Most Twitter clients on my phone can’t show me the whole message. In worst case they can’t even present it in a nice looking interface. This app does both and comes with a cool bird sound to notify you when there’s a new twit.

It’s baked with twitpic integration which does not crash on my 3.2 Megapixel pictures like other clients like tiny twit. Comes with URL shortening software and if you listen to your music on your cell phone you can post them directly to twitter without any fuzz.

You can download it from http://www.trinketsoftware.com/Twikini.

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Greate custom ascii art:

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See how long your machines been runing

uptime

for the next few you need to install cowsay

sudo apt-get install cowsay

see your fortune

fortune

let a cow say your personal message

cowsay 'msg'

cowsay your amarok lyrics

dcop amarok player lyrics | cowsay

show laptop temp and batterie state

acpi -t

source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2540421&postcount=1

powercfg /hibernate on

Its possible that you have to restart your computer or change the energy settings to hibernate again. But now you’ll be able to select it.

For the dutch speaking reader Hibernate is Sluimerstand in Vista not Slaapstand which is Stand-By.

net stop beep

Now you can continue work in all peace. If you’ll noticed any other solutions let me now in the comments.

First steps toward finishing this project in a successfully mater we had to pick a cultural or tourism area to base the site on. Here for we’ve taken a map of the area and looked which subjects were geographical most interesting between me and mine partner Wannes Wittevrongel’s place. He lived in Bruges and I near Ypres, so we picked something that was between those two location and also easily accessed from our school in Kortrijk. Then it was that we stumbled upon Roeselare who had a very interesting and historical brewery not far from the train station. This is how Rodenbach became or primary subject for our flash video site.

Now we had a subject, we still needed green light from or teachers and the company itself. Which we got without any trouble. The teacher found it a fun and interesting subject but there was a second group who also had Rodenbach in mind. The people from Rodenbach were also very cooperative, with only some restriction, that we didn’t disturb the tour groups and weren’t granted access to the brewery itself because of hygienic reasons.

Next steps of the process were brainstorming session, writing the script, story board, designing the look and feel for the project and after all the preparations the filming itself.

The scenario we came up with was that the main brewer was poisoned by a bad vessel. The only cure is a perfectly brewed Rodenbach. Your job was to find all the main ingredients and brew the Rodenbach yourself with help from the brewer his sidekick (played by Wannes). If you picked the wrong ingredients the beer turned a green like colour and you had to start all over again.

Because of our filled days with lessons and the dates given by Rodenbach we only had one day to film everything on 2 different locations. We didn’t found any actors so beside filming it all we also had to play the actors in the video. Wannes played the main role, where I played a sub character and the voice overs. Just before the examinations we still had to programme the entire flash and the video still had to edited weeks before the deadline. The big time problems where caused due to the other projects we had running during the year. A Network based multiplayer Poker game made in Java, our CCNA exames were only the tip of our work.

There for we split the workload in 2 parts. The programming in Flash (Wannes his part) and the editing of the video in Premiere Pro CS3(my part). At the deadline the video was 99% completed only some voice over which we couldn’t record because Wannes his microphone was broken were  implented with poor sound quality. The Flash was a other story, we overlooked it and was way more work than we expected. Our dream scenario was that between every scene there was a mini game to get the ingredients and a end game to brew the beer itself. None of these games were completed and there for we had to cut some scenes and functions like a basket, were all the already collected ingredients were displayed.

I shall no longer bore you with my blater and just give the URL. It was originally designed as local flash application and not for the internet so there isn’t a preloader. If it goes much to slow you can also download the program in a RAR file.

BTW I’m not specializing in Multimedia so this isn’t the best one of the school even not from my class. In my eye’s its even not completly finished. But please let me know what you think of it in the comments.

But now I found a better one, speed.io tests everything speedtest.nl does, only it does it from multiple places so a more acurate reading and with a far more fancy look.

You’ll also get a small graph or text to post on your website or use in forums.

OutSync is compatible with Windows XP, Vista and Server 2003. It requires Outlook 2003 or 2007.

You can download this free Windows Application through Mel Sampat’s site or the OutSync Facebook page.

What I found very useful is the key combination of the windows key and numbers. The number is consistent with the object in the menu fast start. So if your Firefox is on place 2 (like with my setup) you can use Win+2 to start your Firefox. Easy and Fast.

We all use the Alt-Tab key to switch programs or even the Win-Tab key to switch programs with the fancy 3D view. But what if you don’t know what you’re looking for? Instead of constantly Alt-Tabbing, try Ctrl-Alt-Tab or Ctrl-Win-Tab to keep the switching open instead of fading back. Also you can try using Alt-Tab/Win and your scroll wheel to ease the program switching even more.

Some other keys are Win-M to minimize everything and Win-Shift-M to put it all back. Win-G let you scroll through the windows gadgets and Win-Space to show you your sidebar. Of course your regular single Windows key can be very useful to show you the starting menu.

But my all time favourite is Ctrl-Shift-Esc to show you the task menu. It so much simpler and faster than Ctrl-Alt-Del waiting till the operating system response, starting the task menu and again waiting till it comes up.

There’s one smaller trick, when you’re on your desktop try using Ctrl-Scroll to enlarge or shrink the size of your icons.

Ready Boost

One thing I use at home is the ready boost function build into vista. It makes my machine crispier, but in some cases it can have almost no improvement (even slow down your system). This is because flash memory is fast accessible but slow in transfer. With that said Ready Boost only helps with small files, it also encrypts and compresses the data which means more slowing down. So if you want to make your machine faster putting more internal Memory helps a lot more than the Ready Boost, but every little bit help.

Ready Boost mostly helps with the Super Fetch function of Vista. This is a service which remembers which programs get used most and already loads them in your memory so that there startup time is reduced. That’s where the crispiness comes from, if you try this out you should see a big difference with the office products and outlook.

To use Ready Boost you just insert a flash stick or card, right click it and select properties. In the tab Ready Boost you can check if your memory is fast enough and configure the size witch gone be used by the Ready Boost Function. Here the optimal size is once to trice the size of your internal memory. With 2 GB of RAM you should use between 2 GB and 6 GB for optimize Usage.

Unnecessary knowledge

In 2004 Microsoft would have thrown away all the code of Vista and start all over because the old work way resulted in too much Bugs

In the first Beta releases of Longhorn (work name of Vista) the all known blue screen was replaced with a “Red Screen of Death”

During the design of the security in Windows Vista Microsoft worked together with the American security association, NSA.

If there are any tricks, tips or cool facts I left out or even made a mistake in. Please leave it in the comments and I’ll try to fit it in.

Palliatieve Zorg voor kinderen wordt in ons land nog steeds niet gesubsidieerd (Palliatieve Zorg voor volwassenen wel).  Met deze handtekeningenactie willen we ons hoofddoel bereiken : het politiek gezag aanmoedigen en aanzetten om werk te maken van erkenning zodat er in de nabije toekomst wel enige vorm kan zijn van subsidiëring.

Dit kan je doen door je handtekening toe te voegen via de teken voor serafien website.

For our not dutch speaking visitors this post is a petition for the Flemish healthcare system to suport Palliatory care for children.

If the direction Mozilla Labs are heading for mobile browsers looks any like their Firefox Mobile Concept Video, its gona be AWESOME. zoomable tabs, optimization for small displays. Especially When you get to the side of a website it shows a “zoom out” border is really cool and handy. At this moment its just a concept of there thoughts, but if it ever comes out I’ll be happy to switch my Opera browser for Firefox (again).

Move Up a Directory in Vista’s Explorer [lifehacker]

When you’re a cooked in Windows user it can be very hard to make the plunge to Linux, or even to install it on your desktop can be a big step. But now in the new Ubuntu Hardy Heron there’s a cool feature to install a version of Ubuntu on your desktop like a normal every day using Windows program that you can just as easily remove as install.

The installation disk

First of all you need a Ubuntu Hardy Heron installation disk, and because Ubuntu is open source which means it’s frEE like in bEEr you can get it just like that. All you have to do is download the iso (or the Dutch version), burn it with your favourite burning tool to a disk and voila. If even that’s too much work to do you can request a free cd and the Ubuntu community will send to you one.

The installing itself

You just insert the Ubuntu cd into your cd drive while windows is running (just like any other program you install). If your disk drive auto run is on there will be a popup else you just click the cd you just entered. For the windows installation mode you select the install inside windows mode. You can

select several options like drive, installation size, language, username and password. After installation you reboot the system and get a boot menu asking you which operation system you want to boot. If you for some reason don’t like it you can easily remove it through the Windows program list, just like any Windows program.

live cd

If installing Linux ain’t your thing. You can just boot from the installation disk and select try out ubuntu without changing anything to your computer, it will then run from your cd instead of your hard disk. Of course you can’t save any changes or install anything. And it also goes allot slower but it’s a great way to try it out.

When you are Firefox users you surely had a moment when you need to use internet explorer to view a site. Just using SharePoint at work gives you this problem. So you need to close you favourite browser or even worse if you’re working in Linux.

But now there’s a Firefox plug-in that gives you the opportunities to use the internet explorer processor in Firefox. It works pretty easy. You install it just like every other plug-in you use. Then in the bottom right corner there is the Firefox logo saying you’re using the Firefox process engine.

When you click this logo it switches to the internet explorer logo and the site reloads in internet explorer. And no need to panic about other tabs cause it only works in the tabs you choose to use internet explorer on.

If you want to go back to Firefox click the internet explorer logo and it switches back. No more starting up internet explorer or even windows for stupid sites.

Download: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

nLite is a freeware customization tool for Windows, it gives you the opportunity to remove Windows components like media player, MSN Explorer from the installation wizard. With other words you can make your own personalised Windows installation disk. With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which on install does not include, or even contain on media, the unwanted components.

This freeware tool you van download from http://www.nliteos.com

Features

Service Pack Integration, Component Removal, Unattended Setup, Driver Integration, Hotfixes Integration, Tweaks, Services Configuration, Patches, Bootable ISO creation

What do you need

First of all this tool does not make your Windows installation disk, it customises the disk. So to begin you have to own your default Windows installation disk of Windows 2000, XP x86/x64 or 2003 x86/x64 of any language. You also need the .NET Framework 2.0 in order to run. Downloading the tool itself can also be very usefully.

First steps

Select in which language you wane continue, here I will choose English but you can just as well choose one of the many other languages like Dutch, French, and on.

Once you selected the language, you can continue by insert/mount your Windows installation disk. In the next screen you’ll be asked to select the installation folder. Most cases this will be the disk drive containing the installation disk. Next up is selecting a temporary folder used to edit the installation files, also there need to be at least 1200Mb of free space on the temporary folder.

Task Selection

Here you can choose which customization you wane do on your personalised installation disk. Like integration of Service packs, drivers and fixes. In my case i selected everything just to check on it. First up is the Service pack integration.

Service packs, and hot fixes

First of all you’ll need to download the service pack you want to integrate to your disk. In my case I’m integrating XP Service Pack 3 to my personalised XP installation disk. This can take a moment. When it’s finished you can add (if you selected the option) to insert other fixes which not included to into the service pack.

Drivers

Here you can insert drivers not included to the default installation disk.

Components

You can select extra compatibility like Fast user switching, ISS, Sysrep (this windows tool secures a unique installation), Media Center, and more. After the extra compatibility you can select which extra components you want to install to your personalised installation disk.

Personal settings

Here you can set personal settings so you don’t have to during the installation like Users, CD-Key, and many, many more. Further option can also be set in the next wizard page.

Tweaks

In this page registry tweaks and service tweaks can be edited or added.

Finishing

After all this, a report will be made what will be changed to the default installation disk. If you click next you can set options how you wane save the personalised installation disk. You can burn it, write it to iso, label it.

Hope this guide helped you. If you think I missed something or you have some tips/tricks don’t hesitate to place a comment.

9 days ago my ferrets Speedy and Zorro escaped from there cage (someone left it open). In the morning when we noticed that they were gone, we found Zorro in the garden, but Speedy was nowhere to be seen.

We search everywhere but didn’t find any trails or ferrets. We placed his little cage, where he sleeps when he is in the house, outside at the backdoor so if he returns we would find him. But after a week or so still no Speedy. then we started started noticing that Zorro the remaining ferret began getting lonely and losing weight.

After 7 days we went to the shop and bought a new male albino ferret called snow, that day we send mails to the closest animal centers and brought flayers around flayers to the neighbors and so on.

Today tuesday, nine days from the breakout, one of my neighbors rings the door with news that they may have found my ferret in there workplace about a mile from here. We went and found the poor beast skinny and cold coverd in powder, they work with granite and rocks there. After nine days a big bath and breakfast he’s finally home and sleeping in his cage.

After months of putting it asside thou to school work wich i’m gona post later. There are still allot more to put on like all the page’s except the main (blog) one, reviews, and other content.

Feel free to comment what you think of my new one.