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First of all I’m sorry for the lack of posts this week. But I’m very busy with creating a new design for another site of me and I also have to create everything behind the design.

Back to Stumbling Friday. Today my 5th stumble brought me to the ‘Crash Internet explorer’ site.
A little warning for those who are planning to open the link I provide to that site!!!
The page they’ve set up for this has an extra line of code added in it that makes sure your IE will crash (most versions of IE7 and lower), so open at your own risk.

They did this just to point out that there are other browsers than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
They mention FireFox, Opera and Safari as IE alternatives. In one of my previous posts I talked about the browser I’m using most of the times, Maxthon browser. It runs on the shell off IE, but it’s more stable and has a lot more features then IE. And to prove it’s more usefull than IE, it didn’t crash when I opened the Crash IE site.

Even a few weeks back I discovered a new very neat feature in Maxthon, split your screen. My daughter wanted to look at some cartoons straight from Youtube, and I started surfing in the tab next to it. Very handy. I don’t know if this is also possible in FF, Opera or Safari?

My previous Stumbling Friday got 3 comments and by now they’ve been stumbled by me.
A little note to KexBrown, I’m going to put in an extra line in my ‘Stumble Me, I stumble you’ post.
I also agree that Stumble’s aren’t a thing to waste on bad articles, so I’m going to adjust the post a bit. And I really appreciated the comment!!!

Today’s 5th stumble brought me to a post about a new concept for a tower to be built in Dubai.
It seems like lately every prestigious project is taking place in Dubai, but hey they got more than enough money.
The latest project they’re working on is a Rotating Tower that will be in constant motion. Forty-eight wind turbines fitted between each rotating floors as well as the solar panels positioned on the roof of the building will produce energy from wind and the sunlight, with no risk of pollution.

I think this project is just a showcase to get their architecture company in the picture so they can get their hands on another project. This one doesn’t seem to be realizable in my opinion.
But who am I?
A few months back Dubai got in the news for building the highest tower in the world, the Burj Dubai.
And they’re also planning on building a 1200 meters high skyscraper, where will it stop?

Do you think the idea of the rotating tower is realizable?
The first 20 commentators will get their blog or site stumbled by me.

I’m glad to see my previous stumbling Friday post got some comments and to thank them I stumbled their sites.

And for whomever is interested, the Stumble me I stumble you links are still available.

Once again I came by a very nice and good to know Stumble on my 5th Stumble in a row.
Lucky for me that I didn’t have to blog about my 4th stumble, a picture of a car with 1 horsepower. Actually a car without a motor and pulled by a horse .

K, back to today’s stumble.
Today’s stumble took me to Smashing Magazines website post “Powerful CSS Techniques for effective coding”.

For those who regularly develop websites and are in need for some new CSS techniques, you should definitely check it out!

In this post he presents 50 new techniques, ideas and ready-to-use solutions for effective coding.
In fact I’m redesigning one of my sites at the moment and after viewing this page, I’m thinking of using one of the techniques posted there.

Technique number 22, CSS Dock menu seems very nice, but it’s Apple style, that’s always nice

Now to the rewarding part of my previous stumbling Friday post. This was a really cool stumble I came across with. Because of the low number of comments, I’m going to stumble every commentator’s site or blog just to thank them for leaving a comment!
Hope you’ll receive a lot of traffic from my stumble!

For this post, I’m going to try something new to get more comments. Instead of picking a winner out of every 5 commentator’s, I’m going to stumble the first 20 commentator’s!

I also have something in mind for my commentator of the month, but that’s something you’ll have to read in one of my next posts. So if you want to know what, please subscribe to my RSS Feed, so you’ll get your updates automatically.

Stumbling Friday is an idea a came up with a few weeks back. I push the stumble button 5 times and whatever page I land on after the 5th push, I will create a post about it.
But to involve my readers I’m going to randomly pick 1 commentator out of every 5 comments. This commentator will get his site/blog stumbled by me and hopefully this will bring in some extra traffic to his/her site/blog. So far I stumbled every commentator who left a message on 1 of my Stumbling Friday posts. Last week I didn’t received a comment on my “Stumbling Friday – 10 Free tools every IT needs” post, but the offer still counts.

Today the fifth stumble was pretty nice, I stumbled upon the Phun download page.
Phun is a fun 2D physics playground. Just create some squares or rectangles and other things and then push the play button to let the physics do the work.
Phun is written by Emil Ernerfeldt and written and coded in C++ using OpenGL, GLEW, SDL (for window management), SDL_image (for reading images) and boost, including boost_filesystem.
Phun is meant to be a playground where people can be creative. It can also be used as an educational tool to learn about physics concepts such as restitution and friction.
You can download the beta version to test it out yourself and I must say it’s a lot of fun if you play around with it. Watch the video to see an example of what you can do with it.
Have fun playing with it, I know I will.

Remember if you leave a comment here, maybe your site/blog will get stumbled by me!

Today the 5th stumble I came across with was Mikel Alexander’s ComputerSight website and more particularly his 10 free tools every IT needs post.
With this list he’ll explains the tools he’s using every day so he can do his job on an easier way.
I’m glad I came by this stumble because I’m in the IT myself, so I can compare it with my knowledge and tools I use daily.

1. Logmein.
He’s right about this. If you’ll have to give some remote support and Microsoft’s RDP isn’t working, this is for sure one tool you can use to check the remote system.

2. PSTools from Microsoft.
With these tools you can info from remote systems via the command prompt. I’m not using these tools in particular. If I need some quick remote info I mostly use the ‘rexec’ command. This also allows you to execute commands on a remote machine and display the result on your command prompt. It’s a bit like the ‘net admin’ command like on IBM’s OS/2 environment, but the ‘net admin’ command is much much better.

3. Ultimate boot CD.
Again a tool you can’t live without if you’re working in the IT. A series of useful tools burned on 1 bootable CD so you can for example rescue your disk, recover deleted files, …
I’m using Hiren’s boot CD for this. It’s pretty similar, but I think it’s easier to use, but that’s my personal opinion.

4. Daemon tools.
For me personal this is the first tool I install after a fresh install of my OS. A few weeks back I Installed Vista Enterprise x64 and had some trouble installing the latest version of daemon tools. So a little tip for those who have the same trouble, don’t install the latest version of Daemon Tools on your Vista 64-bit, but install version V4.09HE. This version has an older STPD driver then the newest Daemon Tools and that’s the reason why it didn’t work on my 64 bit Vista. Oh, Daemon tools is a virtual CD/dvd rom player where you can mount images with. I can’t live without it!

5. Firefox.
I admit it’s a lot better than Internet Explorer, and although I also installed it, I use Maxthon browser for my daily surfing pleasure. I started using Maxthon somewhere in 2004. You can read all about this in my previous post: “Ever heard of Maxthon?”
Firefox I most of the times use for the great plugins it have for when your developing a new website. The Firebug and Web Development tool is a must install tool for FF.

6. AutoIt.
I never heard of this before, but I’m certainly going to take a closer look into it. On first sight it can come in handy for tasks that are always the same.

7. USB Apps.
This can be taken very broadly, but I think he most likely means the portable apps. They surely can come in handy for repairs.

8. TrueCrypt.
If you don’t want that other can read your files, this is the tool to use.

9. Synergy.
With this tool you can use the same mouse and keyboard on multiple pc’s with their own monitor. You just move your mouse pointer from 1 screen/pc to your other screen/pc.
Very handy.

10. CCleaner.
Cleans your temp files and your registry for not needed or used regkey’s.
I use regclean for this, but Regclean doesn’t clean temp files.

In the whole we both use the same or very similar tools, like I expect most of the system engineers will. If you got some other great freeware tools, that are worth a look, leave a comment and I’ll certainly look into it.

Remember from every 5 comments in my Stumbling Friday posts, I’ll choose one winner who’ll get his/her site stumbled by me.

On the last Stumbling Friday post, sadly there was only 1 commentator, but this made it very easy to pick a winner. Thx for the comment Sarah, hope you’ll receive some traffic from my stumble.