Well if you are like me and you like to be one of the first people to experience something new, then check out Yahoo! Mail Beta before everyone else! It’s pretty easy to do if you already have a Yahoo! account. If not then just create one for free and do the following.

To change your content preference, log in to Yahoo Mail, click Options, select Account information from the left panel and then edit Member Information, General Preferences, Preferred Content. Select, for example, Yahoo UK, click Finished. When you go to Yahoo Mail, you’ll see a page that says “It’s the New Yahoo! Mail Beta… and you’re invited.” Click on “Try Beta Now”.

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For a long time now I’ve been obsessed with my computer desktop and whether or not it helps me work efficiently. I find desktop eye-candy fascinating yet in the end it always seems to get in my way or distract me from doing serious work. Because I’m always worried that I’m not making the most of my desktop, I always like to ask people what their desktop looks like. In the spirit of my obsession, I thought it would be fun if everyone posted a screenshot of what their desktop looks like. Since the purpose of this idea is to see what everyone’s work environment looks like, it is only fair that you post a screenshot of your everyday desktop not one beefed to the max with eye-candy. Also, if you have an unusual setup or don’t check the site often, please include a description of what environment/programs you use.

I got a call this evening from my good friend Gavin, when I answered the phone he said “I will call you right back!” with a sense of urgency. I replied with “Ok, I’m still at school doing homework” and hung up and put the phone in my pocket. I then continued to do my homework forgetting about the phone call and that my phone was on silent. The only way I knew he called the first time was because my phone lit up with his name on the caller ID as it lie on the desk in front of me. I stayed at school until about 10:45, at which time I walked out with Nikola and Jason B. I stowed my bookbag away and got on my motorcycle strapping my helmet to my head and sliding on my gloves. I started to head down the road when I remembered the phone call not 50 minutes prior. Not wanting to hassle with pulling over and having to go through the trouble with making a phone call, I continued down the road. But something was telling me that the phone call I got earlier was not a typical phone call and that something wasn’t right. I pulled into Martins parking lot and called Gavin back. He told me in a shaky voice “I’m at Goshen Hospital, It’s Brian”.
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I have recently discovered a neat PHP and AJAX powered, Web 2.0 standards compliant, Non-Intrusive shoutbox called YShout. It’s open source and anyone can download and install in onto their PHP supported webserver. Since the Yshout is AJAX powered you do not have to refresh the page, it’s dynamic! I just need to figure out how to format in to be in my sidebar. Anyway feel free to check it out on my site HERE.

I have changed the ability to see the persons IP address in the chat so that a person can not spoof another persons nickname. I also changed the log file extension to .html rather than .txt so that you can view the file correctly in a web browser. Here is a copy of my modified YShout: Modified YShout

To install all you have to do is install the yshout folder onto your webserver and it’s ready to go. Just point your browser to the folder and there you have it!

This is a quick tutorial to download, install, and run azureus remotely on a Linux machine. The purpose for this is to remotely que downloads on your Linux box without having to be at your box and then be able to logout of your box and keep azureus running in the background. It’s useful to be able to add/remove torrents remotely as well as check on each torrents status.

To start off you’ll want to make sure you have the latest version of Java installed on your box which can be found here, I installed the JRE version. You may have to compile java and put it’s location in your environment path variable. This may be located in your .{csh,bash,…}rc file depending on which shell you’ll be running azureus under.
Next you’ll need to download the Java version of Azureus which can be found at SourceForge’s Azureus – Bittorrent Client. You’ll want to pick the appropriate file which will probably be Azureus_x.x.x.x_linux.tar.bz2 which you’ll have to untar using the “tar -jxvf filename’ command.
Next you’ll need to grab 2 more files, placing them in the root azureus directory, to get the client to run without an XWindows session (from the command line). The most current of the two files, log4j.jar and commons-cli.jar, can be located here.

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