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Game du Jour: Week of 2008-05-05
May 5th, 2008 |Build-a-lot 2: Town of the Year already available at a discount! The following games will be discounted this week on Game du Jour, the ‘one-deal-a-day’ website dedicated to indie and casual games: Mon. May 5th: 60% off on The Butler Did It! Tue. May 6th: 40% off on Build-a-lot 2: Town of the Year Wed. May 7th: 60% […]
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Control Feature Creep
September 17th, 2007 |Every new release of an application adds more features, but not always for the better. Get ten tips for getting feature frenzy under control. In writing an article about social network sites, I looked at over two dozen sites like MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Sermo, TravBuddy, MyCreativeCommunity. Wikipedia provides a list of many social networking […]
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Office 2007 Spelling Updates
October 17th, 2006 |The Microsoft Office Team reports that Microsoft has added 58,000 words to the US English dictionary including the following: Possessives, i.e. the possessive form of words that already were in the lexicon The most frequent male, female and last names from the 2000 Census data and other sources. Examples: Brianne, Britta, Carissa, Carolyn, Carmela Company names, such as […]
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Managing Email Spam with POPFile
April 11th, 2006 |When I had to re-install everything on my computer, I opted not to install a few programs including the one I used to manage spam. It wasn’t bad, but I felt it wasn’t as effective as it could be. I rarely hear about a 100 percent effective spam solution, but I had enough of the […]
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Shopping Price Comparison Sites and Discount Stores
December 18th, 2005 |With all the price comparison sites available, I’m posting them all in one post because it’s just tough to keep up and remember them all. The first three places I go whenever I shop are Froogle, Pricegrabber, and ISBN.nu. I don’t just buy from the place offernig the best price. It also depends on the business’ […]
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The First Mile
August 17th, 2005 |Zork. Remember it? I think I hear a mixture of, “What the hey?” and “Oh, yeah! Wow, that brings back memories.” For the former group, Zork was a text-based adventure game from INFOCOM — one of the the first interactive computer games. It resembles the Choose Your Own Adventure books only instead of flipping pages, […]
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WordToys
September 13th, 2004 |The name is exactly what WordToys is, toys for MS Word. As soon as I start playing with it, I am hooked. The program puts colorful and high quality icons around Word for easy identification and accessing. It also enhances some of the existing Word features and you know which ones because the icons have […]
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PowerPro
August 29th, 2004 |PowerPro v3.8 http://powerpro.webeddie.com/ Win 95/98/NT/2000/XP Free [Command launcher] Run commands, programs, and system configuration all from a button bar. This is a tough program to describe because it can be customized many ways to suit your needs. Karen Carter, who recommended this program, finds this program is indispensable. She says, “It will replace many separate utilities, and can be […]
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Older Is Better
May 7th, 2004 |Paul upgraded WinAmp once and went back to its older version because it was better. Sometimes the sequel is not better and we revert to the older version, but it is not always possible. OldVersion.com is a site for searching for … yeah, I think you know.
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SlovoEd
October 23rd, 2002 |Getting ready to travel to another country? Already carrying a handheld device? Don’t buy a book, download SloveEd for your multilingual translation needs and just add the languages to the PDA. Choices include the following languages converted to another: Croatian, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian. Using the […]
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