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I love USB drives. They are the perfect way to keep information with you, working on any type of computer. And with the plethora of applications available at places like PortableApps.Com, you no longer have to be dependent on any single machine!
A while ago I put forth how I [...]

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I usually don’t have a problem with needing my machine to start up quickly. I generally turn the thing on, walk away, and when I come back, everything has started. Occasionally, though, I may need to get something off the computer quickly, and I don’t want to wait for [...]

Last week I had a failure trying to use my automated email file fetcher (see Retrieving Files Via Email). I was working from home, and I needed to get my notes from work to my home machine so I could parse them into a status report. But Outlook kept throwing an error.
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We have a lot of music in our household. Our tastes span everything from jazz, classical, doo-wop, 80s and current music. I like to keep all my music with me; after all, what good is an MP3 player if you have to keep changing out music? I might as well haul around CDs.
What I found, [...]

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One of the things that has always made me paranoid about blogging is losing the work I’ve done. I have a plugin that automates the database backups, but what about the site and all the customizations I’ve done? The same thing for websites that I write and manage. If [...]

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Summary
DVD Catalyst, by A3VS, is a DVD to iPod conversion tool.
Overview
Manufacturer: A3VSPlatform: WindowsCurrent Version: 3.7
Why Did I Buy This?
Why I bought my iPod classic, I went for the 160 GB because I wanted to make sure I had plenty of room. After all, my Creative Zen had 40 GB, [...]

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Every now and then I like to jazz things up a bit on my computer. A new wallpaper, perhaps some new colors, that sort of thing.
My most recent jazziness actually helps my productivity as well: I installed an application launcher.
An application launcher is a customizable program that allows you [...]

On my computer, I don’t like having to navigate through many levels of folders to get to what I need. However, if I store everything on my desktop, the desktop gets crowded and backups get to be tricky. This can be solved by putting folder access into your task bar.
One under-utilized feature of the Windows [...]