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Programmer Eric Wendelin says you can get a lot more done with sets of files at the command line once you've mastered the basics of find, an old school search tool. Here's another helpful introduction to the command line.
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Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): AideRSS, an RSS feed popularity filter that Adam had a few bones to pick with, has released a free Firefox extension that integrates its popularity rankings into Google Reader. AideRSS + Google Reader Firefox Extension [via Google Operating System ]
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Read FruitfulTime Manages Your To-Do List [Featured Windows Download] (Links)
Read Favthumbs Visualizes Your Del.icio.us Bookmarks [Bookmarks] (Links)
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The Mysticgeek blog at the How-To Geek's site has a clever series of posts up that use free software tools to give Windows Vista Home Premium—the version that most often ships with standard laptops—the same kind of super-user powers you get with a copy of Ultimate.
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Forget finding calamari or listening to Coldplay: You want an iPhone because it can help you get things done—like that cutie over there. Here are a few ways you can use new iPhone apps to help yourself get busy (in more ways than one): Flick on the mood music without getting off the couch.
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Windows only: The My Mobiler desktop application controls your Windows Mobile device through its Active Sync connection. What you see in the desktop application is real time and you can interact with your mobile device using the mouse and keyboard as through you were holding the phone in your hand.
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Even better, you can now remove an application from your phone through iTunes. We'll have to wait and see if a jailbreak shows up for the 2.0 software update (my guess is that it will), but right now you don't want to go 2.0 if you want to use your phone with anyone but the default carrier.
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