Recently I’ve been pondering the plunge into the tech-related job market from academia.  In the process I’ve read several interesting howto’s, gotchas, tips and tricks of the interview trade.  I found this one particularly apt because it shows that someone …

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I’m going to go over a quick and easy way to resize your digital camera images to something more manageable so that you’ll be able to post them online, email them, send them over im, and whatever else you want …

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Damnit Microsoft. Fine! I will download your updates automatically. But damnit do not restart my computer without my permission! Here’s a post about how to disable this ungodly ‘feature.’

If you’re like me, you frequent the “View more pictures of ‘So and So’” Link underneath the main picture of most of your friends on Facebook when you look at their profile. Just yesterday I was looking at these pictures …

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So, I found a site with all the lolcat images named cat1.jpg, cat2.jpg, cat3.jpg, etc. I wanted to know how many were there as I saw cat389.jpg. As it turns out, it’s only 390, so that’s all I need to …

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While I’m on the subject of Firefox add-ons(You need Firefox first, check to the right): Last weekend at my dad’s house I was helping him understand how to print images from websites even when they try to block you from …

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Great new Firefox add-on that will allow you to manage multiple Gmail accounts. Whereas before I used Gmail-Notifier, now I have all my accounts in one simple interface in the lower right corner of my browser window. With Gmail-Notifier I …

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