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FARR review on makeuseof.com today

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Nice review of FARR on the (great) makeuseof.com site today:

I had been using launchy as my preferred program launcher for quite some time, until I found FARR...

There are plenty of options and functionality offered by FARR to satisfy all. If you are a diligent tweaker, you have loads of options to play with and customize according to your taste. If you are an average user, use the default options and you are good to go. The large plugin list and an involved community provide the icing on the FARR Cake!

http://www.makeuseof...s-quickly-with-farr/

Note that HamRadio is releasing a really nice notetaking plugin for FARR in the next day or so, so stay tuned for that.
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FreewareWire - Nice small freeware review site plus some homemade utilities

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DC member hewhoeatspie has recently shared with us a few cool new little freeware utilities he's made.  Turns out he also writes a neat little freeware review blog called FreewareWire.

http://freewarewire.blogspot.com

I note that in his sidebar he lists a few things he'd like help with, including a logo design, so if any graphics guru feels like giving it a shot, it would be a nice gesture!
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Coding Snack: The Name Game

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I used a program that generated file names as:
consonant : vowel : consonant : vowel : consonant ...
Using random letters, it generated 15 letter names AND you could always pronounce them!

I would like a program to generate and output:
random words of my specified length;
number of words generated of my choosing;
in the form above, consonant : vowel : consonant;
displayed in a table for easy looking;
(letters can be used more than once in the same name)

Click here to download the standalone tool and excel macro tool created by dc members in response to this request..

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Tech News Weekly: Edition 25-09

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Hi all. Be sure to watch the vid guys, whether you're a jock or a nerd ;)

This week's edition of Tech News Weekly, table of contents:

  • 1. Canadian Bill Forces Personal Data from ISPs Sans Warrant
  • 2. Thomas Verdict: Willful Infringement, $1.92 Million Penalty
  • 3. ISP, UMG Agree On Unlimited Music Plan, Graduated Response
  • 4. Congressman Has Bill Ready to Give FTC Veto On ISP Data Caps
  • 5. City to Job Applicants: Facebook, MySpace Log-ins Please
  • 6. Researchers Build Anonymous, Browser-Based 'Darknet'
  • 7. Hacker Cracks TinyURL Rival, Redirects Millions of Twitter Users
  • 8. Microsoft Lawsuit Takes Aim at Click Fraud
  • 9. Triumph of the Nerds

Click here now to read the full thing..

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Triumph of the Nerds - John Hodgman Roasts Obama

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John Hodgman recently spoke at Radio and Television Corresponents' Association Dinner in front of Barack Obama, and used the occasion to quiz the Preseident on all things Geek/Nerd in a very amusing way. This is really worth the watch guys, and it gets better the longer you watch.

http://www.collegehu...or.com/video:1915321

Ehtyar.

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Announcement: Pasty - pastes highlighted text into an external search engine

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Simply sits in the Tray.  Highlight some text and hit the hotkey to paste the selected text instantly into a search engine that opens with a hotkey.  Out of the box the search hotkey is set to Control Esc for Windows search.  But you can change the hotkeys to use other utilities such as FARR, ReOpen, Everything etc..

2 key hotkey combinations are supported and may be set via dialogs with combo boxes. If your search engine has to have a 3 key combo hotkey then you may be able to find a hotkey "adapter" or make one yourself with AutoHotKey.  I guess I hate holding down 3 keys so I'm not that psyched to have 3 combo boxes in the dialogs.  :)  Makes for simpler less buggy programming with 2 key hotkeys too.

http://www.favessoft.com/hotkeys.html

Note: Paste into Windows Search requires Vista or later due to changes in the start menu. If running on XP on first use it will prompt for search hotkey for external search engine, so use FARR or Everything or another that pops up with the caret in the input control.

If you find any bugs you can contact me via the Contact button on my site or do a followup here if you prefer.

Continue reading the rest of the entry and discuss..

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