Want free T-Mobile wifi service? Well, you’ll either have to run Microsoft IE 7 with Windows Vista or you can access it with a Agent changer hack for Mozilla Firefox. As part of the T-Mobile, Microsoft partnership, they are allowing Vista users to get 3 free months to T-Mobile Wifi service which expires in April, 30th 2007. If you go and purchase this wifi plan alone, it will cost you $39.99 a month. This is a real deal right here!

Here’s how to use the service without Microsoft or Vista:

1. Download Mozilla Firefox here.
2. Download the Agent Switcher plugin.
3. Add the following values:
   1. Description: Internet Explorer 7 (Windows Vista)
   2. User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
   3. App Name: Microsoft Internet Explorer
   4. App Version: 4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
   5. Platform: Win32
4. Signup for T-Mobile wifi here!

After you register, you will be able to surf the net at all nationwide T-Mobile wifi locations!

**UPDATE**

Mozilla Firefox hack does not work, an ActiveX required to install on IE 7. Sorry.

Thats right, no more Skype or iCall anymore, it can all be done without hassle over any browser with a plugin download with GizmoCall. It’s a flash based application that allows you to call any cell phone and landline in America. There is however a limit of 10 minutes per day, however I don’t know weather this restriction is lifted after you register or not but I did a test call to my cellphone and the voice qualityf is not bad. Check it out youself! It’s simple and easy to use, no applications needed, best for that quick 1 minute call.

There are several ways you can call, you can go to the website and type in the number directly or you can use their URL method. gizmocall.com/[your number here].

Check out GizmoCall here!

Are you all ready for Windows Vista? Today is the eve if the long awaited launch date. January 30th! Too bad for me, Stony Brook does not give Vista out for free until the summer says my friend “Pepi” but, i’ll wait and see. This is because of the Educational Licensing program, a partnership between institutions and Microsoft, where they cannot get it until a certain amount of time passes. I’m sure if you wait a couple of more days, the cracked version of Vista would be all over the place. Besides, my laptop I’m using at Stony Brook is not Vista Compatible so I’m not really looking forward to it. I have the Vista Transformation Pack 6 installed so it looks just like Vista.

Bill Gates has a live webcast going on now!

Bill Gates Celebrates Worldwide General Availability of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System

January 29, 2007
1:45 p.m. PST / 4:45 p.m. EST

From Times Square in New York City, join Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates for a live webcast celebrating the worldwide launch of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System. The celebration pays tribute to the millions of Microsoft customers, partners and product testers around the world who provided input and feedback on these products — helping Microsoft transform the way people communicate, create and share content, and access information and entertainment in the new digital age.

Watch the webcast here!

For those of you out there who can’t install Vista for whatever reason, you can install the Vista Transformation Pack. It patches all your system shell files and makes your current XP installation look like Vista. You can find it here! Office 2007 is out today as well!

LC2 Productions presents… Edison Thunder Body. LOL We were bored yesterday at my dorm. We decided to film a conversation between the Hatian and the Black but it turned into this real quick!

Tell me what you think. HAHA

I’ve gotten used to using linux until I was forced to switch back to Windows because of the school campus network validation processes. What If I wanted to use (CLI) command line interface like I did in linux? I really can’t with the MS-DOS tool. MS-DOS is old and is really crippled in Windows XP, one reason is because XP is really Windows NT.

Well I wanted to find a solution so I can use linux CLI commands on Windows, browse directories, etc. Microsoft was already on it, formally called Monad, it’s now called PowerShell. It looks just like MS-DOS but has the advance features of linux or unix based CLI shells. Vista is suppose to have it!

Interested? You can grab PowerShell here and the quick start guide here!

I’m about to introduce you a neat website I found from Digg. A website that has a the police records of all the incidents filed by Walmarts across the nation. Since I’ve been to Stony Brook, I’ve visited Walmart here at Center Reach quite frequently. Walmart, by statistics is 400% more dangerous than the compared giant Target.

Crimes such as purse snatching, car thefts, armed robberies, assaults to shootings has been on the rise at Walmart locations. So I might have to give up that $2 Capri-Sun drinks and Kellogg’s Rice Crispies all together. At the Walmart I go to, there’s been 449 reports filed costing $34,797 in tax payers cash!

Want to know how much money crimes at your local Walmart is costing tax payers? Find out here!

For those of you who thought the weather will never get cold a few weeks ago were dead wrong. Holy shit! I went out with a friend to pick up a pizza delivery yesterday, while walking pass the RA’s door, a note written on a dry-erase board said, “warning, windchill 0 degrees”, he wasn’t lying. It was brick outside!

This morning, waking up was a bitch, classes on a Friday morning in 10 degree weather and on top of that it was windy. The trip to the book store after class was a killer, my friend and I talked about how the school’s Roth pond was frozen with a 1 inch thick ice sheet. I’m about to take a walk on it!! Watch me fall in haha! This weekend SUCKS!

Cold Weather Music:

Stony Brook’s “ResNet“ or residential network is a hassle to setup at the beginning of the semester. There were a lot more problems this semester compared to my first semester here. During my first semester, setup was a little confusing, I had to scan my computer for an anti-virus program and it checked Windows Update to see if I had all of Microsoft’s patches, and that was it, it registered.

However, this semester, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer came out and ResNet made that a requirement in order to register your computer. Upgrading wasn’t a difficult process but it was very time consuming. I tried installing it for my friend and it took 3 tries to finally get it right. Another thing is the Anti-Virus program, I had to install their Symantec’s Anti-Virus client edition. My anti-virus program did not want to update in order to meet ResNet’s requirements, then my Windows Defender was outdated but ResNet did not let it update.

If you’re having problems updating, the best solution is to uninstall your anti-virus program, or Defender in my case and reinstall it with the updates.

Overall, I think it’s unnecessary to update such things as your browser, If someone were to use Unix on ResNet, they would have to get it manually registered through the DoIT. Basically, this is only a Windows/Mac campus, I switch from SuSE to Windows.

Today I got a chance to upgrade to the new WordPress 2.1. I had a little problem in the begining with the upgrade but soon fixed that. I also made a sucessful switch to the new hosting service too. Some of you may be still seeing the old site, but obviously if you are reading this, then you’re seeing the new one.

There are a lot of visual improvements in the backend admin panel for the WordPress so I’m working on brining the improvements that WordPress 2.1 provides to the frontend of my website this weekend but yeah, like I said, the backend has a lot more “awaiting” options. Most of the plugins are working.

The new host seems to be good, by reading the reviews, I shouldn’t have any problems. Well, thats it for now! I gotta go play with my friends Nintendo Wii.

Since I moved to the new host a couple of months ago, I’ve been getting problems where my users have told me that my site doesn’t display. At times, I couldn’t submit articles to Digg and stuff. I thought it was strange because I see it fine. I couldn’t access my own website at Stony Brook!, so I soon discovered that it was a nameserver problem where the secondary nameserver wasn’t resolving. I tried contacting my host, and they said my email was bouncing, that was another problem. So I’m switching to ResellerZoom. They have been around for a long time and I hope to get better hosting from them. I’ll update with a review about how I think their service rates compared to others I’ve used in the past.

The nameserver should change within 24 hours so expect some downtime between now and then.