I know I don’t usually make two posts in a row with video content, but I couldn’t help myself. I present some very disturbing clips I had lieing around on a DVD; from a collection of commercials to motorshow footage and rare footage of the Torana GTR-X Concept car in testing and development. First up is the hilarious commercials compilation, with more on ‘continue reading’.

I was actually surprised to find out that build 6801 of Windows 7 has the so called “Super Bar” hidden within. The first time the public got a glimse of the new toolbar was at PDC, in a later build than the one they gave out. To access it we need to trick the OS into thinking we’re authorized Microsoft employees with permission to access the hidden stuff, and this is done via a patch which I’ll mirror here for x86 and x64 but do check out the author Rafael’s site for the latest version first.

A lot has been said about the superbar so I won’t bother writing anything new except to say it’s damned awesome, especially how it shows the recently opened files in an application from the taskbar or windows menu, and logical grouping which makes sense.

… but only if you don’t like insects. The Conservation Report has put together a list of insects which have incredible camoflage. I don’t know what’s going on with their references to evolution natural selection, regardless of their well accepted beliefs the article’s about insects you might easily miss. Here’s just a taste (the dead leaf butterfly):

Looks like an insect hiding under a dead leaf? THERE IS NO LEAF! You may want to reconsider ever going near a tree. Click here for more.

I don’t know if these are real or not, but mirrored in the gallery under “Continue Reading” at the bottom of this post are some concept artwork from the upcoming Terminator sequal, Salvation. Just from those I’m getting excited looking forward to seeing this movie. Pictured below is the T600, probably the beta version of the T800 played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

You can read the original article here for more information about the images. The images came from a rather unusual place. They appear on the website http://t1000salvation.com/ in full resolution in a subfolder of a folder named sony, I did a bit of research to find the domain belongs to a Michel Valenzuela (whoever that is), but the artwork is truly stunning, especially the motorcycle designed by Victor James Martinez,

The original version of Windows 7 that I reviewed was build 6780 32 bit, but today I finally got my hands on the 64 bit version of the same build. All instabilities with bluescreens have gone which must mean they were caused by 32 bit drivers. With a stable Windows 7 running I was disappointed to only have 30 days to try it properly. It was around then I recalled that I helped Microsoft beta test Windows Vista before it came out (hey I even reported a few bugs which were ironed out, though probably not because of my efforts). I remembered that I hit refresh when it displayed my key that time causing the website to spit out a second key (a well known flaw in their website), so I thought what the hell I’ll try out that second key I got from Vista with 7.

Oh my god it actually worked. I now have a fully activated and updated copy of Windows 7 x64 legally, with no stupid 30 day time limit and no need to use the classic re-arm trick. If you helped out test Windows Vista and have a key give it a go, it could just work!

On my journeys through the internet (yes I said journeys) I found this hilarious conversation, clicky the image to see it (the original site went down )

Sorry, the thumbnail does give it away a bit. I could just imagine what the people they