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I Love the Internets.com is a weblog mostly about technology, personal interests, and various noteworthy items I've found pilfering through the vast internets.

Today on Craigslist

craigslist“Boi in Daddy’s Caddy:

I kept running into you coming in and out of the bathrooms at a local park. You kept going in the bathroom with a brown towel that looked like you had something wrapped in it and you kept gong back and forth to a big white caddy to get something out of the trunk a couple of times. I was hoping it might be a flesh light and that you would need someone to hold it for you or better yet replace it with my mouth. You had on black or dark blue long shorts and a sports shirt. You looked kind of thug looking. I was hoping you would get pissed that I kept following you and that you would grab me by the arm, pull me into the bathroom and use me gangsta style. really give me what I wanted and maybe a little more than I expected. Was hoping you would hold me down, gag me and power **** me right there in the bathroom stall. Write back if this is you and tell me what you looked like and maybe we can meet up again later today. ”

I admit, I love reading the missed connections on Craigslist. It’s a guilty pleasure.

I’m just wondering what he kept going into the trunk for, wrapping it in the towel, going to the bathroom, and doing it over and over again. Sounds more criminal than sexual, sorry poster!!!

How to Change Your FireFox Location Bar Search Engine

If your mom, grandma, or even yourself has been hijacked by some program that’s decided to install its own toolbar and also change you location bar’s search engine, don’t fret, it’s easy to fix. First uninstall the Yahoo! or Bing tool bars if that doesn’t completely do the trick, now it’s time to do a little tweaking in Firefox:

  • Type about:config in Firefox location bar and press Enter
  • Type keyword in Filter textbox and you will see only the preference keyword.URL.
  • Double-click on keyword.URL and change the value to: http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q=

That should restore FireFox’s default location bar search to Google’s Feeling Lucky search. These same steps can be used to change the default location bar search to any search engine of your choice, given that you really do use another search engine.

This Hiatus Must End.

I’ve been running this site for almost a decade and I just simply can’t part with it. Letting it accumulate dust year after year doesn’t work either. I believe it’s time I ressurect I Love the Internets.com

Happy Star Wars Day! May the 4th be with You!

Today is Star Wars Day, which means tonight is Star Wars Movie Marathon Monday! Also, Star Wars Weekend is approaching!

Weekend Project: Soft-mod the Nintendo Wii

homebrewchannelMy project for this weekend was to soft-mod my Wii in order to install and run Homebrew applications. Why mod your Wii? The homebrew scene offers tons of useful and fun games and applications for free! Also, once you soft-mod your Wii with the Twilight hack, you can run back-ups and even play DVD movies on your Wii. (If you choose to do that!)

This isn’t a tutorial, this is just to get you pointed in the right direction. Hopefully, save you a few hours of pain and all the time spent surfing the internets for directions, etc. Mostly, I put this stuff up here to refresh my memory when I have to mod my next Wii.

In order to run homebrew and install the Twilight hack, you will need a copy of Zelda: The Twilight Princess and you have to be running version 3.3 or 3.4 firmware on your Wii. You can check this by going into settings, it will show you the version number on the top right of the screen.

I can’t say for sure if you will be able to run it or not, depending on your firmware. If it doesn’t work for you then you may need to downgrade your firmware. Which is very risky and could brick your Wii, rendering it a pretty little paper weight.

In my case, I had to downgrade my firmware, but all went well. You can find the software to do this on the internets. I found a great and reliable source on PirateBay.

The Soft-Mod

  • Twilight Hack - the Twilight Hack is a simple and very easy process to get you up and running with Homebrew. These are excellent instructions for installing the Twilight Hack, including all the files you need.
  • And that’s it! The Homebrew channel also has a Homebrew browser, similar to the Wii shop, you can download everything right from your Wii.

    If you want to run back-ups on your Wii, here is another great tutorial at instructables, How to Play Back-ups on Your Wii and another great tutorial here.

    Anything you do to your Wii, you do so at your OWN RISK. Modifying anything on your console will void the warranty! Good luck!

    Add Chrome’s Features to Firefox

    chromelogoI’ve tried Google’s browser, Chrome, although it seemed a bit faster than most browsers, it wasn’t enough for me to part with Firefox. Chrome doesn’t offer extensions or plug-in capabilities as of right now, however, Google plans to change this in May.

    firefoxI have entirely too many plug-ins that I rely on in Firefox to switch browsers, but I will definitely give Chrome another try when plug-ins/extensions are made available for it. Until then, Firefox and I will not be breaking up.

    Chrome does offer some great features that aren’t available in Firefox natively, however, with the power of plug-ins and extensions you can add a few of Chrome’s features to Firefox.

    Chrome’s Features in Firefox Via Extensions:

    • Download Statusbar - Get rid of that separate download window and put your downloads in the status bar
    • Locationbar - Highlights the root domain of the website you are on (helps reduce spoofing risks)
    • Stealther - Leaves no trace of your browsing session
    • CyberSearch - Adds advanced Google Search capabilities to the address bar
    • Chromifox - Chrome theme for Firefox
    • Now I have some of Chrome’s features in Firefox to tie me over until Chrome adds extension capability. Until then, Firefox will remain my default browser.

    Amaze.fm - Get Your Music Heard

    Amaze.fm allows artists to upload their music where it will be listened to, rated, reviewed, and tagged by the community.

    Each week the highest rated song will get played on a nationally-syndicated radio station. Very cool for aspiring musicians who want to get their music out there!

    Windows 7 Beta Released to the Public

    On January 9th, Microsoft will be releasing Windows 7 Beta to the public. Windows 7 will only be available to the first 2.5 million people and the software will also expire August 1st, 2009.

    Even if you aren’t one of the 2.5 million to get the download, at least you know the torrents will have more seeders now. ;)

    RiffTrax - MST3K Gets Reborn!

    Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) was a cult television comedy series based on a man and his robot sidekicks trapped on a satellite in space and forced to watch terrible movies, especially science fiction B-movies. In order to stay sane while watching some of the most terrible movies ever made, Joel (later replaced by Mike) would make running commentary on the film, making fun of every second of it (riffing).

    Unfortunately, MST3K was canceled in 1999. However, RiffTrax has been born on the web! Although, you don’t get your favorite silhouettes of the crew, you still get all the great hilarious commentary from Mike Nelson and various other guests to make it through some legendary great films like Mariah Carey’s “Glitter” or “Roadhouse” and even newer movies such as “Casino Royale” and dozens of others.

    RiffTrax offers you to download an MP3 of their commentary and you can sync it up with your DVD and they also offer some pay-to-play videos on demand.

    Long live MST3K!

    Add Google Reader, News, Calendar, etc. to Your Gmail

    Ever wanted all of your favorite Google features all in your Gmail? Now you can essentially turn your Gmail inbox into your start page with the Firefox add-on, Integrated Gmail.

    With the Integrated Gmail extension for Firefox, you can seamlessly add various Google apps into your Gmail, like my personal favorite, Google Reader. Google already allows you to add gadgets to your sidebar, but this plug-in will give you full access to your favorite Google apps in collapsible groups.

    To get started you must have Firefox installed. If for some bizarre reason you do not have Firefox installed, it’s imperative that you install this web browser now, use it, and never, ever look back.

    Then grab a copy of Integrated Gmail. And fall in love with your Gmail all over again.

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