Digg.com Decreases Work Productivity by 43%

Being a lover of technology and apparently having no self-discipline I found myself spending way too much time on digg and other social websites lately. I decided to do something about it. Attached is a simple script to redirect access to certain, ehem, non-productive sites on a schedule of your choosing.

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How to Criticize a Software Developer Without Getting Punched

We all know how to criticize; we learned a lot about it from our older brother or the bully at school. But the problem is how to critize well.

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Hilarious McDonalds ad: Illegally downloading food

This ad was found at the Gatech management building, thought I'd share it.

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Feed Mailer: Email based feed aggregation

Feed Mailer allows access to RSS feeds through email. This is especially useful for those users that have limited Internet access or are in environments that prohibit certain computer use such as government or education institutions. It also enables less savvy hat are more comfortable with an email interface users to benefit from RSS feeds.

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Firefox Portable 1.5.0.7 (runs from USB and CD) Now Faster

Firefox Portable - the portable version of Mozilla Firefox that runs from a USB flash drive, iPod, CD, etc - now starts up even faster than before. It also has improved Unicode and Live CD support on Windows 95/98/Me. Grab a copy today.

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Hidden Password Generator In Windows Xp

You can use some online password generator to get a strong password. But did you know that in Windows Xp you can generate a random password.

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MAJOR PROBLEMS! It's not Firefox, it's Comcastic

It appears that there is a disconnect between Google and Comcast going on right now (breaking news?). We've gotten a number of field reports from users of Comcast's cable internet service across the state who are unable to connect to Gmail, Google, and Blogspot. One of our "internet outage spotters" chronicled a tech support conversation he had in

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Google Calendar Launches New Features

Updates include weather forecasts, moon phases, and support for 17 new languages.

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New, Free Collaborative Notes Site for Students by Students!

Just in time for midterms, NoteMesh is a new website that allows students to add class notes in a wiki format, so everyone in the class can view, add, or edit the same notes. Created by UT students, NoteMesh is an excellent resource for posting those tough unanswered study guide questions and letting other students fill them out for you!

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Car Accident on Google Earth

A car accident in Brussels that caused a miles long traffic jam can be seen on Google Earth.

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Lightroom Beta 4 OUT!!!

User interface changes, tone curve adjustment changes, better filtering and searching for files, better performance, and other improvements based on user feedback!! Check it out!!

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Complete Backup Guide: What, When and HOW TO

As everyone knows, backup is the Most Important Thing for computer user. Everyone knows this, but almost noone actually makes regular backups. Hey, come on! Read this article and start a new life from Monday!

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Until Garageband comes out for Windows, this will do nicely!

Every Windows PC has a Garageband like program. It is small, with a tiny memory footprint. Is mostly ignored by everybody, but this video demonstrates a lot of its untapped potential...

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Capsized Cruise Ship Captured in Google Earth

A satellite photo in Google Earth (or Google Maps) shows a cruise ship which was capsized by a Typhoon back in 2003. See photos and links to the location, and a ground-level photo of the ship shortly after it happened.

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RunFatBoy has just launched

After a very long awaiting the "Exercise for the rest of us" has just launched

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Maps - Satellite, Street, Theme Maps

Satellite, street maps and more from national geographic.

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"Open Command Window Here" Built Into Vista, But Must Be Unlocked

You can now open a Command Prompt for any directory in Vista without having to download a Powertoy. However, they do keep it hidden to protect users from, well, themselves. All you have to do though is hold down the Shift key and right-click on a folder (if you just right-click without the Shift key you will not see the option).

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Is Xgl Really Worth It? Microsoft vs Mac OSX

Perhaps I am missing something here, but why in the world is anyone worried about whether or not Xgl is outdoing the efforts of Microsoft's Vista? Seriously, we already know that Vista has problems of its own, and this is not even counting the fact that Xgl outperforms Vista's Aero hands down without the need for extra video card upgrades.

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Download The First Release Candidate Of Firefox 2 RC1

This is the first release candidate for Firefox 2 RC1, which is due for release on September 26. A portable version is also available for those people who want to test it out real quick.

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Want a faster Windows XP? Here's how!

A recent study of our team on how to better our Windows XP systems led us to investigate a countless number of details on how to better your performance and machine. Some of the working tweaks you can do to your Windows XP can really be a blessing to your systemâ??s speed. So visit us to know how to get a faster Windows XP step by step.

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Despite all the good freeware, people still paying for security software

Why bother, when so much is available elsewhere at no cost? Because free often means cobbling a package together.

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Cool, Free ultimate digg.com screensaver.

There were times when it was pretty cool having that fancy starfield screensaver on your computer, back then. Now, if you know where you can get quality news, then you're most probably aware of Digg.com. Get rid of that aquarium, dump that 3D Boxes and remove your Playboy screensaver, they've become obsolete.

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Which these Photos were Manipulated or are Real? Take the Quiz

Test your pop culture literacy by determining which are the hoax photos (i.e. those that have been manipulated in some way) and which are real. For each image, click either HOAX or REAL to begin scoring the test. When you're done, click the box at the bottom of the page to see your score

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Introducing Disco: Full-featured disc burning for real people

The dev team behind AppZapper have finally released some screenshots of their "secret" new project, Disco. (Mac OS X only.)

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Choose How Often Google Crawls Your Site

Bigmouthmedia reports that Google Sitemaps has a new feature that allows you to choose how often Googlebot crawls your site. You can select from 5 values, from slowest to fastest, but you must know that a faster crawl uses more bandwidth. For the moment, this feature is still experimental, so you may not find it in your Google Sitemaps account.

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Windows Vista: The

"I have taken the liberty of taking 28 screenshots to compare the 4 different interfaces available in Windows Vista: Aero Glass, Vista Standard, Vista Basic and Windows Classic. These screenshots were taken on the same applications and layouts to give you a feel of the exact changes it makes to an user experience."

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Xtorrent public beta 1 reviewed

The much hyped Mac BitTorrent client from my friend David Watanabe is now available for download. Even though it?s still in testing, we?ve decided to do a review of it.

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Original Resizr Online Image Resizing Tool

This tool lets you resize your JPG, PNG, or GIF files, with output in JPG or PNG. Quality is adjustable (for JPG). It's designed to be extremely easy to use, for people who can't use photoshop. It's got a neat little javascript image scaler, too. Note, a recent digg story showed a bad copy of this.

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Software That Decreases The Performance Of You Computer The Most

I have always wondered how much some of the software that I use decreases the performance of my computer. The PC Spy is trying to make people aware of the worst software that is out there, and to no surprise Norton Internet Security 2006 is at the top.

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Firefox Easter Egg: The Book Of Mozilla

I was browsing through Wikipedia today when I came upon their Blue Screen Of Death article. It was a lot of fun to read but one thing that really struck me as interesting was this about:mozilla ?Easter Egg? that they mention. The Book of Mozilla has been something that even the first version of Netscape has had in it.

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How to synchronize Outlook with Google Calendar, Gmail, iPod, others

This is a tutorial (with diagram) on how to synchronize Microsoft Outlook (multiple locations), Google Calendar, Gmail, iPod, and mobile phone with Funambol / ScheduleWorld.

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Cool Bandwidth Gauge

Nothing special but wins points for the design.

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The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

Yes, you're right, you've seen it before, but it's being updated quite frequently. Take a look. Read on

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Windows designed to play classical music when the computer is broken

It's true, you've got problems in Windows and classical music plays. It's not a joke, it's supposed to happen!

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Free video editing software list for all platforms.

A list of Free video editing software for all platforms.

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New Version of Digg Thumbs Released - No Reg Req

Digg Thumbs is a Firefox extension which improves digg by adding website screenshot thumbnails next to each digg listing. This update fixes all reported bugs with positioning, video thumbs, my #1, etc and is completely free, no tokens required.

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The final ingredient for a really full-featured bittorrent client has just been released to the public, after a long period of closed beta testing. Get it, test it, provide feedback, enjoy!!

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BitTorrent Simulator: How and Why BitTorrent works

The BitTorrent simulator is a nice graphical representation of how and why BitTorrent works.

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How to Run Asterisk on Windows with AstWind

AstWind is a package that allows you to run Asterisk on top of a Windowsoperating system using coLinux. A port ofthe Linux kernel, coLinux runs cooperatively alongside legacy operatingsystems on a single PC. It allows one to freely run Linux on Windows2000/XP, without using a commercial PC virtualization software.

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Talk to MSN Messenger Users from Google Talk

GTalk2VoIP is a site that promises to transform Google Talk into a full VoIP application, so you can call from Google Talk to a phone number or from a phone number to Google Talk. Another interesting thing you can do is to talk to a MSN Messenger

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Goodbye to Dreamweaver, Goodbye to WYSIWYG

>From blogging to full fledged web development, Circle Six Design is kicking Dreamweaver out and going with a far more ingenious solution... TextMate. This is the beginning of a series detailing the adventures of setting up a non-Dreamweaver web-dev environment. This post includes a mod for TM that adds auto-thumbnailing to the blogging bundle.

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PowerController: iTunes alarm clock

PowerController is easily iTunes alarm clock for Mac OS X! Alarms can wake your computer from sleep, play any playlist in iTunes, and gradually increase the song volume. PowerController runs in the background and is configurable through System Preferences, so you won't have another app hogging dock space!

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SlickRun-A Free Floating Command Line Utility for Windows [170KB]

Enter a web URL into SlickRun and it will launch your browser and navigate to the specified address. Run multiple programs in a few keystrokes, jot a note, look up a definition... SlickRun is the most natural way to interact with your computer.

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NYC Cop seen playing solitaire in his NYC Squad Car

Niceto see they run windows, but do these computers do anything else besides solitaire? :-)

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AppADay.com Software Jedi ONLINE NOW

>From the site "I plan on writing an application everyday for 30 days straight. May the world benefit from the purposeful destruction of my personal life."

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Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7 Released

An the 1.5.0.7 update to Mozilla Firefox has been released, containing improvements to product stability and Several security fixes.

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Google's Picasa 2.5 Now Out Of Beta

Google's Picasa 2.5 photo managing software has worked its way out of Beta, believe it or not. The release notes detail all of the new features but here is a brief overview for those that have not been venturous enough to play with the Beta:

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