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I was going to post a video journal, but for some reason, it craps out in the middle… just when I’m explaining how my video would be better than limey’s because I, unlike him, have mastered the English language. I’m trying to work it out so please be patient.

On a more successful note, I’ve built three new players. I intend to customize these players so that they’ll fit any blog color scheme and layout. For right now, the players are about 200 pixels wide which means that anyone with the standard sidebar width of 200 pixels in a three column layout will experience problems. If your sidebar is wider than 200 pixels, no worries. I’m still playing with the player layout and I’m sure I can fit all the various pieces into a 150 pixel wide layout.

NOTE: I’ve revised the players and now you can have your choice between a skinny, healthy player of only 150 pixels in width which is just perfect for those who prefer 3 column blog designs (you know who you are). For a limited time, I will create a custom player skin for you featuring your blogs colors and any artwork you want featured…

Here are the new player options…

Black w/ Green Accents:

Blue with Dark Blue Accents

and Pink with Magenta Accents:

You’ll notice that almost immediately upon load, music starts playing. The most current working version of the monkey music radio player is on your left. I’m just learning to work with actionscripting so, be gentle with your critique. I know, the other one was nifty, but it was cumbersome to change music. This new one uses an XML play list. Now instead of having to update the FLA, I can just update the XML file and voila! She is done! Anyway, hold your horses and soon I’ll deliver a post (in fact, a video post to rival limey’s christmas post) that will knock your boots off.

And as far as the music player is concerned, here is my christmas gift to each of you… If you want one of your very own, I can customize one for you that you can put up on your own blog. The only thing you would need to do is have some server space available to you… if you’re on typepad, you have plenty of room to both store it and stream the content. I can help you with it if you’re remotely interested.

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There are few things that are as infuriating as overcomplicated something that is supposed to be simple. A case in point is Microsoft’s attempt to simplify the use of usernames and passwords for both your own network and the web. Lets say you use Internet Explorer to access a webpage that has a login screen. For instance, a webmail site… a little window pops up for your username and password. In one corner you’ll see a check box to “remember” your visit.

That’s all well and good, but what if you let some knuckle use your computer to check their email… or login to their porn site account… whatever. They inadvertantly click on remember and you’ll be stuck with that login username and see it everytime you visit a site that has the windows login script. Stuck with it right? No.

Here’s how to get rid of any unwanted usernames and passwords for that pesky windows login screen you see when you visit password protected websites…

Go to START
Click on Control Panel
User Accounts
Click on your Account
At the top, at the upper left, click on MANAGE MY NETWORK PASSWORDS
Click on the username you want to remove, and click on REMOVE
Click on CLOSE and you’re done.