Your Guide to New Entertainments

Click to read my article, from today's Advertiser - 16 May, 2006

The Newspaper Clipping Generator:
http://tools.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp


OMG! MySpace Now Has it's own Instant Messaging Client!!! Lol

I installed this tonight and it is pretty cool. It has a good, clean, easy to use interface. There are no annoying tabs on the side as in msn. It will show you when you get a new myspace message.
The only bummer is that it doesn't automatically import your friends from your myspace friends list, you have to browse to a website and add them from there. This is however pretty simple and pain free.
So far none of my mySpace friends are online (of the 49 that I chose to add).
Im guessing that no one really knows about this yet, however it should not take too long before myspace whores, pimple faced pukes, emo kids, bedroom bands and the like catch on and use this thing. Pretty cool.

Download MySpaceIM here
Make sure to add me to your friends list - my username = natekowald



101 Free Games

Free games? heck yes, get yours here:
http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=1&cId=3148013




Rename Master

For the longest time I have wanted an app that lets me batch rename a directory of files. I always thought that there had to be apps out there but I never got around to looking for them, until tonight i came across this great app from a feed link.
It's called Rename Master and it a FREE utility for renaming large groups of files with a few clicks. Anyone that has worked with websites, file archives, or collections of music, videos, or pictures has probably spent way too much time renaming hundreds of files.

Also you may want to note that windows can actually batch rename a group of files.
This can be done by selecting a group of files and hitting F2 (or right-click "rename"). Windows however does not give you the options of rename naming convention and will rename files by adding a (1), (2) etc after each file, which if you are renaming a whole bunch of images for the web is not too handy.

Get Rename Master from here
Here's a list of links to other popular batch renaming apps:




Windows Live™ Messenger Beta

Windows Live™ Messenger Beta is now publicly available to download and use. I installed it just before and it's ok, the interface looks a little different but it is still pretty much the same old msn we know. Not an absolute "must get now" download but its still okay. I cannot however work out how to view my contacts Avatars in the Messenger panel. Any ideas?

Download Windows Live™ Messenger Beta from here:
http://ideas.live.com/programPage.aspx?versionId=0eccd94b-eb48-497c-8e60-c6313f7ebb73




All of these things I found out about from feeds i subscribe to...If you don't use a feed reader (i use bloglines) and subscribe to feeds, you are sorely missing out!! I pitty your uninformed existence.

Posted by Nathan Kowald @ 7:47 PM