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Fortunately, the young woman in the video manages to restore her iPod to its previous working state (or so it would seem) without incident.
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Intel will be the first to market with processors based on a 45-nanometer process, dramatically boosting performance and/or lowering power requirements for the new devices compared with the current 65nm parts.
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just use https://mail.google.com/ as the URL, and you’ll have a secure connection.
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Newly-hatched webapp Footnote offers an impressive database of original historical documents for searching, viewing, annotating and discussing.
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Google Docs is now incorporated into Gmail as an option for opening Microsoft Word documents.
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I’ve always wanted an preference pane that would show and hide the dock based on which app is in the foreground. This simple plist hack does the same thing on a per-app basis.
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Move over, Partition Magic. Windows Vista has built-in hard drive partition management with the ability to shrink, create and format new partitions without the dreaded fdisk, third-party software, or even rebooting your PC.
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If you share a computer with family members or roommates, or if you simply browse for different reasons – like work, blogging, school research, or play – you may want to use different Firefox settings each time you sit down to surf. Luckily, the Firefox p
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links for 2007-01-29
Posted by cascadehush on January 29, 2007
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links for 2007-01-26
Posted by cascadehush on January 26, 2007
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Feed Rinse is an easy to use tool that lets you automatically filter out syndicated content that you aren’t interested in.
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‘m going to show how easy it is with an Apple iBook G4. I’ve also replaced the screens on Panasonic, Gateway and other laptops just as easily.
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links for 2007-01-25
Posted by cascadehush on January 25, 2007
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here are 10 deployment differences between Windows® XP and Windows Vista™ that you’ll be glad you discovered when it’s time to make the move.
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Performancing started some great services and tools, and I participated and used many of them, and its sad to see Performancing tools go this way…
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Microsoft Photo Info enables easy editing of “metadata” for digital photographs from inside Windows Explorer
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I just can’t help but wonder… what do you all use to read blogs every day?
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Almost every day I find a completely new way to use RSS feeds that I hadn’t seen before. So, with that here are 35 ways you can use RSS feeds today. in most cases, they go beyond news and blogs.
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links for 2007-01-24
Posted by cascadehush on January 24, 2007
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Other guides on this site for toshiba laptops
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Fun stuff to do with Flickr Images. Shame about the appallingly distracting ad which makes the site unusable without adblocking software.
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Once installed, it’s a snap to filter elements at their source-address.
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This is a companion extension to Adblock or Adblock Plus and should be used in conjunction with it. This extension automatically downloads the latest version of Filterset.G every 4-7 days. Filterset.G is an excellent set of filters maintained by G for Adb
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“My Toshiba laptop suddenly shuts down by itself without any warning. Sometimes it works fine for hours, sometimes it shuts down in 10-15 minutes.” This complaint we hear from our customers over and over again. About 15-20% of all Toshiba laptops we g
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Not sure how good the forums are…
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Repair Centres for Toshiba Notebooks in Australia
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Mac OS X only: Freeware app InstantShot is a menubar app that takes screenshots of your Mac desktop, windows, or selection, and saves them in one of three formats.
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The holes in your desk meant to embrace order and cleanliness are far too often left underused. Belkin aims to put an end to that with their 4-port USB 2.0 Grommet Hub, which assuming it isn’t placed inconveniently behind your monitor would make plugging
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Attack Of The Tech-Savvy Toddlers – News by InformationWeek
Posted by cascadehush on January 24, 2007
Attack Of The Tech-Savvy Toddlers – News by InformationWeek:
The NPD Group announced results from a survey of American parents with children ages 2 to 14 in its report, Kids & Digital Content. The report said children are becoming more tech-savvy, with children as young as 2 years old downloading content to cell phones, computers, and portable digital music players.
Did you notice who was surveyed? The Kids? No, the parents.
I never cease to be amazed just how often technologically illiterate parents overestimate their children’s tech-savvyness. Usually it doesn’t take much for a child to be a step ahead of their parents. When they are, the parents often assume the child knows much more about the device than they actually do.
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Compare Linux distros side by side – Lifehacker
Posted by cascadehush on January 23, 2007
Compare Linux distros side by side – Lifehacker:
Pro-Linux site polishlinux.org has a new tool that lets you compare Linux distributions side by side.
Too little, too late for me. In the past I have spent many hours searching the web in search of distros, and many more hours struggling with various flavors of Linux.
In the end I run XP on my PC boxes, because for me the windows license is a reasonable price to pay for a system that I can setup quickly with known results. I know XP will work with my hardware. I know it will not crash. I know my software will work, and almost all the best open source software has Windows binaries available.
For those occasions when I get a hankering for something like Unix, I have OSX.
You can access the site directly: polishlinux.org » Compare distros
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links for 2007-01-23
Posted by cascadehush on January 23, 2007
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Vista Tips
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How Microsoft’s long-awaited operating system disappointed a stubborn fan.
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DSLR Review
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Windows only: Recover deleted files with Recuva, a new utility from the developers who brought you the venerable system-scouring tool CCleaner.
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Vista: Lifehacker Vista tips
Posted by cascadehush on January 23, 2007
Windows Vista Tip: Save your searches in virtual folders – Lifehacker
Ever wish you could save the results of a desktop search so you didn’t have to repeat the search in the future? Windows Vista lets you do exactly that with a new feature called Virtual Folders.
Windows Vista Tip: Built-in Quick Launch keyboard shortcuts – Lifehacker
Windows Vista automatically assigns keyboard shortcuts to programs and documents on your Quick Launch bar. Just use the Windows key + the number of the program in the order it appears there.
Much as I dislike it, Vista isn’t all bad.
Of course OSX has had ‘Smart Folders’ for awhile now, and QuickSilver beats just about any other way of launching applications.
Still, these are two handy hits. And if you are going to use vista, you need all the help you can get.
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Vista: Please don’t buy it online
Posted by cascadehush on January 22, 2007
Microsoft to offer Windows Vista online – Yahoo! News:
The download program, being announced late Wednesday by the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker, will also include the Office 2007 line of software when both are released for consumers Jan. 30. At least initially, the huge downloads will be available in North America only.
Not just Vista but Office available for download.
Actually this is not as surprising as it seems. For the last 5 years or so, Microsoft has been moving the emphasis away from Boxes and Disks and towards Keys and Activation as the primary factor in software license ownership. Microsoft have a tried and tested anti-piracy system which involves tying software to hardware to prevent a single copy of their software being installed on multiple machines.
Of course this will be a nightmare for local PC Technicians, who have a hard enough time keeping track of who has a legitimate license for what. At the moment we can trust that a PC with an OEM windows license sticker probably has a legitimate license, but how are we to be sure when someone simply tells us that they bought their copy online.
Add to that the tech support nightmare of failed or partial downloads and lost keys.
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links for 2007-01-22
Posted by cascadehush on January 22, 2007
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neat little trick for tiling a pair of windows in Windows.
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How to trigger a backup when you plug in a removable drive.
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Surprise, surprise. Steve Ballmer isn’t exactly a huge fan of Apple’s forthcoming iPhone.
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