If you have a Toshiba Portege M200 like I do (now), don’t install the Microsoft Intellipoint drivers if you want to use the nifty features of your trackpad like scrolling.

Introducing MSN Toolbar Suite – Silicon Valley team (and demo!)

It took me a bit of playing around but here’s how to do it. Find this folder in your registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftMSN AppsDB

Next, add a DWORD value with the name of “Buttons” and change the value of “Buttons” to “1″. On your toolbar, uncheck the MSN Deskbar to clear it from your toolbar then re-check it to add it again without the buttons.

Good to know! Now it’s just a textbox!

I was at BestBuy tonight, and I thought – gosh! Wouldn’t it be neat to have a multifunction printer like the HP Officejet 6210 so that I can Print, Fax, Scan and Copy at home?

Then I could have the freedom to print photos whenever I wanted!

So then I took at look at the consumables. Let’s assuming that I get the HP Paper and the HP Photo Ink that are recommended.

The HP Paper is ~$24 for 60 sheets. That’s 40 cents a sheet. Uh oh. Already we’re above the Ofoto/Smugmug price.

The HP Photo Ink cartridge is ~$22 for 450 pages assuming 15% coverage according to the specs. Well if you’re printing a photo, wouldn’t it be 100% coverage? At the same time, you would be printing on 4×6 paper instead of 8.5×11 paper which is what I’m assuming the 15% is based off of. So by my math, 100% coverage of 4×6 would give you ~263 pages. So that’s about 8.3 cents a photo in ink. (Or it is ~67 pages if the 15% refers to 4×6 paper – which would then be 32 cents a photo).

So let’s see… in the end the cost of printing a photo in consumables alone would be 48 cents (or 71 cents). This doesn’t even include the cost of the printer! Youch!

Is inkjet printing really that expensive? Or did I make a mistake here?

Have you been to the website lately?

I’ve added some new random banners to the rotation.

http://www.decheung.com

Political Bloggers – the new paparazzi – Blog Maverick – www.blogmaverick.com

Fortunately , there is a way to deal with the paparazzi. There is also a way for the gatekeepers to deal with the bloggers. A simple way.
Recognize them. Give them respect. Celebrities cant keep photographers out of their bushes no matter how hard they try. The gatekeepers wont be able to keep the bloggers out either. Instead they should invite them in.
Not 1. Not 2. But several from both sides. Bring in the more popular blogs that like you, and the same number of those that dont. Give them as much access as you give the NY Times, Wash Post. Dont muzzle them, let them write
I will tellyou exactly what will happen next. The blogs you invite in will still try to trip you up, but they will quickly morph and act like traditional media. When you screw up , they will tell you when it happens and give you a chance to comment and respond. They will like being on the inside and adjust to try to stay there.
The bloggers left on the outside will continue to try to trip you up, but will spend more time and energy trying to tear down the bloggers who got inside the gates. Jealousy is a bitch.

Wow. Another excellent piece by Mark Cuban.

He’s right though – if you’re not going to blog to defend yourself, you’d better start working with a blogger to get your side of the story out.

Like Guy Kawasaki once said: Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.

43 Folders: Using Categories & Tasks in Entourage

All that said, here?s an overview of the Categories I use most when processing, filtering, and doing the items on my task list (currently ~150 items). Your mileage will absolutely vary.

Wow that’s a lot of categories. Working on Entourage, we know how important the Category feature is to so many of our users, and we continually try to make it more useful. FWIW, I’m not sure if there’s actually a limit to the number of categories you can have – I’m sure there’s one, but I think it might be disk bound or something.

I can’t wait to read the write up on using Custom Views. Custom Views in Entourage is an awesomely powerful feature – unfortunately, few get it, or even try it out. What is a Custom View? Hint: One of the original names for this feature was ‘Saved Searches’. Now do you get it?

In this post by Glenn Reid, the question arises: is blooging a conversation or soliloquy?

Indeed it seems that blogging should be a conversation, and I applaud him and Five Across’ efforts to make it more so. There is so much more potential for blogging than we have seen so far. Right now there are no good tools for making this happen – the current generation of aggregators and technologies have made blogs into a one way mailing list. Like a newsletter. I am hopeful this will change soon! As the old Microsoft TV spot with Bill Gates in a sweater used to say: “The best is yet to come.”

Congrats to Five Across for getting Bubbler into DEMO! Can’t wait to try it out.

Orange Hues photoshopped my photos of Scoble and Mark Jen, turning them into 1 unified picture that is pretty realistic of how I remembered that night!

Here it is:

Wow. Good work!

Thank goodness for trackbacks. This is why I love blogging!