One of the reasons that I hadn't blogged over the past few weeks (apart from being sick) was that I had got bogged down and behind in all my surfing. I read a ton of blogs and news sites via NewsGator every day and if I don't make time every day I soon fall behind and other things get dropped.
I finally got caught up over last weekend (even with my mum dropping in unexpectedly!), the other main reason for this was the death of our lovely Media Centre... We had been expecting it for a while now and had put off the planned rebuild for far too long - culminating in it bluescreening about 8 times in 4 hours on Saturday. George formatted the C: drive on Sunday, but the fresh install just refused to take... so we're stuck with only normal TV at the moment and no way to access all our previous recordings... Luckily we both have laptops, otherwise I'd be suffering serious internet withdrawal at this point (my previous record for managing to not check my mail stands at 48 hours!).
The old PC was a testament to George's excellent PC building skills, he had upgraded components as we went along and with a new motherboard it's going to make a good server for us for a long time yet. The one thing I won't miss about it is the noise it generated - ever since the power supply fan had been replaced it was really noisy! But we're about to order ourselves a lovely new quiet Media Centre, under heavy consideration is a highly customised Shuttle 2000M - packed with an Intel Core Duo processor, 2GB of RAM, 300GB hard drive and a dinky ejectable USB 80GB external Hard Disk Drive!
Anyway, the point of this post was to explain why the internet pleases me once again, not to ramble on about our PC troubles!! This week I found two wonderful new websites that have restored my faith in the internet and made me want to blog again!
Firstly, VideoJug - the site that titles itself "Life Explained. On Film". It's a brilliantly simple concept, lots of short videos explaining everything about life and breaking it up into easy-to-follow steps. They have a huge collection of recipes, but a quick look at their most popular videos of the last hour gives an idea of just how vast and far-reaching their content is:
And don't worry if the video you require is missing - they're constantly making new videos and the site is crammed with links asking you to suggest what new videos you want. Below each of the recipe videos is a list of the ingredients required and an option to shift between metric and imperial measurements. It gets even better if you own an iPOD or PSP, as all the videos are available for download in those formats, perfect if you don't have a wireless connection in the kitchen!
The second site was one that was only launched yesterday, but it's going to revolutionise how we search for lots of products. If you haven't heard about like.com and checked it out yet, then go do it now. Seriously, I'll wait...
If you're a guy in a relationship, you're probably crapping your pants right now. If not, you should be! My first look at this site lasted for over 20 mins as I clicked around and realised the potential. I need to replace my favourite brown suede boots - mega comfortable, low stacked heel, just under knee high. I entered my search and all the results are returned as pictures, allowing me to instantly see if it fits my criteria or not. I can then select a portion of the picture and refine my search based on that, telling it how much weighting to put on colour or shape by clicking on simple Web 2.0 style buttons. I can filter my results based on colour, price and brand. You can even browse through pictures of various A-list celebrities and click on their shoes and accessories to find similar ones. I'm going to end up spending sooooo much money here! (P.S. - there's free shopping for the first 10,000 customers!)
I finally got caught up over last weekend (even with my mum dropping in unexpectedly!), the other main reason for this was the death of our lovely Media Centre... We had been expecting it for a while now and had put off the planned rebuild for far too long - culminating in it bluescreening about 8 times in 4 hours on Saturday. George formatted the C: drive on Sunday, but the fresh install just refused to take... so we're stuck with only normal TV at the moment and no way to access all our previous recordings... Luckily we both have laptops, otherwise I'd be suffering serious internet withdrawal at this point (my previous record for managing to not check my mail stands at 48 hours!).
The old PC was a testament to George's excellent PC building skills, he had upgraded components as we went along and with a new motherboard it's going to make a good server for us for a long time yet. The one thing I won't miss about it is the noise it generated - ever since the power supply fan had been replaced it was really noisy! But we're about to order ourselves a lovely new quiet Media Centre, under heavy consideration is a highly customised Shuttle 2000M - packed with an Intel Core Duo processor, 2GB of RAM, 300GB hard drive and a dinky ejectable USB 80GB external Hard Disk Drive!
Anyway, the point of this post was to explain why the internet pleases me once again, not to ramble on about our PC troubles!! This week I found two wonderful new websites that have restored my faith in the internet and made me want to blog again!
Firstly, VideoJug - the site that titles itself "Life Explained. On Film". It's a brilliantly simple concept, lots of short videos explaining everything about life and breaking it up into easy-to-follow steps. They have a huge collection of recipes, but a quick look at their most popular videos of the last hour gives an idea of just how vast and far-reaching their content is:
And don't worry if the video you require is missing - they're constantly making new videos and the site is crammed with links asking you to suggest what new videos you want. Below each of the recipe videos is a list of the ingredients required and an option to shift between metric and imperial measurements. It gets even better if you own an iPOD or PSP, as all the videos are available for download in those formats, perfect if you don't have a wireless connection in the kitchen!
The second site was one that was only launched yesterday, but it's going to revolutionise how we search for lots of products. If you haven't heard about like.com and checked it out yet, then go do it now. Seriously, I'll wait...
If you're a guy in a relationship, you're probably crapping your pants right now. If not, you should be! My first look at this site lasted for over 20 mins as I clicked around and realised the potential. I need to replace my favourite brown suede boots - mega comfortable, low stacked heel, just under knee high. I entered my search and all the results are returned as pictures, allowing me to instantly see if it fits my criteria or not. I can then select a portion of the picture and refine my search based on that, telling it how much weighting to put on colour or shape by clicking on simple Web 2.0 style buttons. I can filter my results based on colour, price and brand. You can even browse through pictures of various A-list celebrities and click on their shoes and accessories to find similar ones. I'm going to end up spending sooooo much money here! (P.S. - there's free shopping for the first 10,000 customers!)
posted by ellybabes at 11/09/2006 08:57:00 am
2 Comments:
I am a man in a relationship but I am not crapping in my pants for the same reason you think I should be ... more like, damn Tom Cruise is looking sexy these days ;-)
Great links!
Tom Cruise, these days? No, No, No.... back in Far and Away and in Cocktail yesiree! But these days he's looking old and he's acting crazy... :-)
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