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Technibble has put together a computer repair utility kit consisting of some 57 tools that you can run from your portable drive like a USB flash drive. The tools are organized in groups like file management, information, repair tools, recovery, network tools, virus and malware removal tools, and more. See Technibble’s computer repair utility kit [...]

If you, like me, have Windows XP machines on your network, you may have run into trouble sharing files on them. XP has an Internet Connection Firewall that could be blocking file sharing. Annoyances.org has a two year old article explaining how to set up your Windows XP firewall. A few simple steps were all [...]

Amazon has introduced version 2 of their popular wireless reading device Kindle. They release it on February 24, 2009, and you can pre-order it now. I have never been a fan of ebooks, but Amazon’s Kindle has made me change my mind. I have played round with version 1, and it looks like version 2 [...]

Whspr lets you receive email from anyone without revealing your email address. Whspr sets up a contact web page for you. It is valid for up to a year, and you can delete it at any time. Simply give out the URL for the contact page instead of your email. This can be very useful [...]

Mashable has collected a list of the 15 best Super Bowl commercials of all times. It includes the 1984 commercial that launched the Apple Macintosh, and the never-aired 2005 “GoDaddy Girl” commercial.

The Ninth Annual Weblog Awards is underway. You have until tomorrow to vote for your favorite blogs in some 30 categories ranging from best Asian blog, over best food and best entertainment blogs, to best technology blog and blog of the year. So, go vote for your favorite blogs. Or just visit the site to [...]

Ever since Google announced that they will stop development of Google Notebook, I have been searching for an alternative. I have settled on UberNote. It offers an easy way to import notes from Google Notebook and it has a Firefox add-on for easy use. The layout of UberNote is very similar to Google Notebook, so [...]

Remember the good old days of computer games where we had Pac Man and Space Invaders? Call me old fashioned, but I find there is something nice about a simple game that doesn’t require the latest graphic card or fastest processor. Albino Blacksheep has a list of games like that. They are written in Flash, [...]

KidRex is a kid safe search engine based on Google’s Custom Search and using Google’s SafeSearch technology. It works just like the regular Google search engine, but it filters out results that are not appropriate for kids, and it has a child-friendly interface. KidRex [via Lifehacker]

The Get Rich Slowly blog has an article about five credit card company tricks and how to thwart them. For example: Promise #3: “0% APR on balance transfers for 12 months!” The Trap: Two-fold. First off, it’s almost impossible these days to transfer a credit card balance without paying 3% of the balance upfront. Transfer [...]