January 17, 2007, 2:19 am
This program is an alternative to all Chat programs, Instant messengers and whatever it is called. The program has support for various protocols(ICQ, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, IRC and more).
It is highly customizable. You can change the look and feel to how you like it. There are thousands of plugins for this little program.
E. g. you can have RSS/ATOM feeds downloaded and get a popup message. Or you can have a weather forecast. Almost anything is possible to configure.
Here is a little picture of how mine looks at the moment. I use it for IRC channels, MSN, and feeds (As GMail user I can receive news from my inbox through an ATOM feed). I have found a premade skin on the Internet.
Finally, a link to the Miranda IM Project.
January 17, 2007, 2:02 am
This little application makes it possible to use custom themes in windows. Works on Windows XP, 2000, 2003 and the likes. It wont work on Windows 95/98/ME.
After the its installed you will have to restart your system, afterwards you can use the custom themes/ visual styles.
If you are all new to this, you might want to visit these sites:
WinCustomize (ed. site has changed)
Lots of info on how to customize your system, a list of applications that will change the look of your desktop.
Customize.org
This place has a lot of ressources; themes, styles and the like for various applications. Good place to find something usefull and stylish.
Here are to screenshots. The first one shows my current desktop with firefox and miranda open, which both are customized af tad more that what the windows theme does.
The second screenshots shows how the theme can look on a simple program like Microsoft Office Word 2003. This might illustrate the theme a bit better.
neowin-uxtheme-multi-patcher-4-0.
January 12, 2007, 4:21 am
Just as I sat in my bed with my laptop and played some DotA in the middle of the night, I was frightened by some crazy sort of sound I heard. Right outside my window a tree was blown down by the storm. A heavy storm appearantly. I looked out my window and the tree was laying quietly on the ground.
Here in the morning when it has become brighter it seems the tree hit the house and damaged it. This explains the sound.
But its pretty scary though, what a simple storm can do.
-nc
January 10, 2007, 11:08 pm
I’ve got myself a new mobile phone. Its a Samsung SGH X670 and it was almost impossible finding any information about the phone on the Internet. I decided to take some pictures of the phone, but unfortunately my camera and I disagreed on sharpness quality.
These are the pictures of my new phone. The only thing I miss in this phone, is a slot for flash card to extend the memory from which MP3 files could be played. Even though the phone only has about 16 MB of internal memory it also has an MP3 player, which seems a bit strange since this only gives the user a few tracks in the playlist.
But overall I like this phone. Its black, I like that. Then it is a lot faster that my last phone that I have had for 3 years.
Furthermore it has a lot of feateres that I doubtly will use, but phones nowadays has to be smart with many many features. 
The phone is slightly less weighted and take up less space in my pocket, which I apprecaite.
Forgot to mension that it was very cheap and that I easily can sell it for about the same price that I payed for it, even though it aint new anymore
-nc
