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Mining the Internet with webbots, spiders and screen scrapers

By howardhwen : 30 April 2012 - 07:55 AM
Sometimes using a web browser to gather information from the Internet can be a hassle, particularly if you need to pull it together from a variety of sources. That's where using an Internet agent ...
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Windows 7 Network Troubleshooting Tools

By adfm : 23 June 2010 - 09:02 AM
When you're stuck without a connection to the Internet to download your favorite network troubleshooting tools and all you have access to is a plain-vanilla Windows 7 install, it's nice to know what...
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What are the best organizational tools for groups?

Asked by marsee : 15 June 2010 - 02:15 PM

Answered by AnneHolub : Jun 16 2010 09:02 AM
While it's not free to set up (it is free for users), I've used Basecamp as both a group leader and group member and found it invaluable for sharing documents, messaging, setting a schedule/mi... full answer >
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Testing Flex RIAs

By adfm : 15 June 2010 - 10:17 AM
Are you a Flash developer using Flex to build engaging, cross-platform rich Internet applications? If you are, do you know how you're going to test them? This excerpt from Fain, Rasputinis, & ...
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How much do you play with new programming tools?

Asked by rlum : 10 June 2010 - 03:17 PM

Answered by dan7 : Jun 11 2010 04:13 PM
I've been exploring HTML5 and its support on smartphones the last few days in an effort to decide whether it's possible to build useful and attractive, engaging apps without writing anything t... full answer >
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Get to Know Windows 7's System Support Tools

By adfm : 14 May 2010 - 04:53 PM
You usually don't notice them until you go looking for them, but Windows 7 comes with a number of support tools. This excerpt from William R. Stanek's Windows 7 Administrator's Pocket Consultant wil...
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Tools for Auditing Windows 7 Software Updates

By adfm : 22 April 2010 - 04:36 PM
Auditing your updates is just good security. The tools mentioned in this excerpt from Tulloch, Northrub, et al.'s Windows 7 Resource Kit are provided by Microsoft to help with the software update au...
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What is the best web authoring tool for Mac OS X? Both free and paid?

Asked by MikeH : 15 December 2009 - 11:14 AM

Answered by msilver : Dec 15 2009 02:12 PM
If you just need a program to be able to connect and manage files remotely in a graphical interface, you probably want some sort of FTP program. The three on Mac OS X I've used are Fetch, Transmit... full answer >
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What do you use as your home page/portal?

Asked by todisht : 01 December 2009 - 06:37 AM

Answered by juliesteele : Dec 01 2009 09:54 AM
I used iGoogle for a while, but wasn't really thrilled with it. PageFlakes looks pretty nice, and I might use that if I were inclined to use a portal at all. Instead, I keep a tabbed browser win... full answer >
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How to run TweetDeck on multiple machines if you don't have a TweetDeck account.

By todisht : 26 November 2009 - 09:29 AM
I'm a big fan of TweetDeck. I love that you can setup multiple groups to organize the people you follow and only read what you're really interested in. The problem I ran into is that I use mul...
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