Ever forgot to turn-off your Mac before going to work? Here’s one really great tip on how to remotely set your Mac to Sleep via E-mail.
View the animated tutorial on MurphyMac.

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Here’s a real cool guide on how to set your own Favorites folder location for IE7 in Windows Vista. Yeah, you’d probably need plenty of these tutorials with Vista since it takes the “friendly” out of “user-friendly.” Anyway, here’s the guide, courtesy of IEBlog.

Open Windows explorer
Create a new destination folder in an alternate location. [...]

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We’re all victims of URL typos. We wonder why we reached a DNS server search page even if we darn well know Google virtually doesn’t have a downtime. Then we look at the URL we typed and lo and behold it’s “google.con”
And our friendly Firefox extensions have just the right tool for such a [...]

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Here’s a great video tutorial on upgrading from XP to Vista:

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Here’s a news clip from Top Tech News:
BBC Director General Mark Thompson said that YouTube was “a key gateway through which to engage new audiences in the U.K. and abroad.” YouTube attracts an estimated 70 million users each month. One new channel, “BBC Worldwide,” will show clips from hit BBC programs including motor show [...]

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Microsoft is not just encouraging PC owners to use Microsoft, now, they’re encouraging those who would want to explore programming to do it with them.
Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) launched the Beginner Developer Learning Center - a site that offers lessons and “how-to” videos on programming using Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition.
You can start even [...]

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TechPwn wrote this great reminder on how to save time when reading stuff on your Mac. It can be found in the Services menu. Here’s something on how to use it, courtesy of TechPwn.
Here is how to use summarize…
1. Open the program that holds the text you would like to summarize (it doesn’t work [...]

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MP3 players really are handy only none of these miniaturized audio rigs have a compartment for the headphones. And they can sure get tangled or coiled up I had a friend who wrecked his iPod just because he was trying to uncoil. Sadly for him, his iPod slipped and fell to the floor with [...]

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It has been a long-drawn discussion whether all of these advances in technology has made us fat, particularly office junkies who spend a good part of our lives hacking away at keyboards and staring at monitor screens.
Perhaps the only movement you’d do is to walk towards the coffee dispenser to drown vats of [...]

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The Apple Gazette launched this cool service that allows you to make your own Apple Rumor.
It’s a great chart that’d help you create credible sounding rumors. But I assure you that our sister blog doesn’t base their own rumors from anything too unfounded.
Create your own Rumor here.

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CSS is a skill any web designer, even newbies, should learn off the bat. Here’s a post from a while back about 53 important CSS techniques.
It’s a really great list of various techniques that you can use in customizing your website’s visuals and functionality.

Here’s the link.

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Project Gutenberg has helped a great many of us obtain open domain texts. Practically free books online (some priced at $20 in print, take five books and that’s a good hundred bucks). But reading plain text can be really a bore.
Here’s yet another good freeware that lets you read those plain text e-books book [...]

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Wow. This is a prototype of a machine that makes dishes out of non-toxic food grade acrylic disks. And, get this, it can recycle the material again and again. It claims that no more hassles of cleaning and washing.

Anyway, my question with it is how does it go about the cleaning? But the guy’s [...]

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Thinking it’s just a foggy day? Think twice. That just might be grime on your window. So better get up from the couch and wash those windows. And here are some tips how:
Left-right, up-down
Here’s a good tip. When drying your windows from the outside, wipe from left to right. When inside go from top [...]

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Now this is absolutely a killer home office set-up I found on Digg. This is Stefan Didak’s home office.
Now my home office rig seems so… so pitiful compared to this rig. It makes me cry.
Anyway, you can view the gallery here and his FAQ (yes he has for this rig!) here.

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