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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 TrueCrypt [...]

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 [...]

Swoopo is an auction website. eBay, of course, is the giant in the auction arena, so it is nice to see start-ups like Swoopo take them on.
Swoopo has been operating in Europe for three years, and they are now also in the US. They provide fast-paced on-line auctions that “offer the winners incredible deals, and [...]

Block Posters turns your photos into huge block posters. You upload your photo, and you can then download images for each block of your poster. Each block is either in Letter (US) or A4 format. Print them and soon you have one huge poster.
There is a gallery of posters people have created using this [...]

MeetInBetweenUs is a web site for finding a place to meet that is equally convenient for everyone. Enter two or more addresses, and MeetInBetweenUs will suggest a place to meet. You can choose to meet at restaurants, coffee shops, golf courses, bars, hotels, libraries, malls, theaters, Apple stores, etc.
MeetInBetweenUs [via Lifehacker]
MeetInBetweenUs is similar to MeetWays [...]

Art Plus Digital Photo Recovery 3.0 [via gHacks blog post Photo Recovery Software] can recover images from a memory card. If you have ever accidentally deleted photos from a card or formatted the card, you know how valuable such a program is. Or it can help you out if your memory card is corrupt because [...]

Mobuzz TV is a vlog (video blog) that gives you the buzz five days a week. Each episode is about 5 minutes long and covers current topics of interest related to the internet, electronic gadgets, etc.
Mobuzz TV programs are available via the internet, or you can download them to your device of choice: computer, iPod, [...]

The Read Write Web blog has a story about how the English newspaper The Guardian has started to provide full stories in their RSS feeds. This is very good news. As the Read Write Web blog correctly writes, many of us use our RSS reader as a hub for our daily information consumption. I certainly [...]

DisplayFusion is a program for Windows 2000, XP, and Vista that makes it easy to manage wallpapers on multiple monitors. It works with dual monitors, triple monitors, or more. You have have one wallpaper span multiple monitors, or you can select different wallpapers for each monitor. It can pull photos from Flickr for use as [...]