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Partition a Hard Drive Using a gParted Live CD

October 30th, 2008 · Comments Off

Linux folks may know about a great piece of software called gParted, the Gnome Partition Editor. While booted into Linux, gParted works great for managing partitions on a hard drive. Windows users don’t have any good (read free) utilities like this, and the built-in Windows partition manager leaves much to be desired.
gParted Live is a [...]

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Username Availability Checker

September 25th, 2008 · Comments Off

Ever wonder if a username is taken on a certain site? Scared that other people might have snatched up your oh so precious net handle? Curious if you actually registered your handle on a site? Check out usernamecheck.com. It’s a simple way to determine if a username is available on a site.
All you have to [...]

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Using Netvibes as a Personal Start Page

September 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments

A personal start page is a single page that can be accessed from any computer and typically serves as the homepage for a browser. There are many solutions for personal start pages, including a homebrewed page, iGoogle, and Netvibes. I’ve used both homebrewed pages and iGoogle in the past, but eventually stray from them.

I thought [...]

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Tags: Internet