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The Microsoft Office Word Team has a blog post on How to Make the Formatting in Your Document Consistent [via Lifehacker]. If you have every worked on a Word document with multiple authors, you know how completely messed up the formatting is when you get the document back. It lacks consistency. The Microsoft Office Word [...]

Do you have an old email address that just isn’t cutting it anymore? Tired of having some juvenile email address like snazzydude@example.com or hotrod75@example.com? Or do you just want to ditch your AOL address? If so, then WIRED has an article for you. It is called Ditch Your Old Email Address, and it shows you [...]

The Brute Force Calculator [via gHacks] analyzes your password and tells you how long a brute force attack on it will take. You don’t need to actually give your password out; you just enter how many upper case letters, lower case letters, numbers, and special characters it has. While the results can’t necessarily be taken [...]

One Minute Languages teach you languages one minute at a time. They have courses available for Catalan, Danish, French, German, Irish, Japanese, Luxembourgish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, and Russian. You can listen to the lessons directly in your browser, you can download them as mp3 files, or you can subscribe to them via iTunes. Each [...]

Browsershots is a free online service that tests websites for browser compatibility. It is very simple to use. You enter your website URL, select the browsers you want to test it on, and Browsershots presents you with screenshots of your website on each of the browsers. Browsershots supports lots of browsers in multiple versions on [...]

Pipl is a search engine for finding people. Enter a name, and Pipl searches the deep web for it. Pipl is a free service. There are other options for finding people online: 123people presents its results in a nice organized way. WhitePages will tell you where someone lives. Spock allows you to claim your own [...]

There are a number of tools available for mounting a CD or DVD image (like an ISO file) as a disk under windows. This is useful for accessing CD / DVD images for example on a laptop without an optical drive, or for accessing multiple disks at once without having to swap CDs or DVDs [...]

Slashdot asked their readers to write about useful tricks for Unix, Vim, and Emacs. It makes for some interesting reading. (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? (Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks? Update on 11/10/2008: Slashdot posted another one: (Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks?

TrueCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. It provides transparent on-the-fly encryption. You can create and mount encrypted drives — either as separate files or entire partitions. TrueCrypt uses AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish encryption. TrueCrypt has the ability to create encrypted volumes inside one another. Since a [...]

Amazon has a new shopping website called Amazon Windowshop. You browse through photos of products in various categories: Music, books, audiobooks, movies, TV shows, and video games. You browse using the arrow keys on your keyboard. Press the space bar to select an item. If you select a book, you will hear a review of [...]