Category: Tools
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4 Great Ways to Give Your Old Computer a Second Life
Do you have an older computer sitting around and don’t know what to do with it? An old computer can be repurposed to serve as a TV, print server, file server, music server, kitchen recipe computer, and much more. I’ll take you through a few of the ideas, including the things you’ll need and give…
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Create Budgets, Visualize Expenses, and Reduce Debt for Free with Mint.com
When I got my first glimpse of a “big kid job” by taking an engineering internship in 2008, I quickly realized that my strategy of “save enough money for food” wasn’t going to cut it anymore. Since I was earning significantly more than I was at my previous part-time jobs, I needed a way to…
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How to Fix Chrome’s Broken RSS Feed Handling
If you’ve ever tried opening an RSS feed in Google Chrome, you may have been dismayed to find that it does a horrible job of handling them. RSS feeds (like ours) are meant to provide an easy subscription method to a website, allowing you to view your favorite websites all in one place with an…
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Share, Organize, and Store Your Digital Files Online with Quanp
The world of online storage is a growing one, with different services and new features coming out all the time. Quanp, pronounced “Quan-Pah”, is one which I’ve found to be quite useful not only for its online storage, but the way in which it organizes and displays your files on your desktop. Quanp, short for…
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Priority Inbox: Gmail Tells You What Messages are Important, You Profit (?)
Busy people, rejoice. Gmail, the primary electronic mail client offered by the giant Google, is getting a simple add-on sometime in the near future (it’s actually rolling out right now, but it will be a week before everybody has it). What does it entail, one might ask? Well, its a filter. Not a new spam…
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Want to Create a Web Application? Use CakePHP for Rapid, Secure Development
So you’ve got a sweet idea for a web application—great, let’s get to work! You’ll need a basic GUI, some sort of user registration, a templating system, logic processing, error handlers, form verification, AJAX processing, and… woah, this is adding up in a hurry. At what point do you get to start making the app…
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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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Manage a Music Playlist and More with GMote for Android
So its time to plan a party. The chips and dip are out, the chilled beverages are chilling, the mood lighting is set to “groovy,” and the music is…wait. You forgot to consider the music, didn’t you? That is a big mistake. Music can make or break a party; everyone knows that. So what do…
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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…