This Saturday we went to the motorcycle show at the Cleveland I-X center. It was a great show and the new bikes are better than ever. They had a nice custom builder display as well and I have included pictures of it and some of the show. It was nice to see more custom bikes in the show than ever before. I also noticed there seemed to be more and a wider variation in the types of bikers at the show. They even had a larger area just for scooters which was new.

Use tools running on Google’s M-Lab to test your Internet connection. The following tools are cuurently on the site and are very useful indeed. You can check out the site here.

*   Network Diagnostic Tool
Test your connection speed and receive sophisticated diagnosis of problems limiting speed.

*  Glasnost
Test whether BitTorrent is being blocked or throttled.

*  Network Path and Application Diagnosis
Diagnose common problems that impact last-mile broadband networks.

*  DiffProbe (coming soon)
Determine whether an ISP is giving some traffic a lower priority than other traffic.

*  NANO (coming soon)
Determine whether an ISP is degrading the performance of a certain subset of users, applications, or destinations.

So have you ever wanted to maybe walk around and see what the International Space Station (ISS) looked like inside? Come on sure you have. I bet you were just talking about it the other day. Well below are links to a 4 part video tour of the ISS.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Let’s face it, not only are they going but they will of course win it! Check out this years “Here we go” theme song that was put into a video form.

Click here to see video on YouTube…

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all.

Here is a link to the site.

Great little site with some well designed and very fun games to play. Check them out here.

Spreadsheet tables are great for computers, but difficult for people – all that scrolling right and left to see all the data in a row. A Browse tab is a freely arranged screen of data taken from a single row with a scrollbar for navigation among rows. A high number of columns poses no constraint, since the full area of the screen is available.

Check out how to do it here.

I am sure you have noticed that when you already have a spreadsheet open and you open another via Windows Explorer it opens in the same instance of Excel. How great would it be to have each spreadsheet open in it’s own instance (multi monitors anyone?). Well you can and it’s easy to do. Just follow the instructions below.

You have to tell Excel not to use DDE to open the worksheet.
Open Windows Explorer, Tools, Options, File Types
Scroll down to XLS
Select Advance Button
Click on OPEN in the Actions window, Then Edit
On the 2nd line for application used add "%1".
Make sure to put the quotes around %1.
Example …\Excel.exe" /e "%1"
Write down what you see in the DDE Section.
You will need this information if you want to return to the original settings.
Now DeSelect Use DDE
When you double click on any XLS file a separate instance of excel will run. Another advantage is that you can open more than one XLS file with the same name.

Sourced from Techrepublic.

I have found and used a nice little application to edit sounds and make ringtones. It’s called WavePad Sound Editor.

A full featured professional audio editor for Windows or Mac OS X. It lets you make and edit music, voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio files you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad works as a wav editor or mp3 editor but it also supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and more.

Here is a link to the site.

Been having a tough time figuring out just what CERN’s Large Hadron Collider does? Well check out this nicely made video and all will be explained.