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Create unique email addresses instantly with Gmail and the + sign

August 14, 2007 by

You’re signing up for an email newsletter online but you’re not sure you can trust the site not to sell your address to spammers. If you own your own domain name, you can set your mail server as a “catch [...]

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Image batch-processing with FastStone Photo Resizer

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August 14, 2007 by

“Resizing” is far less than what this little Windows utility really does. FastStone Photo Resizer can tackle almost any processing task you need to apply to a few or a lot of photos… simultaneously! Just give it a list of [...]

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Similpedia Finds Wikipedia Articles From Your Text

August 14, 2007 by

Similpedia is new website which searches Wikipedia to find related articles. You just need to enter enter either a URL or copy and paste a paragraph of text of at least 100 words and Similpedia will scurry off and find [...]

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Some tools your Windows shouldn’t be without…

August 13, 2007 by

If you are a Windows user and care about what happens on your machine and with your data, there are some programs you should have before connecting your machine to anything else than mains, screen, mouse and similar peripherals. I [...]

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Efficient list with CheckBoxes in ASP.NET

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August 13, 2007 by

Problem: In an ASP.NET 2.0 page we have a long list of items (in a GridView or Repeater) with some checkboxes beside each item. The hard part in doing this is keeping the ViewState from exploding. Let’s say I have [...]

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Install your Windows software automatically

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August 13, 2007 by

InstallPad automatically downloads (and silently installs if you want) a list of software which you can customize. Extremely useful for Windows re-installs (ok, not as advanced as unattended installs of the entire OS, but still sweet), saves you the “Next, [...]

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10 Windows programs I can’t live (err., work) without

August 13, 2007 by

Every PC user has a few programs they install first thing after an OS re-installation. I guess it’s part of the “P” in PC. Here’s my list of programs you might have heard about or not, most of them free: [...]

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Google Summer of Code Project Makes it into Adium 1.1

August 13, 2007 by

After a year of development and now with new tastier tabs (thanks to one of the student projects from the Google Summer of Code 2006) Adium 1.1 for OS X has been released.Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac [...]

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