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©1998, Lockergnome LC. All Rights Reserved. Subscription inquiries are answered below. Content written by Chris Pirillo. Website hosted by DigitalDaze. A well-adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

 

 

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01.01.1999 - GnomeREPORT

Computer curiosity killed the mouse, but it won't kill you. So, for those wondering how the heck Lockergnome started, I've written a small "story" for you to read. There's no violence or sex and all shared information should be technology- or Lockergnome-related. It isn't very short (like me) but it's relatively complete. A few details were left out, but not too many. If you could care less about myself or Lockergnome, or if you think I talk about myself too much... well, nobody's forcing you to read ANYTHING. Here's a teaser:

"I started using computers when I was an embryo. In fact, I was downloading Placenta 3.2 a few hours before my birth. On July 26th, 1973, Christopher Joseph Pirillo version 1.0 was born-and I've been in beta stages since then. I suppose every kid in my generation played Oregon Trail on the Apple IIe at least four times at his or her grade school. I was no exception. I know for a fact that I played it at least five times, for sure. Then my grandpa got a Commodore Vic20 that he had hooked up to an old black & white television set. No disk drive-just a tape recorder. I played around with it and memorized a few BASIC programs. Nothing special. I felt smart for a fifth grader, though."

And that's just the beginning... click here for the rest of the Lockergnome Story. WARNING: this may take a while for you to read. Happy New Year!!!

-- Chris Pirillo        


GnomePROGRAM

MouseImp v0.5 [313k] W9x/NT FREE

http://www.tv4studios.com/downloads/mouseimp.exe
http://www.tv4studios.com/eng/holidays/

I'm still getting used to Manny's mouse controls. Sure, I could use a PS/2 mouse when I've got room, but I need to master this laptop's "default" method. Using a scroll bar is the biggest trick (I often over- and undershoot it). Then I tried MouseImp. It's perfect for those of us who are having difficulties manipulating the mouse cursor; you can "scroll" ANYWHERE in a window by clicking, holding, and dragging. MouseImp will also "shrink Windows" temporarily out of your way. This puppy should work with any mouse on any system. No cats allowed.


GnomeSYSTEM

Matrox MGA G200 v4.51 [1.5M] W9x

ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/mgag200/win95/1677_451.exe
http://www.matrox.com/mga/drivers/latest_drivers/ftp_mgag200.htm

"This product includes a display driver and the Matrox PowerDesk for Windows 95/98 for the G200 AGP only (including G200 PCI). DX6 support. Optimizations for Winbench 99. Fixes bugs for several games (e.g. Flight Simulator 98, Half Life, SiN, Grim Fandango). Fixes bugs for G200 PCI." Now, if only we could get some decent OpenGL support here...


GnomeCANDY

Xara 3D v3.0 [895k] W9x/NT US$40

http://www.xara.com/software/xara3d3n.exe
http://www.xara.com/xara3d/

Some of you have seen the new graphical header on Lockergnome's site (thanks to Joe Burke for prodding me to put something up there). I couldn't have done it without Xara3D. If you're considering doing anything three-dimensionalish with text, you can't be without this new version (now you can do shadows and different animations). Within a matter of seconds, you can have a "text graphic" customized, saved (GIF, BMP, JPG, etc.), and ready to be posted to your website. It's one of those killer apps, gang.


GnomeFAVORITE

Installing Windows 98 Lite

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~ssbrooks/98lite/

So many of you have told me about this site, so I figured I'd let the rest of you know about it, too. It's a very interesting concept: installing Windows 98 without Internet Explorer 4. At this time, the author doesn't have a program to remove IE4 from an already-installed Windows 98, but if you want a fresh (truly clean) start of things, you should see the Lite! I'd only suggest doing this if you're an advanced user. It isn't perfect in every way, but "98Lite" could easily make your Windows 98 system even faster.


GnomeDESKTOP

THEMES: Beanie Babies

http://varos.simplenet.com/themes/index.shtml

Now that the big wave of Beanie Babies fever has died down, it's safe to let you know about this page of beaniebabish Desktop Themes. I thought I would have been able to get through life without ever owning one, but Gretchen gave one to me for a Christmas present (since we can't have real dogs in our apartment). His name is Tracker and he's a Basset Hound. I would have preferred a West Highland White or Scottish Terrier, but this'll have to do for now. At least I don't have to housebreak him.


GnomeTIP

Lockergnomie Thomas Hecker submitted a killer Windows 98 Easter Egg (which I have yet to see mentioned elsewhere). View "hidden" JPG images that are within a DLL file. To see them, click the Start button, then Run, then type: "res://membg.dll/bld27.jpg" (without the quotes). Substitute "bld27.jpg" with any other JPG file in this list: http://www.lockergnome.com/images/membg.jpg -- be sure to check out "backgnd.gif" while you're at it. have fun, gang!