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Restore a Missing Personal User Folder in Vista
Sep 24th
I double as the IT department at work because I’m geeky. My boss’ wife had some issues on vista because she had created multiple desktop and document folders. I’m posting this if I ever need this information again.
To restore a personal user folder if it has been deleted, in the wrong location, or is missing from your C:\Users\(user name) or Start menu location:
1. Open the Start menu.
2. In the white line (Start Search) area, type in the shell command for the missing Personal User folder and press Enter.
| User Folder | Shell Command |
|---|---|
| Contacts | shell:Contacts |
| Desktop | shell:desktop |
| Documents | shell:Personal |
| Downloads | shell:downloads |
| Favorites | shell:Favorites |
| Links | shell:Links |
| Music | shell:My Music |
| Pictures | shell:My Pictures |
| Saved Games | shell:SavedGames |
| Searches | shell:Searches |
| Videos | shell:My Video |
Picasa 3 beta (windows only)
Sep 4th
Again, Google continues to carry out its mission: to try to take over the world.
I’ve just downloaded the Picasa 3 beta. You can now make movies, take screenshots and webcam shots, add watermarks and print captions. It also comes with a new photo viewer that looks like this:
Hey, the easter egg still works! Anyone else trying out the beta?
Google Chrome Beta Download (Windows Only)
Sep 2nd
Edit: Sept. 3, 2008
me: i miss my adblocker
joey: it has adblock
joey: doesn’t it
joey: o wait it doesn’t
joey: lol it doesnt’ block google ads
oh, and type about:internets into the address bar to get a fun little animation.
If you haven’t heard the news, Google released its own browser today. Google Chrome – Download. Anyone try it out yet? You can check out the comic book or more features in video form.
Dark XP and Gmail
Apr 3rd
For everyone who has followed me on the internet all these years, they know that I have a dark side. I absolutely LOVE dark-themed websites, for some reason. All my websites have been dark, save my very first Blogger template. I even wrote about the switch from light to dark back in 2002. Too bad I didn’t post a screenshot. I use dark desktop/wallpapers on all my computers, even the one at work. For my personal computers, I’ve been using a dark theme called Royale Noir. It looks exactly like Royale, the blue default XP theme, only it’s, uh, dark.
Here’s the file that I used: Royale Noir
More recently, I’ve been testing out a darkened version of Gmail. It requires the Stylish Firefox extension and the Gmail Redesigned user style by UneasySilence. Cool interface, eh? Has Gmail ever changed it’s look since it was launched?
Oh, and I’m also trying out the dark Google web search. I wonder how many people out there are into dark skins/themes.
Geek gifts and Bond
Dec 7th
Hmm, my page had a breakdown yesterday. The only thing that would load was the background. I contacted Dreamhost and they fixed it. Apparently there’s some trouble with wp-cache turned on when you upgrade to PHP 5.1.2. Now if only I can get my page to load faster…WordPress plays kinda slow with Dreamhost.
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Look, gifts under $77, courtesy of Core77.
Speaking of gifts, I like this guide for buying gifts for geeks.
- If a brand is listed and/or mentioned – name means everything. There’s a big difference between “any DVD burner” and “any Sony DVD burner.” Chances are, the geeks have done their homework – and they typically know what’s good and what’s not.
- Removable media was not created equal. Find out ahead of time what kind of removable media your geek wants, needs, and loves – because a Memory Stick port simply was not designed to accomodate an SD card.
- Anything less than a gig isn’t all that great these days. Sure, the corner store may be selling 32 megabyte CompactFlash cards, but that’s not going to do your geek much good. If you can’t score a geek.
- Unless otherwise noted, accounts and gift certificates are the suck. Here’s the prime problem with gift certificates: the only one who gets the gift is the store from which you purchased the certificate. Trust me, even if your geek hasn’t told you what s/he wants or needs, you simply need to dig deeper and listen longer.
- Form a gift guild. If many items on a geek’s wish list are too pricey for your pocketbook, instead of settling on a stack of CDs you can talk to other friends and family members and consider combining funds to get a single gift. One “awesome” thing is 100x better than three “okay” things.
Hehe…I like #5. I seem to always buy “big” gifts for myself. I don’t buy a lot of little things.
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Oh, I’ve been meaning to post about the latest Bond film.
I saw it right before Thanksgiving. The film is a little long, but definitely worth watching, even if I had paid full price. I must say that Daniel Craig is one buff bond. Haha. Not as smooth as Pierce Brosnan, but I guess that’s the image they were after–the beginning of bond. I did get a chance to do read up about the opening chase sequence. It contains a lot of moves from a French discipline called Parkour, a sort of extreme urban sport, similar to the techniques of Jackie Chan.