Category Archives: Computer Related

Dual boot Windows XP on a pre-installed Vista PC

Posted on April 2, 2007 by admin

You just got a new PC with Windows Vista pre-installed, and you want to dual-boot Windows XP for old programs – or just nostalgia’s sake. You already know how to dual-boot Windows Vista on your XP machine, but you can … Continue reading →

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Workign outdoors with your laptop

Posted on April 2, 2007 by admin

Spring has sprung, and that means with any luck, intrepid laptoppers are heading outside to enjoy nature’s bounty whilst they work. Unfortunately, there are a lot of difficulties that accompany working outdoors with a laptop. For example, sun glare and … Continue reading →

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Top 100 Network Security Tools

Posted on March 21, 2007 by admin

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Google Your Site For Security Vulnerabilities

Posted on March 21, 2007 by admin

Some pretty unsettling stuff. If Google stumbles across data that may expose sensitive information about your organization, Google will not hesitate to index it. The search engine does not discriminate against data it indexes. How can you tell if your … Continue reading →

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"A dead simple AJAX timesheet app"

Posted on March 21, 2007 by admin

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Schedule incoming phone calls with the Popularity Dailer

Posted on March 20, 2007 by admin

Feel left out in a room full of people talking into their cell phones instead of to each other? The Popularity Dialer schedules recordings to call your cell phone at a predetermined time to give the impression that you too … Continue reading →

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Create your own Web 2.0 logos

Posted on March 3, 2007 by admin

Want to create a logo using that hard-to-define but easy-to-recognize Web 2.0 style? Tech blog Hongkiat.com shows you how. You’ll need Photoshop and a downloadable "style" file provided by the author. This file includes the necessary elements to recreate six … Continue reading →

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Free fonts at UrbanFonts

Posted on February 14, 2007 by admin

If you’re looking for a few new fonts to spice up your presentation or document, head over to UrbanFonts, a site with pay-for and freebie fonts. I’m no designer but lots of these look fun and interesting. The free offerings … Continue reading →

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Find open source alternatives to commercial software

Posted on January 31, 2007 by admin

I like the way osalt lists open source alternatives along with their commercial counterpart, very handy…. Find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software: Find alternatives for Visio -> Dia, OpenOffice Draw or Kivio Or for iTunes -> Amarok … Continue reading →

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Simile

Posted on January 20, 2007 by admin

SIMILE is a joint project conducted by the MIT Libraries and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital assets, schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, metadata, and services. A key challenge is that the collections which must inter-operate … Continue reading →

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