Windows 7 is amazing but clicking the Downloads folder and then waiting and waiting while the green progress bar slowly progresses drives me crazy.  Luckily there is an easy fix to speed it up.

Locate your Downloads folder: it’s at c:\users\your-user-name\Downloads.  Right click on it and select Properties, then click the Customize tab.  Under “Optimize this folder for:” drop down the menu and select “Documents”.  Click OK and you’re done.  Accessing the Downloads folder is now speedy and without delay.
If you’d like to move your Downloads folder click on the Location …

Hurray!  Google has finally enables multiple sign in for the majority of its services.  It’s slowly being rolled out to all users but it was there for my three accounts as of today.  It’s very easy to enable: log into your account settings page and in the top middle column titled Personal Settings look for Multiple sign-in and click edit.  Here you’re greeted with this page where you have to enable and agree to the settings.

This has to be done for every account you want to switch to, but it’s …

One look and you know what I’m talking about: two patties, smoked pork loin, aged cheddar, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle, mayonnaise.  A culmination of all my burger wants barely fitting between two toasted buns.

My wife and daughter have been carefully tending out first vegetable garden and we have a small harvest: zucchinis.  I wasn’t sure what to do with them but spotted a post about zucchini fritters on Michael Ruhlman’s website.  It was a solid recipe but I didn’t have most of the ingredients so I made a lot of substitutions.

One large zucchini or two medium, shredded
one medium onion or shallot, minced
two tablespoons of fresh herbs, minced
two eggs, beaten
three to five tablespoons of flour
1/4 cup shredded cheese
one clove of garlic, minced
salt and pepper …

Here’s a golden utility for the ages: SafeMSI is a user contributed single file to Windows IT Pro that does one thing and one thing only.
When you’re in Safe Mode you can’t install or more importantly uninstall an application because the Windows Installer Service isn’t running.  With SafeMSI.exe you enter Safe Mode on Windows NT, 2000, 2003, Vista, 2008 or Windows 7 and run the program.  You get this notification:

You then uninstall whatever ails you and reboot your system.  Wonderful!