Although dating should be about having fun and meeting new people, it’s also about finding out if this person is potential mate material. I mean you want to know if the person sitting across from you has had serious run-ins with the law or has picked their nose since age seven. Thanks to this new iPhone and Android app, you might not be able to check about the nose picking habit, but you can get the deets on just about everything else.

Created by information commerce company, Intelius, Date Check does what the company does best, dig up dirt.Date Check is an app that lets users pull up all those juicy secrets that you want to know, but might be too shy to ask on the first or second date. With a flick of the wrist you can find out if a person has a criminal history via the sleeze detector. You can also see if they own real estate, or if they’re living with someone — state a spouse they might have forgotten to mention.

The app is currently available for free on the Android Marketplace and the Apple App Store.

Via Gadgetwise

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I went to check and see what’s happening in Facebook just a few minutes ago and was welcomed with a “new, simplified home page” presented to me in my browser. Basics are still the same, but lots of stuff has moved around.

As you can see from the screen shot above; new notifications, requests and messages are now all grouped together by the apps that generated them.

Messages, your applications and a list of your on the web and available friends have shifted from the bottom-right-hand portion of the screen over to the far left in a sidebar type of layout design. The expanding chat that we’ve been used to remains available on the bottom-right-hand side still.

Account settings, privacy and preferences options have remained largely the same in the top right-hand corner underneath the existing search box functionality.

It appears there’s significantly more space in the main center column for updates, wall posts, the ever popular quizzes and the real guts of the Facebook experience. Makes sense to provide more room for this area.

Recommendations, ads, events and similar items are still remaining on the right-hand sidebar area.

You can jump into a tour of the new site layout for Facebook by taking this tour.

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Facebook Releases New Simplified Redesign

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I went to check and see what’s happening in Facebook just a few minutes ago and was welcomed with a “new, simplified home page” presented to me in my browser. Basics are still the same, but lots of stuff has moved around.

As you can see from the screen shot above; new notifications, requests and messages are now all grouped together by the apps that generated them.

Messages, your applications and a list of your on the web and available friends have shifted from the bottom-right-hand portion of the screen over to the far left in a sidebar type of layout design. The expanding chat that we’ve been used to remains available on the bottom-right-hand side still.

Account settings, privacy and preferences options have remained largely the same in the top right-hand corner underneath the existing search box functionality.

It appears there’s significantly more space in the main center column for updates, wall posts, the ever popular quizzes and the real guts of the Facebook experience. Makes sense to provide more room for this area.

Suggestions, ads, events and similar items are still remaining on the right-hand sidebar area.

You can jump into a tour of the new site layout for Facebook by taking this tour.

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Facebook Releases New Simplified Redesign

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Each now and then you encounter a website that changes how you think about the entire web. Everything you’ve seen and experienced up to that point has now been thrown out the window. Such is the case with Yvette’s Bridal Formal wedding site.

Yep! It’s horrendous.

You don’t even get the full experience of the site from the screen shot. You’ve got to visit it for yourself to see it in all its glory.

Go visit Yvette’s Bridal Formal wedding site and you’ll soon be appreciating just about any other website you’ve visited before and just weren’t pleased with the overall design or navigation system. You’ll be happy now.

Now go and uncover some more great stuff on the internet.

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I encountered an issue this day with a personal that I hadn’t been familiar with up until this point. I know a common complaint from Microsoft users is that the PC’s hard drive seems to mysteriously fill up with files.

My boss’s personal seems to sucking all of space and time into a folder named “WinSxS”. Currently the folder is at 20GB of space I think. That’s nearly half the entire size of the hard drive.

After doing a swift search on the internet about what might be causing this WinSxS issue, it seems to be a fairly common problem. The kicker is that there doesn’t seem to be any real solution to the problem. What I’m not sure about is if it really started with Vista or not.

My boss is running Windows Vista Business, the internet search results state people are experiencing it with their Windows 7 machines too. I’m running Windows XP Professional still, and my folder is less than 1GB in size.

Do you keep running out of hard drive space? Go take a look at this folder and see what size it’s consuming on your drive. Let me know what you find and what steps you’ve tried to take to resolve the issue if anything.

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Is Half Your Hard Drive Taken by WINSXS

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I came across an issue today with a computer that I hadn’t been familiar with up until this point. I know a common complaint from Microsoft users is that the PC’s hard drive seems to mysteriously fill up with files.

My boss’s computer seems to sucking all of space and time into a folder named “WinSxS”. Currently the folder is at 20GB of space I think. That’s nearly half the entire size of the hard drive.

After doing a quick search on the web about what might be causing this WinSxS issue, it seems to be a fairly common problem. The kicker is that there doesn’t seem to be any real solution to the problem. What I’m not sure about is if it really started with Vista or not.

My boss is running Windows Vista Business, the web search results say people are experiencing it with their Windows 7 machines too. I’m running Windows XP Professional still, and my folder is less than 1GB in size.

Do you keep running out of hard drive space? Go take a look at this folder and see what size it’s consuming on your drive. Let me know what you find and what steps you’ve tried to take to resolve the issue if anything.

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Is Half Your Hard Drive Taken by WINSXS

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Hey! If you haven’t figured out yet, that economy out there’s a bit of a challenge. You might have been pounding the streets lately looking for that new job or any job, who cares if it’s new right?

With all that hard work searching for a new place to do some hard work, you may have experienced something that has just got to be shared with others. Could have been that crazy job interview you had, or that “what just happened!” moment where you wish you would have scheduled your root canal for today instead of that job interview.

Now Golden Grahams cereal is giving you the opportunity to share your ridiculous job search story to see if you could be the winner of a Golden Grant contest. If your story is chosen as the winner, it may get animated for others to like and you could score yourself 12 free boxes of delicious Golden Grahams cereal.

All you need to do is share you funny job search story is submit your most remarkable job experience in 120 characters or less via www.goldengrant.com (as well as share on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube) and if it’s funny enough, they might just get animated! They’ll also be entered to win boxes of Golden Grahams cereal to stress the importance of eating before meeting – so next time, they’re “not that guy.”

To get a little inspiration, check out these two stories:

Lying Goldminer

Dino Dreams

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I’m still surprised at the number of people I meet that rely on the Twitter website to serve as their main source of updating and keeping track of their Twitter updates. I’ve been a happy user of Twhirl for quite awhile now.

I decided it was time to try another desktop application out to see if anything had drastically improved since the last time I used something other than Twhirl. It appears that nothing much has changed with Seesmic for Windows.

I still think the use of screen space isn’t very efficient. In the image above I have it maximized and can only fit three panels on my screen. With my current arrangement of Twhirl windows, I can get five panels onscreen at once.

I also don’t like that each item I click on to access (like Private messages, different accounts, or replies) opens yet another panel. I then have to scroll left and right to change what I’m looking at on screen. I’ve never been a fan of scrolling left/right for much of anything.

The Searches functionality is okay, simple enough to use and you can set it up to save your searches. I just don’t like more and more panels opening, increasing the amount and distance I have to scroll left/right to get to anything.

Looks like I won’t be switching over to Seesmic for Windows anytime soon. Here’s the rub though, Seesmic purchased Twhirl awhile back. Let’s just hope they don’t get rid of Twhirl, hopefully they’ll get rid of Seesmic for Windows instead.

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Trying Out Seesmic for Windows Again

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Here I follow-up on my last post about what our lives would be like without Windows. Initial reactions would be a world full of rainbows and butterflies, but everything might not be as great as you would expect.

Significant changes in developer tools: Here’s an area where I think Microsoft does good work. The amount of resources I have available to me to both use and learn Microsoft applications and developer more solutions on the Windows platform. Similar to the changes with client applications, there would be changes to developer expectations as well. This impact would probably be less those with the evolving standards of other development platforms and languages.

Hardware changes: This one I’m not so sure about. Although their is something to be stated for knowing that if you develop hardware to work with a Computer system, there’s at least a known economy of scale available. The article says there would need to be another major player that would arise to standardize hardware needs again. I’m not so sure that would be Apple by any means.

I’m sure there will be plenty of disagreement with this article because there were plenty of comments on the Computer World article as well. I’m very eager to hear what our readers have to state and look forward to bouncing ideas off each other in the comments.

Blast away!

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What If… the Windows Were Shut? Part 2

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I’ve been reading an interesting article on the Computer World website titled “What Would Life Be like Without Windows”. I’ll admit, I’m a fan of Microsoft. Don’t jump to conclusions though, I think there are plenty of areas for them to work harder and deliver a superior product to their users.

Of course there’s the initial knee-jerk reaction that life would be fantastic without this giant monolithic software elephant in the room. After all, everything they make is crap and they strong-arm competition and their business partners to do what they want. Right?

It’s not that easy, the article discusses these potential impacts to the industry around us and our each day lives changing because of that change to the industry.

Unexpected results with client applications: Except for the fairly current changes in the Office user interface, most Windows applications share a familiar if not very similar interface with other Windows applications. With the failure of Microsoft, people would need to begin learning a much wider variety of user-interfaces.

Stay tuned and read my follow-up to this post with some more impacts of a world without Windows.

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What If… the Windows Were Closed?

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