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Firefox Tip: Shift-Delete mistyped autocomplete suggestions
This is a handy tip from Lifehacker: You accidentally typed liefehacker.com into Firefox’s address bar, and now it suggests that whenever you enter “li.” Remove mistyped URLs from the fox’s suggestions by selecting the entry in the list and hitting … Continue reading
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Downloads: Sysinternals Suite (Windows)
You can now download all of the Sysinternals utilities as a single package. The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files. It does not … Continue reading
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Downloads: RocketDock (Windows)
This is a pretty slick Windows version of the Mac OS X application dock. Freeware. Link (via Lifehacker)
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I Was a Cybercrook for the FBI
Wired has published an intriguing series of articles on cybercrime. Definitely worth a read. With so many fake IDs in play it was unclear to police exactly who they had in custody. Then as they read Thomas his rights, he … Continue reading
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Downloads: DVD Flick (Windows)
This little open source application for Windows allows you to author a video DVD from nearly any video file. See the Lifehacker link below for a step-by-step guide on using the application. Supported file container formats are, amongst others, AVI, … Continue reading
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Downloads: PuTTY 0.59 (Windows, Unix)
Grab the latest version of the PuTTY SSH client and associated utilities. Link (via Digg)
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Downloads: Paint.NET v3.0 (Windows)
The latest update of this free paint program was just released yesterday. Check it out. Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, … Continue reading
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Pimp Your Router
I recently upgraded the firmware on my Linksys WRT54G router with the latest DD-WRT v23 SP2 firmware, and it works great. Among many other new features, I can now assign static DHCP leases, which I couldn’t do before with the … Continue reading
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Windows Tip: Control groups of windows on the task bar
Lifehacker has a useful tip for temporarily grouping several windows on the Windows task bar so that you can tile, minimize, close, etc., all of the selected windows as a group. Reader Andreas wrote to tell us about a neat … Continue reading
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Table of Linux Equivalents
This is a very comprehensive list of Linux equivalents for Windows software. One of the biggest difficulties in migrating from Windows to Linux is the lack of knowledge about comparable software. Newbies usually search for Linux analogs of Windows software, … Continue reading
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Downloads: PC Repair System (Windows)
Daily Cup of Tech has put together a small set of utilities that might be useful for repairing and maintaining PCs. You just throw them onto a 32MB or larger USB key and you can carry them with you wherever … Continue reading
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Firefox – A $50+ Million Cash Cow
A brief article on how profitable the open-source Firefox project has become. You see that little Google search box on the upper right? If you use that box to make a search and click on one of the Google ads … Continue reading
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Congressional aide busted for trying to hack his GPA
An aide for a Montana congressman was fired for trying to solicit hackers from attrition.org to boost his college GPA. The hackers merely led him on through a series of hilarious emails, including some asking him to take pictures of … Continue reading
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Blank DVD Media Quality Guide
This is a useful guide to check before purchasing cheap DVD media. Not all media is good. In fact, with the high influx of cheap media from Taiwan, China and Hong Kong, I’d venture to say most media is bad. … Continue reading
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Google Backdoor
Here’s a hack that may allow you to access sites that let Google in to index them but require regular users to register. Ever experienced this? You ask Google to look something up; the engine returns with a number of … Continue reading
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Microsoft Office 2007 Compatibility Pack
If you are stuck in a position where you need to open one of the new Word, Excel or Powerpoint 2007 document formats, but have an older version of Office, grab this compatibility update from Microsoft. Of course, you should … Continue reading
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PortableApps Suite 1.0
The PortableApps Suite has just reached 1.0. This is a useful collection of open source programs for Windows that you can run directly off of a USB flash drive. PortableApps Suiteâ„¢ is a collection of portable apps including a web … Continue reading
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