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Find and buy items from your cell phone with the new Amazon TextBuyIt feature. It works like this: Say you're out shopping and you see a book you want to buy. You figure you could save a few bucks getting it at Amazon, so you send a text message to 'AMAZON' (262966) with the title, author, or even the ISBN code of the book. Amazon sends a text back to you with search results. You pick the result that best matches your search, and an Amazon robot voice calls you with details and asks for purchase confirmation. The first time you try TextBuyIt, you'll have to link your phone with your account, but from there on Amazon wants to make it easy to find and buy products wherever you are—and hopefully you'll save some money, too. TextBuyIt is surprisingly easy to use, but if you give it a try, let's hear you read more »
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It's that dreaded time of the year again, when that teetering pile of W-2 and 1099 forms haunt your dreams, and the perennial question gnaws at you: "Should I do my taxes myself, or hire an accountant?" A poll here on Lifehacker last month shows that most of you complete your income tax returns using software like TurboTax. In the past few years, I've gone back and forth between using an expensive human accountant and TurboTax.com to file my tax return. This year I decided to do both and see which solution saved me the most money and heartache. Read on to see who comes out victorious in the battle of the human tax accountant versus TurboTax.com.
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It's a well-known fact that the social networking websites out there, including here MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Bebo and other services, are quite popular among today's Internet users as they record millions of new accounts every day. What's really bad is that an important percentage of the social networking population is actually represented by kids who are always looking to socialize and make new friends. This wouldn't be a problem if the social networking communities were pea... read more »
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Seeing a giant Word file arrive in your inbox can leave one feeling like it's the last chance to cram before a test—you just want to find the portions with relevant information in them, in context. The How-To Geek blog shows how to use Word 2007's AutoSummarize feature, creating a new document that scores sentences by the occurrence of certain words and using whatever percent of the original's length you want. It's a mighty helpful tool for students, and for anyone whose co-workers tend to, say, get lost in their own verbiage.Easily Summarize A Word 2007 Document [The How-To Geek]
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Windows only: Freeware email application eM Client is a full-featured mail application that comes with a calendar, task manager, and contact manager out of the box. With an easy to navigate graphical user interface that has the familiar feel of Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird, eM Client doesn't really require much of a learning curve. The eM Client team also promises to deliver Google Calendar and Google Contacts synchronization, ActiveSync mobile phone synchronization, and full-fledged CalDev support. Later development promises widget support from Meebo, Facebook, and MySpace. eM Client is a freeware application for Windows only.
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Blogger Samar Kamat loves keeping up with his favorite web sites with Google Reader, but noticed Reader can take forever to load feeds with longer items. His solution? Switch to List View.The default view in Reader is the Expanded View, which is great for 80% of feeds, like Slashdot, where posts are short and concise. However, for very verbose and object-heavy posts, it takes a load off of your bandwidth to load only one page at a time. So next time you're waiting for the images on your tutorial to load, just switch to List View and enjoy the speed.I prefer List View at all times and haven't experienced the slow-downs Samar speaks of, but I'm also on a pretty quick connection. Either way, this probably won't make a big difference on a fast connection, but if Reader seems sluggish when it's loading longer articles, it might read more »
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Existing free and open source PHP content management systems or blog platforms allow you to setup a blog, but the application installation requirements and the configuration rules could not satisfy you. Simple PHP Blog provides you a rapid solution to setup a blog on a low hard disk space web hosting account and without the need of a database, because all content is stored in flat files.
Simple PHP Blog is compatible with PHP5 and is very lightweight (the size on the disk is up to 2 MB). You... read more »
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Simple PHP Blog is compatible with PHP5 and is very lightweight (the size on the disk is up to 2 MB). You... read more »
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Windows only: The Trinity Rescue Kit is a free Linux live CD designed to help with common Windows tasks. Among Trinity Rescue Kit's many features, it can reset lost or forgotten Windows passwords, clone NTFS-formatted Windows drives, recover lost or deleted files, and recover lost partitions. TRK joins the ranks of other rescue-based live CDs, like previously mentioned BartPE or the Knoppix boot CD. If you're using TRK to reset passwords, you may want to try cracking that password with the OphCrack Live CD method rather than hazarding with a password reset.
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