Well well… I’ve been sick the past couple of days and naturally most of the day I’m sobbing in my bed and now that I had the reason, I’ve been watching movies. So here we go with the Guy Ritchie like stuff – Rocknrolla :)

Guy Ritchie is known for movies with action filled comedy such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels which is a great piece indeed. This one is quite the same basically, but the plot is of course different. With a couple of known actors and actresses, this actually maintained the good feeling I got from watching it and made me laugh a few times pretty loud :D

Can’t say too much so I just reckon you check it out :D

So, time to bring up a couple of apps I came across with a while ago and after testing, I can really recommend too.
We’ll start with basic usage that could be useful for everyone:

Password Safe [direct download]

This is an extremely handy tool if you have plenty of logins and passwords to various sites and services. Like myself, I’ve currently over 70 logins and passwords to maintain from library card to forum and website logins. So there’s a lot to remember and I can’t use the same password or login with each one of them so using this I can easily store the logins and passwords. And if you’ve problems coming up with a hard-to-guess password, use the built-in password generator and you’re safe.
The program install on your computer, is light-weight and hardly noticeable. And when you need something, you open the program and it opens instantly. Now this could be a security risk, but the passwords are actually saved behind a password as well. So here you need a password that will get you there. I have a simple and easy to remember one as I’ve the passwords on my USB-stick and I use them from it. So it’s pretty safe to say that no one can get them :)

Pros:
+ simple
+ extremely light
+ safe

Cons:
- adding the first logins and passes

MediaMonkey [download page]

Well I got my iPod Shuffle like 3 years ago and I love it. It’s light, it’s simple and it plays music + it has space for so much music that it’d take a whole day to listen through. But with iPod’s comes a huge problem, iTunes. These two are connected since Apple uses its own software to import music to your player and iTunes is known to be really heavy to use and it takes shitloads of time to move the songs to player and to synchronize it.
So I started thinking that there has to be a better way and as it turns out, there is. MediaMonkey is a nice and versatile tool for all your music needs and especially I love it for the iPod support. You might have to turn on the data use on from iTunes in order to use it properly, but once it’s ok, you just open MediaMonkey and move the songs. Takes about 2-5 seconds to move one song and the program itself is really light.

Pros:
+ light
+ no more iTunes
+ versatile

Cons:
- might be a bit hard to use for beginners at first

May not be noticeable to you, but I finally managed to find the time to upgrade my site software to latest version. So WP 2.8.1 has been installed and everything is running smoothly.
Also I upgraded all the plugins and removed some of the unnecessary ones such as the featured post thingy. Expect to see some new ones coming up though!

Aight, I got the new Windows beta on my computer and have had it for a while now. Surely I’m such a social butterfly online that I need to have MSN installed as well. But the thing with Win7 and Windows Live Messenger (aka MSN Messenger) is that since there’s this superbar that works as the quick launch and taskbar, you don’t really have the contact list at your hand. So when you click on the MSN icon in your superbar, it shows two windows: logged in thingy and the main contact list window. So I can’t get to contact list right away by clicking the damn icon. Plus I could use the thing in the system tray really so it’s out of sight and only the chats and the contact list come up with the superbar click.

So there’s a workaround for this and it’s pretty simple actually:
1. Head over to the start menu, find Windows Live Messenger
2. Right-click on the main application shortcut and select Properties
3. Pick the compatibility tab
4. Tick the first box available and pick Windows Vista

This will make the program work as it was in MS Vista. Now you get your beloved MSN icon to system tray and MSN works “normally” in the “superbar”.

It’s tough to be a guy in this world =/
There’s only one solution apparently and there’s not enough of it for everyone.