<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>technology : forum : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://technology.plime.com/f/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>6645</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/6645/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Can Bing beat Google?]]></title><description><![CDATA[ I think Bing (AKA Kumo) will beat Yahoo, but what about Google? Can Bing beat Google?  Bing differs from Google's search in that results are categorized. Like Google, Bing sells advertising space in the form of sponsored links displayed with each search. Post your opinion please....]]></description><comments>79</comments><score></score><crdate>5/27/2009 11:56:26 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-05-27T11:56:26+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>5574</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/5574/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Debate this: Talking on cellphones while driving]]></title><description><![CDATA[ Some parts of Canada have bans on drivers talking on cellphones while driving.  Some provinces want to have such laws.   http://www.pulseniagara.com/viewstory.php?storyid=4488     The main reason for bans on talking and driving is that talking on a phone (or txting) distracts drivers from safely operating their vehicle.   Should talking on cellphones while driving be made illegal?...]]></description><comments>41</comments><score></score><crdate>11/6/2008 12:47:08 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-06T12:47:08+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>1187</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/1187/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Show us your desktop!!]]></title><description><![CDATA[ YAY   post a picture of your desktop (prefferably without all the icons)  heres mine hopefully         http://img2.putfile.com/thumb/6/16418320534.jpg     forumimage('http://img2.putfile.com/thumb/6/16418320534.jpg','xhttpimg2putfilecomthumb616418320534jpg');...]]></description><comments>256</comments><score></score><crdate>6/14/2007 7:33:57 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-14T19:33:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>7280</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/7280/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The NEW &quot;I Need a Geek&quot; Thread]]></title><description><![CDATA[  The Original   Since Reboot hasn't been on Plime in almost 3 months....     &laquo;     ReBoot For those of us who envy the computer skills of our three-year-old children, I present the &quot;I Need A Geek&quot; thread. Post your browser issues, computer problems, and even Plime bugs here, all in one clutter-free location. ...]]></description><comments>161</comments><score></score><crdate>10/13/2009 10:52:55 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-13T10:52:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>5696</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/5696/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Grand Unified Gaming Thread]]></title><description><![CDATA[ It just occurred to me that although there is an  Xbox Thread , a  PS3 Thread  and even a lesser visited  Wii Thread  but not a plain and straight forward gaming thread.  Until now that is.  For the most part, there's little to tell Xbox, PC an PS3 games apart, so why be exclusive.  Given the nature of some fanbois though, I want to make it clear that there is no room at all for  &quot;the console that I bought that was manufactured by a multi-national corporation that I have no involvement or investment i...]]></description><comments>84</comments><score></score><crdate>11/23/2008 9:32:15 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-23T09:32:15+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>4088</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/4088/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Browser Talk]]></title><description><![CDATA[ I use Firefox almost exclusively and I've got some brilliant add-ons that help loads with posting on Plime ect.   I just wondered what browsers everyone else uses, why you use it and what you like/dislike about them.   This was kind of inspired by a week long off and on conversation with one of my friends who was convinced that it didn't matter what browser you used (he was using IE) until I convinced him to try Firefox and he loves it.  Seriously though, what browsers got a better logo than this ;)       ...]]></description><comments>230</comments><score></score><crdate>5/2/2008 3:36:27 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-02T03:36:27+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>7405</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/7405/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Facebook Games]]></title><description><![CDATA[ What do you play? Which games are your most and least favorite?...]]></description><comments>50</comments><score></score><crdate>11/5/2009 3:34:34 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-05T15:34:34+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>7601</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/7601/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Is there any CSS property to make font smooth in IE?]]></title><description><![CDATA[ hi...friendsIs there any CSS property to make font smooth in IE?...]]></description><comments>14</comments><score></score><crdate>12/14/2009 6:32:01 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-12-14T06:32:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>3836</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/3836/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The &quot;I Need A Geek&quot; Thread]]></title><description><![CDATA[For those of us who envy the computer skills of our three-year-old children, I present the &quot;I Need A Geek&quot; thread.  Post your browser issues, computer problems, and even Plime bugs here, all in one clutter-free location....]]></description><comments>1008</comments><score></score><crdate>4/4/2008 4:57:21 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-04T16:57:21+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>6770</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/6770/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Cell Phones]]></title><description><![CDATA[ I'm in the market for a new cell phone. I've had the Motorola Razr for almost 4 years now and it's held up very well...but it's on it's last legs.  As much as the idea of an iPhone interests me, the fact that I have to pay an additional $30 per month for data services means I'm not getting an iPhone.   I've looked at the  Motorola Tundra  and the  Samsung Rugby .  But I was wondering if any of you Plimates had a cell phone that you just absolutely love....]]></description><comments>43</comments><score></score><crdate>6/25/2009 11:08:21 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-06-25T11:08:21+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>7180</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/7180/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Card Scam - those sneaky people are at it again!]]></title><description><![CDATA[ Please read this below as it has been forwarded from the Lancashire Police (even though I don't live there, someone who does forwarded it to me)  This one is pretty slick since they provide YOU with all the information, except the one piece they want. Note, the callers do not ask for your card number; they already have it. This information is worth reading. By understanding how the VISA &amp; MasterCard Telephone Credit Card Scam works, you'll be better prepared to protect yourself. One of our employees wa...]]></description><comments>11</comments><score></score><crdate>9/29/2009 12:07:42 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-29T12:07:42+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>6329</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/6329/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Any Google Chrome users outside US of A?]]></title><description><![CDATA[ Are there any Google Chrome users on here that are not in the USA? If so, I need some help on something that's driving me nuts...   Read here for an explanation......]]></description><comments>14</comments><score></score><crdate>3/4/2009 4:51:34 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-03-04T16:51:34+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>7106</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/7106/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The year 2043!!]]></title><description><![CDATA[ I just realized I'll be 60 when the year 2043 rolls around. Flying cars and moon colonies etc abound how will I cope with such a high tech world at 60 years of age.  I guess I always expected that 20XX was going to be some really high tech stuff but now it seems so much closer, not so much far distant future. Makes me wonder if we'll really advance that much at all. Are the sci-fi movies of the past going to have to be updated to read 30XX instead?...]]></description><comments>8</comments><score></score><crdate>9/11/2009 12:46:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-11T12:46:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>7070</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/7070/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Fire breaks at out Google building in London ]]></title><description><![CDATA[ A fire broke out after a barbecue was held on the roof of Google's British headquarters in Victoria, south west London this week.  The british newspapers were full of jokes: 1. Employees searched for fire extinguishers... got 1.3 million results 2. Let's hope they had a good firewall...]]></description><comments>0</comments><score></score><crdate>9/3/2009 4:58:52 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-03T16:58:52+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>6201</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/6201/1/</url><title><![CDATA[HP Laptops, Caveat Emptor.]]></title><description><![CDATA[ Just got done with a customer service rep from HP.  NOT HAPPY.  It's said that when you're happy you tell one person, when you're unhappy you tell ten...  welcome to the TEN.  The story begins roughly a year and a half ago when my other half bought an HP laptop.  Six months later, it dies.  Screen goes black, can't do anything with it.. but hey, no problem.  In warranty, send it in, two weeks later.. good as new.  Six months after that it dies again.  Same issue.  Screen goes out, nothing we can do with th...]]></description><comments>40</comments><score></score><crdate>2/13/2009 4:32:46 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-02-13T16:32:46+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>5217</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/5217/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Microwave Cake]]></title><description><![CDATA[ The most dangerous choclate cake recipe in the world   MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG  CAKE 1 Coffee Mug 4 tablespoons flour(that's plain flour, not self-rising) 4  tablespoons sugar 2  tablespoons baking cocoa 1  egg 3  tablespoons milk 3  tablespoons oil 3  tablespoons chocolate chips  (optional) Small splash of vanilla    Add dry  ingredients to mug, and mix well ..  Add the egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in  the milk and oil and mix well. Add the chocolate chips (if using) and  vanilla, and mix again. Put your mug...]]></description><comments>55</comments><score></score><crdate>9/20/2008 6:12:53 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-20T18:12:53+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>6935</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/6935/1/</url><title><![CDATA[please help a trainee geek]]></title><description><![CDATA[ right people i have a prob and i need help :- i have a toshiba lappy  model : SATELLITE P300-20H os : vista home premium 32bit sp1 ram : 2gb hdd : 230gb processor : intel(r)pentium(r)dualcpu T3400 @2.16ghz  its proper chock full of virus's trojan malware spyware the lot and more !!! its winding me up !!! so what i need to know is can i just give up on vista do a clean install with xp home grab the drivers from toshiba website and away i go ??? do you think this will work ?...]]></description><comments>14</comments><score></score><crdate>8/6/2009 6:34:40 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-08-06T18:34:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>6903</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/6903/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Monitoring Tools (need input)]]></title><description><![CDATA[ Right now, I don't have any web monitoring software installed. My oldest child has yet to discover MySpace or Facebook...and doesn't use chat at all. The only site he goes to that worried me and that was Kongregate.com..as he plays games there and every page has an unmoderated chat window.  What I have done is block access to certain websites at the computer level by  altering the host file . I included the IP for the chat window at kongregate.com. Now, the games will come up, but the chat window will get ...]]></description><comments>13</comments><score></score><crdate>7/31/2009 1:11:39 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-07-31T13:11:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>6772</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/6772/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Adobe CS4 Design Premium]]></title><description><![CDATA[ I can get it for 307.00 through my school.. retail 1799.00.  My question is...  I have adobe CS2 suite for designers... is it worth the 307.00 for any new features I may not have?...]]></description><comments>10</comments><score></score><crdate>6/25/2009 8:58:06 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-06-25T20:58:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>2702</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/2702/1/</url><title><![CDATA[I need some games]]></title><description><![CDATA[ I have built a PC for my BIL out of old spare parts I had and I need some games for him. It's nowhere near top end. It does have a reasonably good processor, 2.4gHz but it has an old geforce 4 graphics card and only 512mb of ram.  I have given him my copies of Age of Empires 3 and UT2004 as well as Freelancer and Diablo 2 but he would like some more.  What would be the best games to run on a machine like that?  Let me know what you were playing 3 years ago if you can remember and I'll head over to Ebay for...]]></description><comments>15</comments><score></score><crdate>12/21/2007 4:50:54 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-21T16:50:54+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>6370</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/6370/1/</url><title><![CDATA[I gots me some Vista!]]></title><description><![CDATA[ I know vista has a bad rap, but I got a new... less crappy Vista.  My old PC was slow as hell, had like half a gig of memory and was completely inadequate for anything other than plime or photoshop. Well I came home yestorday to a brand new keyboard,mouse, and computer that has totally rocked my socks. Everything runs so smooth and quick, and for the first time I don't feel like throwing my shoe at my monitor! I forget how much more memory and such this one has, but it blows my old one out of the water!  W...]]></description><comments>19</comments><score></score><crdate>3/14/2009 4:27:47 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-03-14T16:27:47+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>4187</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/4187/1/</url><title><![CDATA[taking things apart]]></title><description><![CDATA[ So I've gotten into a taking things apart sort of mood today. I already explored the insides of a floppy disk and an old keyboard, and I'm contemplating cracking open an old boombox my dad broke a year or two ago.  Just wondering... is this safe? The main thing causing me to think this is the sticker right by all the screws warning me of the risk of electric shock if I open it.(This is the part where the few real-life friends I have hit me and go &quot;Stupid! Yeah!&quot; But the tech savvy friend who taug...]]></description><comments>24</comments><score></score><crdate>5/12/2008 7:45:53 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-12T19:45:53+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>2822</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/2822/1/</url><title><![CDATA[I've made a new discovery.]]></title><description><![CDATA[ I've found a new use for the deleted page, thanks to davbob!  He submitted a  site  that can make us royally screw the spammers of Plime! Simply submit their sites, and voila! Something better than downvoting them into oblivion.   Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaaaa!...]]></description><comments>6</comments><score></score><crdate>1/5/2008 2:02:50 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-05T02:02:50+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>4081</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/4081/1/</url><title><![CDATA[web wizards, help please]]></title><description><![CDATA[ I've got bunch of web pages under one domain and several subdirectories; eg. domain1.com/site1, domain1.com/site2 and so on. There's tons of website, directory and forum links to those pages.  I want to change some sites to work under other domains I own, eg. domain1.com/site1 (and all files under it) to redirect (301) to domain2.com/site1, domain1.com/site2 to domain2.com/site2, and domain1.com root directory to redirect to domain3.com. How can I do this with .htaccess?...]]></description><comments>10</comments><score></score><crdate>5/1/2008 2:17:35 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-01T02:17:35+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>1059</id><url>http://technology.plime.com/f/1059/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Writable CDs/DVDs]]></title><description><![CDATA[ Okay, this has had me wondering since these damn things came out.  Is there really a reason to go for more expensive DVD or CD brands? Other than the burning speeds and capacity, what's the difference between the millions of brands you have, and does it really matter. I mean the price differences are so massive as well... Maybe you plimates can find some good hard concrete evidence on the information source that is the web?...]]></description><comments>9</comments><score></score><crdate>5/20/2007 2:25:01 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-20T14:25:01+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>