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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]