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| LostInTechnology |
| LostInTechnology is a blog that was started to share all of the information that we have gained over the years while cursing, kicking, screaming, and dealing with technology. |
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| Weekly Links: July 3, 2008 |
| 2008-07-03 07:00:30 |
This is my weekly round up of the links I have followed over the past week (posted a day early due to the 4th). You can get this list every week by subscribing to my RSS feed or subscribing through email. You may also connect with me in social networks to get some of these [...]...
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| Digsby: A Great Multi-IM Client |
| 2008-07-02 07:00:41 |
Digsby is one of the best, if not the best, multi-IM client available. It offers lots of features and gives you the flexibility you always wanted from your instant messaging client of choice. These features include support for most IM clients, email integration, and social network integration.
Digsby has the base IM capabilities of most multi-IM [...]...
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| How To Secure Your Wireless Home Network |
| 2008-07-01 07:00:02 |
The security of your home network is of great importance. No one wants their neighbor leeching off their home network, much less, messing with all of the things you have stored on your network. In this how to, I’m going to show you the three things you need to do in order to secure your [...]...
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| How To Find Your Mac Address |
| 2008-06-30 07:00:37 |
It wasn’t too long ago that I made a post about how to find out what your IP address was. Well, I thought I should also let everyone know how to find your MAC address as well, since the steps are very similar.
First, you want to open up the run window.
Once the run window is [...]...
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| Weekly Links: June 27, 2008 |
| 2008-06-27 20:17:28 |
This is my weekly round up of the links I have followed over the past week. You can get this list every week by subscribing to my RSS feed or subscribing through email. You may also connect with me in social networks to get some of these links throughout the week. As usual, catch the [...]...
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| Learn About the Slide Master in PowerPoint 2007 |
| 2008-06-26 12:00:53 |
A few days ago, I wrote a guest post for LyteByte about using the Slide Master in PowerPoint 2007. I wanted to let all of my readers know about it, because the Slide Master is such a great tool. It allows you to edit the format of all the slides in an entire presentation from [...]...
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| Websites I Like #3 |
| 2008-06-25 07:00:13 |
Recently, I started a new post series called “Websites I Like” that was meant to just come up from time to time, but I figured out that I have so many websites to share that it will probably come up more often than just every once in a while. Would you guys like me [...]...
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| Use Track Changes for Group Editing in Microsoft Word 2007 |
| 2008-06-24 07:00:46 |
Track changes is one of the great features of Microsoft Word that is often overlooked or not even known about. This feature allows you to edit and change documents with the option of accepting or rejecting the edits. Group work greatly benefits from this feature, because everyone can now see the changes that are [...]...
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| Ping.fm Invites for Everyone |
| 2008-06-23 07:00:16 |
Ping.fm is a new website application that allows you to post updates to almost all of your social networks at the same time. There are other services and applications that are similar, but no other service, that I know of, has this many supported social networks.
I recently found out the beta code and want to [...]...
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| Weekly Links: June 20, 2008 |
| 2008-06-20 20:02:38 |
This is my weekly round up of the links I have followed over the past week. You can get this list every week by subscribing to my RSS feed or subscribing through email. You may also connect with me in social networks to get some of these links throughout the week. As usual, catch the [...]...
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| How to Change the Default Program for Opening Files |
| 2008-06-19 07:00:17 |
From time to time, you may have your defaults change either by you or some strange force. What once were you’re Word files may now only open with Notepad or Adobe, because the settings somehow randomly changed. This guide will show you how to get things back to normal and hopefully answer a few questions [...]...
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| 4 Alternatives to Adobe PDF Reader |
| 2008-06-18 08:00:19 |
I’m not sure about you, but I really hate the PDF format. What has always added to my dislike of the PDF format has been the traditionally slow Adobe PDF Reader. To make it easier to deal with PDFs, I’ve rounded up four great alternatives to Adobe PDF Reader.
Foxit Reader
Foxit Reader is probably the [...]...
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| Websites I Like #2 |
| 2008-06-17 08:00:18 |
Ever want to get into those sacred private beta websites but don’t have the right connections? Well, there is a solution to your problem. It is a website called InviteShare. This website has gotten me several invites to private betas (some great…some not so great).
Access to these beta sites not only makes [...]...
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| What is My IP Address? |
| 2008-06-16 08:00:56 |
I have often found myself asking this question, and I’m sure you have at some time or another. In this guide, I’m going to show you how to quickly find your IP address in Windows.
First, you want to open up Run from your Start Menu.
Now, you want to type cmd in the dialog box. [...]...
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| Weekly Links: June 13, 2008 |
| 2008-06-13 08:00:42 |
This is my weekly round up of the links I have followed over the past week. You can get this list every week by subscribing to my RSS feed or subscribing through email. You may also connect with me in social networks to get some of these links throughout the week. As usual, catch the [...]...
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| Firefox 3 Download Day is June 17th |
| 2008-06-12 21:03:42 |
The final version of Firefox 3 will be released on June 17th. A few days ago, I posted about Download Day and Mozilla’s attempt to set a World Record. I could go on and on about the new features, but I’m sure that most of you have already heard about them time and [...]...
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| Don’t Like MySpace? Download This Plugin |
| 2008-06-12 08:00:24 |
I am not a fan of MySpace. It is bloated and slow. Simple as that. I’m sure that several of my readers feel the same as I do on this topic. Well, there is now a solution that will protect you from ever accidentally stumbling upon this terrible place.
It’s a plugin [...]...
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| Sync Your Gmail and Thunderbird Contacts with Zindus |
| 2008-06-11 08:00:03 |
I use Gmail and Thunderbird, but I have stored all of my contacts on Thunderbird instead of Gmail. This never caused a problem until I started getting more and more into social networks.
Often, social networking sites will allow you to connect to your Gmail in order to see if any of your contacts [...]...
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| Plurk Tries to Take Twitter’s Crown |
| 2008-06-10 08:00:59 |
Twitter has been having lots of issues with downtime over the past…well as long as I can remember. This has opened the doors for other services to step forward and try to take the microblogging crown. Plurk is the newest service that has been getting the most press as of late. Plurk [...]...
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| Weekly Links: June 6, 2008 |
| 2008-06-06 15:28:35 |
This is my weekly round up of the links I have followed over the past week. You can get this list every week by subscribing to my RSS feed or subscribing through email. You may also connect with me in social networks to get some of these links throughout the week. As usual, catch the [...]...
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| How to Change the Default Folder View in Windows |
| 2008-06-05 08:00:19 |
Yesterday, I received a comment asking me how to change the default folder view in Windows. Well, I thought instead of just emailing an answer that I would make a blog post about it. Here is a guide on how to get all of your folders in Windows to give you the same [...]...
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| Firefox 3 Release Candidate 2 is Available |
| 2008-06-04 17:10:03 |
The newest release candidate for Firefox 3 just became available. If you are feeling a little adventurous and can’t wait for the real thing, download this new release candidate right here.
Who else can’t wait for the real thing?
Related Posts
The Best Firefox Extensions Known to Us (2)
Help Firefox Set a World Record (1)
Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts [...]...
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| Search Engine Aggregator Katapulco! |
| 2008-06-04 08:00:27 |
Recently, I ran across a new Engine">search engine called Katapulco! I know that search engines aren’t anything new these days, but this site is more than just a regular search engine. It is a search engine aggregator.
Aggregators of all kinds have been becoming extremely popular in recent times (i.e. Digg, FriendFeed, etc.). Aggregators [...]...
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| Useful Windows Key Shortcuts |
| 2008-06-03 08:00:38 |
In the past, I have often found myself looking at that little Windows key on my keyboard and wondering what great secrets it holds. After searching high and low, I have found some great shortcuts that stem from this mysterious key.
Windows Key - Displays the Start Menu
Windows Key + E - Opens Windows [...]...
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| Weekly Links: May 30, 2008 |
| 2008-05-30 15:35:52 |
This is my weekly round up of the links I have followed over the past week. You can get this list every week by subscribing to my RSS feed or subscribing through email. You may also connect with me in social networks to get some of these links throughout the week. As usual, catch [...]...
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| Invites to Brightkite |
| 2008-05-29 08:00:39 |
Brightkite is a new social network that gives its users a more local experience. It does this by allowing you to make Twitter-like updates that are location based. By making updates location based, you can find out what other people are doing in areas around you or across the globe.
Brightkite is currently [...]...
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| Feed Your Sharing Addiction with Shareaholic |
| 2008-05-27 15:06:06 |
Shareaholic is a must have Firefox extension for anyone that uses more than one social network to share their favorite links. This plugin allows you to share using several different social networking and bookmarking sites. I have used other bookmarking and sharing plugins in the past, but none have ever given me the [...]...
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| Websites I Like 1st Edition |
| 2008-05-27 08:00:09 |
From time to time, I am going to post about some of my favorite websites. These websites will range from blogs to informational to just plain fun, but they will all be sites that have influenced me in some way.
Today’s website is Portforward.com.
It wasn’t too long ago that I wrote a guide on opening [...]...
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| How to Change the Default Settings in Microsoft Word 2007 |
| 2008-05-26 08:00:36 |
Word 2007 has some interesting default settings to say the least, and I’m sure that I am not the only one that would like to change them. Today, I’m going to show you how to change those awful settings to something that suits you better.
First, you want to open up Word 2007, and open [...]...
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| Weekly Links: May 23, 2008 |
| 2008-05-23 08:00:37 |
This is my weekly round up of the links I have followed over the past week. You can get this list every week by subscribing to my RSS feed or subscribing through email. You may also connect with me in social networks to get some of these links throughout the week. As usual, catch [...]...
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| Best Features of Firefox 3 |
| 2008-05-22 08:00:43 |
The crew over at Lifehacker have come up with a top 10 list of the best features of Firefox 3. If you weren’t excited about Firefox 3 before, you should be now. All of the improvements are great, but I am most excited about the improved performance of Firefox 3.
This is due to [...]...
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| Top 5 Free Applications Every Blogger Needs |
| 2008-05-21 08:00:01 |
I have only been a blogger for a short time, but there are already certain applications I can’t live without. They improve my productivity and help me better manage my blog. Here are the five applications I can’t live without.
Windows Live Writer
Windows Live Writer is a desktop blogging application that allows you to [...]...
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| Upload Pictures to Flickr From Picasa |
| 2008-05-20 14:30:08 |
Normally, I like to vary my posts, but I wanted to do a quick follow up on the last post. The reason for the follow up is that there is a must have plugin for Picasa if you want to manage your photos online with Flickr instead of Picasa Web Albums.
Picasa2flickr is the [...]...
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| Organize Your Photos with Picasa |
| 2008-05-19 10:16:51 |
Picasa is a great desktop photo organizer that was developed by Google in order to support its online photo social network, Picasa Web Albums. Picasa continues on with the trend of most Google products of being very easy to use.
You can pick up Picasa right here, and once installed and opened, Picasa will start [...]...
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| Weekly Links: May 16, 2008 |
| 2008-05-16 08:30:56 |
This is my weekly round up of the links I have followed over the past week. You can get this list every week by subscribing to my RSS feed or subscribing through email. As usual, catch the links after the break.
Blogging
How to Split Test (A/B Test) Your AdSense Ads
Guide on how to compare the performance [...]...
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| Come Socialize With Us |
| 2008-05-15 08:10:13 |
Recently, I’ve been becoming a real social networking butterfly, and I wanted to give you guys a chance to come join the fun. Just add me to any or all of the following social networks and we’ll begin the socializing. Also, if you want to ask me any questions or make any suggestions, [...]...
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| How to Convert Your VHS Movies to DVDs |
| 2008-05-13 08:30:00 |
My wife and I have several old VHS movies that are either home movies or are no longer in print. We have always wanted to be able to convert them to DVDs in order to continue to view them, because we no longer own a VHS player.
The guys over at Unclutterer have written a [...]...
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