I rarely promote commercial products in this blog for a variety of reasons. However, every now and then I come across a software product that I am just too excited about to not mention it.
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I will be collecting here some nifty tidbits that have helped me make my Ubuntu installation more fun to use. In case of very long console commands, quotations are used to emphasize that the command is one long command, even if the blog template splits it into several lines. Do not include the quotations when [...]
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Every now and then I come across a Firefox plug-in that I just have to tell people about. This time it’s one called Read It Later. This nifty add-on allows you to temporarily bookmark a web page with just one-click to a list of sites you want to visit at a later time.
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Craigslist has become a very popular site over the years for buying and selling goods and services without having to fork over money for advertising fees. Unfortunately, as it turns out, this same service is being actively used by spammers for harvesting the site’s users’ email addresses. Here’s how it works.
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Windows 7 has a release date! Now that we are getting so close to an official release, it is prudent to start collecting info on little tips and tweaks that people have come across when testing the beta and the release candidate versions.
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Somewhere deep among the boxes of my scattered possessions there is a cassette tape. This particular tape is approximately 27 years old. On that tape, I can hear myself at the age of three, reciting a bedtime prayer that my grandmother taught me. My parents were not particularly spiritual. I do not recall having ever [...]
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In early January 2008, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declared that meat and milk from cloned animals are just as safe for human consumption as products derived from animals bred through conventional means (Charles 2). Due to a hesitant consumer response, the FDA recommended that food producers wanting to utilize cloning technology wait a [...]
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Truth is a product of subjective perception. We define “truth” by what we perceive as being accurate and real. However, a person’s perception – the conclusions and the process through which those conclusions are reached – is unique from person to person. Our culture, upbringing, heritage, and personality all affect how we perceive things and [...]
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Mika Salakka is a Finn living in the United States. He is a nursing assistant, a creative writer, a devoted husband, and an observer of the human condition. His interests range from music and literature to psychology, sociology, medicine, technology, and spirituality.
