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From the site: “If you consider yourself a geek, or aspire to the honor of geekhood, here’s an essential checklist of must-have geek skills.
The term ‘geek’, once used to label a circus freak, has morphed in meaning over the years. What was once an unusual profession transferred into a word indicating social awkwardness. As time has gone on, the word has yet again morphed to indicate a new type of individual: someone who is obsessive over one (or more) particular subjects, whether it be science, photography, electronics, computers, media, or any other field. A geek is one who isn’t satisfied knowing only the surface facts, but instead has a visceral desire to learn everything possible about a particular subject.”
64 Things Every Geek Should Know - LaptopLogic.com
Tags: geek, list, skills
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From the site: “Windows 7’s Release Candidate is free and available for download, but what’s all that different from the beta version? Quite a bit, it turns out, and we’ve got the screenshots to prove it.”
Lifehacker - What’s New in the Windows 7 Release Candidate - Windows 7 release candidate
Tags: operating Systems, Windows 7
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Uncategorized From the site: “User friendly Windows-based Recuva took home the crown for top data recovery tool. If your data woes aren’t as simple as undeleting an accidentally deleted file, make sure to check out cross-platform runner up TestDisk, a robust disk repair and data recovery tool. For more information on the other contenders make sure to check out the full Hive Five.”
Lifehacker - Hive Five Winner for Best Free Data Recovery Tool: Recuva - hive
Tags: data recovery, free, software
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Uncategorized From the site: “I’ve been using netbooks for over a year now; they’re great for the times when I just want to tote a lightweight machine for performing basic tasks, or even cruise around the house, working in various places. They’re also a very hot product category. If you’re new to netbooks, or thinking of getting one, in this post I’ll round up four utilities for Windows netbooks that will make working with them much easier and more efficient.”
4 Essential Utilities for Windows Netbooks
Tags: best of, netbooks, utilities
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From the site: “Web site Let Simon Decide is a decision-making application intended to walk you through important decisions one step at a time.
Let’s say, for example, you’re considering switching careers. Register with Let Simon Decide, then click the big Make a Smart Decision button to get started. Choose your decision type from a drop-down and start walking through the suggested decision-making wizards. Simon will present you with various questions and forms to fill out, and—assuming it works—eventually suggest a decision based on what the process has revealed about what matters most to you.”
Lifehacker - Let Simon Decide Makes Tough Decisions Easy - decisions
Tags: free, service, website
Posted by huhwhat on May 3, 2009 in
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From the site: “For all of Windows 7’s niceties, it still doesn’t have an appropriately slick built-in backup system like Time Machine. Enter Seagate Replica, which Rob at BoingBoing Gadgets says works perfectly, just like Time Machine.”
Gizmodo - Seagate Replica Is Time Machine for Windows PCs - Seagate replica
Tags: backup, external hd
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From the site: “Swine Flu has already killed over 149 people in Mexico. Forty confirmed cases have been reported in five States. Here’s how and why you now need to prepare your car for the Swine Flupocalypse.”
Jalopnik - Ten Ways To Prepare Your Car For The Swine Flupocalypse - 10 Ways To Prepare Your Car For Swine Flu
Tags: cars, flucopalypse, list, prepare
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From the site: “Windows only: Panda Cloud Antivirus uses the power of cloud computing to scan and eliminate viruses from your PC that can identify new malware in almost real time.
Traditional anti-virus applications simply download an update from the servers on a periodic basis to keep your virus definitions scanning for the latest viruses—Cloud Antivirus uses their cloud system to do the work of classifying and scanning for new viruses, and is constantly updated with the latest virus information based on information from every other PC running the software.”
Lifehacker - Panda Cloud Antivirus is a Lightweight, Always-Updated Virus Killer - Featured Windows Download
Tags: anti-virus, beta, cloud, free
