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Archive for August, 2008

Lower your Carbon Footprint with Edison

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Get in the green zone and lower your carbon footprint and save some oil. Here’s a program I found that will help you save a few bucks on your power bill by letting you turn off your monitor spin down your hard drives then put your computer in suspend mode. From the folks at Verdiem

The Waterfall Printer

Checkout this cool waterfall printer.

Use the PC Decrapifier to Clean out your new Computer

 
 
How many times have you bought a new computer and turned it on only to find the screen full of trial software. I run into this problem every time I setup a new computer for someone, and I?m sure you have too. Here?s a great program I use to clean out the crap. [...]

Real-Time Global Disaster Map

 

 
 
The Emergency and Disaster Information Services (EDIS) from Budapest Hungary provides a great global map in real-time of disasters happing around the world. Check it out.
 

How Well do you Know your Friend and Neighbors

Do you really know who these people are? We associate with them and even invite them in our homes. Do they have a criminal background? Are your children safe with them? Here’s a quick way to find out, Use Criminal Searches.com to see if the people you interact with are on the up and up.

Get a Vista Style Start Menu in XP

Do you like the new Vista start menu and its ability to do instant search but aren’t ready to switch to Vista. Well I found a cool program called ViStart from Lee-Soft that gives you a Vista like start Menu with instant search.

Top 10 Tech Support Complaints

 

 
 
1. When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it buried under half a  ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals, dried flowers, bowling trophies and Popsicle art. We don’t have a life, and we find it deeply moving to catch a fleeting glimpse of yours.
2. Don’t put [...]

Use Mojo to Share and Sync Music with your Friends

 

 
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could connect to your friends music library across the internet and browse their music collection, listen to their music and dare I say download the songs you like to your computer. Then Mojo is your answer. I’ve been using it for a awhile now and really like it. They [...]