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WhoCrashed Tells You What Just Crashed Your PC

Posted on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 by author-unknown

WhoCrashed is a freeware program that tells you what Windows component just crashed your computer.

This should help in diagnosing exactly what driver/program/plugin caused the ever so wonderful blue screen of death. Works with Windows 2000 and up.
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Command line tricks for smart geeks

Posted on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 by Beanbag

This article collects together a number of useful linux command-line tricks from Linux Format. Everyone knows the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything is “42″, but for the first time we can reveal the question. It … Continue reading →

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Middle-Click to Open Firefox Links in a New Foreground Tab

Posted on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 by Beanbag

Here is a variation of a useful shortcut you might not be aware of. Just include the Shift key when you want to open a link in a new tab in the foreground rather than in the background. It also … Continue reading →

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Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python

Posted on Monday, July 30, 2007 by Beanbag

A great tutorial on how to code the Python way. In the tutorial I presented at PyCon 2006 (called Text & Data Processing), I was surprised at the reaction to some techniques I used that I had thought were common … Continue reading →

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Firefox Inside Firefox

Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 by Beanbag

Run another instance of Firefox inside a tab with this trick. … With all these favorites inside Firefox, How about Opening Firefox inside Firefox? Not bad huh? and its really easy too just type in this url in a new … Continue reading →

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13 things to do immediately after installing Ubuntu

Posted on Sunday, February 25, 2007 by Beanbag

Some useful tips for making your Ubuntu experience even better. In this article i describe some of the things to do immediately after installing ubuntu on your machine . Since most of the people reading this would be shifting from … Continue reading →

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Firefox Tip: Shift-Delete mistyped autocomplete suggestions

Posted on Friday, February 23, 2007 by Beanbag

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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Windows Tip: Control groups of windows on the task bar

Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 by Beanbag

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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