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Create your custom Google search page

Posted on April 30th, 2008 in Cool Stuff | 6 Comments »

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What happens when you mix Google and Angelina Jolie together? More searching! At least that was the case with us…

What you see above is a custom Google search page that we have built, with Angelina Jolie’s photo set as a background. So whenever we feel like fed up with Google’s *boring* homepage, we can switch to that one and of course get the same search results.

Want to know how we did it?

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One funny fact about Windows you might have missed !

Posted on January 20th, 2008 in Cool Stuff | 7 Comments »

There are a lot of funny things in Microsoft Windows and, although I won’t call this a bug, this is one of my personal favorites. Let’s call it Disabled yes but Running :)

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Did you ever notice that if you disable a service in Microsoft Windows it won’t stop ? Well of course if you restart the computer, or stop the service manually, then it won’t be possible to start it again unless you re-enable that service. However it is still kind of catchy for people who see this for the first time.

Now the best part of the story ? You can still do that under Microsoft Windows 2008 ;)