For those of us that from time to time need to work at the command prompt, it can really useful to open a command prompt window from exactly where we are in the normal Windows Explorer.
In XP, you could install a powertoy that allowed you to right mouse click the folder and then click on [...]

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For those of us who maintain several blogs, crossposting - or the ability to write one blog and then publish it to multiple blogs - is a very handy function!
MySpace has traditionally been one of the hardest to crosspost to, but if you are a WordPress user, then enter some funky php courtesy of Roderick [...]

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With GMail accounts now offering almost 3GB of storage, only the most dedicated email user is going to fill all of that space.
Enter the ‘GSpace‘ firefox plugin to help you utilise that space as if it were a directory on your own pc.
As the guys who wrote it say:
This extension allows you to use your [...]

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Do you blog on a Wordpress server? Do you use Facebook? Want to announce your blogs on Facebook automatically?
If so, then this little app is definitely for you!

Easy to install and elegant to configure, Rob at tsaiberspace.net is to be commended.

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From time to time I find I want to actually download a video from sites like Youtube or GoogleVideo so that I have access to them offline.
There are several ways to do this, and if you are windows user, by far the easiest is to use a Firefox plugin. There are several, but the two [...]

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Nokia announced a battery recall this week for all their BL-5C batteries manufactured between Dec 2005 and November 2006. These batteries are used in all sorts of phones and you can check if yours is affected by visiting their site. Apparently they have been short-circuiting whilst on charge and some have melted risking fire.
One of [...]

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