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Month: November, 2008

ZingSale: Find Out When Stuff You Want Goes On Sale

29 November, 2008 (18:01) | Shopping, Web

ZingSale tracks the prices of things you want to buy, and notifies you via email when they are on sale. By default you will be notified when the price drops 10%, but you can change that. You can also use ZingSale to track prices of items you just bought as many stores offer a 30 [...]

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Cheap Phone Calls with Reliance Global Call

28 November, 2008 (18:26) | Communication, Web

Reliance Global Call offers cheap phone calls to everywhere in the world. It works like the phone calling cards you can buy at many shops, except the rates are better and there is no physical card. You sign up on their website, and pay by credit card. To make a call, dial either a toll [...]

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Review of Nine Sub-$150 Cameras

27 November, 2008 (16:15) | Shopping

Just in time for the holiday season, Dpreview has posted a review of nine budget digital cameras. So if you are in the market for a digital camera that won’t break the bank, this review is worth reading. The cameras are:

Canon Powershot A470
Canon Powershot A590 IS
Fujifilm FinePix Z20fd
Kodak Easyshare C1013
Nikon Coolpix L18
Olympus FE-360
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ8
Samsung [...]

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Dial2Do

27 November, 2008 (08:28) | Web

Dial2Do lets you send email or text messages from your cell phone. You call the Dial2Do number, you say what you want done, and they do it for you.
To begin with Dial2Do lets you send email and text messages, but you can add more commands. For example, you can let Dial2Do read your emails for [...]

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Take Control of Your DNS Service Using OpenDNS

26 November, 2008 (17:30) | Web

OpenDNS is a free DNS service. DNS stands for Domain Name System, and it is the hierarchical naming scheme for computers, services, and resources on the internet. Normally, your Internet Service Provider will provide you with a DNS service. However, you can switch to OpenDNS. It is free, it is fast, and it has lots [...]

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Cheat Sheets

24 November, 2008 (20:38) | Linux, Shell

Scott Klarr has collected a huge number of cheat sheets for everything from programming to Photoshop. They are organized in groups, and some groups like the Linux / Unix group contain more than 70 cheat sheets. The groups include:

C, C++, C#
Gimp
Windows
Networking
Linux / Unix
Designer color charts
Vi & Vim
Emacs
Photoshop
Perl
Regular Expressions
MySQL
PHP
CSS
Javascript / Ajax
Html

The cheat sheets are available at [...]

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Plan Your Black Friday & Cyber Monday Shopping

22 November, 2008 (16:52) | Shopping

Black Friday, the Friday after Thanksgiving, is one of the biggest shopping days in America. Many stores open early; often as early as 5am, and with deals you won’t see the rest of the year. Now is the time to plan your Black Friday shopping:

BlackFriday.info
Black-Friday.net
BFads.net

If you would rather not get up early and spend the [...]

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Lorem Ipsum

18 November, 2008 (21:42) | Web

Lorem Ipsum is a dummy text used in place of real content. It has been used since the 1500s as a way of showing how print or layout will look without drawing attention to the text. The Lorem Ipsum text looks like real text, and it is, in fact, derived from Cicero’s De Finibus Bonorum [...]

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LIFE Photo Archive Hosted by Google

18 November, 2008 (21:05) | Web

Google is now hosting millions of historic LIFE photos from the 1750s all the way till today. It provides an interesting view of historic events. Using Google’s search functionality, you can browse the photos any which way you want. Browsing by year, for example, shows the zeitgeist of the time. It is easy to get [...]

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Permanently Delete All Data on Your Harddisk

17 November, 2008 (21:39) | Mac, Security, Windows

When you get rid of your computer, how do you get rid of the data on it? How do you make sure that nobody can recover your personal data from it. Formatting the harddisk is not enough. It is still possible to recover files from a formatted disk. The Read Write Web blog has a [...]

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