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Archive for May 8th, 2007

Paradox User Bar

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Okay Baldy has slapped together a userbar for those that desire to give us a little exposure out in the cyberworld.

To download: right click and “save as”
Feel free to use it in your siggy, a link back to the Paradox would be greatly appreciated!
Posted by LinuxChick - Baldys Paradox

Bookmark tool

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

AM-DeadLink detects dead links and duplicates in browser bookmarks and text files. If a bookmark has become unavailable you can verify and delete it permanently. Additionally you can download FavIcons for all your Favorites and Bookmarks.
AM-DeadLink is Freeware!
AM-DeadLink can check the following resources:
* Internet Explorer Favorites
* Firefox [...]

Windows Error Messages

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Just a few error messages you might have seen while trying to use this operating system..
Win98 error 009: Erroneous error: Nothing is wrong.
Time out error: Operator fell asleep while waiting for Windows NT to complete
boot procedure.
Quick! Call Guiness book of world records! My Windows 98 hasn’t crashed for
2 hours, 43 minutes and 9 seconds!!!
Windows found [...]

Two US States Restrict Used CD Sales

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

 
DrBenway sends us to Ars Technica for a report that Florida and Utah have placed draconian restrictions on the sale of used music CDs; Wisconsin and Rhode Island may soon follow suit. In Florida, stores have to hold on to CDs for 30 days before they can sell them — for store credit only, not [...]

When IT and taxidermy collide…

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

The only thing that comes to mind is.. GROSS!
A Compubeaver and a mouse-mouse!
Yikes, some people have way too much time on their hands!
Have a look, if you dare..
Source: Ananova
~LC
Posted by LinuxChick - Baldys Paradox

A keyhole for your system’s back door

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

 
While a properly set up SSH service can give you secure remote access to a server, you might not like the idea of having an SSH server always running on your machine. Secure Back Door (SBD) can open an encrypted connection to your system, allowing you to remotely execute any operating system commands for example [...]

Mono developers to bring Silverlight to Linux

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

 
Mono project lead developer Miguel de Icaza says that the Mono development community plans to have an experimental Linux-based Silverlight browser plug-in ready for testing by the end of the year. Silverlight, Microsoft’s new .NET-based technology for rapid development of interactive rich media applications, is currently only supported on Windows and Mac OS X.

 
Technorati [...]

Howto create a Free CD/DVD databases and Labels in OpenOffice.Org

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

 
If you’re serious about music or DVDs, at some point you cross the threshold of having more than you can keep track of easily. The box full of index cards has served its purpose; it’s time to move on to storing information about your CDs and DVDs in a database.

 
Technorati tags: Software, How-To
Source: Howto [...]

Extending OpenOffice.org: Creating template and AutoText extensions

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

 
One of the great features of the current version of OpenOffice.org is the support for extensions, which allow you to add to the office suite’s functionality. Every day this week we’ll look some of the most useful OOo extensions available. Today,…

 
Technorati tags: Software, How-To
Source: Extending OpenOffice.org: Creating template and AutoText extensions
Posted by Baldy [...]

Turn your Linux box into a PDF-making machine

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

 
Remember the paperless office? By now we were supposed to be handling all of our documents digitally, and saving trees by using computers to handle everything electronically. If you’d like to make backup copies of ephemeral content without printing…

 
Technorati tags: Linux, Software
Source: Turn your Linux box into a PDF-making machine
Posted by Baldy - [...]

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