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Make Your Extensions Work with the Firefox 3 Beta [Firefox 3 Beta]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on February 12, 2008
Firefox 3 Beta only: If you've taken the plunge into testing the brand new Firefox 3 beta but your favorite extensions are disabled, that's because developers haven't updated them and may not be providing secure updates yet. If you're an impatient risk-taker who needs your extensions back NOW, here's a cheat that may get them to work. Big Honking Warning: Only do this if...
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Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds)
via Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky on February 18, 2008
Last week, Microsoft published the binary file formats for Office. These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file format is a 349 page PDF file. But wait, that’s not all there is to it! This document includes the following interesting comment: Each Excel workbook is stored in a compound file. You see, Excel 97-2003 files are OLE compound documents, which are,...
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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 11, 2008
Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. Crowdsourcing takes tasks traditionally done by a single person or small groups of people, and farms them out to a global workforce. The large-scale committee approach is powerful because it leans on the concept of the...
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Low-Hassle Ways to Secure Your Computer System [Feature]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on February 07, 2008
If time were no object, we'd all live a more secure computer life—we'd beef up our browsers, use complex passwords, and keep our data locked up with encryption Skynet couldn't crack. But that kind of stuff requires obscure software, tricky command line work, and most of a free weekend, right? Nope. Anybody can feel more secure about their systems with the help of some free software...
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Top 10 Smart and Lazy Ways to Save Your Workday [Lifehacker Top 10]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on February 19, 2008
If you leave the office most nights feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and behind on everything you've got to get done at work—even though you just spent 10 hours there—you're letting your workday get away from you. It's too easy to let the hours you spend at the office get stolen by meetings, email, interruptions, and impromptu co-worker chats that leave you saddled with busywork...
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Social News: Can the Digg/Mixx/Buzz Model Hold Up Against FriendFeed and Sphinn?
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on February 25, 2008
The social news space is developing at a mind-boggling pace. Just in the last 48 hours Yahoo! launched its new site Buzz, the increasingly mainstream site Mixx announced more funding and Digg held its first ever town hall meeting. Meanwhile a screenshot of the soon to be aggregated service Tumblr has been leaked, my email inbox is filling up with friend notifications from the $5 million richer...
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Tips For Dealing With Information Overload
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 08, 2008
I sent a couple of people the following question: “What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?” Here are some of their answers (with formatting partly adjusted, omissions within quotes indicated with dots). Please add your own tips and approaches in the comments.Niniane Wang, Google: «I like the time-honored tradition of responding to emails or archiving them as soon as I...
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Five Extensions You Won't Need with Firefox 3 [Firefox 3]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 19, 2008
Now that Mozilla's locked down Firefox 3's feature set, it's clear the new browser iteration will render some extensions obsolete. Firefox 3 will include functionality out-of-the-box that you could only get with add-ons before. Let's take a look at five extensions you might not need when you switch to Firefox 3. NoSquint: Never have to enlarge the text on that web page with the...
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Recover Lost Passwords with Free Tools [Passwords]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on June 01, 2008
ACCESS DENIED. Those two bone-chilling words are the last thing you want to see when you're trying to log into a system or open a file, but they're not necessarily a dead end. Several free tools can help you find lost passwords you can't remember or that your computer has saved but obscured. Let's take a look at a few free remedies for lost password panic when you're trying to...
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