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We are in the process of moving, and renting out our existing house. We have been measuring rooms, windows, trim, etc, and I wanted to do up some basic drawings. I searched online, and there are all sorts of options. I haven’t decided on the best one (this isn’t a review), but I figured I’d …
I’m sure you’ve seen some sites that use Adobe Flash, and it just seems like a waste of time. Of course there are sites that use Flash in interesting and innovative ways. I had someone forward me a link last week that is one of those. If you visit http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf (skip the ad), you’ll see …
Have you ever wondered what colours would go best with a picture you have? Sometimes our brain can trick us into thinking that we see more green in a picture than is really there. It’d be great if there was a way to have a machine do that. What, there is! If you visit http://www.colorhunter.com/ …
I haven’t managed to go paperless yet, but I do try to keep as little paper around as I can. I scan a lot of things to PDF and save them in Google Documents. Whenever I do that, I like to have the text in the documents searchable. If all I do is scan a …
I recently learned how to jailbreak an iPhone 3G and unlock it. At around the same time, I’ve had a few people offer me their old cell phones. I have a nice new Blackberry, but my wife has an old flip phone, and texting is very painful. Several of these phones are slide phones, and …
I saw this a couple of weeks ago. It is from Jim McBee’s Mostly Exchange Web Log. He lists 20 observations that indicate his frustration with work: There are rarely good technological solutions for bad behavior. (this one comes from Ed Crowley) Any meeting that gets off track more than twice will not achieve its …
If you work at a company with a more than a few computers, you are probably familiar with Terminal Services or Remote Desktop Connections. This is a way to connect to computers (workstations/desktops/servers) from another computer and control them as if you are in front of them. With Windows XP, Vista, and 7, the consumer …
Do you have still like to use different hard drives on your system to keep your data separate? If so, then perhaps Profile Relocator by Joseph Cox will be useful for you. Profile Relocator is a step-based application that allows the re-locating of the Windows Users profile directory. Once re-located, any created profiles will appear …
NetWrix is a company that makes utilities for comporate network management. Most of the utilities have to do with Active Directory. You may not have to worry about this if you just look after your computer at home, but if you do look after some computers on a network, then there might be some here …
Ghacks has recently posted some links to official winter and Christmas themes for Windows 7. Very nice. Check it out at http://www.ghacks.net/2011/11/20/winter-christmas-themes-for-windows/