I just realized that this is my post number 100 on this blog (and here I am shamelessly forgetting about the blog I migrated from).

Having made 100 posts I now feel I can relax today, and instead of actually writing something good here, I will just refer you to the other Microsoft Student Partner blogs that you will definitely find interesting!

Allan Petersen
Claus Nielsen
Jacob Korsgaard
Jan N. Thomsen
Martin Esmann – Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist
Morten Sneftrup
Niels L.Beck

Enjoy!

Not many people know that computers with several processor cores, don´t necessarily use them when booting. Actually the defaults setting for Windows Vista is to only use one of the cores during boot. But have no fear, I have a remedy to that problem, which can greatly boost your Vista booting time.

You just need to take the following steps, and then you will be booting at max Vista speed:

1. Press start and type “msconfig” and then hit enter.
2. Click on “boot”
3. Click on “advanced options”
4. And then put a tick in “number of processors” and select the number you want to use.
5. Click “Ok” twice, and then boot and witness your new booting power.

It really IS as simple as that.

Enjoy.

This weekend I installed a program package from the company Uniblue. The package is called Uniblue PowerSuite (hence the name of this post…get it?!), and contains Uniblue RegistryBooster, Uniblue SpeedUpMyPC, and Uniblue SpyEraser.

If you haven´t guessed it from the names of the programs, Powersuite is a couple of programs that help speed up your PC - and yes, it works!

The RegistryBooster scanned my registry and found 600 Registry errors, fixed them, and then defragged my registry. Then SpeedUpMyPC cleaned out a bunch of useless files (thumbnails and such), as well as tuned my RAM and Processor…and….now my PC actually feels like it runs at optimal speed. I went from having to spend 2 minutes on booting, to now spending 30 seconds on it… it´s really crazy how clutter can slow down your PC.

So if your PC is beginning to feel slow, I suggest you give these programs a try. They are really worth the money!

Oh…I did try SpyEraser, but Windows Defender apparently does its job fine, since there really wasn’t anything for SpyEraser to take care of…but it’s in the package….

You can buy the program here:

http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/details.aspx?itemid=3420483

And find out more here:

http://www.liutilities.com/products/powersuite/

So the 2008 Olympics are starting today. That means that every man with a television will suddenly become an expert on sports they have never heard about before. People will be sitting in front of their televisions in the dark hours of knight, yelling how they could do synchronized swimming a lot better than what their team is doing. They will scream that they know how best to lift weights; beat an 8th Dan. taekwondo martial artist, and how to jump the highest in pole vaulting.

So before all of this starts (in a few minutes) I need to get something of my chest.

I HATE TELEVISED SPORT!

There I said it.

But there is one thing I hate even more.

Games based on televised sport…. I am expecting that before we get to 2009, we will see a bunch of Olympic related games, games about people who did exceptionally well, and games about sports we did not even know about before this year’s Olympics.

So in short - I am turning off my TV, pulling out the plug, and heading for the library until this blows over.

…okay, perhaps ill watch the martial arts parts of the Olympics….and the Handball…and the Badminton……after all. If I am not there to yell out my advice at the TV, Denmark will never win any gold medals.

Hi everyone,

There has been a bunch of trouble with the comments feed on my blog, so I have decided to change it to a feedburner feed as well.

The old comment feed address should still work - but if you want to be sure that everything is running smoothly, you should update your RSS reader to:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/CommentsForDesignosisnet?format=xml

Sorry for the inconvenience,

Today I had the need to look over some of the notes I did on my second semester at the university. I am in the process of putting the concept for my bachelor assignment together, and knew that I had some very good notes on narration theory and ludology I might be able to use.

So I fire up my Microsoft OneNote which I use for everything now a days, and want to open the notebooks I used on my first semester. I go to the folder where they are supposed to be - and they are empty.

I´ve searched my entire hard drive and they are gone. I have my other notebooks, but the three notebooks entitled “Game design”, “Fiction theory” and “Game design literature notes” have disappeared. Apparently I have done something wrong in one of my computer formats - because they are completely gone. But now that I think of it, I haven´t used those particular notebooks since I was running Windows XP - so it is probably something that happened a long time ago.

Now I wish I had a Windows Home Server taking care of all my back-ups….or actually, I wish I just had an external backup system.

Guess I will just have to start my notes over *sigh*

I need a new phone. The Sony Ericsson I am using has been serving me well for 3 years, but the fact is that it is getting old. Half the time my SMS’es don´t get send, and the rest of the time it just takes it a very long time to process anything I type into it. Also since I started using the Google Calendar and synchronizing it with my Microsoft Outlook 2007, I have been in desperate need of a phone that automatically synchronized all my calendars to it.

Actually its not something new that I need a new phone, the problem has been around for a while, but I just haven´t been able to find the right phone. Fact is, that my needs have evolved from being just a call/SMS gadget, to actually needing constant access to my e-mail, calendar, and instant messaging. And I am very picky about my phones, I went through 4 models before I found my current one.

So - enter the iPhone.

The original hype on the phone made me instantly hate it. It was heralded as being a communication revolution and that it would change the mobile business as we know it. I didn´t believe the hype then. But now I have been looking into it, and this phone looks like it has ALL the features I need, plus some nice looking games….

The major disadvantage of the phone is that you are forced into buying it from Telia, and I need to get a special iPhone subsciption for it. And of course, that subscription is crazy expensive. So I haven´t made the decision yet, but at the moment I am leaning on getting a iPhone….. and after that I guess I have to get Gucci glasses, hip clothes, and designer shoes. After all - isn’t that what Apple is all about?

I just watched the new Batman movie, and even though it has been hyped to unbelievable levels, it was well worth watching. Well actually - IT WAS BRILLIANT!

I have never been much of a Heath Ledger fan, and when I heard the news of his death, I was not really affected by it. But now that I have watched “The Dark Knight” and Ledgers performance as the joker, I am very sad that we won´t seeing him anymore. His performance is absolutely amazing, and the joker just went from being a semi-silly villain, to being my all time favourite.

The movie is well worth watching (and that is all I am going to say, I don´t want to post spoilers) - and now I am just annoyed that superhero games, based on movie IP’s - ALWAYS suck.

I want to play Batman and beat up the baddies in a game that is actually good

RIP - Heath Ledger

I just came across this incredible “blog” by Joss Whedon, the guy who has made Buffy the Vampire slayer, and more importantly, Firefly. It´s a sing-along-blog… or in truth, its a short movie series that will only be online for a very limited time, to show that it´s possible to produce high quality video entertainment, for free, online.

You should check it out, its over at http://www.drhorrible.com/ - it will only be there for a very limited time, so you better hurry up!

So far I have always been a firm believer of Internet Explorer. I have always shyed away from Firefox because I didn´t like its user interface, and because I always ended up having to redo HTML so it could be viewed properly in it (back when I didn´t care much about if my sites could render properly I non IE browsers – those where the days).

However a few days back I installed the newest edition of Firefox and – well – Internet Explorer 7 went out the Window. But why?

I actually still prefer the interface of Internet Explorer 7 compared to the one in Firefox 3. However what really made me switch was all the add-ins available to Firefox. The vast amount of add-ins, and the effectiveness of them simply overruled the add-ins I´ve been using for Internet Explorer. I´ve even gone away from using FeedDemon to do my RSS reading, to now using the add on “Sage-too” for Firefox.

But here is the list of the add-ins I am now using on Firefox, and a short description of what they do.

Adblock Plus – a very effective add blocker program. I´m getting very tired of the Flash banners where the sound starts playing when I accidently put my curser over it. Adblocker completely removes all the banners when I want it too.

Dictionaries – I do a lot of internet forum posts, and incorporating dictionaries into my browser is just an awesome idea….and it’s free.

Firebug – an amazing web development tool that lets you check out the code on a website and lets you see what the hell you´ve done wrong.

Foxmark – a bookmark synchroniser, so I can now have the same bookmarks on all the machines I use (which is about 5 at the moment)

Hyperwords – and absolutely amazing add-in. It lets me instantly search for a word on Wikipedia, IMDB, dictionaries, Amazon, and whatever else I want it too. It’s highly customizable, and I am finding that I am constantly using it – gone are the days where you didn´t know what a word meant…oh…and it also does translations…

IE tab – an IE 7 renderer…so you can watch those IE only pages from inside Firefox 3. It even does the Windows Update site if you want it too.

PDF Download – gone are the days when Acrobat tries to open PDF files in the browser window. This add-in makes sure they are downloaded, so you can open them locally.

Sage-too – a very nifty RSS reader. The only thing missing with it is a pop-up that alerts me when news has arrived.

Screen-Grab – lets me save browser screenshots, parts of the browser window, or text, as image files with a single click. Very convenient.

Search Status – lets you know the PageRank and Alexa rank of all sites you visit. Also incorporates instant “whois” and lots of other features to let you know the what/where info of all sites you visit.

StumbleUpon – a very neat plugin that lets me share my favourites with my friends, but also suggests new sites for me according to my preferences and browsing history. So far it has been helping me find sites about stuff I like to read about, without me ever searching for those sites. It’s pretty amazing.

Posting links to all the add-ins would take me a long time…so if you need any of them just do a search…. or start by installing the Hyperwords add-in and just click on the add-in names in this post