Here is a stunning trip through the International Space Station in High Definition. It’s pretty long, and the HD takes a little while to load, but it’s well worth the wait. If you have slower internet, you may want to watch it at your local library:
Archive for August, 2009
High Definition Tour of the International Space Station
Saturday, August 29th, 2009KMPlayer Offers a Practical, Down-to-Earth Perspective on Media
Thursday, August 27th, 2009If you’re like most PC users, you probably hate quicktime movies, and hate the quicktime program even more. Quicktime takes a long time to load, and it has almost none of the features the widely used Windows Media Player has. The only hitch with Windows Media Player has is it’s feud with any and all file formats associated with Apple such as .MOV. Fortunately, a method to skirt this unfortunate blockage of multimedia called quicktime has surfaced - it’s name is the KM Player. It plays Apple’s Quicktime videos faster and smoother than Apple’s Quicktime player can, it has a simple, no-frills interface and it takes up only a modest amount of hard drive space, and plays virtually any audio or video files including the elusive .flv flash videos. The KM Player even has transparency and playlist features and can float on top of other windows. The best part about the KM Player is that it’s, like all other PC-Mole recommendations to date, totally free. Works with XP or Vista. Try out the KM Player at the links below:
Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/The-KMPlayer/3000-13632_4-10659939.html
PC-Mole Download: http://www.pcmole.com/uploads/The_KMPlayer_1434.exe
New eBay Policy
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009It has come to our attention, and has been confirmed, that eBay has a new policy whereby they may add your photos to a ‘catalog’ for other users to use in their listings (but will attribute the photos to you with a link to your user page).
PC-Mole thinks this policy will ultimately hurt eBay, depending on which photos they choose to share. If they take ‘home taken’ photos, then people may assume that the photos are of the actual item they are bidding on, and be dissapointed when the item arrives. However, if eBay is judicious in which photos they decide to open up to other eBay-ers, the policy will actually make eBay easier to use, providing photos for those who either don’t have a camera, or are just too lazy to upload their own photos.
eBay mentioned this policy change briefly in an email on July 27th. The new policy officially goes into effect on August 31st. The small notice is a little unfortunate, but PC-Mole still thinks eBay is cool, “We forgive you eBay!”. If you aren’t a professional photographer who sells his/her photos, you don’t need to be concerned. You’ll even get a little free advertising! However, if you want to keep your photos to yourself, here’s how to opt-out of the new program:
1. Log into your eBay account and go to ‘My eBay‘ via the ‘My eBay’ tab in the upper-right corner of the page.
2. Move your mouse cursor over to the account button, but don’t click it. A menu of options appears.
3. Click the ‘Site Preferences’ option.
Move your mouse cursor over the 'Account' button, then click 'Site Preferences'
4. You’ll see a list of settings. Find the one that says ‘Share your photos’ and click the corresponding ‘Show’ button on the right side of the page.
5. You should now see the text ‘Consider photos I upload in the listing process for inclusion in the eBay product catalog and other product offerings. 
Yes’ in the ‘Share your photos’ box.
6. If there is a ‘No’ where the ‘Yes’ should be in the
text, then you’re good to go, and eBay won’t share your photos with others; if not, proceed to step 7
7. Click the ‘Edit’ button directly under the ‘Show’ button you clicked earlier (it should be on the right side of the page).
8. Check the little box with your mouse, and then click ‘Submit’.
You’re done!
An Accurate Weather Source Available 24-7
Thursday, August 6th, 2009If you’re tired of listening to an outdated weather source forecasting rainy and 60 while you’re looking out the window at sunny and 80, it may be time to check out weather.gov, the National Weather Service’s weather forecast
Enter your city/state or zip code to get detailed weather information for your area
site. Weather.gov has a history of being more accurate than most forecasts, and provides more details than broadcasted weather such as TV and radio updates. You can find the current, and forecasted temperature, precipitation type, chance percentage, humidity, barometric pressure, and more at weather.gov. Just enter your zip code or city and state and you’ll get results tailored to your specific location, as well as local weather alerts and warnings.
Weather.gov's weather forcast shows thumbnails representing an overview of the next few days so you can tell at a glance.
