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Definitely worth a check.

Recommended February 9, 2005 posted by

Firefox turbo.

Speeding up Firefox – the right way. Clever stuff.  Speeding up Firefox seems to be a meme going around the blogsphere lately. Most of the tips I’ve seen, though, are only for broadband connections with the latest hardware and only include some of the settings that would affect performance. The Firefox Tweak Guide has the full details on how to speed up Firefox regardless of your connection or hardware, reprinted in part below. Don’t forget that the easiest way to tweak…


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Bookmark This! February 8, 2005 posted by

Free stock images on the Web.

OK, today is free images day. So for your delectation, and my personal records, here is a list of the free online image sites currently extant, and in no particular order. Er…expect some consolidation fairly soon. Enjoy! FreeStockPhotos.com. Free for private and commercial use with credit/link. (FPCWC) Creativity 103. Abstract images. FPCWC. AarinFreePhoto.com. Small but nice set of image galleries. A little slow. FPCWC. Stock.xchng IV. Humungous moderated (100,000+ images) resource. FPC. Texture Warehouse.com. Nice textures gallery, FPC under Creative Commons…


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Bookmark This! February 7, 2005 posted by

Check it!

Bugs, glitches and stuffups. Use the link at the top of the page to check your Internet Explorer browser for parasites. Plus the 10 Immutable Laws of Security.  Law #8: An out of date virus scanner is only marginally better than no virus scanner at all


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Awesome February 4, 2005 posted by

Tube Guru.

The Tube Guru service is actually cool. Who would have thunk that the legendarily inefficient London Underground system could ever come up with an online tool that’s useful? And works? Live travel news, station info, what’s interesting around each station, local street map? It’s awesome. Use it dear people, use it! FlabberG.  


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Gadgets January 28, 2005 posted by

Can do.

The CanMate car refrigerator and warmer. Heat or cool your bevvies on the go. $88.99.  Cooling – Keeping the temperature of canned beverage or bring it to a lower temperature.At room temperature of 30°C, the canned beverage could reach 2°C (Temperature of the cooling container reaches below ) Heating – Keeping the temperature of canned beverage at 48 ~ 53°C (Temperature of the heating container reaches 50 ~ 60°C


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Recommended January 27, 2005 posted by

Big deal.

Deal News. The ultimate 21st century consumption site, complete with a scary array of shopaholic tech tools like RSS, WAP and email alert delivery of breaking bargains. It’s all there, just add cash. The basement is definitely the best location though (e.g. check out these refurbished RCA wireless headphones for $17.95!)


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Free Software January 26, 2005 posted by

Plug-in, drop out.

KVR Audio.com.  You want lots of free audio instrument and effects plug-ins? You got ‘em. With user reviews as the marzipan icing! A community and news site for Open Standard Audio Plugins. Our mission is to supply up to date news to the VST, DirectX (DX), AudioUnits (AU) and LADSPA community in a friendly and up front manner.


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Recommended January 26, 2005 posted by

Find a human.

Find-a-human. Fed up with 1–800 voice mail robots answering your calls at major companies? Then this site is made for you – how to locate real people behind the recordings. Superb, and what’s more, it’s user updateable. We need one of these for every country in the world. We do. Definitely!!


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Free Software January 25, 2005 posted by

Plug and play.

The Kjaerhus Classic Series of VST plug-ins are free software effects available for anyone to download. Should work with most good music sequencers or other VST compatible progs, and save you a bundle on hardware. Nice one!  The goals were simple – make a series of VST plugins that works, feels, looks and most importantly sounds as good as a professional hardware unit. Also, keep it simple and easy to operate. In fact, anyone who knows their way around the…


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Recommended January 21, 2005 posted by

Carry cot.

  The Portable Backpack Hammock. $99.00. Is the Ferret lazy and does this qualify as a Ferret friendly tool? Does a polecat have whiskers?  World’s first full-size, portable hammock fits right in its own backpack so you can take it to the beach, camping or just into your own backyard! At eight feet long, our hammock is perfect for all of your backyard and beach excursions. It weighs only 22 pounds in its own sleek backpack; sets up in seconds…


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Free Software January 21, 2005 posted by

Word back!

The Word Backup Utility. Use this free Microsoft Word template to backup your computer. Yep you heard me, use Word as a file archiving tool. Colour me astonished! [From the very cool O’Reilly book, Word Hacks].  Use this coded Word template to backup your system. We here at MouseTrax use this system to backup our entire network, in an amazingly short time! Greg even uses this same code for enterprise network backups. Just include the directories you want backed up and provide a…


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Bookmark This! January 19, 2005 posted by

Stat attack!

Nationmaster. Too many statistics, not enough time!  Welcome to NationMaster.com, a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD. Using the form above, you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease. We currently have 4,657 stats, and this number is increasing all…


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Free Software January 12, 2005 posted by

Malicious mellifluence.

Microsoft has released the Malicious Software Removal Tool which can be used from the website or downloaded. What a lovely, caring company.  The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool checks Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 computers for and helps remove infections by specific, prevalent malicious software—including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom. When the detection and removal process is complete, the tool displays a report describing the outcome, including which, if any, malicious software was detected and removed. Microsoft will release…


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