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LimeWire not connecting? the QUICK FIX

Johnny — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:25:48 +0000

While enjoying Thanksgiving with family and friends this weekend, I was asked how to fix LimeWire? It would run but it kept saying it was “not connected”.

Well, a quick Internet search all turned up with suggestions on uninstalling and reinstalling LimeWire. This is great if you have the installer to the version that was installed on the machine readily available. In my friend’s case, that was not the case. Besides, he didn’t want to redo all of his settings (tweaks) which has been working great for years.

While tinkering around on his laptop, I started to think it would be a quick fix if I could make LimeWire re-download the list of current peers. Hopefully do this without losing all of the other LimeWire settings.

So here is the QUICK FIX, all WITHOUT losing the other LimeWire settings:
Exit out of LimeWire completely and make sure it is NOT running.
In Windows (I am sure there is a comparable equivalent on the Mac and Linux),
open the folder %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\LimeWire
(on some older profiles, it maybe in %USERPROFILE%\.limewire).
Delete the file gnutella.net.
Restart LimeWire and it should download a new peers list.
The file gnutella.net is automatically recreated when you exit LimeWire.

NOTE: this worked for my friend’s LimeWire Pro v4.12.3; so it may or may not work with other versions. If it works or does not work for you please leave me a comment with your LimeWire version, so the info can help others.

I hope this little bit of information helps you.

Google Wave Preview

Johnny — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:52:47 +0000

I just came across this from Google. The Google Wave is awesome! At lease from their YouTube video from their developers conference.

Watch this 80 minute video. It is worth every minute of it. It blows your mind as to what Google is doing. Top it off, they are going to make this thing open-source and make it available for free for everyone to use. For more information on the Google Wave API, goto http://code.google.com/apis/wave/.

The self-created text UI (user interface) that they showed during the last 10 minutes of the video is awesome! I just love the efficientcy of text UIs, it gets the job done (of course not for photos or other visually/graphically required stuff).

Personally, I would love to be able to develop this new Google wave platform. Cannot wait until it is opened to everyone.

Real-time message conversations, better than threaded. Not just e-mail like or IM-like, but it is like a textual and visual conference via your browser and the Internet. It shares photos in real-time. It links (actually integrates) to social networking sites. It can do so much integration it makes wave the new Office suite. Microsoft look out!

Their translation robot is great, especially for multilingual companies. The spell checking extension robot is so good that I think that it would make people even worse spellers. Now this is really something that would tap the power of high-speed broadband and fast processing computers to good uses.

IE8 Standalone Installer

Johnny — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:51:34 +0000

Why does Microsoft make it so difficult to find the links to download Internet Explorer 8 as a standalone installer? It use to be at the bottom of the stub-installer download page. Well after some digging, I found them and here are direct links to the standalone off-line installers of the release version of Internet Explorer 8.

Download links below are for the United States English version of Internet Explorer 8. Click on a link below to download for the operating system of your choice:

If you want to download a localized versions of IE8 (other languages, etc), you can download them from here.

I needed these standalone installers for a client who wanted to upgrade all their workstations to Internet Explorer 8. Personally, I still prefer to use Mozilla Firefox.