Buying Electronics & American Express
Amex Gold (and Platinum, but not Green) has a program called “Best Value Guarantee“. Under this program, they will guarantee you the lowest price on most any item that you purchase using their card, up to $250 per item or $1000 per year. (more…)
MyBlogLog: Track outgoing links
Now I do realize that not too many people are reading this blog (at least for now). However, I’ve always wanted to know what info on this site people find interesting (as opposed to simply getting enjoyment from reading my eloquent prose). i.e. What links to external sites are people interested in enough to follow? Obviously I find all the stuff I post noteworthy, but what about you? (more…)
AutoStitch: Create Great Looking Panorama’s easily
AutoStitch is an amazing piece of software that automatically stitches together your photograph’s into great looking panorama’s easily. (more…)
The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities
Tech Support Alert has a nice article on the 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities. A quick review show’s that I’m already a user of the following:
However there’s a ton there that I either hadn’t heard of, or never even thought about! Time to start downloading…
- The Goose
Way cool!!! Add an RSS feed to your bookmarks in Firefox, making them update/change “live”. I’ve added the top site’s that I look at daily (Currently Slashdot, Lifehacker,Gizmodo and del.icio.us) You’ll probably want the RSS link for Goosedroppings 
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Stopping SPAM is clearly an enourmous task. However there are some sites out there that can help you do a reasonable job avoiding some of it. I say “help”, since there are many reasons that you and I receive SPAM that is simply outside of our control, even if we follow the best practices (i.e. Don’t post messages to USENET, Updated anti-virus, etc). (more…)
How to automatically backup/mirror your photo’s with Fotki using wget
OK, if you’ve gotten this far I guess that either I convinced you to join fotki or at the very least I haven’t driven you off. Or perhaps you’re now so worried that you’re going to lose all your family photo’s, or more critically, you’re afraid of what your non-tech spouse will do when that happens.
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Using bittorrent client software, and sites like tvtorrents (RSS) or btefnet (RSS), it’s easy to grab a copy of most popular shows hours after (or sometimes before!) they air.