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Startup sound in the library

Original: http://www.prangstgrup.com/startupsound/

Also, I’m really liking this youtube stuff for posting videos. Sure, they’re not great quality, but they’re in Flash, so they play on almost every browser/computer.

Safari comes with a Macromedia Flash player built-in. Unfortunately, it isn’t nearly as fast as Macromedia’s Flash Player 8.

Try this 3 step process with Safari:

1. Find a heavy Flash-based website. Reload it a few times with Safari.
2. Download the new Flash player from the Macromedia site, and install it.
3. Go back to the Flash-based website. See the difference?

Apple is really pushing iTunes, and using Quicktime to do it. Use this link to download Standalone Quicktime without iTunes.

Download Standalone Quicktime

Download Quicktime without iTunes

World of Warcraft is fully of funny details. One of these is the /silly command, which makes your character tell a joke. The jokes are different depending on your character’s class and gender.

I find the human jokes pretty funny — maybe it’s just the voice. Here they are in wav format:

Apothecary
Cherry Tree
Cover for me
Orc and Parrot
Two Tents

And my personal favourite: Ruler of the Bracelets

New Windows XP theme: Royale. Clean. Uncluttered. Nice. Well, nicer.

A new theme, potentially destined for Windows XP, has leaked out of Microsoft and onto the web. The theme appears to have come out of a beta version of Media Center 2005, currently in testing.

The theme is not a substantially different incarnation of the existing of Luna, the current default theme for Windows XP. You can see the main changes in the screenshots below; one could describe it as being a ‘glass mod’ of Luna.

Download it, unzip and install.

From Microsoft New Zealand’s site (where you can find nice wallpapers too).