Month: May 2006

Back in 1992, there was that Johnny Casteaway screensaver. Of a poor fellow stranded on a lonely isle. And it was fun to watch him doing all kinds of funny things!

Unfortuantely I remember that for many of us, it was also just a bit boring, since most of us did not see all the scenes which the screenshot offered or even didn’t know about it!

Recently, I luckily found the Johnny Castaway Homepage which reveals almost all scenes in this great freeware screensaver! They even offer a version for Windows XP for download!!! 🙂

Well done, Sierra! 🙂

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Maybe some of you have heard of the uxtheme.dll. That’s the file that adds the abilty to apply nice Windows XP themes. For being able to do that, it has to be replaced with a patched version of the file.

For a long time, there was no patcher for Windows XP X64, yesterday I found that meanwhile the UXTheme MultiPatcher 5.0 can do it.

Interstingly, many websites only refer to the old version 4.0 which is kind of sad since the 5.0 version is surprior.

And it works as you can see at my screenshot showing the Crystal Theme under Windows XP X64. Unfortunately it’s not shipped with version 5.0 of the patcher, so if you want it, email me and I will send the Crystal theme to you! 🙂

EDIT: On some Windows XP 32 bit systems, it will detected as Windows NT. In this case you need to use the version 4.0 of the patcher.

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As seen here, it seems that also Pakistan blocks Blogspot now and then. I also found a service that re-routes blogspot visits, and maybe this also works for blocked people in China. More about this here.

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I found this here in the Everything In Its Place blog.

For all who thought Google Earth was cool with all its improvements over the time, then you missed Google Mars! 🙂

It’s based on Google Maps.

If you want you can see, i.e. check out a 3-D fly-through movie of Valles Marineris made using Google Mars data here.

Also, I found here at the Anything Else blog that Google Earth is planed for Linux too now! 🙂

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A lot of people complained that it’s not possible to download old versions of Skype. So now, you can:

At: https://developer.skype.com/Download/OldVersions after you logged in!

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Today I have received my first Skype spam chat. I just found myself in a chat with a webcam girl and a few others that got also invited and obviously didn’t like it either, hehehe!

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Oddcast’s SitePal’s got a new homepage.

Most of you may know them as ICQ Live Devils.

The funny thing: If you click on the SitePal people, they will get annoyed a lot and if you overdo it, suddenly a monster will appear! So funny! =)

BOO! =)

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The new Opera 9.0 Beta 2 is out!

There are not much changes regarding new features, so it’s for its most part just a bugfix release as one can see in the changelog.

The following bugs I noticed got fixed:

-The Pac Man emoticon caused an XML phrasing error after the email got sent.
-The Opera 9.0 Beta 1 regularly crashed for me.

Also new is the new Widget Management which I personally don’t like 🙁

There are rumours that the final version is exspected for June! 🙂

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Hooray! o/ My blog is no longer a spam blog! 🙂

I have just received the following by email:

“Hello Joerg,

Your blog has been reviewed, verified, and cleared for regular use so that it will no longer appear as potential spam. If you sign out of Blogger and sign back in again, you should be able to post as normal. Thanks for your patience, and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

Sincerely,
Karl
The Blogger Team“

That was quick Blogger Team, thank you! 🙂

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This has been for a little while now, but I anyway want to report about it.

“The Whole World Can Talk For Free”. Now this can be taken literally when it comes to USA & Canada, because Skype announced Free calls to all landlines and mobile phones within the US and Canada.

So let’s quote them a bit:

“If you’re in the US or Canada, you can use SkypeOut to call any landline or mobile number in both the USA and Canada for free.

If you’re in the US or Canada and calling any other country, OR if you’re in any other country and calling landline or mobile numbers in the US or Canada, the standard SkypeOut rates apply.

Of course, Skype-to-Skype calls continue to be globally free, so no changes there.

See also the campaign FAQ.“

Isn’t this great? Unfortunately I am not living in USA or Canada :'(

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