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bCheck: a site of several useful freeware applications

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Some unique very small freeware utilties for windows including Purrint, Capster, Reso, IECrap, DevMgr, and more. Check them out for yourself!

Apps from your close personal friend, bCheck. These are all MS Windows apps, they have zero dependencies and are as small as I could get 'em. Source is supplied for most. Feel free to send me suggestions and donations to inspire me to continue.

http://www.bcheck.net/apps/

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Essay: How Digg Gets Everything Backwards.. And How to Fix It

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Digg is a wonderful idea.. but it's horribly broken.

It suffers from a fundamental flaw in design. In fact its entire approach to leveraging the crowd's wisdom is completely backward.

Digg is using crowds in the wrong way, for the wrong role.  If we ask instead what is the crowd good at, and when do we need domain experts, we end up with a completely different model..

It seems everyone is lining up to stick the shiv in Digg, so here I go before my arm gets tired.  I actually still find interesting stuff on digg occasionally, I still submit occasional articles to Digg, and I'm not under any illusion that they are in the slightest bit of danger in terms of their market share, but I do think there are interesting issues that need more discussion.

Read the full opinion piece..


Cool Gadget: USB Phonograph for Converting Records to Digital

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This Plug 'n' Play USB turntable can digitize your treasured vinyl LP collection so you can listen to it on your computer. The turntable includes software to edit and cleanup your digitized audio files and it can be connected to your stereo system and used as a standard turntable as well. Includes felt slipmat, 45-rpm adapter, line level RCA cables, USB cable and recording software on CD-ROM. Requires Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP or Mac OS 9+. MP3 recording requires third-party encoder, not included.

http://www.x-tremege....asp?productID=12071

I must have a thousand lps, so i just my grab this..

Looking to get a job at Microsoft? This site MIGHT help you get ready.

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Here are some questions asked of people applying for positions at Microsoft. The questions range from challenging to absurd. Take a look for yourself and good luck with them.

Incidentally, these questions might actually help you determine whether you really want to work for this company or not!

http://www.sellsbrot...content=question.htm

Continue reading the rest of the entry and discuss..


Gobby: A Collaborative Text Editor

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Gobby is a free text editor that allows people to collaborativley work on a document. What makes it different is that document creation can be done by several individuals simultaneously rather than some work being done on the document by one person and then the document be passed on to the next individual for revision. Download a copy of Gobby and try it out for yourself.

http://darcs.0x539.d...c.cgi/wiki/WikiStart

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Flash Game: Fulltime Killer

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You've heard of "Where's Waldo", well this is like "Assasinate Waldo"

http://gazholland.co...y/fulltimekiller.htm


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