There are a lot of solutions out there for keeping bookmarks handy from any machine. This one, called Foxmarks, got a mention in a "top 10 extensions" list on Digg.

Sounds like they have a dedicated server where your bookmarks are stored, and can sync from any other machine where you enter your user/pwd.

Foxmarks - Foxcloud Wiki

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Huge thanks to "Intern Joe" for this link.

Meebo brings "IM to Web 2.0". Great stuff. A web site that allows you to login to multiple IMs at once (currently I'm online with Yahoo, MSN, and Google Talk).

No software installation necessary.

meebo.com

Started by 3 peeps from Stanford ... of course! :)

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Someday when I get around to getting an iPod (most likely), Don Box points out that XPlay is the tool of choice for iTunes haters.

I've had trouble with "unknown error" during burn in iTunes, so I am thus far in the haters camp.

Mediafour | XPlay - The Ultimate iPod add-on

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Some cool keyboard shortcuts for Firefox.

examples:
find LINK as you type: '
open link in new tab: ctrl+ENTER

Hack Attack: Mouse-less Firefox - Lifehacker

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Sweet. I tried Dr. DivX a while ago and liked it, but didn't buy it. Good thing, cuz I never got around to encoding much video.

However, now that Dr DivX has been moved to the open source community, it's probably worth another look.

DivX Labs | Dr. DivX


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Courtesy of Windows User Group, the shareware pick of the week is yet another iPod video converter. This one looks pretty decent.

From all of DVD, Tivo, DivX, MPEG, WMV, AVI --- to iPod format.

WUGNET - PQ DVD to iPod Video Converter - Windows XP/2000/NT Shareware

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Decent intro to regular expressions. I generally know how to use them, but always forget some of the syntax. This site has a good quick tutorial that can be used as a reference.

Learning to Use Regular Expressions

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Here's a decent "one-stop-list" of many of the tools & utilities that I already have on my system. This will come in handy after a system rebuild -- includes links to quickly download all of them.

100-downloads.com | Top-100 essential downloads of free software & freeware for Windows XP

examples:
Audacity, Picasa, Paint.NET, ZoneAlarm, Daemon Tools, DirectX, DVD Decrypter, DVD Shrink, DixX, XVid, WinAmp, BitTorrent, PDF995, Skype, Gizmo, 7-zip, blah blah

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Don Box and Chris Anderson do an MSDN TV episode from Don's house. Check it out. Play some XBOX 360, along with some WinFX talk.

MSDN TV Holiday Episode III, WinFX, and XBOX 360

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Ahh, back in the days...my buddy and I wrote a video game (on the [Black & White] Mac) for our senior project. Compare that to now - they are having a contest at Stanford for the best video game.

Check these out.

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Today was the second time my Outlook 2003 offline message store got corrupted. This time it was due to me killing the machine (instead of shutdown) since it was frozen.

use SCANPST.EXE (usually in [program files]\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\1033) for both PST and OST files.

How to use the Inbox Repair Tools to recover e-mail messages in Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2003

(this time, I had to run the SCANOST.EXE first. Wouldn't run when in "offline" mode. Figured out that I had to start Outlook, even though it was hosed, and wouldn't show messages...get out of "offline" mode, then close Outlook. ScanOST found a problem, and prompted me to run SCANPST.EXE on the .OST file)

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Best of CES 2006
The Creative Zen Vision:M caught my eye. Competitor to iPod video, $330 30GB supports many video formats, voice recorder and FM tuner. I'll have to check it out before jumping into the iPod.

Best of CES Awards - CES 2006 - Consumer Electronics Show Las Vegas - CNET.com

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FolderShare sounds like it finally might answer the disk space in the sky problem. Free version currently provides 10 folders (10,000 files per folder), to sync'd to unlimited number of machines.

ComputerZen.com - Scott Hanselman - Overwhelmed and enamored with FolderShare

FolderShare.com

update: apparently Microsoft recently acquired FolderShare, which is I guess how it's now free.

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My buddy Mark forced me to put I-Hacked on my blog. I haven't taken a look at it yet, but surely there's something of interest on here... :)

I-Hacked.com Taking Advantage Of Technology - Home

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