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Sites that I found interesting for November 11th 2009 through November 12th 2009:

• Microsoft probing Windows 7 zero-day hole – Microsoft said on Wednesday it is looking into a report of a vulnerability in Windows 7 and Server 2008 Release 2 that could be used by an attacker to remotely crash the computer.
• Hands-on: Netflix streaming on the PS3 – While Netflix streaming is nearly identical on most devices that support it, there are some significant differences with the PS3 that make it worth testing.
• Programmer 101: Teach Yourself How to Code – You've always wanted to learn how to build software yourself—or just whip up an occasional script—but never knew where to start. Luckily, the web is full of free resources that can turn you into a programmer in no time.

Sites that I found interesting for November 3rd 2009 through November 10th 2009:

• Computer Security Company Takes Out Enormous Botnet – Security firm FireEye has reportedly struck a massive blow against spam. The so called “Mega-D” or “Ozdok” spam botnet was effectively dismantled by these intrepid security researchers. After studying the beast, FireEye launched an attack by notifying ISPs, having command and control (CnC) domains removed, and then registering unused CnC domains.
• Kindle Gets Windows App – Mac Version Coming Soon – Amazon released it’s Kindle for PC app this morning. It’s available for download at Amazon.com now and allows you to read Kindle eBooks on your computer
• Ninite Easy PC Setup and Multiple App Installer – Great For Win7 Upgrades – 1. Pick the apps you want. 2. Start your customized installer. 3. You're done! Heard about this on Windows Weekly last week.
• Study Says Pirates Buy Plenty of Legitimate Digital Music – A United Kingdom research group, Demos, discovered that those people who confessed to pirating music were also those who spent the most on music. Pirates spend, on average, $126 per year on CDs, MP3s, and vinyl. Non-pirates (landlubbers?), on the other hand, only spend, on average, $72 per year.

Sites that I found interesting for July 8th 2009 through July 15th 2009:

• Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats –
• Screenjelly – Record your screen via the web – Screenjelly records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it as a video via Twitter or email.
• Alan of Missing Remote installs Windows 7 on his old crappy laptop – Summary: If you have Vista loaded on a lower grade laptop, you should walk, nay RUN, when W7 ships and get in on the performance increase. It is well worth it.

Sites that I found interesting for June 26th 2009 through June 30th 2009:

• Tweetnews.me – Search application that links tweets to the freshest Yahoo! News articles. The more related tweets an article has, the higher its rank.
• Pedometer Blackberry Storm App – Use your Balckberry Storm to keep track of your steps.
• Xiant Filer – Xiant Filer was created by technology innovator/Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen and engineers at Xiant, whose challenge was to ease management of overflowing Microsoft Office Outlook inboxes.

Sites that I found interesting for June 24th 2009 through June 25th 2009:

• DIM: Digital Image Mover – DIM only does one thing, but it does it well: it copies files from your camera’s memory card to a destination directory determined by your storage scheme. If any directories need to be created in the process, it will create them. In addition, the file can be renamed while it is copied to a more “useful” name than your camera might have provided.
• Major features of each Windows 7 version (SKU) revealed – via @joshpollard on Twitter
• Let's make the web faster – Google Code – Plugin for firebug on Firefox. via @nrek on twitter

Sites that I found interesting for May 18th 2009 through May 20th 2009:

• Windows 7 Virtual WiFi lets you connect to multiple hotspots – VWiFi will allow hardware adapters to act as separate WiFi adapters, thus giving the computer the ability to connect to multiple hotspots simultaneously. One of the most useful things you could do with VWiFi is to connect to a WiFi hotspot and also share the connection simultaneously with other laptops. via @windows7center on Twitter
• Ramp Up – Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program that will help you build professional development skills. via @Jere_Joneson Twitter
• BookMooch: exchange books and trade them, like a book swap or book barter – BookMooch lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want.

Sites that I found interesting for May 6th 2009 through May 8th 2009:

• With a Private MiFi Hot Spot, Be Online Wherever You Like – Novatel MiFi 2200, available from Verizon starting in mid-May ($100 with two-year contract, after rebate). Provides a personal, portable, powerful, password-protected wireless hot spot. via @CantonDog on Twitter
• TweetMyPC – TweetMyPC lets you shutdown/restart/LogOff your windows PC remotely. via @isdixonon Twitter
• Using Saved Searches To Optimize Your FriendFeed Experience – Saved searches allow you to customize by user, subject, likes, comments, service, ect and really make FriendFeed work for you and bring the information you are looking for. via @jeffisageek

Sites that I found interesting for April 9th 2009 through April 15th 2009:

• Evernote + Twitter = Instant Memories – Now you can send your tweets directly into Evernote.
• MoWeS Portable – CH Software – MoWeS stands for the three letter abbreviation Modular Webserver System and makes it possible, to run a webserver based on Apache, MySQL and PHP from an USB Stick or any other writable media (harddrive, flash cards etc.) without installation under Windows (98 to Vista).
• 10 Recent Scientifically Solved Mysteries – Epidaurus Theater Acoustics, Crystal Skulls, New England’s Dark Day, Face on Mars, The Barreleye Fish, Solving Checkers, The Unknown Titanic Child, Ancient Tablet Deciphered, Sharks Virgin Birth, Flight of the Bumblebee

Sites that I found interesting for April 2nd 2009 through April 5th 2009:

• Late Roman village found near Salzburg – Workers found the remains of the village which is thought to date back to the 5th to 7th centuries at a 6,000-square-metre site for construction of a home for pensioners at Anif-Niederalm in the Flachgau region.
• Troys Twitter Script for Greasemonkey – Nested Replies, Custom Search Tabs, Autocomplete, Pagination, RT button, Media Embed, URL Expansion, Hash Tag Search Links, Social Links
• Behind the scenes at Netflix – Pictures of a Netflix warehouse operation

Sites that I found interesting for March 23rd 2009 through March 24th 2009:

• Worm breeds botnet from home routers, modems – Security researchers have identified a sophisticated piece of malware that corrals consumer routers and DSL modems into a lethal botnet.
• Twitter Tweaks Its Title Tags For Better Google Juice – My blog still comes up before twitter. Fine by me.
• Microsoft moves crash analysis tool to open source –