Notepad replacements??

One of my boys needs some help finding a decent notpad replacement. I'm not a big fan of notepad in general, so I haven't been able to help. Anyone out there know of a good replacement? I personally love TextPad (well for windows anyway). There is also Jedit which is pretty nice. There is also Notepad++ that seems worthy. So my boy didn't like my choices ... anyone got anything? Please drop me some suggestions in the comments! Hook a brotha up! Oh ... he's a windows user if that helps with the choices.

WiPeer

Since I'm always looking for ways to be able to share files ... I recently ran across WiPeer. It is a simple little tool for sharing computers on a local network. The local network could be wired, wireless or really just some ad-hoc connection between you and that hot chick in class. Sweet right!? She's prolly like ... you are a big geek. Best of luck to you anyways.

Works pretty nice when you are sitting next to some nucklehead contractor that needs a file that you are working on and can't access the network because he hasn't got his login yet from the arse that hands those things out department. You know what I'm talking about if you are in the computer world. Ah ... it's the small things in life that make it soooo sweet.

Another handy tool from your good bud EdZachary.

www.wipeer.com

Ed Zachary Joke

A woman was very distraught at the fact that she had not had a date or any sex in quite some time.

She was afraid she might have something wrong with her, so she decided to seek the medical expertise of a sex therapist. Her doctor recommended that she see Dr. Chang, the well-known Chinese sex therapist, so she went to see him.

Upon entering the examination room, Dr. Chang said, "OK, take off all you crose." The woman did as she was told. "Now, get down and craw reery, reery fass to odder side of room." Again, the woman did as she was instructed. Dr. Chang then said, "OK, now craw reery, reery fass back to me." So she did.

Dr. Chang shook his head slowly and said, "Your probrem vewy bad. You haf Ed Zachary Disease. Worse case I ever see. Dat why you not haf sex or dates."

Worried, the woman asked anxiously, "Oh my God, Dr. Chang, what is Ed Zachary Disease?"

Dr. Chang looked the woman in the eye and replied, "Ed Zachary Disease is when your face rook Ed Zachary rike your ass."

Serious waste of time!!!

So you are saying to yourself ... "I have too much time on my hands and I need to piss away some time doing something totally brainless and stupid". I have the answer for you. The answer is called LineRider. Whoever built this thing has started something huge. I can't call this a game since there is no winning or losing going on. This is just a pure waste of time. You basically just draw a line on the screen and a bobsled follows the line. You can do tricks and crap if you want. Some people are seriously into this and trade SOL files (a container file of all the crap you draw) or do ping pong. That's where one person draws something and then passes it to the next person that then draws some more crap. There is a whole site dedicated to just drawing for this crafty little time waster. It really helps if you have a wacom tablet since drawing those friggin loops is tarded with a mouse.

Check out the official spot of LineRider and waste an hour or so.
http://www.official-linerider.com/play.html

Lot's of videos of the stuff that they built for LineRider on YouTube. Here is an example:

Kicked in the nuts

This has got to be one of the funniest things I've ever friggin seen!!!

http://www.kickedinthenuts.com/

I'm just completed amazed that this guy doesn't get his ass kicked. And better yet, the people he gives the ol' shoe to the junk to just laugh and shake this effer's hand when he tells them that they have been kicked in the nuts. Pure genius ... genius I say!

New episodes every Monday.

Last.fm

Last.fm ... what a cool idea. A community of music listeners where you can find people with similar tastes and listen to what they are listening to. Music is an international language that everyone understands. This site brings people together from all over the world. This is sort of a social networking website meets internet radio sort of thing. It is worth taking a look. I'm just getting into it, so if you have an pointers, let me know!

Once you sign up and download the software (yeah ... software to download ... great), whenever you listen to digital music from your computer, it gets "scrobbled" to Last.fm. It basically keeps a running record of all the artists and songs that you listen to. You can then use that info to see how popular the artist is either in your listening habits, or the habits of all the Last.fm users. Being a huge Dream Theater fan, I can quickly see that out of the top 400 artists, they rank 152 ... which puts them somewhere between Bob Marley and The Police on the popularity list. Not bad company I might add.

There is also the concept of Neighbors in Last.fm. These are people that are closest in similarity as far as music tastes are concerned. My listening habits are very wide in scope, so I rarely have neighbors that have more than one or two artists that are in line with what I like. Not that it's a bad thing. I like to think of it as a doorway to other music. If I see a fellow DT fan listening to Opeth let say ... I'll check it out and see if I like it. That leads me to another cool feature of Last.fm ... Radio! You can listen to channels that are provided by other users or you can listen to a channel of your picking. You supply either the artist or a tag, and Last.fm will create a station for you that incorporate the tag/artist that you picked as well as other similar artists. OK, so I just mentioned tags. Any song that you listen to, you can give it a tag. Tags can be the artist name, style of music, a mood that strikes you when listening to the song, or anything else that floats your boat (envision something like Flickr). Let's say I want to listen to Dream Theater. I would supply that as the artist and last.fm creates my station to listen to. There may be a little DT, Queensryche, Amorphis, Opeth or a variety of other progressive rock/metal groups. What a way to grow your listening base!

I'm barely touching on what this site offers. Check it out for yourself and see how you like it. Look me up or add me to your friends list if you would like. My user profile is Ed_Zachary (note the underscore between the Ed and the Zachary). I recently cleared all my listening preferences and settings and decided to start over from scratch. If you are a last.fm user, send me some music recommendations (crap ... something else I didn't mention) or add me to your friends list. I'm always looking to expand my musical tastes and to meet new people.

Word!

Last.fm

http://www.last.fm/user/Ed_Zachary/

Online file sharing ...

Mkay. I gave my thoughts on my favorite P2P software at the moment. Thanks to Zach for pointing out PodMailer!

So here is a little problem .... you think all P2P apps are the devil. Maybe your Grandma Birtha doesn't know squat about installing software or using sharing software. Perhaps your buddy that you want to share stuff with hates the flavor of P2P that you like. I have the solution for you! Check out Senduit!! It doesn't get any better than this in my opinion. It's clean in design, and is overall pretty fast. Now mind you, this isn't a storage site ... just a sharing site. Pick the file that you want to share with your buddies ... specify the length of time that you want it available for download ... upload it ... share the link ... all done! You get a nice brief link address, instead of some of the impossible ones that other sites provide. Try it and I think you'll like it.

If there is something better that I should know about, please post a comment! I've tried a ton, so it better be good.

Something to share!

Aight ... so as I'm surfing to the ends of the internets, I sometimes run across things that are cool, interesting or even useful. I might group this into all of those groups. AllPeers is a handy dandy P2P file sharing tool. I'm just starting to get my feet wet a little with it. As a Firefox user, it has a nice add-on that incorporates drag and drop functionality into your Firefox browser. Great for sharing large files or other files that could be blocked by your email system (like exe files). I've also given Pando a spin. Seems cool, but it lacks the simplicity that AllPeers has. Plus Pando is a much larger install and it imbeds into your email application. Still very handy, but AllPeers is so friggin easy! Do it! ... Do it! ...

EdZachary what you needed? Get the Firefox Plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3234/

If you know of anything that rivals AllPeers for ease of use and minimal install, hook a brother up and let me know about it!