In a nutshell, it’s Morgan Freeman guiding you questions such as “Is There a Creator?”, “Is Time Travel Possible?” and “Are We Alone?” while giving you scientific theories to how/why certain phenomena is possible.

While you can only buy season 1 on DVD via amazon right now (UK), season 2 can be purchased online and is also awesome.

I highly recommend you give it a try

Firstly, set up a playlist in Spotify which will help you relax. Once you have done this step, open up command line (cmd.exe) and type the following:

shutdown -s -f -t 900

Code Breakdown

The above command will shutdown your PC in 900 seconds. Let me quickly break down how this command works:

• shutdown indicates you want to run shutdown.exe
• -s is a flag saying you want to shutdown your PC
• -f is a flag stating you want to force shutdown, so your PC will not hang around waiting for applications to close while shutting down
• -t is a flag which indicates you want a timed shutdown
• 900 means the amount of seconds until the shutdown occurs. In this case 900 seconds, or 15 minutes.

Once this is command has been run you should see an information bubble (Like below) stating when the shutdown will occur.

How to abort

You may also want to abort your shutdown, in that case just put the following code into your command line:

shutdown -a

The -a flag stands for “Abort a system shutdown”.

• Learn Ruby on Rails. I’ve wanted to learn RoR for a while now, but I’ve had the need. However, RoR is gaining a lot of popularity among clients. Another need reason to learn it is nanoc, a really neat web publishing system which is much suitable for small business websites.
• Contribute more to GitHub and Google Code projects. I’m sure working on small projects semi regularly will benefit my coding skills and help with some cool stuff.
• Blog more. I’m hoping for about a post a week, maybe not entirely about programming but still geeky.
• Get an Android App into the market. I’ve been playing around with android for a while; it would be nice to make something which I feel is market worthy.
• Exercise more, without joining a gym.
• Use Linux more. I love Linux, but due to MS Word, Photoshop and games not running well under Wine I keep ending up back on Windows. I might also try and get a Mac at some point, but that’s more of a “Could have” then a “Must have”.
• Stop using YouTube & other websites which annoy me. A handful of websites are making small changes which are bugging me, in 2011 I’m going to stop using websites which appear to be trolling me.
• Design More. I suck at designing, and a little practise would go a long way.

Big thanks to Ben Nunney for showing it to me.

Here is a neat little screen shot of people complaining their account has been suspended:

I think the screen shot speaks for itself (Click the picture to see a larger version).

Left to Right: Red Bull (473ml), Alibi Pretox (330ml) and Red Bull (250ml)

How big do you think Red Bull can make their cans until they just don’t look the same as the 250ml can?

Click the image to see a larger picture. I’m quite sure that 50% of a pie graph does not equal 90%

1. CCleaner

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. In a nutshell this deletes all the temporary files and rubbish that build up over time. It also is able to easily clear up the Windows Registry (Which after a few uninstalls or installs is worth a look).

CCleaner’s Homepage

2. Firefox, Opera or Chrome

Forget Internet Explorer, make your computer more unique (and possibly more secure) and take on a different browser. There are loads to close from, but personally I like Mozilla Firefox the most, as its open source nature means that it can be adapted and (if a bug appears) fixed very quickly.

Firefox – Opera – Chrome

3. Tweak UI (A Microsoft Powertoy)

Ever wanted to fix those little annoyances in Windows? Well Microsoft has a neat little application which lets you modify some of the hidden settings in windows.

Microsoft Powers Toys

4. Recuva

Ever lost a file and need to recover it? Or just make sure something has been securely deleted? This application does both.

Recuva’s Homepage

5. Smart Defrag

One of the best Disk Defragmenter and Drive Optimization tools out there. I tested this program on a 700GB SATA hard drive (40% full) and within 20 minutes it had lowered fragmentation to 0.00% and reorganized my hard drive for faster loading time…Fantastic.

Download Smart Defrag

6. Foxit Reader

I have nothing against Adobes PDF reader, except it’s sluggish and unnecessarily large. This free alternative is only a few MB and does basically the same thing. For just reading PDF’s it’s fantastic. I suggest you give it a try.

Download Foxit Reader at FileHippo

7. K-Lite Codec Pack

Save yourself hours of looking for various codec’s and players to play audio and video. This essentially is all the codec’s you need.

Download K-Lite Codec Pack at FileHippo

Click here to play Video