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I found this on Lifehacker: PortableApps Suite 1.0 stocks your USB drive, portable hard drive, or any other drive with a full complement of software, ready to run wherever you plug in. This new version of the suite (which we’ve loved on in the past) includes the latest portable versions of Firefox, GAIM, OpenOffice, and …
I read about this on the Office Tips and Hints Blog… SchoolHistory.co.uk – online history lessons, revision, games, worksheets, quizzes and links. In particular, as it mentions, the site has a games section with over 200 topics cover over 6,000 questions. Although the site is based in the UK, the questions would be appropriate for …
Regular reader Pat send in a link to a list from PC World magazine with links to 101 software/Internet freebies. There are links to freeware utilties, web-based email, fun web sites, and more. Check it out!
From TechRepublic: In addition to plenty of turkey, a record amount of spam will be served up this holiday season. Mass e-mailers traditionally bump up their activity as the year winds down. But this year, the amount of junk messages could be unprecedented, companies that make spam-busting tools say. And senders of unsolicited ads are …
From Fortune (via CNN/Money): Everything you buy online says a little bit about you. And if all those bits get put into one big trove of data about you and your tastes? Marketer’s heaven.
Last night I went to Best Buy and Future Shop to look for a combo DVD player / VCR. There were a bunch of people outside, but didn’t think anything of it. My sister works at Best Buy, and she was working and asked if I had seen the people waiting for the PlayStation 3. …
Last week I started my discussion on how to resize an image in Photoshop Elements 5. This week I will conclude that discussion. The difference between the Pixel Dimensions section and Document Size section of the Image Size dialog box is that changes in the Pixel Dimension section will add or remove pixels from your …
If you are looking for some ideas and samples of simple web sites, especially if you are just learning, then check out WebGFX.ch. They host hundreds of basic templates. You just browse the listings (with thumbnails) and when you find one you like, you click on it. A page loads showing that template. You then …
I read about this at SearchEngineWatch: The PCNames domain search engine does exactly what might be expected of it – it searches for domain names and returns results with details on their availability. It does this virtually instantaneously as well – when you being typing the engine offers details on .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz …
From TechRepublic: As Republican politicians return this week to Washington for the waning days of their rule of Capitol Hill, technology lobbyists are frantically pressing for last-minute legislation before Democrats take over next year. At issue are proposals including renewing a popular tax credit for research and development expenses and expanding the number of H1-B …