Geek and a Half

September 10th, 2007 by Jake

So normally I don’t do this sort of thing (recipes), but this is absolutely delicious geek food, so I wanted to share the recipe with you. It’s pretty simple, you have to really suck at cooking to screw this up. ;)

What you’ll need:

• 2-4 cups powdered sugar
• 2/3 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 stick unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1 box Rice/Corn Chex Cereal

And here’s how you do it:

• Get a small pot, put it on the stove. Turn the heat on to the lowest setting.
• Pour into said pot the following: butter, peanut butter, chocolate chips.
• Cook on LOW HEAT until fully melted. This is important, if you cook it too fast you’ll burn the chocolate and it’ll smell/taste like crap.
• After it’s all melted, get your cereal and pour the whole box out into a big bowl. Get the chocolate mixture and pour it over the cereal as you mix it. Try not to crush the cereal ;)
• After all the cereal’s coated with the chocolate mix, pour it into a bag of some sort. I use a clean garbage bag, but a paper bag works, too.
• Pour some of the powdered sugar in, close the bag and shake. Repeat this step until all of it is coated with powdered sugar.
• Pour into serving bowl(s) and enjoy.

If done right, this is a really delicious geek treat. Enjoy. :)

October 22nd, 2006 by Jake

This was posted on Digg today, and I figured I’d post it here, as well, because a) I’ve found that the method works and b) nobody should ever have to bear using IE6 longer than they have to. Original article as follows:

Internet Explorer 7.0 is the long awaited tabbed web browser by Microsoft. Nearly four years after the release of Internet Explorer 6.0, in the face of growing competition from Mozilla’s Firefox, Microsoft has finally given the old IE platform a facelift. Optimized design along with new cool interface, favorites centre, search box, RSS feeds and most importantly easy to use tabbed browsing are the exclusive features of this new internet explorer.

You must have Windows XP Service Pack-2 (SP2) in order to install Internet Explorer 7.0. But still you will face a problem while installing this new Internet Explorer if your copy of Windows XP is not a genuine (non-pirated) one, since IE 7.0 installation requires genuine windows validation!!! So what to do??? Don’t worry… There are some tricky steps through which you can install IE 7.0 even in your pirated copy of windows XP bypassing the genuine windows validation. You just have to follow the following steps one by one:

1. Download Internet Explorer 7.0 from the Microsoft site. You have to choose Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) as your operating system. Remember you can’t install IE 7.0 if service pack 2.0 is not installed in your operating system.

2. Extract the downloaded Internet Explorer setup file (IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe) using WinRAR to a directory (IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu).
3. Download the patched iecustom.dll and then copy-paste it to the update folder (IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu\update\) and click yes when asked to overwrite.
4. Run ‘update.exe’ in the update folder (not iesetup.exe!!!). At the end, you have to choose ‘exit/finish without restart’ option to finish the running process of the exe file.
5. Download normaliz.dll and then copy-paste it to “c:\windows\system32\” directory (in order to prevent problems with the file not being found after the installation). And then reboot/restart your pc.
6. After rebooting your pc, you may face a problem with a file called normaliz.dll that can not be found by explorer.exe. If you’re having this problem, you will find your desktop blank.(If you are not facing this problem then just go to step 7) In order to fix this problem, you have to do the following things one by one:

1. Press ctrl-alt-del to go to the task manager.
2. Go to “File -> Run” in the task manager.
3. Type: ‘cmd’ and push enter. The command prompt window will appear.
4. Type:
   ‘copy c:\normaliz.dll c:\windows\system32\normaliz.dll’
   - in the command prompt window and push enter.
5. Reboot your pc and yahoo!!! now you can see your desktop contents!!!.

So folks, don’t forget to install Windows Internet Explorer 7.0 in your pc and enjoy the experience of tabbed browsing with lots of new features. And those who are using Firefox, can use a special IE Tab plugin to enjoy browsing in the Internet Explorer environment being in the firefox and switching around from Firefox to IE and IE to Firefox. And thus you can make your web browsing faster and more interesting…

Original Article can be found here.

April 10th, 2006 by Jake

Add lightsaber effects to your home movies with this handwritten tutorial that explains in-depth and step-by-step how to do it with the latest Adobe software.

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