Thursday, July 9, 2009 - Page 2
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PetMD Supplies Pet Health Information In A Pinch

When a pet starts acting funny, it can throw you into panic mode. Web site PetMD aims to help by supplying pet owners with the health knowledge they need for the pets they love.


Design

Pictaculous Pulls Colour Palettes From Images

Pictaculous takes an image of your choice and generates a selection of colour palettes based off of it. With a simple upload you can turn a design-inspiring image into a functional design palette.


Work

Speed Up Your Downloads By Choosing The Fastest Torrents

Even if you know everything there is to know about BitTorrent apps, your downloads can still be slow as molasses. It’s not you, it’s the torrent. All-things-BitTorrent weblog TorrentFreak discusses how to speed up your downloads by picking the fastest torrents.


Work

Use Relative Paths In Your Batch Files

Reader Paul writes in with an interesting tip for using relative paths in a batch file: you can use a special code to represent the current path—useful for batch files on a Flash drive.


Work

Cameras Improves The Way OS X Deals With Connected Cameras

Mac OS X only: Never been entirely happy with the way your Mac reacts when you plug in your various camera-sporting devices? Wish it could do something different when you plug in your iPhone versus your DSLR? Cameras can help.


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Track Your Morning Rituals To Streamline Your Routine

If your mornings seems to get away from you, it’s time to take stock in where the time is going and make sure the routine you have is a realistic one. Photo by wanfauzan.


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WEP Cracking Redux: Beyond The Command Line

Last week we showed you how to crack a Wi-Fi network’s WEP key using a live CD and some command line fu. Today we’ve got other cracking options—but more importantly, clarification on the point of all this.


Fix

Make A Non-Toxic Cleaning Kit

Don’t want a house full of nasty cleaning chemicals? Green living web site care2 details how to make a complete, non-toxic, eco-friendly and cost-effective cleaning kit.


Work

VLC Portable 1.0 Puts Multi-Format Playing On Thumb Drives

Windows: If you’re eager to try out VLC 1.0′s new features, or find yourself at a lack for decent media players at others’ computers, PortableApps has bundled VLC’s latest release in USB-drive-friendly form.


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View PDFs In Google Search Results Without HTML Conversion

Google’s search results have long included a “View as HTML” option tacked next to PDF files it indexed. Now it’s increasingly just “View”, as the native viewer app used in Google Docs is available for quick document scans.