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LastPass Really Works

I’ve always hated password managers. They’ve always seemed klunky, inconvenient, and poorly thought out. This all changed with LastPass. LastPass, like other passwords manager, lets you save your passwords. So what makes it better? It is free. They have a paid version, but it doesn’t give any extra functionality that I need. It works directly [...]
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Open Atrium

I’ve recently discovered Open Atrium. I love it! Built on Drupal, this “intranet in a box” is the perfect solution for my company. These are the things I love about it: Works without a lot of configuration, but is still highly configurable in case you need it to do something special. Allows you to define [...]
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Save money AND make your site faster using a CDN

My most popular website, the Fake Name Generator, recently ran into two major problems: It was using too many server resources. It wasn’t as fast as I wanted it. To solve these issues, I turned to SimpleCDN and their awesome “mirror buckets”. Basically you setup a bucket, point it at your base URL (in my [...]
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Songbird

I have recently become a huge fan of Songbird, a free multi-platform media player based on Mozilla’s XULRunner. If you are anything like me, you may be asking yourself what makes Songbird special or worth your time. Why not just keep using iTunes, VLC, or Windows Media Player? Here are my reasons for choosing Songbird [...]
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Buying glasses online

Recently, I’ve been having some trouble reading small print on my monitor. After talking to my wife, I realized that my vision just isn’t what it used to be. After getting my prescription, we hit up Sam’s Club and found a nice pair that would cost $127 plus 5% sales tax. Yikes! I just need [...]
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