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The latest issue of Windows IT Pro magazine has an informative article about Windows Error Reporting. Have you ever noticed that when a program crashes on a recent Microsoft operating system, that a little window pops up asking if you want to send an error report? Well, that is the Windows Error Reporting. If you …
The Centre for Bug Smart Living™ is a helpful family resource for information on bugs, insect control products, bug sprays and repellents, health and safety, legislation and common bug problems. This is a web site by SC Johnson, so any products that are mentioned are theirs, but it still contains a lot of useful information. …
From eWeek: The number of Web sites distributing malicious software has quadrupled in the last year to more than 300,000, as the spyware problem continues to fester on the Internet, according to an upcoming report from Webroot , an antispyware software company. Webroot Software Inc.’s State of Spyware Report for the second quarter of 2005, …
One thing that has always been missing from Windows Explorer is the ability to see how large a folder is. How many files are in a folder and sub-folder would be nice, but seeing the total space taken would be best. Well, the Folder Size Explorer Extension tries to do the latter: Folder Size Explorer …
The standard Internet user will open up their browser, type in a domain name, and visit a site. Almost always this works perfectly, and they don’t realize the incredibly complex system that keeps this going. DNS (domain name system) is what matches up a domain name with an IP address. A problem with DNS can …
How do you get a music note on a web page? ♫ (this is text, not an image file) There are lots of ways to do it, but probably the easiest way is to copy it from another page, and paste it onto the Wide character to entity encoder page at http://minutillo.com/steve/convert/. It will then …
When you were a kid, did you play with magnetic letters of the alphabet on your fridge? Well, isnoop.net’s fridge 3.0 let’s you play with words on a fridge background. This is very cool. Without refreshing the page, you can drag the words around, create sentences, and leave a message for others. Try it at …
Feedster is a blog/feed search site, along with many other services. They have just started a Top 500 feeds list (neither Chris nor I are listed). Each month, Feedster brings you a list of 500 of the most interesting and important blogs. Enjoy browsing to see what people are reading, to find feeds that will …
This tool is meant to take any URL and make it right-clickable. It does not do any sort of encoding or parsing of the URL other than adding ‘http://’ where necessary. You might find this tool handy if you have a URL to a .ra file on your clipboard. Pasting it directly into your browser’s …
From MSNBC: A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far as to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line. “This is total, total chaos,” said Latoya Jones, …