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ooVo is a free video chat application for Windows and Mac. It allows you to have online video meetings with up to five people — unlike Skype, where you are limited to two participants in video meetings.
The Windows version of ooVoo has some nice features. My favorite is that it allows you to have a [...]

Despite Windows having had long file names since Windows 95, there are still some programs that insist on using the old 8.3 names. The most annoying thing is that there is no way in Windows to get the 8.3 name of a file — at least I haven’t found it. This is where the GSPN [...]

It is often necessary to log on to a remote computer. On Linux/Unix systems, this has been the norm for a long time, but with the advent of always-on home internet connections and internet connections available everywhere, it has become more common to connect remotely to PCs. For example, you may be at away from [...]

The gHacks blog has an article on getting longer battery life in Vista. They describe how the Vista Battery Saver program can reduce your power consumption by disabling power-hungry components.
Vista Battery Saver is a free download. It requires a notebook computer running Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium or better.

Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to hand out a business card, but you found that you didn’t have one on you? Dropcard may just be what you have been looking for. Sign up for their service and add your contact information. Instead of handing out your card, just send a [...]

CoachThee has a list of 18 lessons on leadership by former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. The lessons are very interesting and are worth reading if you are in any type of leadership position. The lessons range from the almost rebellious:
“You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.”
to the more [...]

The Ultimate Small Business Owner’s Resource Guide is a PDF ebook by Sarah Leah Gootnick. It has the subtitle Over 150 Businesses that Will Save You Time and Money!, and it is does just that. It lists lots of tips for everything from calling 411 for free, over time tracking and to-do lists, to accessing [...]

Website Nodevice.com solves the problem of missing device drivers on Windows. They have a huge collection of drivers (30,000), manuals (20,000), and DLL files (19,000). You can search by category or by company. They have everything from drivers for your printer to repair manuals for your Nikon camera lenses.
Visit Nodevice.com [via gHacks].

A few days ago, Slashdot had a post asking for the best reference site for each programming language. There were two very interesting sites that showed up: QuickRef.org and gotAPI. Both of them offer documentation for many language. QuickRef.org covers C, C++, CSS, HTML, HTML DOM, Java, JavaScript, MySQL, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby. GotAPI [...]

A number of universities are opening up their courses and lectures to the public via the internet. Stanford’s School of Engineering has their Stanford Engineering Everywhere program, MIT has their OpenCourseWare program, and so on. The Open Culture website has a list of free online courses. The classes range from Introduction to Archaeology to Quantum [...]