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Postable is a tiny little online tool from Elliot Swan.
The purpose behind Postable is to help you when you are posting code either on your blog or in a comments field.
Postable converts all the “<” and “>” signs in my code to “&lt;” and “&gt;”, respectively as well as & to “&amp;”. It similarly works [...]

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I never had the need for a screen recording software to date, however, this is one of the best ways to put up some video tutorials.
Wink is a good free software, however Camtasia Studio is feature rich paid software, that has been out of my budget until now.
As part of a promotion drive for Camtasia [...]

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I’ve always been on the hunt for a good downloader, and whenever I found one, there would be some problem or the other. I stumbled upon Orbit Downloader.
Orbit Downloader is a great speed, super light,easy-to-use and free rich media downloader. It is based on p2p and multi-source downloading technology and supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, MMS [...]

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My past years of experience in maintaining computers, both of mine and my friends has taught me that people are not very aware of SpyWare. Agreed that this is a lot better than a few years back when spyware was just beginning to raise its ugly head.
We have several spyware tools (which I shall look [...]

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Internet Explorer 7 is indeed one of the better releases of the browser. It corrected a lot of things and made is developer and userfriendly. The best addition to the browser was the Tab Browsing. I would have loved to have more features like adblocking and mouse gestures, but I guess that wasn’t meant to [...]

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Two months back I introduced you to USBDeview, which you can use to list and manage all your USB drives.
This week we take a look at a similar but more powerful tool, Drive Manager.
Drive Manager will help you manage your hard drive, mapped network drives, thumb drives (USB memory sticks), smart media and compact flash [...]

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As you continue to use your PC, the files get defragmented. The more the defragmentation, the longer it takes time for your operating system to fetch the files resulting in decreased performance.
Windows comes with an inbuilt defragmenter which you should run regularly to keep defragmentation levels low. However, the higher the defragmentation the longer it [...]

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My extensive development and maintenance work requires me to work with a lot of code. The worst part of maintenance is keeping track of what changes have taken place. Most of the time I don’t need to worry about the software I am upgrading.
However, I need to worry about the same whenever I have modified [...]

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At times you might like to have a drive mapped to a particular folder / subfolder. This situation could arise if say you copied the cotents of a CD on your drive and the setup requires to have be run from a drive directly and not via the folder.
In such a situation the DOS SUBST [...]

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