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Developers cheatsheets

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Found this this morning, and it may be of use/interest to others

Lots of quick reference/cheat sheets for a wide variety of languages and applications

http://devcheatsheet.com/


Seagate's Replica: Highly praised foolproof backup drive and software

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Just came across this on Tom's Hardware site -- they really love it and say it's the first foolproof backup solution they've come across.  Might be the perfect gift for a loved one in your life who needs some backup intervention.

Seagate’s Replica is a portable hard drive with automatic backup, versioning, and disaster recovery features to make backup a no-brainer. The product works so well that it deserves our rare Best of Tom’s Award.

Review: http://www.tomshardw...p-recovery,2450.html

Looks like its from $130 to $180 in price: http://www.seagate.com/replica/


Itching to put together your own pc from parts, but need help choosing parts?

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Tom's Hardware is one of the most respected computer hardware review sites on the web.

They've started a new recurring series called "BestConfigs" where they regularly challenge some of their more serious people to put together and optimize a few machines at different price points, and then they analyze the hell out of them, overclock them, and sum up the performance.

So if you've been itching to try putting together a new PC, I think you'd do well to keep an eye on this series, and when you find a pc setup that tests particularly well and fits your budget, well then you have a parts list and you can give it a try.

Welcome to a new feature we call BestConfigs, where you can find recommended parts for office PCs, gaming rigs, a workstation, or a home theater setup. If you're so inclined, feel free to chip in with suggestions for next month's recommendations, too!

http://www.tomshardw...e-pc-build,2506.html


Cache My Work: reopen your Apps after reboot

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CacheMyWork is a handy utility that enables you to reboot Windows without losing your place in your work. It builds a checklist of currently open applications, and will restart the apps you've selected the next time you logon to the computer. Cache My Work is great for occasions when you need to unexpectedly reboot, such as on "Patch Tuesday", after installing new drivers, or when Windows runs out of Desktop Heap, Handles or GDI Objects (which happens more often than I'd like - even with the fixes described here).

If you're like me, you avoid rebooting your computer because it means you'll forget what you were working on. Every time I have to reboot because of some install/uninstall/patch, invariably I forget half of what I was working on because I don't remember all the docs and apps I have to reopen (those 5-15 minutes between "shutdown all apps" and "logged in, Windows quieted down" are huge opportunities for me to be randomized and lose my short-term memory cache).

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Boot Snooze: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart

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A DC Member wrote about an interesting idea for a utility, which was promptly coded by resident DC coding snack phenom Skwire, and dubbed "Boot Snooze":

Many users use the hibernate feature instead of shutting down so they can start the computer faster next time, there a downside for this though: the computer will hardly ever get restarted, so it can't perform the usual startup checks and other stuff that keeps the OS healthy.

If others took the other rote and decided to shutdown the computer completely, the next start will be slower than a hibernate of course, but at least the OS will have a chance to reload, free memory..etc

So why not have both? When a user wants to shutdown his computer, the little program will kicks in: performing a restart instead, which will then be accompanied with a hibernate after the computer completely boots so the next boot will be 5 seconds away!

Click here to read more and download now..


Tech News Weekly: Edition 4-10

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The latest edition of Tech News Weekly is out.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Google Mystery Server Runs 13% of Active Websites
  • 2. Who's the World's Largest Tech Firm?
  • 3. Google Wants to See Client Addresses in DNS Queries
  • 4. Gallery: The Best and Worst Fake Apple Tablets
  • 5. Simpsons, Powerpuff Girls Porn Nets Jail Time for Australian
  • 6. Aussie Censor Balks at Bijou Boobs
  • 7. Settlement Rejected in ‘Shocking’ RIAA File Sharing Verdict
  • 8. Ubisoft's New DRM Solution: You Have Be Online to Play
  • 9. IPv4 Free Pool Drops Below 10%, 1.0.0.0/8 Allocated
  • 10. Do You Have a Pad I Could Borrow?

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