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Extract all of your RAR or ZIP downloads automatically with Autounpack

I recently ran into a little problem with some Harddrives and had to restore a drive from a backup. Problem with that is there are a lot of files in my backup that were either downloaded from the web, or archived myself with WinRAR. I was going through using WinRAR to extract all of these [...]

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iTunes is a horrible piece of software

Thats right, Ive said it, and all of you people that think iTunes is great need to quit drinking Apple’s Kool-aid for a while and try other things…seriously (You too Mr. Rose).
Recently I have been forced to use iTunes to manage my iPhone. It wasn’t a big deal when I first started because the only [...]

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How to make a Multi-page blog post, like the Pro’s.

I was surfing DIGG the yesterday day and I ran across something Ive always seen that I use to hate. It was a list post where they put each individual item on the list on its own page. (Here’s the post that I’m talking about). I say I use to hate it because now I [...]

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I really like that Streetflow App for the (jailbroken) iPhone

Ive mentioned my disappointment with the iPhone on my other blog several times, but I do own one, and paid a good deal of cash for it…uuuhh not really, got it for free. A few weeks ago, I decided to Jailbreak it using WinPWN and started playing around with some of the third party apps [...]

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Make legal (as far as I know) Backups or your copy protected DVDs with DVD43

I dont do it much anymore, but way back in the day, I use to like to make backup copies of my DVD movies. I was in love with a little program called DVDShrink. Now DVDShrink has been bought up and the last version made is the only version available online (there are newer versions [...]

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Took the plunge, Installed Vista Service Pack 1

I did it, I finally took the plunge and installed Windows Vista SP 1. I had been hesitating because there were a few driver incompatibilities listed on the windows website that I knew I had. I tried to find updates for them but one in particular, my audio drivers, were not released yet for my [...]

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We all probably could do a little better at backing up important files

Do you perform regular backups of your files?
Let me tell you a little story. Last week a friend called me and was asking quetions about his PC. One day he got the dreaded messages saying that his drive was corrupt. The files were unreadable, and it doesnt  boot to anything. Says the drive is bad [...]

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Microsoft and Yahoo? Heres 4 other tech companies I would like to see merge

Everyone is talking about the Microsoft Yahoo potential merger lately. I think there are some obvious good reasons for them to merger, and of coarse when dealing with Microsoft, there are always bad reasons. Put that merger aside for a minute. Think about all of the other companies out there, all of the other sections [...]

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Popular RSS software is now FREE!!!

Do you use Google reader to keep up with your RSS feeds? Ever wanted to try a RSS aggregator that that resides on your PC instead of being PC based? Well one of the best PC based RSS aggregator programsjust made a big change in its pricing structure. FeedDemon is now free!!!

I use to use [...]

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Cant delete that file in Vista? Bypass all that permission mumbo jumbo by logging into the hidden admin account.

The other day, a friend of mine installed some software on his Vista notebook. The software was incompatible with Vista so he went to uninstall it so that he can install the newer version that is compatible. The incompatible software somehow got corrupted so it wouldn’t uninstall using your regular automated uninstall method. After trying [...]

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