2006 April

Help a young baker show big bad business who’s boss in this fast-paced treat!
When the retail behemoth “Mega-Mart” moves in, Jill’s beloved family bakery is forced to close. But she’s determined to get the business back on its feet with delicious sweets.
Help Jill open her own bakery, bring in customers, and earn enough [...]

Time Travel is a date calculator that allows you to calculate the differences between two dates in days, weeks, months, or years. It offers advanced options that let you skip certain days of the week, and include or exclude weekdays or weekends.
You can calculate retroactive dates (e.g. how many days since you were [...]

Although it can be very tough sometimes, it’s vital to help keep families together. It’s truly a shame if you can’t look to your family for support. One of the main reasons why the family structure disintegrates over time for some people is because of a lack of communication. If the various members aren’t making [...]

Infopackets contributor Keith Greenhalf writes:
Is Microsoft spying on you?
The Redmond-based company will soon release a major update to its ‘Windows Genuine Advantage’ (WGA) program. The update will include an alert mechanism that informs users if they are using a pirated copy of Windows software. 1
Once installed, the Windows Genuine Advantage program beams popup notifications directly [...]

If you thought hacking was just about mischief-makers hunched over computers in the basement, think again. Wallace Wang steps back into the fray with Steal This Computer Book 4.0: What They Won’t Tell You About the Internet (No Starch Press, May 2006), wherein he explains that hacking can also mean questioning the status quo, looking [...]

Man, I LOOOOOOOOOVE to cook! Around my house, I do 75% of the cooking. That’s MY idea, not Briana’s!
So it’s natural that today’s Family First site is cooking-related. It’s called Wacky Recipes.
Now, don’t worry. The recipes aren’t what’s wacky. What’s wacky is that there are hundreds of free recipes that you can peruse. You can [...]

I’ve been a Canon PowerShot fan for several generations now - dating back to the G2. Before that, I was a Sony digicam man (starting with their floppy-driven Mavica). I’ve owned several PowerShot digital cameras over the years, skipping most of the sub-compact models because they lacked features. Well, I learned that through regular usage, [...]

Anyone who regularly uses the computer or downloads files from the Internet will find DupeWatcher a must have utility. This smart companion will help you to housekeep your system with ease.
Features include:

The ability to delete duplicate files
The ability to move duplicate files to the recycle bin or a specified folder
The compression of such [...]

How many times have you looked at your list of bookmarks and thought that you needed a better way of managing them all? There aren’t too many bookmark managers that are not integrated with the browser in some way, shape or form. StorURL is one of the few that are not, and it [...]

One of the most complex decisions that you’ll ever face is in direct relation to real estate. Trying to find that perfect house in that perfect location for that perfect price can be very difficult, and it is sure to wear you out. There are likely hundreds (if not thousands) of listings in your area, [...]