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2006 September

Prosper.com

Are you ready for a site that’s going to make you scratch your chin and say “hmmm…?”
The site is called Prosper. It’s all about peer-to-peer money loaning and borrowing.
Here’s how it works: You need a loan. You post how much you wish to borrow, what interest you’d be willing to pay, and for how long. [...]

Straight Outta Lynwood

I’m not a professional music critic - and don’t pretend to be. However, I’ve gotta tell you that “Straight Outta Lynwood” [SOL] is one of the best albums that “Weird Al” Yankovic has produced to date. Yes, I’m biased - having been a fan of the band ever since the seventh grade. His originals finally, [...]

Astariel

Can you reach Astariel?
Blast into fun with this cool retro arcade game that requires quick decisions and even faster reflexes! Shoot your way through hordes of colorful and frenetic alien attack waves, 150 in all, in a battle to reach your home world, Astariel.
There are 40 fantastic power-up crates to collect and 5 [...]

FastStone Screen Capture v4.3

When it comes to screen captures, there are a lot of programs that try to add more to the simple process. The problem comes in that not many of them do it very well. Most of the time I’d be just as happy with uninstalling it and using the old “Print Screen” button [...]

Sabifoo

Publishing content on the Internet has become unbelievably simple, and whether you want to distribute text, audio, or video, there are plenty of ways to get your stuff out there. For those of you who thought that creating a Web page in HTML was too difficult or time consuming, blogging came along to simplify the [...]

Installing The Recovery Console In Windows Server 2003

The Recovery Console is a useful tool for troubleshooting. You can use it to access volumes that cannot be accessed when you are in Safe Mode. You can run the Recovery Console from the Windows Server 2003 CD or you can install the utility on your hard drive. The nice thing about installing it is [...]

Adjust The Left Margin For Bulleted Lists

Bulleted lists can be difficult to work with, especially when it comes to adjusting the margins. For example, getting all the in a list text correctly indented. You can manually adjust the left margin for each bullet by moving the indent marker on the ruler. A more efficient method is to use Bullets and Numbering [...]

Is Anonymous Web Surfing Possible?

I heard about TORPARK today. Does it work, if so what are the implications for abuse, terrorism etc.? Does this software make us completely unanswerable? Puzzled and bemused!
Torpark is one of several freely available approaches to surfing the Internet anonymously.
Sort of.
Anonymous surfing might not be everything you think, and it’s important to understand what it [...]

OEDILF

Our Family First site today
May delight you or maybe dismay
Its theme, you discern
Is that poetry spurned
It’s limericks! What can I say?
Yes, today’s Family First site is called OEDILF: The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form.

Credit Card And Identity Theft Warnings

A long-time Lockergnomie has a few more phishing stories to share - listen and learn.
First, let me tell you about a recent con. I knew it was a con when the email told me NOT to tell anyone that I had won a lotto drawing. I played along, just to see how they were going [...]

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