Beat, Groove and Trax

Testing consumer demand for an urban minicar, Chevrolet has developed three small vehicle concepts for the New York International Auto Show.

The three are called the Beat, Groove and Trax and all were designed at a GM studio in Inchon, South Korea, although the Beat was built in India, while the other two were fabricated at GM’s Warren, Michigan, Tech center.


The Beat is front-drive 3-door hatchback powered by a turbocharged 1.2-liter 4-cylinder engine mated to an automatic transmission. Designer Injo Kim characterizes his design as a micro import tuner that's "simple, free and casual, with a strong heart." And a hard-to-miss exterior, which is painted in a bright Vertigo green exterior. Even though the car is small, it rides on 17-in. wheels and has a larger rear wing, elongated LCD headlamps, flush B-pillar-mounted door handles, an aggressive front fascia and large rocker panels to give it a street racer look.

My Space

Sound right to me...

N	Noisy
A	Appealing
S	Silent
T	Trustworthy
E	Entertaining
N	Neglected
O	Orderly
L	Loving
A	Artistic

Free E Books

Audiobook-download site Simply Audiobooks offers a selection of free public-domain titles.

The books include Mark Twain's The Stolen White Elephant, Jack London's Call of the Wild and Joel Benton's The Life of P.T. Barnum. There are 11 titles to choose from, all of them in WMA format (which leaves iPod users out, unless they convert the files to AAC or MP3). Cleverly, the books are all divided into 3-5 minute chunks, which makes for easier navigation on portable players that lack bookmarking capabilities.
Check it out @ simplyaudiobooks.com

Speeding up Vista with a flash drive:

If you've got a spare USB drive laying around, or a Ipod try Using Vista's new ReadyBoost feature, a spare USB 2.0 key with enough space can speed up the OS performance.

Plug in your drive and choose "Speed up my system" from the AutoPlay menu to enable ReadyBoost

Saving You Tube Vids

Save YouTube Videos to your computer with IE or Firefox - no software installation or browser plugins! All it takes are 3 simple steps to save ANY video on Youtube.com:

1. Go to Youtube.com and copy any video URL.
2. Paste URL into the form above & hit "download".
3. Rename saved video with a ".flv" extension.

Notes
- paste ONLY the video URL, e.g. the blue portion of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1234&search=action.
- download FREE FLV Player to watch the saved videos.

Download the player here and/or get more info.

More Vista tweaks

Make the text on Vista easier to read

Start in Control Panel and type Adjust font size in the Search box at the top right, which will take you directly to the link for the DPI Scaling utility shown here. The preset value of 120 DPI.
I set mine at 110 DPI like Ed Bott. Just use the slider control to bump the size up to a more restrained 110 DPI.
Click ok and your done.
Of course you have to reboot.
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Get a quick system checkup

To run this report, open Control Panel, click System and Maintenance, and then click Performance Information and Tools. In the Tasks list along the left, click Advanced tools. The last item on the resulting list is Generate a system health report.
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Speaker Enhancements

If your PC is built using an Intel motherboard with High Definition Audio support, you can take advantage of some cool enhancements. Open the Sound option in Control Panel, select the Speakers icon on the Playback tab, and click the Properties button. The Enhancements tab includes a set of options you can use to control bass levels, create virtual surround sound on a two-speaker system, correct for crummy room acoustics, and change loudness settings.
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Make the blinking cursor easier to see

Open Control Panel, type optimize visual display in the Search box, and click the shortcut to see the dialog box shown here. Bumping the size of the cursor from 1 to 2 makes a noticeable difference
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YOD M 3D

If your looking for something sweet to add to your Vista based pc...Check out this free Appt. called YOD M 3D.
It turns your desktop into a 3d cube.
"quick my moms coming !" LOL
Here's the spec's....
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Yod m 3D description Download

Yod'm 3D is a virtual desktop manager that will bring to your Windows desktop the fashionable cube effect.

By default, the rotation of the cube is done with the keys · · · · · · · · · · · · · CTRL+SHIFT+Arrows :
· CTRL+SHIFT+Left/Right = Next/prev desktop
· CTRL+SHIFT+Up = Activate and show a "far" view of the current desktop, Left and right to turn the cube
· CTRL+SHIFT+Down = Activate and show a "near" view of the current desktop, Left and right to turn the cube
· Hold down CTRL+SHIFT to use the mouse to turn the cube.
(The rotation is possible only horizontally)

To move a windows to another desktop:
· Click on the title bar of the window (not maximized if possible), hold down
· Push CTRL+SHIFT to activate the cube, hold down
· When the cube is activated, move the window on left or right
· Release CTRL+SHIFT

To change the wallpaper of a desktop:
· Just use Windows !
· For each desktop, change the wallpaper using the windows display setting.

Switch to another application:
· Click on the Yod'm 3D icon in the taskbar, the list of the windows opened in other desktop appear.
· Click on the application to switch to the desktop.

Available languages: English, French, German, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Danish, Japanese, Spanish, Czech, Portuguese, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Russian.
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I downloaded mine here: softpedia.com

I think you'll like it....
later, ~nasty

Windows Vista Keyboard shortcuts

People's been asking me to post this so here goes...

This is for the Windows Vista Keyboard and you have to be running Windows Vista as your OS... of course.
Have fun !!!


ALT+TAB
Switch between open items

Windows logo key +TAB
Cycle through programs on the taskbar by using Windows Flip 3-D

CTRL+Windows logo key +TAB
Use the arrow keys to cycle through programs on the taskbar by using Windows Flip 3-D

ALT+ESC
Cycle through items in the order in which they were opened

F6
Cycle through screen elements in a window or on the desktop

Windows logo key
Open or close the Start menu

Windows logo key +BREAK
Display the System Properties dialog box

Windows logo key +D
Display the desktop

Windows logo key +M
Minimize all windows

Windows logo key +SHIFT+M
Restore minimized windows to the desktop

Windows logo key +E
Open Computer

Windows logo key +F
Search for a file or folder

CTRL+Windows logo key +F
Search for computers (if you are on a network)

Windows logo key +L
Lock your computer (if you are connected to a network domain), or switch users (if you're not connected to a network domain)

Windows logo key +R
Open the Run dialog box

Windows logo key +T
Cycle through programs on the taskbar

Windows logo key +SPACEBAR
Bring all gadgets to the front and select Windows Sidebar

Windows logo key +G
Cycle through Sidebar gadgets

Windows logo key +U
Open Ease of Access Center

Windows logo key +X
Open Windows Mobility Center

this is what i want for chirstmas....

This is what i want for christmas..........

New ruling threatens to silence Net radio

New ruling threatens to silence Net radio
As an Internet radio listener, you may know that a recent government decision on royalty rates threatens to destroy the Internet radio industry. The fees that webcasters are now required to pay to play the music you hear amount to well over most Internet radio operators' gross revenues.

So unless we can get the rates changed, services like AccuRadio will be bankrupt and go silent.

Internet radio helps promote music and artists that otherwise have few options to reach Save The Streams.orgpotential fans. To learn more about the royalty ruling, and about what you can to do help us fight this ruling, visit SaveTheStreams.org. From there you'll find links to sign a petition and to contact your representatives in Congress to tell them to save Internet radio.

Up-Dating....

Well I've been up-dating my accounts @ MySpace and my web page @ Geocities.

Also I've added a music player here on my blog.
(it's down @ the bottom, on the right hand side.)
I've got one song on there right now.
Called:
"Get Down With Nasty" (c)2006wjnast

I also have code for you to cut and paste into your page if you want.

And if your wanting to buy stuff like: T-Shirts, Hats, Stickers, Ect.

Go to my Order form page on my Geocities web page.

Thanx

Hope you enjoy...

((((((Making up for lost time is so hard to do.)))))