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Chrome Firefox

Firefox: Chrome Package Makes Firefox Look Even More Like ChromeThe Chome Package Firefox extension makes Firefox look almost exactly like Google Chrome for those of you who prefer Chrome’s tabs-on-top style. (Chromifox wasn’t quite there.) You’ve enabled the rest of Chrome’s best features in Firefox.I put off downloading Google Chrome because I already had Flock, [...]

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Good reason to upgrade to WordPress 2.6.2 ?

Sticky Posts! « WordPress.comRegular updates are what blogging’s all about, but sometimes you want to keep hot topics or other static info at the top of your posts. This feature has existed as Sticky Topics in the forums, but hasn’t been available on blogs. Until now.This feature might be a good reason to upgrade to [...]

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Read Daily Bread easier with python

I live in Malaysia which is GMT+8. When I open the Daily Bread in the morning, it shows me the previous day’s devotion because Malaysia’s time zone is ahead of Daily Bread’s. However, Daily Bread allows me to read ‘ahead’ by clicking on any date on a calendar on the website. Well, I don’t like [...]

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Run office PC from home

This morning, I learnt how to switch on my office PC from home. In my scenario, my office has citrix which I can log in to. Before this morning, I had to leave my PC on before I left work if I wanted to use it from home. At home, I would log on to [...]

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Read Office 2007 files with Office XP, 2000, 2003

Download details: Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File FormatsBy installing the Compatibility Pack in addition to Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able to open, edit, and save files using the file formats new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007. The Compatibility Pack can also [...]

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Free Django hosting

Google App Engine comes bundled with the popular Django python framework. For an idea of Django hosting prices, visit http://www.webfaction.com/services/hosting. Python hosting is rare and pricey (compared to PHP hosting). Before  Google App Engine, if you wanted to run Django on Bluehost, you have to be ready to do quite a bit of work and [...]

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Introducing Google App Engine – hosted web applications on Python

Most hosting companies support PHP web applications but few support Python web applications. Google just launched Google App Engine – a hosted environment that uses Python and YAML and it even offers a no-risk free start-up pack. During this preview period, applications are limited to 500MB of storage, 200M megacycles of CPU per day, and [...]

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easy_install is a great tool to install python packages

Today, while reading a magazine, I came across a package I wanted to check out – pyExcelerator. I found the package at sourceforge, version 0.6.3a. I downloaded the zip file and just before I installed it, I tried out easy_install. 1: c:\1\sql\nfx>easy_install pyexcelerator 2: Searching for pyexcelerator 3: Reading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/pyexcelerator/ 4: Couldn’t find index page [...]

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Alternate URL addresses for Google search

All these url addresses link to Google search. 1. www.americanlandmarkfence.com2. www.unitedamericanfund.com3. www.earningspace.com4. www.jeanoffer.com5. www.factualearn.com6. www.abnamrobankgroup.net7. www.glisteningwhitesmile.com8. www.iloveyourobin.com9. www.nuzrinmira.com10. msm.byu.edu   Use them to Prevent Boss From Snooping On Your Google Search Queries Technorati tags: google, alternatives, url, addressRead more work,wow articles

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Download AVG Anti-Virus Pro for free

Just found another great time-limited gift for the Christmas season. AVG Pro usually goes for $29.95, but Computeract!ve is giving away free licensed copies through Jan 18, 2008 Download AVG Anti-Virus Pro for free – Download Squad Personally, my favourite so far is ZoneAlarm, switched from Norton because Zonealarm does not try to sell me [...]

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