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A while bagged I blogged about “turning into an internet and social networking freak“ well this is still the case but also has evolved into even more social networking and internet sites.

I keep finding myself looking for more, sharing things I do, saying what I want to say and basically expanding the bubble I find myself in most nights. You would think that someone who works on computers all day long would be sick and tired of them by the time he got home, but not with me, I always find new things that I want to do, talk about, find out and basically just waste hours and hours online looking for the next ”big thing“. I know deep down that the next big thing won’t be anything to do with me, but still, I always have to keep trying.

Previous Sites:
        ?        FacebookFacebook
        ?        TwitterTwitter
        ?        WordpressWordPress
        ?        MySpaceMySpace
        
The above are just some of the sites that I have been on in the past and only three of them are still used, but I still leave my MySpace account active, why? I have no idea to be honest, maybe one day it may start back up? MySpace has already changed lots since I last logged in back in 2008 and I am curious to find out how its changed and if its something that I would be interested in using again, but for the time being I will pass and just continue using the sites that I am highly active on such as Facebook, Twitter and my Wordpress blogs.

There has been some more sites that I have just joined and I put this down to my iPhone, the phone is no longer and phone and is taking over my life, the ability of updating twitter, Facebook and even blogging from your phone in my eyes is a fantastic idea but can get highly addictive. (I for one am addicted) I go through phases with twitter and Facebook and find myself either using one or the other, at this moment in time I feel the need to update twitter more than anything else. If you follow me @rhodzy you will be able to see that for yourselves and just see how much I do tweet.

At the moment I have protected my tweets as I am getting a little wary about all the spammers that are following me and wondering to myself what information they are gathering about me, maybe a slack tweet from me could result in identity theft and I wouldn’t have a clue! Maybe even a drunken tweet that you forget you send, who knows it could be anything. Recently I have also been having a clear up on Facebook removing friends who I know longer speak to or people I have added / added me who we ”once knew each other, added each other, but never chatted“ I don’t see the point in that anymore and come to the conclusion that its quality not quantity.

Sites Recently Joined
        ?        FoursquareFoursquare
        ?        FlickrFlickr
        ?        RunRun reviews keeper
        ?        Mac-Forums.com
        ?        AllSportsGPS
        
Not sure why I have joined more sites, but I find myself looking for more and more and thinking when will it end? Soon it will be a full time job to keep up with all the sites / services that I am signed up to.

One day I will learn…..

If you are like me and you are always changing your desktop, moving icons around or just want a different look for the time you are on the computer then this may be handy for you.

This shortcut command will allow you to quickly hide/show the Mac OS X dock.

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Pressing it once will hide it, pressing it for a second time will show the dock again.

It doesn’t make it go away permanently, this command only activated / disabled quick hide dock.

This little application is something I could have really done with last weekend when I was down in LondonLondon reviews. It’s a must have application for anyone who is going to be using the tube system in London who doesn’t use it on a regular basis!

This little application will allow you to plan journeys, find the nearest tube entrance, get updates on stations and lines such as maintenance, planned closures , part closers and suspended lines.

You can also find out the departure times in real time and also browse the full tube system map on your iPhone.

Loading Screen

Main Menu

From here you can choose exactly what you want to do. You will see across the bottom the options that are available.

As you can see the option that is selected by default is “Status” this screen allows you to select the line you want and find out critical information such as closures, planned closures, if the service is running as normal etc.

You can choose the line you want and you should see a screen like the one below showing the exact details.

You can also browse the “Maps” section which allows you to view the whole of the tube map on your iPhone, which is of course fully scrollable showing you all the stations.

The “Plan” Option will allow you to plan your route and will tell you which line you need to be on, which stations you need to swap and shows you the other stations you will pass along the route.

Simply select the From Station where you will be presented with the full list of stations which is of course searchable so you don’t need to scroll through them all.

After selection it will revert you back to the “Plan” screen where you will now need to do the same for the destination. After this has been done simply click on Itinerary and you will be presented with this screen, for this journey we have done a short journey from Piccadilly Circus to Embankment.

If we now click on the “Departures” tab we will need to select our line and also station that we are going from, it will then display all the times that the tubes depart and when the next one is. They are really regular sometimes every couple of minutes so no need to panic if you miss the first one!

Select the line:

Select your Outgoing station: I have used Piccadilly again as an example.

You can also use the “locate” tab which will use the built in GPSGPS reviews to find the nearest station to you.

Now because I am no longer in London the distance for me is quite….well a distance!

Allow access for “Tube DeluxeDeluxe reviews” to use your current location

You will then be presented with a list of stations that are close to your location.

Select the one that is closest to you:

The you will be able to use the following options!

This is a must have application for anyone who hasn’t used the tube system before or anyone who doesn’t use it regular and requires assistance with the London UndergroundLondon Underground reviews system!

EnjoyEnjoy reviews!

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For all you people who know’s what this is all about, here you go.

Question:         If an Appulous IPA link was dead before you clicked it. The original plugin was the ________ Links Checker.?

Answer:         CavernCavern reviews

To change the appearance of your Dock just follow these very simple instructions.

Find a design you like, http://leoparddocks.net has some real beauties

Then just follow these instructions

1. ClickClick reviews the ‘Download’ button above the image of the dock you want

2. OpenOpen reviews the folder SystemSystem reviews/Library/CoreServices/

3. ControlControl reviews-/right-click on Dock.app and choose “Show Package Contents”

4. Navigate to Contents/Resources/

5. Make a backup of all of the “scurve” .PNG files and then get rid of them from that folder (authentication may be required)

6. Copy the contents of the downloaded file into this folder.

1. Open up TerminalTerminal reviews.app and type “killall Dock” (without quotes)

This is how mine looks at the moment, I have decided to go for old school matrix feel on my macbook : ) suits me down to the ground.

Please note this is for Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6

ChangeChange reviews the Login Screen Wallpaper Image in Snow Leopard 10.6 (also works for Leopard 10.5)

LaunchLaunch reviews the terminal and issue the following commands:

* cd /SystemSystem reviews/Library/CoreServices
* sudo mv DefaultDesktop.jpg DefaultDesktop_org.jpg
* sudo cp /path/of/image.jpg DefaultDesktop.jpg

Of course, change /path/of/image.jpg to the path of the image file you want to use. Basically what you’re doing here is moving to a folder, backing up the old “DefaultDesktop.jpg” by renaming it, and then copying in the new image and naming it “DefaultDesktop.jpg” instead.

EditeDit reviews: DonDon reviews’t pay for apps that do this for you, the method above works great and it’s totally free, If you are like me you will change your desktop wallpaper quite frequently and also you can now change the boring login window within OS X : ) enjoy!