The folks at blog-well.com, have put together a list of over 100 resources to help make your life as a developer easier; where to find snippets of code, sites that automate processes, cheat sheets, lessons, useful tools and a couple of silly videos to give your brain a break if you make it through to the end.
In what may be an unprecedented decision, Microsoft said Thursday that it plans to lower the retail prices for several flavors of Windows Vista.
For those in the U.S., Microsoft is cutting prices only on the higher-end versions of Vista, and only for the upgrade version used to move from XP or another copy of Vista. The suggested price for Vista Ultimate drops to $219 from $299, while Home Premium falls to $129, from $159.
Other developed markets will also see price cuts, while in emerging markets, Microsoft is eliminating the distinction between full and upgrade versions of Home Basic and Home Premium as it attempts to convince more users there to use genuine software.
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This is a task that I’ve never been able to accomplish. I’ve recently came across this article over at LifeClever, the article is a step by step process with 10 tips to clean your desk. It was funny that I have thought of all these ideas but until now have not found one that works for me.
When I started wasting more and more time looking for lost items instead of being a brilliant creative person, I knew I had to do something. I got my desk organized, and have been miraculously keeping it clean for the past three months.
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Recently while using PhotoShop CS3, I could not make any changes, the PhotoShop wouldn’t display anything but the “hand” icon. No matter what tool I selected, I would always have the hand icon and not getting the tool I wanted.
To be honest, the fix is nothing spectacular, hit the space bar and it goes away.
NPR Tech writer Omar Gallaga recommends these Web sites to learn about the Getting Things Done method.
This year, instead of forking over more cash to the likes of Jobs and Gates for their newest toys, we’re taking a look at several ways to make your old gadgets new again. From the iPod and Xbox to a run-of-the-mill PC, chances are you’ve got something lying around the house that could use a free or cheap upgrade
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Movie rentals from iTunes 7.6? Awesome. That pesky 24-hour viewing window once you’ve started the film? Not so much. What if you need just a little bit more time? Or maybe a whole lot more time? We’d heard you could extend the doomsday clock by toying around with your system’s date/time. We tested it and it’s true.
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A personality profiling conducted on 7,500 people at Apple’s biggest tub-thumping event of the year, Macworld, yielded results that would suggest Apple users “are more liberal, less modest, and more assured of their own superiority than the population at large.”
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This tiny service allows to exchange files of any size between two people using only web browser. No software to install, no registration. Files are “streamed” between parties, so download could start immediately for waiting for file to be completely uploaded to the server.
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