This is one of the hanging baskets along the bridge on the way in here.
Please note: If you'd like to see the full sized version of this picture,
then you can find it here.
Enjoy your day, everyone.
Looking at 'Up the creek without a paddle' you wouldn't think that it's only half a mile from Lions Gate Bridge and the Park Royal Mall in West Van. It was taken from the bridge on Fullerton Avenue.
You can see today's picture here.
I hope you enjoy it.
Would you like to test your firewall for leaks, or check your broadband speed?
Then here's where you can do that, and it's free.
If you have a firewall, you should be sure it works, and this will tell you.
There's another speed test called Speakeasy with several locations including Seattle where you can also test your speed. I like it because Seattle is close, and therefore there aren't a lot of hops in between to slow things down.
Click here for today's picture.
And if you looked the other way then this is what you'd see.
You have? Well, here it is and the price is right!
Be sure to download the User's Guide with it, and away you go - enjoy outer space.
Here's an example of what you can do -
Select a planet in the night sky, like Jupiter for example...
And using the keyboard controls, you can zoom right in on it...
And you can save the pictures as bitmaps using CTRL + S.
It does other things too, so have a look...
While checking something else, I found this handy little freeware program which seems to have a lot of fans, and a good reputation.
Just an 'FYI' folks....
I used this to clean up my Registry (it can make backups first) and afterward, I used another tried and trusted program called 'EasyCleaner' to again scan the Registry, just to check it, and EasyCleaner found 5 more invalid entries. Those were either missed by the 'Ccleaner' or perhaps caused by something it did while cleaning out other junk. Anyway, each one works, and my computer still does too. Just make sure you read the instructions.
If you'd like a look at the world wide web on a real-time monitor, then all you need to do is click this link and then click on 'Real-time Web Monitor'. Have fun!
I've just wasted about two hours trying to get Shockwave Player working again, after
some 'housecleaning' spoiled the previous version. I discovered that Adobe has changed
the list of 'Xtras' for the latest versions, and downloading the latest version 11 will
result in error messages saying 'SWADCmpr.x32 not found' or something similar.
This is a Sound Wave Audio Decompressor file without which the install is incomplete and
the player won't run.
The solution is to go onto the Adobe Shockwave downloads site, and look for a stand-alone
installer for an older version such as version 9 or 10, before they removed many of the
'Extras' which apparently are still needed. When I installed the version 9 player, it had
all its required 'xtra' bits, and it works just like it should. Their latest version 11
wouldn't work at all for me. So if you have this problem, that's how to fix it.
Note: After you get the older version installed successfully, and do a reboot, you will likely be invited to accept an update of the program to the latest version. When you accept that, you will have the most recent version, and it will work properly once again.
