Author: Evan Wondrasek
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Get Great Deals at Amazon.com Anywhere on the Web with Shopping Assistant
Google Chrome & Safari only: I’m a big fan of shopping online at Amazon.com (in fact, I usually check Amazon before even considering getting in the car and driving to a brick-and-mortar store). If I’m checking out gadgets online at a different website, I almost always end up going back to Amazon to make the…
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How to Enable Windows 7′s “Aero Snap” Feature in Earlier Versions of Windows
One of my favorite features in Windows 7 is Aero Snap, which automatically resizes and snaps applications to the sides of your screen when you drag them near. If you’ve got several windows open on one screen, this is a great way to manage your space (and I’ve learned it’s even more useful when working…
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Gmail Improves Undo Send Feature, Saving Careers and Relationships
I’m probably a little over-paranoid, but I always get a slight wave of anxiety before I send an important email. Questions like “Did I say the right things?”, “Did I address it to the correct person?”, and “Did I refrain from speaking like a pirate?” all rush through my head before I click that ominous…
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EasyTether Lets You Access the Internet Anywhere with an Android Phone
As I write this article, rain falls from the sky, the earth rotates around the sun, and I’m sitting in the passenger seat of a Jeep making its way out of city traffic. Using my Android phone and the free-with-limitations EasyTether application, I can browse the internet on my netbook anywhere that I have a data…
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Tag Your Friends’ Faces in Picasa for Easy Photo Organization
Picasa is a free application from Google that lets you easily edit and manage your entire photo collection. Picasa offers many useful features like geotagging, web albums, and powerful-yet-simple photo editing (I love the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button). One problem with large photo collections is that it can become extremely difficult to find pictures of…
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Windows XP Tip: How to Rearrange Applications in the Windows Taskbar
If you have several applications open simultaneously in Windows XP, you may find yourself wishing you could rearrange their order like tabs in your browser. This feature isn’t included in Windows XP by default, but you can easily add it with Taskbar Shuffle. Taskbar Shuffle is a tiny application that quietly sits in your system…
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Perseids Meteor Shower Peaks Soon, Find the Best Time to Watch Where You Live
Depending on where you live, the Perseids meteor shower will be reaching its peak sometime during the night of August 12th and the morning of August 13th. Since many factors can impact the visibility of astronomical events like meteor showers, NASA provides a great Java applet called the Fluxtimator that can show you the best…
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Firefox Tip: How to Prevent JavaScript Code from Resizing Your Browser Window
Have you ever been browsing the internet, opened a new link, and suddenly had your entire browser window change size? This is a trick that web developers can easily do with JavaScript (and was heavily used in the “older” days of the internet) but has become a nuisance in modern times. If I’ve got a pile of…