PST Import XPI gives you the ability to select folder from your Outlook PST to import into Thunderbird. From the screenshots on the website, it looks like it’s all in French but it also looks like the dialogs are all pretty straightforward.
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OK, when I read this Lifehacker article on Wesabe, I couldn’t imagine how they could make social networking mesh with managing your finances. And I’m not entirely certain they have but the heart of their idea is pretty good, especially if they can do the things with privacy that they say they do (see their Security & Privacy page.
What is it, you ask? THey give you an interface to enter purchases from the web and your mobile browser. They also give you a tool to extract data from your bank and credit card sites and upload it. Your purchase history is compared against others (don’t know how they choose the demographic yet) and you’re shown tips for managing your purchases by category (tag). I’m not convinced but I’ve signed up for an account anyway.
Manage your finances in a social network? Are you kidding me!?! Read More »
Chad put up this really interesting article about Yahoo! Pipes. So, here’s the deal with pipes, away from all the hype and buzzwords. If you’ve got something (a web page, a spreadsheet, Flickr photos, OPML, …) that can be accessed from the Internet-at-large, you can use Pipes to fetch it, manipulate it (i.e. filter items, recode items, etc.) and put it into an RSS feed that you can then retrieve with your RSS reader. That’s what they mean by “aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web”. It’s not difficult to do if you have ANY programming experience at all — it’s a visual, drag-n-drop environment with a lot of help.
Give it a try and if you can’t think of something you can use it for … well, you’re not trying hard enough 🙂
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I installed Palringo on my Windows Mobile phone last week and have been very happy with it. Not only does it support mutiple IM services (AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ and Jabber aka Google Talk) but it allows multiple logins to the same service.
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I’ve seen his mentioned in a couple of places, most recently at Lifehacker.com. Anyway, DriveImage XML is a free drive backup/restore tool that can do your backups while you work.
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You can get a whole bunch of good, free Linux eBooks here. He limits you to 10 per day but I don’t have a problem with that, especially since he only asks for donations. The Vim Book is 572 pages alone!
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The EchoVNC folks have released V1.36 of InstantVNC. Based on UltraVNC, it’s a VNC server that you can have those folks whose PCs you have to support download and install. Supposedly it gives you secure access to their machine without requiring them to (re)configure their firewall/proxy/whatever. I haven’t tried it yet myself but it sounds good and could fill a good-sized hole. Let me know if you have any experience with it and I’ll post a summary if enough of you ask for it.
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This is probably old news to a lot of you by now but I found it in one of the newsletters I subscribe to. The article describes how to completely disable autorun.inf on any media from automatically executing. Yes, there are times that itr will still execute, even if you think you’ve turned it off. The above-linked article is derived from this weblog entry, which describes the attack and how to disable it. It all comes down to creating a new entry in your registry (you should already know how to do this) by putting the following into a text file and importing it into REGEDIT (note that everything between the “[” and the “]” should be on one line):
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:DoesNotExist"
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… is Ditto. It’s open source, it’s free, it can be installed to a USB key and it’s being maintained regularly. This, along with KeePass Password Safe are probably my two most favorite personal-use applications. The download page has versions for USB key, Blackberry, PocketPC, Linux, MacOS and others.
My new favorite clipboard manager … Read More »
KPBS has put up this overlay for Google Maps that gives information about the fires in the San Diego area including evacuations and evacuation centers.
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