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    Opera and the System Tray

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
    The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy "For thinking laymen." Image via Wikipedia The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy "For thinking laymen." As my readers may know, I use the Opera web browser as my primary browser. In addition to...

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    Opera Web Browser

    Posted on March 24, 2010 | No Comments
    I’ve been using Opera as my main web browser for many years, since the 5.x version. A lot of the features we take for granted today were either popularized or invented in Opera. And despite great progress in the field of browsers , I still...

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    Cloud Computing Worries

    Posted on February 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Image via Wikipedia So, I first wrote about cloud computing a while back. It’s all the rage these days. But I’m skeptical, as are a number of others. I’ve been bitten by cloud computing before, way before cloud computing was a buzz word. I’ve been...

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    Windows Home Server

    Posted on February 22, 2010 | No Comments
    So, Friday evening, the UPS man brought my pile of parts from Newegg and I began assembling my new file server. I could have just used my old hardware, except for the fact that the old hardware is not going to work with the new...

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  • The FREENAS Experiment

    The FREENAS Experiment

    Posted on February 16, 2010 | 1 Comment
    In November of 2007, I built a file server using the FreeBSD based FreeNAS. I have blogged about it many times. However, I think my experiment is coming to an end. Back in late 2007, I purchased a refurbished Dell Tower (GX260) which, from my...

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    Free Icons

    Posted on December 1, 2009 | No Comments
    If you need a really nice, large set of free icons to use in your web or desktop applications, I recommend the Fugue set. As of November 30, 2009, it has 2360 icons, includes the Adobe Photoshop PSD files in case you need to modify...

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    Kindle for PC

    Posted on November 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Amazon has just released a beta of software they call Kindle for PC. I’m not going to review the software itself. There are other sites that have done that (like ARS Technica, and CNet among others) but I’m going to describe my experience using it...

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    eyeOS on Opera

    Posted on September 11, 2009 | No Comments
    There’s a new version of eyeOS… oops, I mean eyeos as they call it now. It claims to be compatible with Opera, but I’ve tried it with the 9.x and the 10 series and the scroll bars still don’t work. So, not exactly sure what...

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  • Free Tools for Developers

    Free Tools for Developers

    Posted on August 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Here are some free tools (mostly open source) that I use to help in my job as a software developer. Winmerge – an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files. PSPad — this is a nice code editor....

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    Mousewheel Improvement

    Posted on July 29, 2009 | No Comments
    Using dual monitor setups on my work and main home PCs, I’ve become increasingly frustrated by the default operation of the mousewheel. I’m hovering over my browser window, I start scrolling, only to find that the email client is scrolling on the other monitor because...

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    Microsoft Office 2007

    Posted on July 21, 2009 | 1 Comment
    Image via Wikipedia Our office finally ‘upgraded’ to Office 2007. Is it just me, or is this the most wretched piece of garbage Microsoft has created since Bob? I’ve complained before about Microsoft changing the damn icons all the time, which defeats the purpose of...

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    Everquest Now

    Posted on June 11, 2009 | 3 Comments
    Ten years ago today, I entered the world of online gaming for the first time, with my purchase of Everquest. I decided to go back and take another look at the game to see how it looks today. [Translate]

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