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Your Own Personal QR Code

This is mostly just information from the wonderful Gina Trapani and her article on How to Make Your Personal QR Code read it for a more thorough take on the entire subject and great comments.  I am mostly just saving the links to the generators so I can find them in a hurry.

I see QR [...]

All Freeware Index in Popularity Order

All Freeware Index in Popularity Order | Gizmo’s Tech Support Alert
All Freeware Index in Popularity Order

This is a list of all freeware categories on this site sorted in popularity order. To search for a particular category such as “editors” use your browser’s search feature – normally that’s [...]

Hacking the ORiNOCO Silver into an ORiNOCO Gold

http://www.inertramblings.com/2004/08/05/hacking-the-orinoco-silver-into-an-orinoco-gold/

The Netstumblers worldwide, and its Alchemy v1.01 [...]

Protect Your Privacy When Downloading

Protect Your Privacy When Downloading

Earlier this week, a Lifehacker reader caught downloading copyrighted material using BitTorrent
told us about the scary warning letter she received from her ISP about
a big media company who filed a complaint. Fact is, whether you’re
downloading copyrighted material or not, no one likes to have their
activities online monitored. Let’s take a look at [...]

The Best of Lifehacker in Upgrade Your Life

The Best of Lifehacker in Upgrade Your Life

The second edition of the Lifehacker book, Upgrade Your Life,
is a compilation of the best 116 hacks and downloads from Lifehacker’s
archives. This dead tree version of the web site transforms dozens of
blog posts into comprehensive, edited tutorials, which will be familiar
to longtime readers. While an official electronic version of [...]

Reinstall Windows and outfit your system with all freeware programs

Reinstall Windows and outfit your system with all freeware programs

Author: Samer

Description:
I recently clean installed Windows XP on my laptop, and this meant that
I had to re-install all the [...]

Time Machine for every Unix out there

Time Machine for every Unix out there – IMHO
Time Machine for every Unix out there
Using rsync to mimic the behavior of Apple’s Time Machine feature

rsync is one of the tools that have gradually infiltrated my day to day tool-box (aside Vim and Zsh).

Using rsync it’s very easy to mimic Mac OS X new feature called Time [...]