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Month: December, 2008

Pastebin: Share Source Code Snippets Online

30 December, 2008 (21:06) | Communication, Web

Pastebin is an online collaborative debugging tool. It lets you store snippets of code for a day, a month, or forever. The snippets are syntax color coded. Each snippet is given a short URL so you can easily share it via IM, email, or post online. Someone may post a modification to your code snippet. [...]

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QuickPar: Burn More Reliable Discs

30 December, 2008 (08:40) | Windows

Lifehacker has a story about how to use QuickPar to burn more reliable discs. Often you don’t use all the space on discs you burn. Use QuickPar to fill this leftover space with parity data. If some of the files on the disc get corrupted (which often happens as the discs get older), chances are [...]

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Let Dilbert Save Your Career

28 December, 2008 (08:46) | Career

If you read the Dilbert cartoons on a regular basis, you know that the creator Scott Adams has an uncanny ability to capture life the way it is in many companies across America and probably across the world.
As Dilbert turns 20, CNN Money has an interview with Scott Adams. Here Scott Adams explains about “boss [...]

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Online Tech Help

26 December, 2008 (22:45) | Technology

New York Times has an interesting article about where to go for tech help online. The article mentions a lot of good websites. Personally, I normally rely on Google to find solutions for me, but targeted websites like FixYa and TechIMO can be very useful. We have earlier covered Nodevice.com, which lets you search for [...]

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Wired’s Top 10 Technology Breakthroughs of 2008

26 December, 2008 (08:35) | Technology

Seems like everyone is doing top 10 lists here at the end of 2008. Wired has a list of the 10 Top Technology Breakthroughs of 2008. The breakthroughs range from GPS to edible computer chips.
See Wired’s list of Top Technology Breakthroughs of 2008 here.

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Ten Top-10 Lists for 2008

22 December, 2008 (21:37) | Web

The Read Write Web blog has posted ten top-10 lists of products for 2008. Individually they are all very interesting reads. Combined, they summarize the current state of the digital world.

Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2008
Top 10 International Products of 2008
Top 10 Consumer Web Apps of 2008
Top 10 RSS and Syndication Products of 2008
Top [...]

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Combyo — Deals and Bargains Aggregator

21 December, 2008 (17:23) | Shopping

Combyo is a deals and bargains aggregator. They collect deals from many sites across the internet, and present them in one place. You can view the latest deals, deals by category, deals by store, deals by other deal sites, or you can search for deals on an item. Once you find an item, you can [...]

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PawTodo — Manage Your To-do List Directly on The Desktop

15 December, 2008 (21:41) | PawEng Software, Windows

PawTodo is a simple to-do list program for Windows. It displays your to-do list directly on your desktop — right where you can’t miss it.
The to-do list is actually an RTF file, so you can use various fonts and colors to format your list. To make the to-do list easy to read on a busy [...]

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Backup Your Gmail Email

11 December, 2008 (21:29) | Linux, Windows

So you use Gmail as your main email account? But what happens if you get locked out of Gmail? What if you can’t access your email? That is a pretty serious situation in today’s world where more and more things happen online. This is where Gmail Backup comes in. It is a tool for backing [...]

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Cooliris — A Different Way of Browsing

10 December, 2008 (20:03) | Firefox, Mac, Web, Windows

Cooliris is a new and different way of browsing photos on the web. Instead of seeing the usual lattice of thumbnail photos, Cooliris gives you a 3D wall of photos that you move along to see more and more photos. You can zoom in on a photo to see a full screen version of it.
Search [...]

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