January 25, 2006

Yak Shaving Razor #38


#360 Firefox Extension -- Mystickies allows you to place Post-It Note-style notes (little yellow squares of digital paper) on webpages across the Internet. Along with the ability to put sticky notes on webpages, mystickies offers a interface to browse, search, sort, edit, and access your sticky notes from any computer that has internet access.

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#361 Windows Utility -- Restoration is an easy to use file undelete utility that gives you the ability to undelete files that were removed from the recycle bin or were directly deleted from within Windows. The program doesn't require installation and is small enough to be run from a flash drive or floppy disk. (HT: LifeHacker)

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#362 Google School -- You can now sign up for Personalized Search to view and manage your history of news searches and the articles you've read. When you're signed in to your Google Account, you'll receive recommended news stories based on the previous stories you've read. These recommendations will be highlighted just below the top news stories on the page, in a clearly marked section. You can also get a full page of recommended stories by clicking on the section.
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#363 Know Your Fallacies -- Non sequitur -- Latin for "it does not follow." In formal logic, an argument is a non sequitur if the conclusion does not follow from the premise. It should be stressed that in a non sequitur, the conclusion can be either true or false, but the argument is a fallacy because the conclusion does not follow from the premise. (Example: "If my hair looks nice, all people will love me.")
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#364 IPod Hack -- Want to change a song’s rating that’s on your iPod? While a song is playing, simply press the select button (the one in the middle of the scroll wheel) twice. Use the scroll wheel to change the rating, and press the select button once you’re done. The new ratings will be updated on iTunes when you sync your iPod. (HT: MacTips)
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#365 HowTo -- Make a Mini Wireless Antenna for a Laptop Computer

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#366 Firefox Extension -- Firefox extension Page Bookmarks adds an entry to the right-click context menu that allows you to save your place on a long text document so that next time you open that page, you can pick up reading right where you left off. (HT: LifeHacker)
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#367 SoYouWanna -- Use eBay

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#368 Word Hack -- If you are in the habit of opening and working on a lot of Word documents at the same time here is a handy little tip that will let you save and close them all in one operation. Simply hold down the Shift key, move your mouse to the File menu and two new items will appear, called Close All and Save All. Click Save All and it will save all your opened documents. (HT: propellerhead)
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#369 Writer's Toolkit -- #29: Report for Scenes

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