I ended up taking last Thursday and Friday off to go camping and 4-wheeling, I should be posting about that pretty soon, but I realized yesterday that I missed my weekly link post.

Not having the routine made it easy to forget. Sorry about that.

This week, I’m getting spun up to step into my role of Tiger Cub Den Leader for my Son’s Cub Scout Pack, so time may be a little short this week.

I really enjoyed doing the "A Year Ago" post. It let me what I was doing back then, and it highlighted how different things are this year. Of course, I can’t believe that all of that stuff was a year ago, it seems like only months.

1 Year Ago

On the personal side of things, I was having some trouble with the brakes on my CJ-7, and learned a valuable lesson in the process.

I also found a website that let’s you know where you’re favorite sites are hosted, as well as one to let you know who else is hosted on your shared hosting server.

I was also getting ready to switch my blog from the port16.com root to port16.com/blog. Something I wish I had done in the first place, but I was glad that I ended up doing it pretty early on.

I hope everyone has had a good weekend, I know I did.

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Sorry, I’m running a little late on my links post today. I have to say thanks to Phil for inspiring me on what category to use for these links.

Checklist for Setting up WordPress - Phil has been building Wordpress sites like crazy for quite awhile now, and lucky for us, he’s distilled his knowledge into a checklist. Great list Phil, Thanks!

A Rule of Thumb for Categories - Here’s another Gem from Phil. On  our Drupal site, I’ve had to create categories by hand, which makes for far fewer categories then what you see in most WordPress blogs. Phil shares his rule of thumb on categories, and why it’s his rule.

WordPress: The complete post install checklist - Like they say about checklists, you can’t have just one. Well, maybe that’s chips or something, but you get my point. Might as well have a couple of check lists, it always helps to have another’s perspective.

9 Easy Ways to Secure your WordPress Blog - This time, a list about security. This list tells you how to lock it down a little more.

3 WordPress Security Tips I learnt from Matt Cutts - Well, I didn’t learn them from him, but the author of this article did, and I learned them from him. Knowledge transfer in action!

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In this round of links, I tried to pick a batch that would have something for almost everyone. Enjoy!

Blender 3D - Noob to Pro - Blender is a free, and powerful, 3D modeling program. Just like the programs used to make animated movies like Shrek and the like. It has a bit of a learning curve, and this Wikibook can help you get started.

The Drupal Cookbook - For Beginners - Sure, you love WordPress, and who doesn’t, but if you’re going to launch a media empire that one day will rule the world, then you’re going to need a content management system. Drupal is very powerful, and like Peter Parker’s uncle said, "With great power comes great complication", or something like that. Fact is, Drupal isn’t quite as straight forward as WordPress, but this guide can help. Yes, Two Guys Tech is Drupal.

Zombies in Plain English - I know, there was awhile there where I was posting about Zombies pretty often, heck, I even think I’ve covered this one too. I still thought it should be in here. You never know when the Zombie Apocalypse may start…

How to Install and Configure NMap for Windows - You read that right. NMap for Windows. The long time favorite network mapping and network exploration tool for Unix and Linux, NMap is now available for Windows. Did you want to see what hosts are on your network, or what services those hosts are running? How about what OS? NMap is the tool. This Search Security Article can help you get up and running with NMap.

Gimp Resources on Simplehelp.Net - Simplehelp.net is really a great site for tutorials, and I know Ross puts a great deal of effort into creating them. Here is a collection of resources for Gimp, the Open Source, Free, image manipulation program. Hey, go ahead and spend a big chunk on photoshop if you want to, but don’t tell me I didn’t warn you.

I haven’t actually used photoshop much, but my needs are pretty simple. Gimp has always been able to meet my needs, and I haven’t even scratched the surface of what it can do.

Money Magazine - What it takes to be Rich - A series of stories about people who have become very well off. How they did it, and what you can learn from it. If you do follow the link, and use the strategy to become rich, remember who sent you there. I wouldn’t turn down a finder’s fee

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Work has been continuing over at Two Guys Tech. Today we released the third podcast, "Someone’s in the kitchen with Art".

We’ve had some technical difficulties with Show 002 - The Chris Streisand effect, but we’re getting things squared away.

Art is still hard at work on the website, although when I posted a video tutorial this morning, the embed code made drupal have a bit of a seizure and re-arranged the page.

The video goes over how to change folder view options in Windows XP,so it’s pretty basic, but we’re trying to help out all levels of users. We’re going to get some more technical stuff up there pretty soon.

Besides letting you guys (and gals) know what I’ve been up to, I also wanted to point out some of the people that we’ve linked to, since our site isn’t being crawled by anything yet, the linkback notices aren’t going out.

Teckh had a interesting way to get around Vista’s UAC, which inspired me to mention my favorite way to work around UAC, which I covered in the podcast, and I also have the steps in the show notes.

We also talked about Virtual memory, and the difference between Memory (RAM) and Storage (Hard Drive). This was inspired by a question from Kellypea. That part is somewhere around 22 minutes into the podcast.

One thing we are in need of, is feedback. Our goal is to try to help people make use of technology, so questions are welcome, but any feedback would be appreciated. You can send email to feedback at twoguystech.com.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you listen in and visit Two Guys Tech!

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If you are like me, pretty things are nice to look at, but I quickly get tired of visual effects if they don’t do anything for the operation of the computer. That is about how I felt about Aero Glass. It’s nice to look at, but I’m sure it eats up valuable system resources.

If you aren’t like me, and somehow Aero Glass was turned off on your computer, then you’ll want to scroll down some, so you can see how to turn it on.

Your first step, wether you want to turn it on or off, is to get to “Windows Color and Appearance”.

Getting to Windows Color and Appearance Settings

Right Click on a blank space on the desktop, and choose personalize:

The personalization Menu should now appear. Choose “Windows Color and Appearance”

Turning Aero Glass off / Disabling Aero Glass

If you already have Aero on, then you will see the window pictured below (click on it for a larger version). If you have Aero glass turned off, then scroll down to the “Turning Aero Glass Off / Enabling Aero Glass”

Click on “Open classic appearance properties for more color options”

You should see the window pictured below:

Basically, choosing anything besides “Windows Aero” in the color scheme section will turn off Aero Glass. Windows Vista basic looks pretty close, just without the transparencies.

Clicking apply will let you see the change without closing the window. When you are happy with the appearance, click on “OK”.

Turning Aero Glass Off / Enabling Aero Glass

If you followed the instructions above, in Getting to “Windows Color and Appearance Settings”, then you should see the screen below.

All you have to do is click on “Windows Aero”, and then click on Apply. If you are happy with the way things look, then click on “OK”. That’s all there is to it.

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