Thursday, November 5, 2009 - Page 2
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CompareMyDocs Helps You Compare Document Revisions

Free web service CompareMyDocs is an easy-to-use tool that compares up to seven revisions of a Word document or rich text file to help you put together a final draft based on revisions you choose.


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Close All Windows From The Windows 7 Taskbar

Close All Windows is a simple application that forces all your open windows to quit immediately, and the Addictive Tips blog points out that you can also pin it to the Windows 7 taskbar for quick access.


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How Do You Deal With A Bad Boss?

Nothing puts a damper on your work life like a bad boss, but at times — particularly in a down economy —s imply finding a new job isn’t an option.


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DIY 9V Battery-Powered USB Charger

Sure you could go buy a USB charger off the shelf, but what fun would that be? Try making one yourself with a little help from a 9V battery and a few extra components.


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Tab Progress Bar Brings Forward A Firefox 3.7 Feature

Firefox only: Firefox 3.7 is scheduled to push page-loading progress bars into tabs, but for those of you who want to stay on the cutting edge, the feature is available now with the aptly named Tab Progress Bar Firefox extension.


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Pin Tab Offers Chrome-Like Pinned Tabs In Firefox

Firefox: If you’ve noticed the pinned-tab feature in Google Chrome and would like to give it a try in Firefox, Pin Tab adds a simple and lightweight pinning feature to Firefox.


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Customise MediaWiki Into Your Own Collaborative Website

The free MediaWiki software is best known for powering Wikipedia, but you don’t have to be writing an encyclopaedia to put it to good use. Extend, skin and customise MediaWiki to create any kind of easy-to-update, collaborative web site.


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Mod Your Lantern-Style Flashlights To Use A Rechargeable Battery

Big, bulky lantern-style flashlights are super easy to find when the power goes out, but the batteries they require can be draining on the wallet. This small modification lets it work with a rechargeable battery to ease the cost.


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Chromium Installs User Scripts As Extensions

The nightly builds of Google Chrome’s open-source foundation, Chromium, includes a feature that might mean great things for Greasemonkey fans. Click on a user script file, such as at UserScripts.org, and Chromium asks to install it as a working extension.


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Parallels 5 Integrates Windows 7 With Aero Support

Since the release of Windows 7 last week, we’ve already seen a VMWare Fusion update that runs Windows apps inside OS X with full Aero graphical support. Now Parallels is going head-to-head, offering a similarly slick virtualisation package.