All Narfed Up photography and words by Bryan Villarin

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Slight site tweaks

In Asides, Site on 16 December 2005 with 2 comments

I added a status page and reordered the navigation links [on your right] to be in alphabetical order - I was tired of numbering them manually.

iTunes Signature Maker

In Asides, Music, iTunes on 12 December 2005 with no comments

I think I’ll have some signatures downloaded onto my iPod in their own playlist. Perhaps a short, long, and extended version of my musical tastes from iTunes will be nice? Thanks iTunes Signature Maker! (Golf clap: Lifehacker)

Best BitTorrent client?

In Asides, BitTorrent on 11 December 2005 with 1 comment

Can anyone point to a matrix comparing BitTorrent client software comparisons? µTorrent is getting some raves, but what about ZipTorrent? That one hasn’t been dugg yet. If something is better out there, then I certainly wouldn’t want to just put up with ZipTorrent (not that there’s anything wrong with it). Update: Aren’t I the smart one? There’s a BitTorrent comparison on Wikipedia!

Received SD USB card reader!

In Asides, Gadgets on 8 December 2005 with no comments

I’m stoked! I ordered the USB card reader yesterday, it shipped yesterday, and I got it today. Why couldn’t that happen before? Anyway, I’ll be looking for some portable programs now. I’ll be looking through Google, but if you know any offhand that you can’t live without, I’d love to hear about it! (I have 2×256MB SD sticks.)

Reordered from Newegg

In Asides, Business on 7 December 2005 with 1 comment

9:40am: I just reordered the USB SD card reader from Newegg. This time, I went with FedEx. Hopefully they ship today, and I receive it tomorrow or Friday (at the latest). I need to get my photos off my cameraphone, plus I’d like to try some programs from that memory card as a USB drive.

RSS Bandit to NewsGator sync slowness

In Asides, News Readers, Service on 29 November 2005 with 1 comment

Why does RSS Bandit take forever to download the feedlist from NewsGator Online?

ABC News uses Firefox

In Asides, Firefox on 29 November 2005 with no comments

Mom was watching ABC World News Tonight, and they were reporting on the game rating system. Afterwards, they were plugging their site, displaying a monitor with their webpage. It was running Firefox. Cool beans.

Second hard drive close to dying

In Asides, Hard Drives on 28 November 2005 with 3 comments

I powered up my desktop system this morning, only to hear an odd sound (probably from the hard drive). When I looked at the monitor, a blue screen was smiling at me. I didn’t write down the error, but I’m convinced that this 60GB Western Digital (like my IBM Deskstar 120GXP) is about to bite the dust. I think I’ll be getting a new hard drive. Karen’s Replicator will be copying my files to a my laptop computer now… (Note: For the record, I’ve had the Western Digital hard drive for four years.)

Free WiFi at Arcadia Public Library

In Asides, Free, WiFi on 21 November 2005 with no comments

Whoa, I just found out that the Arcadia Public Library has free WiFi. I don’t know how long they’ve had it there, but it doesn’t matter - that’s awesome! (see the “What’s New at the Library” section)

I love Streetcards

In Asides, Business on 18 November 2005 with no comments

Hugh MacLeod Streetcards are awesome! I haven’t written about them before, so here it is. If you wanna get me something for my birthday coming up after Christmas (or just because), I would love to get a lot of these for business/blog cards - there’s gift vouchers available! I’m out of business cards, and the current design is lame anyway.