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Kill: An effective little application
Linux fans will instantly recognize Kill as a clone of the handy xkill utility, because both of them let you instantly kill off a process by clicking on one of its windows. Kill is an effective little application written in AutoHotKey.
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Scam-O-Rama: Ridiculously Bad Attempts to Scam People Out of Something

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Here's an informative and very funny site about scamming. There's good information about avoiding being scammed as well as outrageous examples of ridiculously bad attempts.

The letters posted here illustrate (hilariously unsuccessful) attempts at ADVANCE FEE FRAUD. The sender claims to be a bureaucrat, banker or royal toadie, who wants to cut you, and only you, in on the financial deal of a lifetime.

In plain English, the writer claims to be in a position to skim public accounts or in other ways move vast amounts of cash, ethically obtained or not, into your hands. Hint: There is no money to be laundered - except yours. Palms must be greased. With your money. Generally in the form of a Western Union money order. A few K here, a few K there... eventually you get wise, and retire to lick your wounds. Dead soldier, dead farmer, dead bank customer, reformed murderer, lotto prize, phony job offer, phony request for bid, different pot of money, different countries... same scam.

The scammer may send you pictures of "money" - see example on this page, or visit the Show Me The Money gallery. Same scam.

Setting aside the writer's attempt to rob you and (going through the mental contortions necessary to take the letter at face value) to steal from his own country, the letters are funny. Read them out loud at parties and see. The 100+ letters below introduce the literary genre of the Lads from Lagos. Some people write the scammers back. Welcome to the Scamology...

http://www.scamorama.com/


Searching For: A program to track the exact time that I spend on each webpage

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I need a program to track the exact time that you spend on each webpage. This is partially acomplished by my current tracker, visual timeAnalyzer... but I need to have detailed statistics and have them in a format that I can process afterwards (e.g., plain text).
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Ideally, I'd like to find something system-independent, free, and if possible, open source. But this is just the icing on the cake.

Any recommendations?

Continue reading to see what people on our forum suggest..


Barnacle - Add toolbars to your favorite programs

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I need beta testers!

Barnacle - Add toolbars to your favorite programs .

Features:
- Barnacle is a global, programmable toolbar that fits inside any window.
- Change icons, add tooltips, left-, right- and middleclick actions.
- The actions can be keypresses, menu selections, button clicking and window actions.
- To find out more, choose Help in the tray menu.

You'll find the downloads and more info at 1 Hour Software by Skrommel.


Game It Yourself with Print-And-Play Games

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Here's a site all about "Print-And-Play" Games:

What is a print-and-play game? A print-and-play game is a game that can be printed out on your computer onto card stock and then played. It also includes games that can easily be made with common game equipment, such as dice, playing cards, pawns, checkers, etc. Here you'll find links to websites that offer such games. You can view the listing of free games by going to the Canonical List of Free Print-and-Play Games or by choosing one of the categories from the column on your left.

But why make your own games? Why not just buy games like everyone else? Well, for one, games you make yourself can often (but not always) be cheaper than games you'd buy at the store or online. Also, many people, including some well-known game designers, have released some of their games to the public for free. Furthermore, making games from scratch can be a very rewarding hobby whose fruits can be shared with others. Besides, why not?

http://www.runestoneit.com/~dseagraves/



Flash Element TD: Another Tower Defense Flash Game

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If memeory serves, this well-done tower defense game is the third of its kind to add to our collection.

A Macromedia Flash based Tower Defence game inspired by Elemental TD for Warcraft III. All programming has been done, from scratch, by me (David Scott) Graphics and sound effects have been made using the level editor that comes with WarcraftIII and Adobe Photoshop. A thanks to Bluey, Sencerd and Yo-Sushi for their help testing and a big thanks to Grrr for balancing the towers.

The aim of the game is to kill the creeps before they reach the end of the maze, do this by building attacking towers on the grass around the maze.

To build a tower click on it on the right hand side then click on the map where you want it to be built. Once built you can clock on towers to upgrade or sell them.

To get a high score keep as much of your gold in the bank as possible, at the end of each round you earn interest on the gold in the bank. Remember score = towers + upgrades + gold, selling towers will lower your score as you only get 75% of your money back...

http://novelconcepts...o.uk/FlashElementTD/


Locate 3.0 - FAST HD search tool

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Publisher's Description:
Locate saves names of all files in your hard drives to file database. After that you can locate files. This program works like updatedb and locate in Unix systems. Win32 based locating program also included.

Check out http://fileforum.bet.../Locate/1044509669/1

You can also watch a screencast of Locate made by Josh: here.

Read the full mini-review here..


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