Welcome to my Shots, my blog for quick, random posts that fire away on every subject. Put best by my friend as, 'Drive by Blogging', these post will be small pieces and snippets of my thoughts and ideas. You can visit my other blog at, blog.shanesblog.net.

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I know his new album is not the best, but I still prefer, and enjoy listing to his older music quite often. This is an ‘end of the album’ track, the less main-stream, but more feeling and effort put into these songs in my opinion. Overall, an excellent song, enjoy -_-

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Sorry blog world. I have been out for a while, but am back now. Sending this one via instant message, only because its right here =) ttyl

DashBlog :: Firefox Add-ons

A great add-on for Firefox. Its just a test, but Ill leave it up. Works with Tumblr, WordPress, Twitter, Blogger.

Ok, I know I have been away from my blog for a while. Here is a song of the day to get things started again. I promise I will get back at it, I have much to say! This is Ben Folds latest, All You Can Eat, Enjoy!

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How to Set-Up and Install iTunes with out Installing QuickTime

If you have an iPod, you will have to learn how to get along with iTunes, but the problem with iTunes, is Quick Time (QT) is a required component for it to work properly. If you are not already familiar with the QuickTImeAlternative, then you will need to download and install this first. The QTA (Quick Time Alternative), is a slightly smaller, more efficient multimedia player replacement for QuickTime. For those of you who have not used it, it will load quicker, and use fewer resources. You can download the QuickTimeAlternative from their website. After you have downloaded and installed the QuickTimeAlternative on your machine, go to Apple’s website and download iTunes, if you have not already. After downloading, you will need to unpack the content’s with archive software. You can use 7zip for this (or WinRAR). I recommend getting 7-zip if you do not already have it, you can download 7zip (or WinRAR), either from the 7zip website, or right here if you trust it (Google ‘7-zip’ if not). After unpacking the content’s of the iTunes download, you will see a list of installers (*.msi’s). Delete the installer called ‘QuickTime.msi’. You can also delete Bonjour.msi, as this is not needed either. Now, you should be able to open the iTunes installer, ‘iTunes.msi’, but it will give you an error because QuickTime was not found or installed. Therefore, you can go to the command prompt, go to the directory you extracted the folders, and type ‘msiexec.exe /i iTunes.msi /quiet’. This will run the installer in windows installer in the background. You now have iTunes installed and spared your system from coming in contact with QuickTime. You can use this practice with other applications compiled with multiple software; however, you will have to do some investigating and find out just why the other software was included, and how to make everything work with out it.

Thanks,
Shane Rice

How to Install Hewlett Packard Printer Scanner Copier (HP PSC) Drivers with out The Software

This article is very short, and very simple, and explains how to set-up your Hewlett Packard printer / scanner / copier (or any related device) w/o installing the software included in the installation package. This is guaranteed to work with the HP PSC 1210, which is one of the devices presented with out a driver only download, or a driver only install. Before connecting your hardware, and installing any of your drier packages! Simply download the driver and software package provided by your manufacture, this is usually a .exe or .msi, but sometimes it is a .zip that contains one of these files types. Then, if you do not have an archive program, download 7zip (or WinRAR), either from the 7zip website, or right here if you trust it (Google ‘7-zip’ if not). After installing 7zip (no options to configure), right click on the driver package you downloaded from your printer or scanner manufacture, go to the 7-zip menu, and click and go to the ‘extract to file.exe\’ option. This will unpack the contents of the executable or installer package you downloaded. In here will be the drivers, plus the software that you do not want to install. Now, you want to connect your hardware to your computer and power it on. Windows will come up with the found new hardware dialog, click do not search for drivers online (XP), then click install from specified location. Navigate to the location you unpacked the files to with 7-zip, you should be able to pres ok on this directory, and it should search it for the necessary drivers. If not, try selecting different directories within the folder that was created with 7-zip archive. After you select ok and press next, it should begin to copy the drivers over to the system folder. This is where you might notice it will trigger the software package, and ask you to install it. You should just be able to click cancel on the software, if it already installed the driver. If it brings you straight to the software installation, (very rare) or your scanner does not work, you must look through the different installer packages, see which ones launch software, and which ones launch driver installations, or delete the software package setup.exe files, or installer.msi files within the extracted directory, then proceed to install the drivers again. In the case of the HP PSC 1210 all-in-one, after extracting the executable, you can double click on aiodrv.msi, the driver installer, to install the drivers (since aiosw.msi is the software installer) for the scanner, but only after you have copied the drivers over successfully for the printer. The scanner requires an installer of some kind, because it will require scanning software installed behind it, not just a driver. At this point you should be good to print, scan, or copy (which does not require a computer anyway) just fine, with out the software on your computer. If you still have any questions or issues, please refer to the forum created on my message board about this located here.

Thanks,
Shane Rice

Is there anything more BORING?

You make an appointment with your doctor for a specified time and date, they tell you that their open and say e will see you the. Whe you arrive you first asked to sign in, as if you were just a walkin. Once you sign in and let them know you are there for your appointment, they direct you to a waiting room. Now, you have showed up a little early, so you expected to wait a little for the appointment, but after 20 minutes past the time of the appointment pass, you start to think they forgot. Then you aare caled, “harp sing the angels, they didnt forget. But to your biggest illusion, you are only led to a SECOND waiting room! And finally, after asing you to cough a few times and taing your temp, they want money! I hate the doctors office!!!

Thanks,
Shane Rice

eBay Sues Craigslist!

“In a very random move eBay has filed a lawsuit against Craigslist to ‘protect its investment and shareholders’. “In a statement, eBay claimed that in January, Craigslist executives took actions that ‘unfairly diluted eBay’s economic interest by more than 10%’.” eBay is a minority shareholder of Craigslist owning 28.4%. Craigslist suspects eBay’s intentions are less than honorable, speculating about a possible hostile takeover. The court case is sealed and eBay has not elaborated on its claims.”

John Mayer feat. Herbie Hancock - ‘Stitched Up’ I have never heard this song, from one of my fav. artist, John Mayer, and in this song, he is singing a song, accompanied with music by Herbie Hancock. You know the vocals are talented, and the jazz beat and piano in the background just rock the house. This is in my top 10 of John Mayer favorites now.

Thanks,
Shane Rice

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Last.FM - Online Radio - Similar to Pandora

I have just gotten to this website myself, but so far it appears to be similar to Pandora except in the fact that after you pick an artist, you can choose the song; however, the downfall appears to be the quantity of music is much more limited. But check it out for your self…