Category: Tools

  • SideStep.com: What technology used?

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    My sister’s been shopping around for airline tickets to go to Asia without any luck.  So, the geekness in me felt the need to help her out.  Scanning through some blogs I read regularly, I came across SideStep.com.  It is one of the “newer” travel websites that search a lot of other websites’ flight information, which got me…

  • GTD anyone?

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    I read an article about GTD (Getting Things Done by David Allen) a few months ago but shoved it aside; however, with so many projects demanding my time recently, I started looking into it again (read: need better time management). I have just barely started using Allen’s system, but have found it to be SO…

  • Too much in your mind, mind map it!

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    With the coming of the information age, comes information overload. If you’re like me who reads constantly to keep up with technology, your mind can get overloaded with so much – acronyms, concepts, theories, how-tos – you name it. So the question is: what do you do with all that information stored in your mind…

  • Yumex to the rescue!

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    Yumex is a yum extender that provides a GUI for package management. So why am I writing about it, well, read on… I had written recently about my upgrading from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 6, and one major, annoying issue I encountered was with the yum updates. I encountered approximately 5 conflicts and about 2 dependency…

  • Essential Windows tools

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    I’m actually a Mac and Linux convert, but use a Windows PC [for work] on a daily basis. And as all of you may know, Windows doesn’t provide a lot of the “essential” and/or “nice-to-have” tools out-of-the-box (which I think are essential) compared to OS X and Linux. Why another list? Why not? So here’s…