My East Ky

If you have been toying with the idea of setting up your own website, blog, or whatever now is the perfect time to get a great deal on web hosting. Lunarpages Webhosting is having a fall sale with basic hosting plans starting @ $4.95 a month!. A 12 or 24 month must be purchased to obtain these prices but @ only $59.40 a year it’s a great deal. Lunarpages is the host of Myeastky.com and a couple other websites I run and I could not be anymore satisfied. Lunarpages also includes a ton of extras when you sign up with them free domain, free setup, and free software,

full registered versions of Parallels Workstation 2.2 for Windows & Linux, WinSettings and Photo TurboBackup by FileStream, Logo Creator Entertainment and Sports Editions, 60 days free at RatePoint, 15 DNS level Gafana spam, virus protection, and email management accounts, $100 LinkWorth free advertising credits and $20 in Bidvertiser clicks, DeepTrawl website error checker, plus 3 months of VisitorVille web stats!

I would love to see more blogs about the Eastern Ky and surrounding area. So what are you waiting for?

If you’re a digital camera freak like myself, (I literally have over a terabyte of pics on my hard drive) there is no better gift than a Photo Book. My sister gave one to our mother for Christmas last year and it’s still regularly looked at as it sits on her coffee table. I myself have made over 10 photo books. Most are of my little girl as she grows older. It’s so much easier than digging out the shoe box with hundreds of 4×6’s. They are a great way to show off your amateur eye. Being as some people call me cheap I usually only make and order a book when I can get a great deal. Right now you can get a free photo book from albelli (expires 9/9/08), you just have to pay the shipping charges. I tried albelli but I was never to finish because of an upload error. I tried probably 10 times but I always got an error on the last 2 pictures?? You do have to install software to make your photo book from albelli but it is made from Adobe so I have no trust issues there. The application is still in “beta” and there is obviously issue’s that still need to be addressed but it’s worth a shot.

One place that I have never had any issues from is shutterfly. Their photo books have always came out great. Plus there is no extra software to install and their processing and shipping is super fast. I placed an order on Sunday August 31st and it was delivered today September 5th. In my book that is superb service considering that I ordered a 20 page photo book with 50 free 4×6’s. The best deal I can find currently on shutterfly is a 15% off coupon with free shipping on photo books. Plus new members ger 50 free 4×6’s and collage poster. Just use coupon code: AF63-AG08 during checkout. Offer expires 9/9/08

Here is a picture I took recently and adjusted in Adobe Photoshop. My current digital camera is a Sony DSC-H2 Steady Shot

Tversity has just released version 1.0.0.3 RC2 here are some of the updates/fixes in this release.

• New Features
  • Album art support is now available and is compatible with the Sony PS3 as well as with the HTML interface (PSP, iPhone, Blackberry, etc.) and flash interface (Wii). Album art relies on JPEG files conforming to certain naming conventions that are present in the same folder as music tracks. These files can be created by either Windows Media Player or WinAmp and TVersity will pick them up, or users can add them manually.
  • Individual YouTube videos can now be added by pointing the browser to a specific video on YouTube and dragging and dropping the address bar icon to TVersity (or copying and pasting the URL).
• Bug Fixes
  • MShare now refreshes as fast as it was in 0.9.11.4.
  • No files are periodically added to the Temporary Internet Files folder while the GUI is running (browser caching was turned off).
  • Fix crashes when adding/refreshing some FLAC and some MP3 files.
  • Flash interface is now more reliable when switching from one live stream to another and then going back to first one.
  • TVersity service was failing to start on machines that had a non ASCII character in their hostname.

I have just finished updating my server and will report back later in a couple of days of any issues when using with a Directv HR21-700 receiver.

Well after AT&T has successfully got rid of kiddie porn on usenet I decided to do a simple search using my newsreader and using the key word “sex” and to my surprise I find probably over 200 groups that still exist. Way to go AT&T you have effectively done nothing. As I posted earlier getting rid of the alt.binary groups will not accomplish a thing. This was all done to save some $$. Here is their “official announcement:

Notice
AT&T takes its obligation to protect its customers from child pornography very seriously. We’re working with public officials and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the effort to help prevent the distribution of this harmful and illegal content.

We’ll continue to provide access to newsgroups as part of our broadband offering, but we’ll no longer include alt.bin* nor alt.bain* hierarchies because of the possibility of child pornography in those particular groups and the difficulty in ensuring that no child porn reappears in them.

Our customers will continue to have full access to all lawful content on the Internet. That includes newsgroups, which are available from multiple sources, not just ISPs.

Customers may still access lawful content of their choosing from unaffiliated newsgroup providers.

Currently there are no reported issues. However, if you are experiencing a problem with the News Service or if you have any other concerns please email us at newshelp@bellsouth.com

Just admit it AT&T you did not remove the alt.binary groups to help fight kiddie porn (although it makes you look good) you did it to help cut your costs.

Below is a screen shot I took from an updated group list from AT&T’s newsgroup server: newsgroups.bellsouth.net

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So I was browsing around some forums I frequent and there was another one of those “show off your desktop” posts where people take snap shots off there desktops to show off there background and what not. While checking out some cool background pics I noticed this cool app on the bottom of some people’s screen right above the task bar. After asking I came to find out it was Rocketdock. All I can say is wow what a great little application for windows users, mac users already have this built in to the OS. Rocketdock is a animated application launcher sorta like the quick launch in the task bar, but so much better. So good in fact I am about to remove the quick launch bar all together.

Here are a couple of pics I found on Google.

And best of all it’s FREE! If your a heavy computer user like myself I’m sure your going to like rocketdock after trying it.