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Hilarious redub of the Rolling Stones – Start Me Up

StSanders has created a masterpiece, a hilarious redub of The Rolling Stones video, Start Me Up. He’s also renamed it “Passing Stones – **** Me Up”
Watch the video here

How to Get Google Chrome working in Windows 2000

Well Google Chrome came out of beta today,  this is great news. Though as most win 2000 users will know by now, google chrome doesnt work on your operating system. But a clever Japanese guy known as BlackWingCat has created an installer program that lets you install it to your system relatively easily. Unfortunately the [...]

Oh great and wise Google, what have I done to offend thee?

Ive been wondering for a while now, why this site ( http://steeev.freehostia.com ) is no longer appearing in Google search results. In fact it apparently hasnt been in there since December 2007! I know this because I signed up to the Google WebMaster tools site. And they can tell you when your site was last [...]

Firefox 3 Beta 4 – Unusual disk thrashing problem – turned out to be the URL classifier security feature

A couple of months or so ago, I had a revelatory web browsing experience. I had been using firefox 1.5 for what seems like forever, i briefly tried FF2 and found it to be a terrible resource hog, and quite unstable, so went back to the 1.5 which itself was quite a memory hog.
Anyway, I [...]

I found a cool new online payment system – TrialPay – Pay for stuff by completing trials

I went to the Lavasoft website to update my really old version of adaware, the anti spyware program, and discovered that as well as having a free version of their software, they also had a new method of paying for the non-free version, which essentially means you can get the “pay for” version free too. [...]