Simple. Create shortcuts to your favorite programs and place them in C:/Windows. Now press Windows + R, type in the name of your shortcut and the program is opened! I put a shortcut to 'Run' on my desktop, all I need. To make things simpler - rename your shortcuts and make them as short as possible. A few examples of how I use the shortcuts, 'in' launches Internet explorer, 'f' launched Firefox, 'd' launches Dreamweaver.

If you have a very cluttered desktop this is a great solution.

Also, why the hell does my glasses post from Nov 9 display before the father's day one from yesterday? O_o Fixed it anyhow, yeah...

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Wouldn't it be cool if you could easily build a search engine on your blog or website tailored to the topics and areas you know and love the most? You're not alone if you'd like that -- we've heard from partners large and small, and users across the web who want access to the Google search platform, and want to customize and make it their own.
 
We're thrilled to tell you that the search for your own search engine is over. Today we are launching the Google Custom Search Engine. As you might imagine, it's a simple and straightforward product to use and understand. In a matter of minutes you can create a search engine that reflects your knowledge and interests; looks and feels like your own; and, if you choose, you can make money from the traffic you receive through Google's AdSense program. You can even invite your friends and trusted community members to add to and help build your search engine.
 
Finding specific information has never been so easy, and there's no programming knowledge or cost involved. We worked with a few initial partners to demonstrate the power of the customization features. Check out the search engine RealClimate.org built to better connect their users to the environmental science information they are looking for. Intuit created a search engine for their JumpUp.com site, finding that it met the needs of their small business customers. But the Custom Search Engine is not just for businesses. Since Shashi is passionate about wine, he created a "wine search engine" and put it on his wine blog so his friends can search for wine-related topics from there.

You can build a Custom Search Engine on any topic you like. Give it a try.

Impossible, right? Unfortunately not. Gmail.com, gmail.google.com, mail.google.com - it just won't work. Not even IP works. I've tried assessing my mail from 6 computers this morning. At home and in school at 5 different computers. Elementary, Gmail is down. Not even an error message is shown, as it was last time. I will wait and update...

Btw, would be nice to know how Gmail works in other countries, people, comment.

UPD: GMail is back.

Oh yah, it's just that time of the year again. Happy Birthday email! :)

The site of Mishicorp, the people who sub(bed) xXxHolic is down. All the files on a.scarywater.com have been removed since it has been licensed - Same thing on animesuki.com. Animeyume.org is temporarily (503) unavailable... so the latest 2 episodes are nowhere to be found. :O

Also. My previous host for cyberd.org, cyberdoze.com and unlyrical.com (the host being cankoo.com) has disappeared. I'm in the process of moving over them sites to new servers, so they shall be up again within nightfall... or morning rise.

Google has created a search site without any Google branding to test new features. The site, SearchMash, has a simple blue and white interface with a search bar and an option to click on 'popular searches'. Once keywords are entered, the results page features links to results running down the left side of the page and the top three image results on the right side. Take a look at this great experiment.

UPD: Unlinked, site no longer active.