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Pin Any Item To The Windows 7 Taskbar
6:00AM Adam Pash | By default, Windows 7 easily pins any program to the taskbar for quick launching (just drag and drop), but if you want to pin something that isn’t an application, it gets more difficult. Weblog 7tutorials details how to pin any item. More »
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Quickly Copy File Paths To Your Command Prompt Via Drag And Drop
4:00AM Adam Pash | Windows/Mac/Linux: If you spend much time at a command/shell prompt, you’re probably very comfortable navigating from one folder to the next — but rather than manually typing through folders to find a file buried in your filesystem, just drag and drop instead. More »
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Go Straight To Your Unread Gmail Messages With A Shortcut
3:15AM Adam Pash | You probably already know how to find unread messages in Gmail (search is:unread in:inbox, but if you want quick, bookmarkable access to only those unread messages in your inbox, CNET has a simple suggestion. More »
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4:30PM Angus Kidman | As Windows 7 nears its October 22 release, shortcuts for the operating system continue to emerge. Here’s some more ways to manipulate Windows 7’s revamped environment. More »
More Windows 7 Shortcuts
4:30PM Angus Kidman | As Windows 7 nears its October 22 release, shortcuts for the operating system continue to emerge. Here’s some more ways to manipulate Windows 7’s revamped environment. More »
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ControlPad Turns Your Number Pad Into An Application Launcher
8:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: ControlPad is a lightweight application launcher that uses the number pad on your keyboard as a quick launcher for applications and system commands. More »
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Delete Outlook Emails With The Middle Mouse Button
2:00AM The How-To Geek | Reader Grigory writes in with his ubergeeky script that deletes messages in Microsoft Outlook just by middle-clicking on them in the list—so you can make short work of cleaning out your inbox. More »
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Pastie Speeds Up iPhone Email With Pre-Formatted Text
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | iPhone: Emails can be unique, but sometimes you just need to tell the boss you’re “running 10 minutes late,” or ask a spouse what they need from the store. Pastie makes sending common text blocks to contacts fast and easy. More »
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AtTheBigRiver.com Quickly Short-Links Amazon Products
9:30PM Kevin Purdy | Want to turn your friend onto the unappreciated genius of Big Star? Send them to big-star.atthebigriver.com and they’ll land on Amazon’s search page, no gigantic URL or searching on your part required. AtTheBigRiver.com aims to make Amazon linking easy. More »
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Use Relative Paths In Your Batch Files
4:00AM The How-To Geek | 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. More »
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