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If you’re sick of Firefox 2 eating up over a gigabyte of memory only to freeze up and crash, it may be time to move onto Firefox 3. The new version of our favorite browser has seen its fifth and final beta release, and Mozilla says its for testing purpose
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So what is a person to do? This guide will show you how to rip the non-essentials out of the Windows XP installation CD, create a new CD with just the minimums, and allows for a fully patched Windows XP SP2 install with a final installation size of under
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Whatever your reasons for wanting a lightweight Windows install, I’m going to focus on a couple of methods for shrinking Windows XP below. In my examples I’ll be explaining how I used the freeware applications nLite and GameXP to optimize my Windows insta
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Igor has recently come with an idea to build an embedded version of SlimServer, the open source software we use to stream music to our Squeezeboxes around the house. Most of the time the Squeezeboxes are tuned to the Pandora Radio, but from time to time i
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This page describes complete applications for the Linksys NSLU2. We intend moving a number of the existing HowTo pages here, where they describe how to get a well-known application to run on the slug. Note that this section is firmware-agnostic, and shoul
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The application that does all the heavy lifting for you is a free, open source, cross-platform application called ZiPhone, and it can do everything from quick and simple iPhone and iPod touch jailbreaks to unlocking the iPhone for unofficial carriers (i.e
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Image is an image and photo editor that supports the most common image formats including .bmp, .jpg, .png and .gif. Image has a friendly layout and user interface with support for layers, useful drawing tools, unlimited undo and redo steps, image effects
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Photoscape is the fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos. Key Features * Viewer: View your folders photos, slideshow * Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames,
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Imgeditor is a very straightforward program that you unzip and run and does not need to be installed. Simply select the image types then point it to the program you would like to use as your default editor. Note that you could use the program to revert ba
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If anyone is interested, here are lists of all the Webscription EBooks. One is a huge html page (1.5 MB) with 15 links per book, including links to the Sony formats as well as all the others. In the absence of a bulk download, If anyone with a sony reader
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You love working inside your Linux desktop, but at the most inconvenient times you’ve got to reboot into Windows—whether to open a tricky Office file, try out a Windows application, or even just play a quick game. However, with some free tools and a Win
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So all of the articles that we’ve listed below are well written, and contain pretty unique lists that you won’t find at too many other places. We’ve divided the lists up into four different categories: our own Firefox lists, the top 10 Firefox exten
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Lifehacker reader Samar liked the quick-write convenience of the GmailThis bookmarklet, but wanted to dig deeper to find a solution that would both work with his (and our own) favorite Windows keyword launcher, Launchy, and run whether or not Firefox (or
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Save your favorite websites, apps and widgets to your iPhone or iPod touch through the magic of “data: URLs”. You can view webpages and use many great WebApps even in Airplane Mode. Best of all, it’s free! Just follow 3 simple steps:
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An Australian site detailing almost 200 high voltage and other projects such as…
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Rename Master is a FREE utility for renaming large groups of files with a few clicks. Anyone that has worked with websites, file archives, or collections of music, videos, or pictures has probably spent way too much time renaming hundreds of files. This u
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Bulk Rename Utility is a utility which allows you to easily rename files and directories, based upon extemely flexible criteria. Add date-stamps, replace numbers, insert strings, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and subfolders….plus loads
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iTunes Art Importer for Windows automagically adds album cover images to your iTunes library. Select songs in your iTunes library and the importer will grab album cover images from Amazon.com. If you trust the importer to choose the right albums (it’s pre
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if you have heard music by xerxes on the radio, or from a CD.. you can download these songs for free (including the debut album from xerxes called “the mirror formula”) in the old section. keep an eye on this space in the weeks to come. there ARE new song
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Being able to produce these mixes for Internet Radio allows me to fullfill my passion with music, mixing, and producing while hopefully entertaining you. I am unable to take all of the credit for my mixes because many talented people are involved in produ
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Most people know Launchy as a simple and lightning-fast application launcher for Windows, but it’s actually capable of much more than that. Using Launchy, you can append text to files, schedule appointments, add to your to-do list, set reminders, and more
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Introducing two tools, html2wiki is a website that can convert HTML content into WIKI Markup, while WIKI2xHTML is a program that converts WIKI files into HTML.
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The same key is used for all registrations. Here is the email they sent: Thank you for using SnagIt, the screen capture and editing software that lets you add stunning effects – and helpful instructions – to anything you see on your PC screen. Dear Sn
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I call it “BattStat”, and it’s a systray application which uses the smart battery support in Windows Vista, XP and 2000 to monitor power usage, battery charge, CPU speed, CPU usage, and power events such as standby/hibernate/resume, battery events, etc. A
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Notebook Hardware Control helps you to: – control the hardware and system power management – customize the notebook (open source ACPI Control System) – prolong the battery lifetime – cool down the system and reduce power consumption – monitor the hardware
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The projects on moblin.org are at the heart of the Mobile & Internet Linux project. The current projects are listed in the channel on the left and described below, but it is important to remember that this is only an initial list and that the list will gr
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miniMIZE is a small desktop enhancing application that catches windows that you minimize and puts a thumbnail of the main application window on your desktop. It is a clone of an application called MINt, started by Kapsules developer Andrew Powell. Unfortu
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AutoSizer automatically resizes programs for you, keeping them at a specific size or keeping them maximized. One popular use is to keep Internet Explorer Maximized when you go on the web. It works with most programs, including Notepad, web browsers, and m
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What can it do? WinSplit is especially useful for high-end LCD screens with big resolutions because it helps you to efficiently manage many active windows. For example WinSplit is useful for owners of the Dell 2407FPW monitor. As you can see in the screen
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ocstoc is a user generated community where you can find and share professional documents. Find free legal documents and free business documents. Upload your documents for all the world to share.
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I read your article on turning any action into a keyboard shortcut using AutoHotkey and my interest was piqued. You described how to remap the keys and create keyboard shortcuts for actions, but what I’ve always really wanted to do was to turn one key on
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I recently clean installed Windows XP on my laptop, and this meant that I had to re-install all the essential software that I use. It also presented an opportunity to write a posting about how you can outfit your computer with all the essential (and non-e
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There are two ways that you can connect a serial port to your NSLU2: you can plug a USB-to-Serial cable in to one of its USB ports, or you can open the case and make use of the internal serial port.
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One of the new things in Ubuntu 7.10 is the ability to read and write to NTFS formatted drives, which is great for Windows XP and Vista users. What that means is that you can create a Firefox profile in Windows and set it up so that Ubuntu uses the exact
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The solution comes in the form of the Microsoft-owned folder syncing and sharing tool, FolderShare. It requires a small sacrifice, but in exchange you’ll receive the complete automated extension sync we’ve all been dying for. Hit the jump to find out how.
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Diligent Gmail “labelers” will soon discover that those handy “tags” that they had been assigning to emails are now recognized as Folders in their email client(s). Your email clients will sync this Folders without a problem. In order to ensure your Trashe
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AJAX & Javascript Galleries, Slideshows and Effects Redux I was looking through some of my older posts tonight and realized my last post about AJAX galleries, slideshows and effects was from March 2006. Tonight I did a quick search through some of my sour
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Does anyone know if the little connector with gold pads area near the battery compartment provides any sort of serial port? I would like to have a non-wireless RS-232C serial port (at least transmit and receive data lines) to be able to control an Icom PC
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When hacking the kernel, you may need the serial console. You may have noticed an 11 pins conector (pad) in the battery compartment of the device: 1-2-3-4-5-6 -7-8-9-A-B- Pin 9 is RxD (Nokia receive input) and pin A is TxD (Nokia transmit output). Pin 8 a
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ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in image, audio and video files. ExifTool supports many different types of metadata including EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, Geo
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Among all the projects available at the Mozilla Foundation, one little application, Prism (formerly known as WebRunner), hasn’t gotten much attention. Understandable, in a way, because Prism seems like just a stripped-down Firefox window in which to view
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rism is a simple XULRunner based browser that hosts web applications without the normal web browser user interface. Prism is based on a concept called Site Specific Browsers (SSB). An SSB is an application with an embedded browser designed to work exclusi
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