Category: Web
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A great tool if you’re writing on a deadline
All righty then. Just finished up a cool conversation with a dude that I have to meet with later to figure out some stuff. Now, I guess I’ll keep plugging away at writing, nay, testing Write or Die, a timing and wordcount interface that helps focus your writing by imposing limitations and consequences on your writing.…
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Cool! Online lighting diagram creator — photography
The following post is a QuickHit™ — an article or post I found online and thought was important enough to share directly with you. Of course, you’ll see my thoughts or opinions prepended or appended to this post, otherwise I’m just scraping content, and that’s not the intent. I’m looking for tools to help me…
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How to easily install essential applications on a new Windows 7 computer
It doesn’t matter if you’ve upgraded from Vista or XP, or if you’ve bought a new Windows 7 based computer, you’re going to need to install some basic and essential applications on your new baby. And this awesome website makes it so, SO easy. 4 easy steps: Visit the site Select which applications you want Press the button to…
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How to make a Polaroid from any digital image
Even though Polaroid instant camera and film packs are no longer being made by the Polaroid Corporation, you can get that same look on your digital photos with Rollip.com. Once upon a time you had to manually create these things in Adobe Photoshop or GIMP. Not any more. Basically, Rollip takes your image and does some…
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How to use a webcam as a home security camera
Over the years as I’ve acquired various bits of hardware, I’ve somehow ended up with a few ‘extra’ webcams. Not really wanting them to languish in my parts bin, I figured I’d take a stab at setting them up as home security cameras. And, I wanted to check out what my dogs were up to…
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A simple and easy way to back up your Google Docs
If you do a lot of your work on various computers in different locations (as I do), conveniently accessing your documents is important. Though I carry a 2GB USB drive everywhere, I actually find it easier to use Google Docs and store my work ‘in the Cloud’, so to speak. But, that amorphous blob of computing-storage…
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Google Chrome: a quick look and how to block ads with Privoxy
photo credit: Randy Zhang Google Chrome is no Firefox (yet). For the last week and a bit, off and on,  I’ve been using Google Chrome (Google’s new entry into the browser wars). On the 3 XP-based systems I’ve used it on, I’ve found it to be very fast, very efficient, and stable. Pretty good performance for…
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Bag Open. Cat Out. Internet in danger! OpenDNS to the rescue?
Your ISP may be vulnurable to the Multi-Vendor DNS Issue. Here's how to tell, and a simple fix you can do to protect yourself.