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Process Tamer.. The Drink

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I've decided that all of my software programs will now come with official cocktail recipes.

This week I give you "Process Tamer - The Drink"

If you use my Process Tamer program and you are an alcohol drinker then you are obliged to try making this drink:


Process Tamer - The Drink
1 shot vodka
1/2 shot lemon juice
1 tsp canned cranberry juice concentrate and
1 tsp any other flavor canned juice concentrate.
Shake with ice.
Pour and add 2 shots of seltzer afterwards.



open source replacements for fifty proprietary yet important programs

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Jimmy Atkinson has done a great job and found replacements for fifty proprietary yet important programms:

The following fifty proprietary programs are listed in no particular order within broad categories along with their open source alternatives. In some cases you could probably write your own book on frustrations with the proprietary programs shown here. In other cases, you’ll discover that the open source alternative isn’t quite up to snuff yet.

http://whdb.com/2008...source-alternatives/


File Types Manager - New Freeware for NirSoft

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FileTypesMan - a new NirSoft utility.

FileTypesMan is an alternative to the 'File Types' tab in the 'Folder Options' of Windows. It displays the list of all file extensions and types registered on your computer. For each file type, the following information is displayed: Type Name, Description, MIME Type, Perceived Type, Flags, Browser Flags, and more.

FileTypesMan also allows you to easily edit the properties and flags of each file type, as well as it allows you to add, edit, and remove actions in a file type.


Coding Snack: IconAnyFolder - Autopick custom icons for folders based on resources in folder

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IconAnyFolder v0.1 - First Release (written in C#)

Features
- a user prompt for specifying directory
- an option loop recursively into subdirectories
- a cleanup option that runs through and deletes all desktop.ini files, or removes the icon entries in them
- If the first icon resource (exe) the script encounters does not have an icon present, move to the next resource.

This program was written in response to a request on the forum: "Basically, I want a function similar to the way Windows will sometimes change folder icons based on what's inside them, except I want the .ico or .exe icons present inside the folder to be used instead of icons of stock images of music notes or flowers. This is one of those things that sounds simple to a non-programmer, lucky me if it actually ends up being simple to execute."

Read more and download now..


myIPneighbors - site shows you how many other accounts on your shared hosting

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This could be really useful for people on shared hosting.. I've often wondered how many accounts are put on each shared server.

However, I'm not sure how accurate this is, and most servers are allocated a block of multiple IPs, so this may only show you a small fraction of the accounts on your machine..  Still a cool idea regardless.

For those on shared hosting, myIPneighbors IP search is a great way to find out who your neighbors are or just to see how many other websites your hosting company hosts your server.

Is your website packed into a crowded host with hundreds of other sites? Or is there questionable content being hosted side by side with your site? If so, it may be time to look for a better host.

http://www.myipneighbors.com/


Microsoft bids $44.6-billion for Yahoo!

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Subject says it all (thanks to the headline writer at the Globe and Mail  :))... I wonder how long it will take Google to try to have this blocked, if Yahoo! proves interested?

I'll just remind readers of this post:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=6962.0

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