Submitted by Idea North
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The Sudbury and District Board of Health gave a little advice to the provincial government after receiving the Sudbury and District Health Unit's annual nutritious food basket report on the local cost of healthy eating Nov. 19. In a motion, the board said the province should review the feasibility of “an increase to Ontario (Read More)
Software area:
The folks over at GDGT have done a great job by packaging a VMWare image of Google Chrome OS that an be downloaded for free from http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/. You will also need to download VMWare Player from https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/?p=player&cmp=EMC-PlayerEvalActivation&li=activate. In both cases, y (Read More)
The Portable Freeware Collection:
ProduKey recovers the Product IDs and CD keys of Microsoft Office, Windows, and SQL Server installed on your machine. You can also view this information for for another machine using command-line options. (Read More)
Submitted by Koltregaskes
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Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, Question of the Day, TheNextWeb ForumAre you a Mac or a PC?16 hours ago- Comment- LikeNispell, Will Higgins™, rowlikeagirl and 4 other people liked thisExplain why. - question from Plinky: http://www.plinky.com/prompts... - Kol Tregaskes38 more commentsMac with Windows under VMWare. Need both fo (Read More)
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Windows only: Firefox extension MinimizeToTray Revived is a replacement for the popular MinimizeToTray extension (which has since been abandoned and doesn't support Firefox 3 or later). The simple extension puts Firefox in your system tray with a click of your mouse or a keystroke.Once you've installed the extension, Firefo (Read More)
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Windows: When your computer starts acting hinky and spitting out error messages, it's hard to know exactly where to begin to diagnose the problem. Windows Surface Scanner gives you a place to start.This free utility takes a look at your hard drives and ferrets out any physical errors it finds, so you know what might be caus (Read More)
Live Search Webmaster Center Blog:
In past SEM 101 articles, we've talked about the importance of inbound links to successful ranking (see "Links: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" - Part 1 and Part 2). We've already discussed many issues surrounding them, but we haven't done a dedicated post on how to be successful at link building from a search engine's per (Read More)
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Windows only: Most people use torrent sites like Mininova or The Pirate Bay to search for torrents online, but free program TorrentFetcher lets you search straight from a desktop program and quickly start the transfer in your BitTorrent client of choice.Torrent sites offer a lot of information about the torrents they have a (Read More)
Download Squad:
Filed under: Windows, Microsoft, Freeware, Social SoftwareWhen Microsoft introduced us to Silverlight 4 the other day, the demoed a slick Facebook application. It's called Fishbowl, and it's now available for download. Not only does Fishbowl provide a nice, clean display of your stream (read: free of sidebar annoyances), bu (Read More)
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Android/iPhone: ShopSavvy proved itself one of the most popular Android apps out of the gate, and it's easy to see why. Now on iPhones, the app lets you scan item barcodes, see who has it for less, and locate them.Beyond the simple price comparisons via barcode scanning, ShopSavvy saves a history of items you've looked at, (Read More)
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Windows Mobile 6.5: If you're rocking a fairly new Windows Mobile phone, Microsoft offers a beta build of its portable Office applications until April 2010. That means free viewing editing of Excel, Word, Powerpoint, OneNote, and other documents.The app seems to require a touch interface, along with the 6.5 system, so it's (Read More)
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Firefox: Gmail recently made a few tweaks to its message count API, leaving tools like the favicon message indictors by Eric Bogs and Peter Wooley, along with Gina's own Better Gmail 2 Firefox extension, broken. Now they're fixed.Bogs and Wooley, whose clever user scripts cleverly show your unread message count in your Gmai (Read More)
Paul Thurrott's newly used software on Wakoopa:
Microsoft Office Publisher (previously and commonly Microsoft Publisher) is a desktop publishing application from Microsoft. It is often considered to be an entry-level desktop publishing application, differing from Microsoft Word in that the emphasis is placed on page layout and design rather than text composition and proo (Read More)
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Windows: Gaming is fun. Organizing all your personal video games isn't. Sisimizi takes the hassle out of managing your collection so you can get back to raiding villages and killing zombies.Sisimizi Game Catalog is a free, open-source database application that supports classic and recent video game consoles. It retrieves ga (Read More)
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Mac OS X: Camino, the lightweight, Mac-centered, standards-compliant browser, has seen a 2.0 release filled with features fans are going to dig. Selective ad and Flash blocking, OS X keychain integration, Growl support, and much more are now baked in.Camino's got a lot to recommend it, especially if you're mainly concerned (Read More)