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Necessity is the Mother of Invention

I have some friends who, given a choice between spending money and creating a life threatening Heath Robinson type device will always go for the latter.  However they have nothing on the people featured at thereifixedit.com.  A wonderful selection of “projects” from people who clearly have no regard for their lives or the lives of [...]

Alternative Software

I have no problem with paying for software when it is useful and I’m going to need to do something repeatedly, but what if you need to do something as a one-off or just plain can’t afford the mega-bucks “pro tool” such as Photoshop? Help is now at hand thanks to alternativeto.net. The [...]

Convert PDFs to Word

PDFs are great but every now and then I have a need to edit one.  There are of course a whole plethora of PDF creation/editing tools available, most of which will set you back some cash.  But generally I don’t need this level of functionality, I just need to move some bits around.  Well to [...]

Instapaper

I’m a huge fan of RSS and currently have close to 60 feeds subscribed to (via Google Reader).  Obviously that’s a lot of articles to go through and I read only a small percentage of these.  One problem is that many of these feeds are from sites that kick out a lot of content (Digg, [...]

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