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Borders without Books

Friday, April 8th, 2011

It is sad to see all these bookstores closing these days, and even the large bookstores are suffering. Perhaps some karma at play, seeing how they forced the little bookstores to close in the past!

But nonetheless, I am sad to see this particular Borders shut down, since they had an AWESOME selection of tech books! And I was just there a few days ago to see ALL the bookshelves empty of knowledge.

They were selling everything in the store, even those big-ass bookshelves. I thought briefly of putting in a 12 foot high bookshelf in my home office but decided against it.

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Google Screensaver on x64

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

Well, I’m in the process of configuring a new Vista Ultimate system on an Intel 64-bit cpu.

One of the first problems I had was I wanted to get the google screensaver working. I downloaded Picassa and that includes the screensaver app, but I was not seeing it as an option on my windows control panel screensaver section!

Turns out you need to:

Go to C:\Windows\SysWOW64 folder, copy the file
GPhoto.scr and paste it in to the C:\Windows\System32 folder.

Now it works great! Now if only google will adapt it to allow arrow controls to go back/forward through the photos.

One more note… if you using windows media player to play music, you’ll need to go into tools->options and check the “allow screensaver during playback” box to have the screensaver work when music is playing.

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