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This is about my fictional Aunt Sally who wonders if she can use Microsoft Excel to organize and track her large collection of stuff animals.
Microsoft Excel would be a great way for Sally to track her stuffed animal collection. With over 800 stuffed animals, finding information about a particular …
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This has probably been one of the most requested features for Google Docs: the ability to upload PDFs.
This is really the only feature that has been missing for my Great Google Docs Conversion of 2008. The addition of this new feature means that I can clear out even more …
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If you've been following the Firefox 3 news, you are no doubt aware that today (June 17, 2008) is the official release date for Firefox 3. Unfortunately, when Mozilla made the download available at 1 PM Eastern, the flood of traffic made the Mozilla servers virtually unreachable.
The initial rush …
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I'm not a fan of Firefox 3 Beta 4's new navigation buttons. I don't really use these buttons, but that huge Back button keeps distracting me. Thankfully there's a way to fix this, but it's not in the Preferences menu.
The key to getting a more reasonable set of navigation …
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Let me start off by saying that I really don't have a lot of experience with Lotus Notes. I was able to suffer through using the client for about a week before I finally begged the Notes admin to forward my mail to my Gmail account. As an email client …
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A few days ago, I talked about Mozilla Prism and how it came up short in a few key areas. At the end of that post, I briefly mentioned Fluid as an alternative for Mac OS X users.
In response to that brief introduction, Slaptijack reader Stephen has put together …
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(Let me point out at the very beginning that I am aware that Mozilla Prism is still in beta. This commentary is specifically based on Mozila Prism 0.8 for Mac OS X.)
I love the idea of Mozilla Prism.
As an avid user of Gmail and other web-based applications …
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Just in case your browser hasn't popped up and told you, Firefox 2.0.0.12 is now available!
This version addresses stability and security issues uncovered in Firefox 2.0.0.11. Several of the fixes are critically important. Therefore, it's recommended that all users upgrade as soon as …
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One problem with the MySQL command line client is that queries with lots of columns tend to wrap crazily based on your terminal size. To overcome this, you can get a vertical output by terminating your queries with \G instead of ;. I find this format extremely helpful in cases where …
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Many months ago I made a conscience decision to use only Google Talk for instant messaging. By doing this, I really shut the door on several friends and family members that were tied to Yahoo! and AIM. It wasn't an easy decision, but I was really tired of having to …
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In case you missed it, Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) released version 9.4.2 of their BIND DNS server yesterday. It is recommended that all you BIND DNS operators out there upgrade your software, as BIND 9.4.2 over 90 fixes! Here's a graphical representation of the types of …
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It's been four weeks since BlogRush released their updated dashboard and I decided to give them a second chance. In that time, I've earned over 6,000 credits and received 1 click. (The recipient article for that one lonely click was Gmail And IMAP, Perfect if you are interested.)
What …
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The Red Hat team has been hard at work rolling out bug fix updates. Here's another list of updated packages.
Red Hat signs all their packages via Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG …
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The Red Hat folks have been hard at work pushing out a new batch of bug fixes. Here's a list of affected packages.
If you use any of the above packages or a Red Hat-based system, please make sure you keep your software up to date …
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I'm way behind in my feed reader (Google Reader, if you care to know) and it shows. This morning I was poking around in my Gmail settings and noticed a slight change in the tabs across the top. Where we used to have "Forwarding and POP", we now have "Forwarding …
