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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Outfitting your computer with the latest software can be expensive. Fortunately, there is a great alternative out there: the Internet. As hard as it is to believe, just by surfing around online, you can access most of the desktop app functionalities you need without shelling out a cent.
To prove it, here’s a list of 25 online alternatives, from InvestInTech.com, for the most popular desktop applications that you use, want and simply must have when working online.
Check out 25 On-line Alternatives.

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Monday, January 28, 2008

Weekly MP3 shareAnother share of one of my MP3s. I set up a new one once a week and give you seven days to check it out. After that it will be gone and replaced by a new selection. Please don't link to this. Just click on the link and save it. Until I can make some money and buy some, if you get the message BANDWIDTH exceeded, just try again tomorrow. For this week:

Mp3 Share The Steve Miller Band
"Jet Airliner"

or you can try here too!

I thought it was time for another blast from the past. Here is a song from a greatest hits album put out in 1998. The song was originally issued in 1977. The Steve Miller Band still has fan sites and all kinds of kudos out on the internet. Here is a share one of "Jet Airliner". There are so many to choose from, I'm sure I'll return to Steve Miller in the future for some more shares. Check out Wikipedia for all the info on Steve Miller Band and enjoy this share.

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Friday, January 25, 2008

I really don't have anything new to post for a Friday Fun filler. I'll just hype Cactusguy and Cactusgal again. Check out Cactusgal or Cactusguy everyday for fun! There are crossword puzzles, a sudoku, comics, other things. Updated everyday. You can waste time there, I mean have FUN, at any time.

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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

DiffMerge, from Sourcegear, is an application to visually compare and merge files for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix. It is now beening offered as a FREE product.

Product Features

  • Diff. Graphically shows the changes between two files. Includes intra-line highlighting and full support for editing.
  • Merge. Graphically shows the changes between 3 files. Allows automatic merging (when safe to do so) and full control over editing the resulting file.
  • Folder Diff. Performs a side-by-side comparison of 2 folders, showing which files are only present in one file or the other, as well as file pairs which are identical or different.
  • Windows Explorer Integration. Right-click on any two files in Windows Explorer to diff them immediately.
  • Configurable. Rulesets and options provide for customized appearance and behavior.
  • International. Compatible with 42 different character encodings.
  • FREE. Full featured. Not a demo!

Download it here!

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Monday, January 21, 2008

Weekly MP3 shareAnother share of one of my MP3s. I set up a new one once a week and give you seven days to check it out. After that it will be gone and replaced by a new selection. Please don't link to this. Just click on the link and save it. Until I can make some money and buy some, if you get the message BANDWIDTH exceeded, just try again tomorrow. For this week:

Mp3 Share The Fratellis
"Henrietta"

or you can try here too!

Here is another underappreciated album from last year.The Fratellis came out with a fine little album called "Costello Music". I've decided to share one of the tunes from it called "Henrietta". They are a great indie rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. Check out their MySpace page and enjoy this share.

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Friday, January 18, 2008

101 Best Web Freebies:
BusinessWeek.com scoured the Internet for the most useful free products and services available online that you probably don't know about. Check it out!

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Each time that you open a file the name of the file that you opened is recorded by the operating system in the Recent folder or the Registry. This utility displays the list of all recently opened files, and allows you to delete unwanted filename entries. You can also save the files list into text/html/xml file all for free. Check out RECENT FILES VIEW.

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Monday, January 14, 2008

Weekly MP3 shareAnother share of one of my MP3s. I set up a new one once a week and give you seven days to check it out. After that it will be gone and replaced by a new selection. Please don't link to this. Just click on the link and save it. Until I can make some money and buy some, if you get the message BANDWIDTH exceeded, just try again tomorrow. For this week:

Mp3 Share The Shins
"Australia"

or you can try here too!

Last year (my gosh it was last year already!) The Shins came out with a great little album called "Wincing The Night Away". I've decided to share one of the tunes from it called "Australia". It was also issued as a single but I assure you the entire album is worth getting. Check out their bio at Wikipedia and enjoy this share.

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Friday, January 11, 2008

"Bye-bye to Netscape"

End of Support for Netscape web browsers - The Netscape Blog

At the end of December CNET’s Stephen Shankland reported on the end of an era, the Netscape browser.

Netscape put the fear into Microsoft like no other company because of the immense popularity of the browser, its head start over Internet Explorer, and the simple fact that most early users left the Netscape homepage as their default, making that page the most heavily trafficked piece of virtual property in the world. The question was how would Netscape monetize that traffic. For a great insight into those early browser wars and the first stirring of the Microsoft giant and the big antitrust browser wars of the mid-90s, read Charles Ferguson’s High Stakes, No Prisoners.

Netscape brought aboard James Barksdale to bring the company to the next level, and eventually was acquired by AOL which was in the middle of its own identity crisis as it moved from essentially a rack of 56K modems to an internet service provider. I never quite figured out the play for AOL, which made some astonishingly stupid acquisitions including the infamous Time-Warner deal. There were noises about making Netscape a content play under Jason Calacanis, but when he left AOL after selling his blog network to them, the patient went onto the do-not-revive list.

Does anyone care about browsers anymore? Firefox has won my heart.


From the Netscape blog:

AOL’s focus on transitioning to an ad-supported web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be. Given AOL’s current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in developing critically-acclaimed products, we feel it’s the right time to end development of Netscape branded browsers, hand the reins fully to Mozilla and encourage Netscape users to adopt Firefox.”


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Wednesday, January 09, 2008

RUN SCANNER is a freeware windows system utility which scans your system for all configured running programs and autostart locations. You can use runscanner to detect autostart programs, spyware, adware, homepage hijackers, unverified drivers and other problems. You can import and export your results and let other people help you to solve your problems. It's free of course. GO THERE!

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Monday, January 07, 2008

Weekly MP3 shareAnother share of one of my MP3s. I set up a new one once a week and give you seven days to check it out. After that it will be gone and replaced by a new selection. Please don't link to this. Just click on the link and save it. Until I can make some money and buy some, if you get the message BANDWIDTH exceeded, just try again tomorrow. For this week:

Mp3 Share Quite Riot
"Cum On Feel the Noize"

or you can try here too!

With the death of Quite Riot singer Kevin DuBrow at the end of November, I thought I'd get out some classic CD's and relive some memories. The share this week was originally on the 1983 album "Mental Health" and has been played millions of times since then. Here's "Cum On Feel the Noize" but from a 2001 "Classic Rock Hits" CD not the original "Mental Health" disc. Hope you enjoy it.

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Tuesday, January 01, 2008

To anyone who happens to read this...
Happy NEW YEAR
I hope to get back to regular posting next Monday. See you then!

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