Archive for February, 2007

Gmail Delete Shortcut Key

I love Gmail, but I find it rather annoying that they feel you never need to delete an email. It took them about 2 years to add the delete button. I don’t know why they didn’t add a shortcut key with it. Certainly, they must have had thousands of requests for it already.Well, I’m happy [...]

February 28, 2007   Posted in: Programming & Internet, Web Sites  One Comment

Rich Dad, Poor Dad – Review

Before anything else, let me give you a little background as to how I first learned about this book and why I read it.
I have a brother in law that recommended the book a few years ago. He had two copies, one was autographed by the other, the other, was well read, which is the [...]

February 19, 2007   Posted in: Books, Finance  Comments Closed

Keep Track of Your DVD Collection

Have you ever wanted an easy way to keep track of all your DVDs? Sure you can use a text editor or spreadsheet, but there are better ways.
I remember quite a few years back visiting a family and they asked what movie we wanted to watch and gave us a list of all the movies [...]

February 19, 2007   Posted in: Movies  One Comment

What I Miss Most About Dish Network

I’ve been a DIRECTV customer for a year and a half now. Overall I am happy, but everyone once in a while I remember what I miss about my old Dish Network account.
First of all there was the DVR. I think with time all DVR systems continue to improve, but what I miss most about [...]

February 16, 2007   Posted in: Satellite Television  Comments Closed

BYU vs. Utah 2006 Football Rivalry Video

Today, Google Video recommended that I watch this video. See the screenshot for proof. Now, I recommend you watch it too!
I actually didn’t get to watch the game this year because of the whole Mountain West – Comcrap Monopoly. So I’d like to thank the guy that put this video together for those [...]

February 13, 2007   Posted in: Sports & Stuff  One Comment

Winners Never Cheat

I first noticed this book while I was browsing around Barnes & Noble. I wanted to get it, but I opted to check it out at the library instead.
I blew threw this book. It is such an easy read and it held my interest the whole way through. Now, I consider myself different for even [...]

February 13, 2007   Posted in: Books  One Comment

Crop An Image (Bitmap) in C# or VB.NET

I looked all over the net for some sort of function and what I ended up with seemed rather simple function to crop an bitmap.
Here is the function in C#
public Bitmap CropBitmap(Bitmap bitmap, int cropX, int cropY, int cropWidth, int cropHeight)
{
Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(cropX, cropY, cropWidth, cropHeight);
[...]

February 12, 2007   Posted in: Programming & Internet  11 Comments

Jogging With An iPod

There are so may great features that make an iPod so much better to job with than say a portable DVD player, or the old reliable Sony Walkman. First of all you can hold infinitely more songs. DVD players had the advantage over cassette players allowing you to skip songs, but had the drawback of [...]

February 9, 2007   Posted in: iPod  6 Comments

How Many Domain Names Do You Own?

I was recently asked how many domain names I owned. I actually had to go count them all. The results were sort of scary! Well, here is the count:
12 at GoDaddy
29 at Hostway
24 at 1&1
– Total –
65
Definitely too many. I guess I can’t say I completely own. There are a few that I registered for [...]

February 8, 2007   Posted in: Programming & Internet  One Comment

Setting Up DNS Wildcards / ServerAlias in DirectAdmin

This is straight from their knowlege base, more for my own personal archive than anything else
If you’d like to setup your domain to accept anything.domain.com, you can do so with the following guide (Admin access required)
1) Setup the dns with a wildcard A record. Go to Dns Control, and add an “A” record:
* [...]

February 2, 2007   Posted in: Programming & Internet  5 Comments