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How You Get sIFR to Work
If you've ever tried sIFR (Flash Image Replacement) and given up in frustration, here's a nice walkthrough on how to get it working. Worth a... (Posted April 24, 2008)
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How to Optimize Your Site for Speed
A nice article from site Jonathan Hedley, detailing how to optimize your site for speed. This is a nicely detailed how-to article, well worth a... (Posted April 4, 2008)
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jQuery Tutorials for Designers
Web Designer wall has a great tutorial that will walk through how to use the jQuery framework in web designs. This tutorial is especially... (Posted February 29, 2008)
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How to Make iPhone Webclip Icons
If you're looking for a nice addition to your site, why not consider making an iPhone Webclip Icon? Fortunately, there is an easy how-to to... (Posted January 16, 2008)
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24 Ways to Impress Your Friends, the 2007 Edition
It's been a pre-holiday, web dev and design must read for the past two years and the 2007 edition of 24 Ways has just... (Posted November 30, 2007)
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Hand-Picked List of Best Tutorials of 20007
2007 Hand-Picked Tutorials - from Photoshop to Illustrator and Ajax and CSS Code Snippets. Worth browsing in case you missed any of them during... (Posted November 30, 2007)
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How to Develop a Wordpress Theme
website Deziner Folio has posted a really helpful tutorial, detailing how to Develop a Wordpress Theme. The tutorial clearly walks through the basic steps for... (Posted November 27, 2007)
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Google Analytics for Beginners
Google Analytics is a great, free site stats program but there's no doubt that it can be a little overwhelming at first. Here's a beginners... (Posted November 7, 2007)
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Web Site Optimization: 13 Simple Steps
Web Site Optimization: 13 Simple Steps [Apache & IIS Configuration] is a very informative article which outlines things that can be done at the server... (Posted October 24, 2007)
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Making a PayPal Form Tutorial
If you've ever wanted to accept PayPal payments on your site, Website Freelance Switch has a great tutorial that will show you how to set... (Posted October 22, 2007)
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How To Use VMWare To Survive a Computer Crash
How To Use VMWare To Survive A Computer Crash is an excellent article that detail how you can use free, VMWare software to create an... (Posted October 18, 2007)
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Preventing Spam without captcha
Preventing spam without captcha | freecodesnippet.com details how to use a special form input field to trick the spammers. (Unfortunately, link points to dugmirror as... (Posted October 16, 2007)
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101 Little Hacks to Help You Get Your Work Finished More Quickly
101 Little Hacks to Help You Get Your Work Finished More Quickly. The 101 little hacks included in this article are all designed to shave... (Posted October 14, 2007)
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Element of Web Design: The Polish
Elements of Great Web Design: The Polish is a great walkthrough on how to add polish to your web design using Photoshop. It's well worth... (Posted October 10, 2007)
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How to Keep your old PC alive
How to keep your old PC alive - a nice article, outlining 8 things you could do with an old PC to keep it alive.... (Posted October 8, 2007)
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Put that old computer to use
A great article from Daily Cup of Tech, detailing a bunch of possible uses for an old computer - everything from using it as a... (Posted September 17, 2007)
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How to find out what kind of memory your computer has installed
A nice article from the How-To Geek, What Kind of Memory Does My Computer Have Installed?. The article outlines a couple of ways to find... (Posted September 17, 2007)
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How to Monitor Your Internet Bandwidth Usage in Windows
There are a lot of reasons why you might want to monitor your internet bandwidth usage. Maybe you have a bandwidth cap. Maybe you're... (Posted September 9, 2007)
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How to Firefox 3 and Firefox 2 running at the same time
Curious about Firefox 3 but don't want to mess up your 2 install? Website Redemption in a Blog shows have you can have both running... (Posted August 22, 2007)
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How to move from Blogger to WordPress and maintain permalinks and traffic
Tech blog LAZH has a great article on how to move from Blogger to WordPress while keeping permalinks and hence, traffic. I know there are... (Posted July 12, 2007)
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How to Use Winamp to manage your iPod
How-to blog Simplehelp offers up a quick and easy tutorial on How to use Winamp to manage your iPod as an alternative to using iTunes.... (Posted July 7, 2007)
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230 Keystrokes for Top Web Services
If you're a fan of keystrokes over mouse clicks, you'll want to check out Mashable's latest collection of 230 Keyboard Shortcuts for Top Web Services.... (Posted July 1, 2007)
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11 Ways to Fix Your Laptop
11 Ways to Fix Your Laptop - what to do if your laptop is suffering from things like overheating, slow hard drive, battery won't charge... (Posted June 21, 2007)
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How to Clean up a Windows Spyware Infestation
A great "how-to" from Coding Horror on How to Clean Up a Windows Spyware Infestation, that walks through the process of cleaning a computer of... (Posted June 18, 2007)
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How to Make a Photoshop Brush
How To Make A Photoshop Brush - BittBox has released some great Photoshop Brushes, so this "how to" comes from a great source and is... (Posted May 31, 2007)
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Supercharge your image borders
Supercharge your image borders. "Image borders. Borders - for images. They're not very interesting, right? Sometimes we'll add a border: 1px solid #ccc; if... (Posted May 29, 2007)
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How to dual boot Windows XP and Linux
Dual boot: Windows XP & openSuSE 10.2 details the process for setting up a dual boot Linux/Windows XP computer, for anyone who has wanted to... (Posted May 29, 2007)
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How to Design your own WordPress Theme
How To - Design Your Own WordPress Theme - for anyone who has wanted to do it but didn't know where to start! This looks... (Posted May 26, 2007)
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A couple of computer crisis and health tip sites
PC World - How to Survive the Worst PC Disasters - tips for everything from a computer that won't boot to being sued by the... (Posted May 25, 2007)
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How to Crank Through Your Gmail
How To Crank Through Your Gmail - how to get control of our Gmail quickly and efficiently. Some great tips for controlling the email beast.... (Posted May 21, 2007)
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How to Add Music to your iPod without iTunes
From the Techie Blog, offers up several freeware alternatives to iTunes in their article How to Add Music To Your Ipod Without iTunes. Check out... (Posted May 18, 2007)
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PNG Overlay How-to
PNG Overlay is a great article that explains how to use an overlay mask to apply a common display to images on a website,... (Posted May 18, 2007)
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Complete Typography Guide
Complete Typography Guide - over 200 links related to typography, including typography basics, tips and tutorials, free fonts, online font tools, desktop font tools,... (Posted May 10, 2007)
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SuTree: free video how-to lessons and tutorials
SuTree - free video 'how to' lessons and tutorials is an online index and library for free video-based lessons, tutorials, lectures and how-to's, where... (Posted May 4, 2007)
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Identities: Thunderbird's Most Underrated Feature
Productivity blog Web Worker Daily shines the spotlight on a feature of Thunderbird Mail that maybe isn't getting the love it deserves. Thunderbird's Most Underrated... (Posted May 4, 2007)
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Rotate, scale and blur for screenshot presentation effect
Why just present a plain old screenshot when you can rotate, scale and distort it" Weblog mezzoblue shows you how to apply this cool... (Posted May 4, 2007)
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74 Quality Ruby on Rails Resources and Tutorials
74 Quality Ruby on Rails Resources and Tutorials is an excellent starting place for anyone who is interested in learning the popular Ruby programming language... (Posted May 3, 2007)
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10 Unexpected Uses for your iPod
10 Unexpected Uses of the iPod - offers up some interesting, new ways to use your iPod, with links to some services and software to... (Posted April 30, 2007)
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Integrate Gmail with the new Thunderbird 2.0
Google Operating System: Mozilla Thunderbird, Integrated with Gmail - how to bring your Gmail in to the latest version of Thunderbird (2.0) easily. A quick... (Posted April 20, 2007)
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How to properly use the ALT and TITLE attributes
ｻ Proper Use of ALT and TITLE Attributes - a good why-to that will clear up any confusion as to which to use, how to... (Posted April 19, 2007)
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Fixing PHB color mismatch on the web: an easy fix
polar bear lamps: PNG color mismatch on the web: an easy fix - how to correct the problem with colors in a PNG image not... (Posted April 19, 2007)
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Guide to CSS Support in Email 2007 Edition
Email newsletter site Campaign Monitor has just published it's A Guide to CSS Support in Email: 2007 Edition. For anyone who does or might send... (Posted April 19, 2007)
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Gimp Tutorials
GIMP Tutorials and useful snippets - a large (362) collection of useful GIMP tutorials and snippets. For anyone looking for an alternative to Photoshop and... (Posted April 9, 2007)
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How to download streaming songs from internet radio stations
Download Streamings Songs from Internet Radio Stations to iPod or MP3 CD at Digital Inspiration is a great "how-to" capture songs or other content from... (Posted March 30, 2007)
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10 tips for improving your wireless network
10 tips for improving your wireless network from Microsoft. Some basic but good tips for fine-tuning a wireless network for the best range and... (Posted March 28, 2007)
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Create seamless web 2.0-ish site headers
Creating seamless web 2.0-ish site headers - a tutorial with downloadable pattern for a head-start, to create those ever-so-trendy diagonal striped site headers.... (Posted March 24, 2007)
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Killer PHP Video Tutorials for Web Designers
PHP skills a little (lot) lacking? Have you always wanted to learn the basics of PHP to make your web design/development efforts easier? Yeah, me... (Posted March 19, 2007)
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101 Great Blog Posting Ideas
Stuck for something to write about? Looking to attract more traffic to your site? 101 Great Posting Ideas That Will Make Your Blog Sizzle is... (Posted March 19, 2007)
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Turn Gmail Into Your personal Nerve Center
Micro Persuasion: Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center is a great read for any Gmail user (or potential user) who wants to "do more"... (Posted February 26, 2007)
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Use Yahoo Pipes to create a site badge for any RSS feed
Badger : Badge Any RSS Feed With Yahoo! Pipes - Add a badge that displays headlines from any RSS feed to your site using just... (Posted February 16, 2007)
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How to Secure a Wireless Lan
I love the first paragraph of this article, challenging us all to hover our mouse over our network icon to see if it says "Unsecured".... (Posted February 15, 2007)
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ifixipodsfast.com: tips and tutorials for getting your iPod working again
ifixipodsfast.com iPod - How To Video Tutorials for current models and earlier generation models as well. Looks like the go-to place if your iPod is... (Posted February 13, 2007)
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How to make a free, huge, custom poster for your wall
HowTo: Free and Huge custom poster for your wall - a how-to, using the free program Rasterbator, to set up a huge (up to 20... (Posted February 6, 2007)
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Tutorial: Have your subjects pop right out of your photos
instructables : Creating a 3D effect with image editing software (GIMP or Photoshop) - a really fun effect with some great how-to instructions that... (Posted February 3, 2007)
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Making a Good Favicon
Making a Good Favicon - Snook.ca offers some thoughts and software suggestions for making a good favicon for your site.... (Posted February 2, 2007)
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How to make labels with OpenOffice
If you've made the move to OpenOffice, here's a nice how-to use it to make mailing (and other) labels. Making Labels with Openoffice.org Templates... (Posted February 2, 2007)
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How to convert audiobooks to Audiobooks
Have an audiobook that's not in Audiobook format but you want it to play on your ipod like an Audiobook. Playlist: Convert audiobooks to Audiobooks... (Posted February 2, 2007)
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Use Script.aculo.us to expand/collapse embedded video clips
Expand/Collapse Embedded Videos - a how-to use the Script.aculo.us library script to expand/collapse embedded videos on your site. Click on the title and the video... (Posted January 21, 2007)
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Hack to force Google Anyalytics to give up the full referring url
Google Analytics Hack - obtaining full referring URL - does just what it promises with a simple addition to any page's body tag.... (Posted January 16, 2007)
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How to write your password on a Post-it but still keep it secret
Passwords On Post-its? You Bet! - an interesting idea for writing down a password but still keep it secure. As noted in the comments, this... (Posted January 13, 2007)
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Creating Web 2.0 Graphics in Gimp
Creating Web 2.0 Graphics In Gimp - 4 nice tutorials on how to whip up some web 2.0 graphics in the Gimp, including making web... (Posted January 7, 2007)
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Get your desk in shape for 2007
WTL - Get your desk in shape for 2007 - a handy to-do list if you've resolved to be more organized and in control of... (Posted January 1, 2007)
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How to add Script.aculo.us effects to your site
Script.aculo.us: How to easily AJAX your site walks through how to implement the script.aculo.us effects in good detail. If you've wanted to add some ajaxy... (Posted December 29, 2006)
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A whole lot of Gmail tips and tricks
Over 150 tips and shortcuts for Gmail the not-so-dumb little man puts out some great information, including this compilation of over 150 Gmail tips and... (Posted December 19, 2006)
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How to protect your website when someone steals your content
How to Protect Your Website Copyright When Someone Steals Your Content details how to find out if someone is stealing your content and if they... (Posted December 19, 2006)
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How to Install an Additional Hard Drive: Video How-to from PCWorld
If you're thinking about adding another hard drive to your computer, you might want to check out PC World - How to Install an Additional... (Posted December 14, 2006)
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Photoshop Polaroid Tutorial in 10 Simple Steps
Photoshop Tutorial - Polaroid Images in 10 Simple Steps/a> - and it does indeed seem very simple. Perhaps even I could do it!... (Posted December 14, 2006)
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Search strategies that work
Mining the Deep Web: Search strategies that work "Just because a Web search engine can't find something doesn't mean it isn't there. You may be... (Posted December 11, 2006)
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Use YouTube to learn Photoshop
For anyone who is interested in learning Photoshop, YouTube (and other video sites) can be a good source of free learning that you might not... (Posted December 11, 2006)
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How to make a pagecurl in Photoshop
Creating a page curl in Photoshop is the latest in a lot of great tutorials from Veerle. This one shows how to create the... (Posted December 11, 2006)
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Gimp Tutorials
True Hacker!: GIMP Complete Tutorials - for Gimp users or anyone considering it, check out this big list of Gimp Tutorials.... (Posted December 4, 2006)
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Quickly and easily compress PNG images
Neil's World: Quickly compress PNG images outlines how to use open source program Pngcrush to add a right click option in Windows to quickly and... (Posted November 30, 2006)
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Resurrect your old PC for Music with Linux
O'Reilly -- Resurrect Your Old PC for Music—with Linux - this article will show you how to resurrect a tired old PC by installing a... (Posted November 22, 2006)
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Polished Text Photoshop Tutorial
PXLGFX- Polished Text Tutorial walks through how to create what they are calling "polished" text, with a trendy reflection. They've added a badge as... (Posted November 14, 2006)
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6 Tools for Data Recovery
Even if you don't need it today, you'll need it someday because it happens to all of us ... eventually. 6 Tools to Help You... (Posted November 6, 2006)
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Creating web graphics in Photoshop tutorial
Creating web graphics in Photoshop - a nice tutorial for creating web graphic basics - the button and the menu.... (Posted November 6, 2006)
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Nice list of GIMP resources
My GIMP resources - Simplehelp - a great list of resources for GIMP, including books, links to specific GIMP tutorials and links to GIMP tutorial... (Posted November 4, 2006)
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10 Things you should know about connecting Mac OS X systems to Windows Networks
10 things you should know about connecting Macintosh OS X systems to Windows networks - A good read for anyone contemplating getting this. It's sure... (Posted October 31, 2006)
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How to Build a Search Box for your site for Firefox 2 or IE7
Build a Search Box for Firefox 2/IE7 is a how-to build and offer up a search box add-on for your site. This is the search... (Posted October 31, 2006)
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How to watch YouTube on your iPod
How to Watch YouTube on Your iPod - WikiHow - instruction for Windows and Mac OS X. And if you are using Firefox with Greasemonkey,... (Posted October 30, 2006)
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How's your email etiquette
Are you an email procrastinator or an instantaneous responder? SunbeltBLOG: How's Your Email Etiquette? takes a look at the good (or bad) email manners.... (Posted October 18, 2006)
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Add Digg to you Firefox Search bar
Mycroft Project: Sherlock & OpenSearch Search Engine Plugins - use the Mycroft search plugin to add Digg to your search box dropdown in Firefox.... (Posted October 16, 2006)
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10 Ways to Protect your home network
Daily Cup of Tech - 10 Ways to Protect Your Home Network - nice look at ways to secure your home network. It stops short... (Posted October 13, 2006)
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How to tag songs in iTunes
I know a lot of people would like the ability to tag songs in iTunes. Well, apparently, the functionality is already there. How to Tag... (Posted September 30, 2006)
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Create an online store with WordPress
From serialdeviant, a walkthrough on how to Create an online store with WordPress. I'm not a WordPress user, but this looks like a fairly easy... (Posted September 28, 2006)
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Forget BitTorrent. Learn Usenet. A how-to
mantup.com suggests that we Forget BitTorrent. Learn Usenet. and proceeds to demystify Usenet, explain the pros and cons and outlines how to get started with... (Posted September 12, 2006)
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9 Bittorrent How-to articles
9 Bittorrent how-to’s at Torrent Freak. Some useful information for working with torrents.... (Posted August 26, 2006)
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How to minimize iTunes controls to Windows toolbar
How to minimize your iTunes controls to your windows toolbar in about 3 easy steps.Showing iTunes Controls on the Toolbar Of course, you can... (Posted August 25, 2006)
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