A great tool I use frequently… http://www.voidtools.com/ The built-in Windows search indexes media and standard document files that we as developers do not often use. We usually want to find source files and other files not indexed. Where XP allowed…
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Technology is amazing.
Technology is amazing. Stop and think about it. Look at our cars. We take this technology for granted. Since the dawn of time and up to essentially just the last 150 years, the fastest a person could travel from Point…
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Google Fiber, Please!
Comcast’s Internet bandwidth is roughly 20 Mb/s for $80/mo. For the EXACT SAME AMOUNT, how would you like 1,000 Mb/s bandwidth? It’s hard to visualize an internet this fast. Note that your internal corporate is probably running at “just” 100…
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Google Reader may be dying, but RSS isn’t.
I’m one of the many people lamenting my loss of Google Reader. Google Reader has been my online newspaper for 6 years, and now it is going away. The journalists explained it that RSS is dying because it is too…
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Qt > Java
Why do we keep using Java? It is full of security holes, slow (at least for many Swing-based GUIs), uses non-standard OS controls (like its file-browsing widget), requires updating every other week, and now Oracle bundles the Ask toolbar with…
Your goals should be SMART.
When thinking of new years resolutions, it is a good idea to try to make them “SMART” (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timely).
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Goodbye Windows XP. Hello Linux Mint.
Ever since I installed Linux on to a partition in my 2 year old netbook, I haven’t booted in to Windows XP in months. There’s just been no need.
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Miles Per Gallon Break Even Point
This will calculate the break-even miles for 2 separate cars. Use this to see if driving a car with a certain MPG is worthwhile.Some common cars are available in the drop-down menus for quick calculating. Don’t Buy a Prius to Save Money on Gas
You can now calculate different cars here: http://dannagle.com/2012/11/miles-per-gallon-break-even-point/
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A review of Sirius XM Radio
So I got a free subscription to SiriusXM Satellite radio. The service normally costs a laughably high ~$15/mo. After playing with it for admittedly just a few days, here are my thoughts…
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