Internet Explorer released

Well here we are passed the whole” let’s catch up with firefox” phase of adding tabs. Let’s see if explorer caught up on the whole ” well let’s let them see the page they are trying to access , before we ask them if they want to save the password.” One thing I hate is when a page will not load until I select yes or no on save password “what if I typoed”.

Some have informative responses (kinda)
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5937995.ece

Steve Ballmer, the chief executive officer of Microsoft, said: “With Internet Explorer 8, we are delivering a browser that gets people to the information they need, fast, and provides protection that no other browser can match.”

but here is the actual page so you can evaluate for yourself
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx

Now you can quickly display websites that were designed for older browsers. If you’re looking at a page and the text or images aren’t lined up right, just use the new Compatibility View button next to the Refresh button on the Address Bar.

Best Online Video Outlets of 08

I can not say that Youtube is the best, just the greatest used. When they get the whole “hd” version and time span thing worked out. In due time, we all know google has a big plan somewhere up their sleave. lol.

Ok on to my favorites:

3.VEOH Nothing major ground breaking but a great gathering of videos on other people’s sites.

2.Joost The first of the best High quality, Could be best but had a face lift  mid year that changed everything and started them back at point zero, to follow hulu. I would like to locate their media player again.

1. HULU very high quallity high resolution videos.  Bad thing is, fox focused, and all the really good shows, are on fox’s website not Hulu’s. I still after 5 tries can not get the fox media player to work at all. I tried  Xp,Xp64,Vista,Xandros Linux.  but other than that, what shows they do host, are very high quality with tiny short advertisements

My research of Finallyfast

There has been an advertisement on Television lately that I have seen coming up repeatedly. The advertisement talk of a program called “finallyfast” from a website called “finallyfast.com” .
So as usual I do my research before I download anything. then after I download the program i will scan it with as many different virus scanners as I can find.

On first analysis, I find that finally fast is actually hosted on a site “ascentive.com”. That site and it’s files have been noted as being malware with recurring charges to your credit card, that are really hard to get out of.
Site adviser website has noted that the content from ascentive.com is not safe . Siteadviser.

Ok so I went to the website anyway and started reading. They say it’s free from the get go. so I downloaded the file.

REALLY If you want to do a check up of your pc. I advise pcpitstop.com the only thing you need from there is an active x file and I find that activex file very safe.

but anyway I got the file and imediatly headed to Virscan.org and did a quick scan for any kind of computer cooties. This program is supposed to speed up your computer. Let’s just see. Well it turns out that all online scanners for single files, have a 10mb limit. This file from finallyfast.com or let’s say ascentive.com was 10.2 mb. Looks like they are a tad to large . So I compressed the file in a rar and proceeded to scan :-) .
one virus scanner found “Net-Worm.Win32.Bobic.k” could be a false positive but I found that other people found the same thing after the install. here are the results for finallyfast+worm and here are the results of finallyfast+trojan

Here is a forum that talks about the software and solutions.

The phone calls to suport
1st call
2nd call
3rd call
4th call is to ascentive, the mother company.
( They mention spyware striker)
pc speedscan pro I do not recommend installing this!!!!
activespeed Credit card issues.
Scan and sweep useless on xp, bad for vista.

Right way to order cable / Satellite

Call Comcast  and request your cable to vbe installed. They will give you a “Time frame Window” .

As soon as they state their little window of 6 hours that you are supposed to stay home from work to accomodate this company who makes you feel as if you have no alternative. Don’t bother requesting anything or asking any questions, they will belittle you and let you know they are very busy. Go the full nine yards with the phone call, make sure all of the paper work is done and then slam them with the big fat juicy one. Just before they get the chance to build up the steam and read the last line or recite the last line of their typical  ” how to end a call”  Rule book. Say with excitement ” Awesome that works out fine, I also ordered Direct Tv to arrive that same day, My friends and I have a bet which one will come and install first, I am betting on direct tv and from the huge time frame you gave me, I am gonna win the $200 bet, Well which ever shows up first is the one I am gonna use”.

Now end the call with something you have rehearsed ” thanks for accepting my call and taking my order, if there isn’t any more information you need from me again I would like to thank and wish you a good day.”

Now call direct tv and do the same.

Direct tv takes for ever, but do your best to schedual the same day.. which ever one shows up last, tell them it must have been a prank call.  If you get lucky, you get direct tv and Dsl. Dsl shouldnt exceed $30 a month and sometimes has greater bandwaidth than comcast, I mean comcast shows cool stats and specs when you do bandwidth tests, but in file transfer , they fall short of dsl. Earthlink is inexpensive and can find people to work with you.

Dsl has gotten really good in the past few years.. If you are in the right area.

Taste Of Cool (cuil search engine)

Very simple pretty look, the black background looks nice with the blue search button and rounded text area box. The engine fast and gives results almost instantly. A great thing for them is after you have done a search, there is a preference link at the top of the page. so far there are only two options there, but in time I am positive they will include new applets that run with the site’s engine. This could be a good thing. I have yet to have found a “submit url” on the site, but I did find a link to talk to tech support, I did request a few things. When they reply I will be posting more on that subject. Yes I did cover a link submission. If they know what’s best and simplest for them, they will bring that option in. If they bring it in too soon, chances are we are looking at another crash like their launch. I can imagine all of the people flooding in to submit the links. All at once. The name is short and easy to type and remember. The place has huge potential of being the greatest. But I had to do a search.

First thing I had to do is a vanity search on cuil.

http://www.cuil.com/search?q=TruXter

I found links that are well over a year old and dead.

I found links from a blog I deleted nearly two years ago.

None of my current /recent projects showed up. (recent as in within the past year and a half.

When I got home I did a search for a Fire Alarm company in Houston that I built a website for

HiTech Fire Detection

But the results show a website that has been on a whole new server for about two months now.

http://www.cuil.com/search?q=hitech+fire+detection

The old long dead link, out ranks the fresh  clean actual page.

Try HiTech Integrated Solutions, Similar results.

Cuil needs to re-crawl pages and check for updates.

As of right now, Not quite the Google killer some have claimed. But really this company seems a bit more modest than that. They might just be a new search.

How to own people in a forum

if you have ever wanted to know how to fight better in a forum, how to better than rick roll people in a forum. If you wanted to be a bigger man and let the whole world know that you are a greater person than they are. then you need to just poke them with a link that puts them in their place. http://truxter.org/mph/

That video will set them straight. If they are the a.d.d. type who open it and close it and tell you it sucks, there’s a little treat in there for them too.. look at the page title :-) .. that would be located at the top and in your taskbar.

Thanks to Cali lewis for the great find, she is such a sweetheart. The internet was what it was meant to be. it was meant to a be a freedom, it wa snot meant be some dill hole threating people to forcably pull their finger only to make a honk noise and laugh with everyone wondering “WTF” .

I mean it used to be violent, but now it’s just weird stupid and the meanness is lame. The elders have seen the worse, and the crack pots on it now, well , they are just looking for a way to laugh. But what they laugh at is pointless. :p)

How to Win Myspace Mobster Game

I took the time to actually try the game. I was a bit scared to try it, seeing how it looks like one of the 900000000 bad links you will get on that site.
So I tried the game. The game really is hard at first, because the only explanation is the FAQ page. An FAQ that was written before the game was released. Um I have an issue with companies that do that. How can it be frequently asked questions, if no one has yet had a chance to ask them? Should be pdaq, pre-determined askable questions.. or simply tqwwta “The Questions We Want To Answer”. See they leave no place ( That I could find) to get more information.

First few levels, attack only tycoons.

Well for those of you who are like me and needed answers ( that I never found) then I have what you need.
For starts , get a friend to join your mob,Join every mob you are invited to, the more the people the better your fight. now the cool thing is, when you look at someone’s profile before you decide to attack them or not, it only shows little pictures of the weapons they have. The game does not show how many of each weapon, nor does it show whether they have a bullet proof vest or not. So for safeties sake get at least two vests for every three people in your mob. Now the fun trick to get easy experience is to buy the same gun for every member you have in your mob. Why? well simple, when a person looks at your profile they will see that you have like say five members, one pistol and one crowbar. In actuality you have five pistols and one crowbar. it’s an easy kill. now just focus on your attack strength. Because really your defense is amazing at this point. Because you have stuff they do not expect.
but of course don’t buy the pistols only, buy the uzi. One uzi for each member.




Never get rid of the stuff you actually need, like the crowbar and the 38 special.
Buy some land and then buy a building. Now don’t waste your money on healing yourself. if you wait long enough for you to heal on your own, you will bring in a mess load of money before you level up again. You really do not want to level up while you are broke. It’s harder to save your life if you can’t afford to. Let your money get really high and now buy bigger property so you can get more money faster. Don’t forget to hurry and shovel your cash into the bank so no one mugs you while you are afk (away from keyboard). Try an picture being a level five with two properties, 7 members and 7 oozies a crowbar and a shot gun and an El Camino (so you can do most of the missions). Don’t do the missions just yet, just sit on the current stats until you have enough money to steadily heal yourself for a good ten minutes of solid fighting. when the money runs out and you have no health left and your mob is in the hospital, start nailing out the missions. As you can now level up, and select where you to dump your skill points, plug them all into the energy.
once the money is out and all your energy is used on gaining points, go to the godfather and trade in your Favor points, heal yourself and fight till that money is gone.
Now log out and do not get in a fight or do a mission until tomorrow. Through out that time, log in each chance you get and stuff your money into your bank account.Now that it is the next day, buy more property.
You should be around level 9 or so. Don’t get excited, you will not get anything special for level 10 as you did with level 5.one more day to maintain.. On that third day after the day of battles and missions, you now have around 900 grand, do all the missions that your 21 energy lets you do. chunk all that money in the bank. As soon as you are done with the missions and the bank, go and fight until you are in the hospital, run to the bank yank out all of your money and go buy the plaza.
When you get that far, come back and message me. I will tell you what to do next.. i just want to know I am not writing this into the wind.

if you are an adult (21+    add me   myspace.com/truxter   and invite me.

After you accumulate alot of mobsters on your team, after you have loads of property and weapons, when you finally start getting more money than you can spend. You can now heal yourself. But only heal yourself when it’s time for pay out, for your properties.  When you are healed at that moment, fihgt as many people as you can, you will see that the pay out will actually be better now than the cost of the hospital fee. The game is now much more fun.

On that note, be there when it’s pay out  time. Shovel your money into your bank account asap. Because you are not the only person with this idea.

as soon as the money is shoveled into your account, heal yourself, trust me they are beating your door down to get your pay out money. As fast as you can get your money in your account, go fight and heal and fight. you have the max of two maybe three minutes before everyone is out of money or dead. if you must, fight till you are hospitalized, then do missions, you are safe when you are in the hospital.

level 40 +

Now buy the vehicles, one for each member in your group, the better the stats on the vehicle, the better your fighting odds are. But remember maintenance is high. it can break you.

Now shovel your money into your account and  go find something to do till next pay out.

You do not need favor points. Remember, the game was designed to serve advertisements.

If you want to discuss this topic, bring it here or just post here.

If you just want to pass around ideas and tips and hit lists with friends , post it there.

Working on Site for Fire Alarm Company in Houston

Busy day, Worked on site for a Houston Fire Alarm Company.

current location is hfdc.net
Section I am working on a temp directory to be moved to the front soon.
hfdc.net/html

Worked on it for a little while. Meanwhile the partner in this job
did a few things I do not like, I mean along the lines of indexing and google.
He had to duplicate like 20 pages and name them differently. The content
isn’t there but the skeleton is. During the time he was working on the site
I made a funny section just for him hfdc.net/greg .
I just jerked around with what he was doing with the site.
See the cool thing is we started working on this site while we worked on the flash site.
it was just to make a site completely out of html and make it weigh less than the flash site
and look as good.
The owner of the company loved the flash site. but as one of us worked on the flash version, we passed around the html version just for kicks. I will go back and fix every single page for indexing
with google bot/yahoo slurp/msn untill I am sure we can keep first slot for that site. I of course worked it so that if you did a search for “fire alarm Houston” the flash site was in first page. If you did a search for “fire detection Houston” the flash site was in first spot of unpaid links. No I did not do anything that would cause rejection by any of the bot programs. I worked really hard on that. Sooo to keep from twitching while my partner was doing what he was doing, I started working on a third page just for giggles. When he saw the directory name and file names, he acted spooked. LOL I love it, it was all in good humor.
Those pages will never see the business world.

Writers are welcome

Send me an email address  either in a private message or an email in my contact area on main page.

I will assigne you a default password associated with your screen name.

You can change it as you wish from there.

Lets be nice and write respectfully .

Let’s not link to anything we would not show our parents or children or a police officer

or your loved one.