Ever wanted to defragment a certain file or collection of files on your Windows PC, without defragging the entire hard drive? Here’s why and how you can do it:Don’t Bring Me DownI recently noticed that one of my oft-used Windows...
Topics: contig, defrag, windows

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I happened across Jonathan Feinberg’s Wordle (”Beautiful Word Clouds”) visualization recently.  Pretty fun, but I instantly wanted a way to create one from an RSS feed. I didn’t see a way to do it, so I checked the FAQ...
Topics: ajax, applet, json, pipes, visualization, wordle

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A video demonstration of software is often far better than static screenshots, and is often more convenient to distribute than arranging for a live demo. This tutorial will show you how easy it is to record a video “screencast” of most...
Topics: screencast, software, video, windows media encoder, wme

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The RSS Advisory Board has had a checkered past and its share of run-ins with Dave Winer over RSS 2.0. There have been times where it was right to question how relevant it had become.This announcement by Netscape lends a great deal of credibility to...
Topics: dave winer, Feeds, netscape, News, rss, rss advisory board

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Newsgator has announced that a bevy of their RSS/Atom clients, including the excellent FeedDemon is now free:FeedDemon 2.6, NetNewsWire 3.1, Inbox 3.0 (beta), and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0. Each of these is a pretty major release on its own -.
Topics: atom, Feeds, netnewswire, News, newsgator, rss

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