October 2009
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Google Chrome Tip: Fixing 'Resolving proxy' Delays →
Google Chrome is a quick, quick browser, but if you have it set to automatically detect your proxy settings, it can be IE6-slow to launch. Here’s how you fix it:
Click the wrench menu.
Select Options.
Click the Under the Hood tab.
In the ‘Network’ section, click the Change proxy settings button. This will open the ‘Internet Properties’ dialog box.
Click the LAN...
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Microsoft selling crapware-free PCs in its stores →
If you’re going to buy a Windows PC and you’re not comfortable rebuilding your own machine, this is the way you should do it.
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Automatically Paste Text Into Outlook Without The... →
This alone was worth upgrading to 2007. It always drove me nuts that I’d have to fix the font size and color after pasting in stuff from other programs/emails.
Bonus tip: To strip all formatting from text, highlight it and press Ctrl-Shift-N.
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Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food →
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100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its... →
The player piano is going to kill the music industry!
The photocopier is going to kill the publishing industry!
The VCR is going to kill the movie industry!
And the Internet is going to kill ALL content industries…I’m not buying it.