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  • Essential Plugins Every Modern WordPress Site Should Use

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    I was reading an article from FreelanceFolder.com that started me thinking about which Plugins I used to support any of the standard WordPress blogs I either write or maintain. I use the following list and want to acknowledge FreelanceFolder for nudging me into using two new ones as well. These are my bare minimum “can’t…

  • All Freeware Index in Popularity Order

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    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 Ctrl F.

  • Geek to Live: Encrypt your data

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    Geek to Live: Encrypt your data Geek to Live: Encrypt your data by Gina Trapani Everyone’s got files they’d like to keep out the the hands of intruders or casual passerby. Ever concerned you’ll lose the thumb drive where you backed up four years of post-graduate research? Every worried your 5-year-old will accidentally open the…

  • How-To: Get TV shows off of your TiVo and onto your iPod (with video)

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    How-To: Get TV shows off of your TiVo and onto your iPod (with video) by Peter Rojas, posted Oct 18th 2005 at 12:40PM This week’s How-To comes to us courtesy of Dave Zatz, a long-time Engadget pal who we finally convinced to join the staff as a contributor. Dave is the master of all things…

  • Hacking the ORiNOCO Silver into an ORiNOCO Gold

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    http://www.inertramblings.com/2004/08/05/hacking-the-orinoco-silver-into-an-orinoco-gold/ The ORiNOCO Classic Gold PC Card is the radio of choice for Wardrivers and Netstumblers worldwide, and its massive internal antenna and external antenna jack make it an extremely versatile radio for both portable and mobile applications. Distributed under many different monikers, the PC Card may sport a decal for WaveLAN, ORiNOCO, Lucent, Agere,…

  • 21 Awesome (But Lesser-Known) Open-Source Applications for Windows

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    21 Awesome (But Lesser-Known) Open-Source Applications for Windows Reposted from www.tipsfor.us Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock in Madagascar for the last few years, you undoubtedly already know about the All-Star open-source applications for Windows. I’m talking about applications such as Firefox, Thunderbird, GIMP, OpenOffice, and VLC. However, there are hundreds of lesser-known but…

  • Protect Your Privacy When Downloading

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    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…