that the text is much more sharper and it looks pretty smooth! Give it a try I …
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Locking your workstation is very important. Cause when you leave your workstation unlocked, anyone can use your workstation and assume your network identity, gaining access to any applications or files to which you have access. There you have to keep your workstation secure. You should lock your workstation whenever you leave it, even if you will only be gone for a few minutes.
Here are some methods to lock your xp workstation real fast.
Method 1: Creating a shortcut
Go to your Desktop
Create a new shortcut on your desktop using a right mouse …
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Some time ago I wrote that I was going to see some musicals in the “summer”. Well, summer?! The past weeks it looked a lot like winter time; cold, grey and with a lot of rain! Luckily it didn’t snow!
Anyway, Sunday when we left our house to see Les Miserables musical in Rotterdam. The weather wasn’t any better; again it was cold, grey and it was raining. (See the picture below!)
Jannie in the rain…
Because the musical is playing in the “Nieuwe Luxor Theather” in Rotterdam we …
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Yesterday I got a comment from Liam and he told me that he had tagged me! Anyway I love memes and like the other times I’m going to participate. The only difference with the old meme is that I’m going to tag 4 others!




