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PC Magazine — “Fear not: Corel has kept virtually all of Paint Shop Pro’s formidable power. But the interface has undergone a drastic transformation, making the program easy on the eyes and much easier to use. It’s a very good choice for enthusiasts, business users, and even pros who need image-editing muscle without the high […]

Surprisingly good list of financial calculators for these topics:
Credit and Budget
Home
Savings
College
Retirement
Roth IRA
Bonds
Auto
Equity Line Credit
Salary
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“Since November, World of Warcraft has signed up more than four million subscribers worldwide, making for an annual revenue stream of more than $700 million. About a million of those subscribers are in the United States (with more than half a million copies sold this year) and another 1.5 million are in China, where the […]

“Usability is the #1 Purchasing Influencer: When asked which factor most influenced their purchasing decision, 59% of respondents cited “Ease of use/Positive user reviews” as their most important buying criteria, exceeding “Value for Price.” For respondents based in Europe, this percentage rose to 95%, demonstrating the strong impact that usability has on product sales.”
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The Age — “Asia is cracking down on a technology that has become a powerful social tool, used to organise mass protests, sow wild rumours, perpetrate crime and, it is feared, trigger bombs. From Southeast Asia, where authorities say they are motivated by security and public-nuisance concerns, to Greater China, where scams and spam seem […]

BBC — “”How many times have you stared blankly at a horrifically expensive new gadget which promised the earth, only to find out you cannot actually work out how to use it?”
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(Thanks Daniel Szuc.)

“The PocketMod is a small book with guides on each page. These guides or templates, combined with a unique folding style, enable a normal piece of paper to become the ultimate note card. It is hard to describe just how incredibility useful the PocketMod is.”
Very cool.
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“How do you handle the situation where the other person continually sucks you into an argument that you never seem to be able to win?”
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Sections
Directories
Moving around the file system
Listing directory contents
Changing file permissions and attributes
Moving, renaming, and copying files
Viewing and editing files
Shells
Environment variables
Interactive History
Filename Completion
Bash is the way cool shell.
Redirection
Pipes
Command Substitution
Searching for strings in files: The grep command
Searching for files : The find command
Reading and writing tapes, backups, and archives: The tar command
File compression: compress, gzip, and bzip2
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43 Folders — “Like so many things, smart decision-making can benefit from the addition of structure, focus, and a bit of metaphor. While imperfect in their own ways, the kinds of tools that support this mental corralling can help tremendously in quieting the chaos, surveying the available options, and then collecting and evaluating the information […]

In light of Hurricane Katrina, a lot of people are writing about how the United States could better react to catastophic disasters. Here are the four pillars of a robust response system, according to Paul C. Light (Times-Post News Service):
1. Alertness to what lies ahead. A high performing response system is constantly scanning a […]

Gary Shilling — “…the housing bubble apparently has convinced many that their house (or houses since increasing numbers own more than one) is a huge piggy bank that allows them to borrow more and save less…”
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