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Apple Releases New iBooks and Mac Minis

Jake Bechtold | July 27, 2005

Apple has finally released their new ibooks and mac minis. The new iBooks, with a 1.33 GHz or 1.42 GHz G4, at least 512 MB RAM, included Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, an ATI Mobility 9550 graphics card, and a cool new scrolling touchpad. The new Mac Minis with 1.25 GHz or …

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Firefox Extentions

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Many people don’t know (most do) that one of the coolest things about firefox, is it’s ability to expand. If you go to addons.mozilla.org, you’ll find hundreds of extentions. One of my favorites is ForcastFox, an extention that adds an area to your status bar, with the forcast from accuweather.com. …

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Digg.com

Jake Bechtold | July 26, 2005

After All Of The Excitement Of Wednesday, Me On The Front Page Of Digg.com, It Hit Me. “SOME PEOPLE DON’T KNOW WHAT DIGG IS!” (I Actually Relized This When I Sent An Email To A Friend With The News And He Said, “What’s That?”)
For those of you who don’t …

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Yahoo! Widgets

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You’re Probably Familiar With Konfabulator. But The Problem Was It Was Shareware, Meaning You Have To Pay For It. Not Any More. Yahoo! Has Aquired Konfabulator, And It Is Now Yahoo! Widgets, And Is Free.
read more | digg story
I should give credit to Jake Jarvis (Took The Idea From …

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“On The Cover Of The Rolling Stone!”

Jake Bechtold | July 20, 2005

Look For Me On The Front Page Of Digg.com! Or Click On The Picture!
UPDATE: I At This Point Have 263 Diggs. Check It Out And Digg Me, Please.

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Customized Email Buttons

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See That Nice Little Button On The Right Side Of The Page Above The Digg Stories? Want One Like That? Go Here To Create One. Works With Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, And More.

Read More | Digg Story

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Web Tip: Multiple Home Pages In Firefox

Jake Bechtold | July 18, 2005

This little trick is something I’ve known about for some time. Say you want “jakebechtold.net” and “www.google.com” as your home page. All you have to do is in the “Home Page” portion of the “General” tab, enter in both websites with a pipe ( | ) between the two websites. …

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Download: I Hate This Key!

Jake Bechtold | July 11, 2005

Gamers, are you ever in the middle of a great game, and all of the sudden, you hit the Windows Key, and you have to go fix what’s wrong in Windows, and when you get back, your dead? Presenting “I Hate This Key”. “I Hate This Key” is a program that sits in your icon tray, and blocks the Windows Key. In the Deluxe Edition, you can also block the Control Key, Alt Key, F-Keys, Caps Lock, And Shutdown. The Deluxe Edition is $9.95. But if all you want is to fix that annoying Windows Key, then the Free Version will due. Of course you can always get yourself A screw driver and pop the key off, but that wouldn’t work too well on laptops. To Download Go To Bytegems.com

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Xmail Hard Drive

Jake Bechtold | July 2, 2005

Google’s Gmail gives you over 2GB of storage. Unfortunaly, you can’t use this for storage, only for mail, Until Now. Formerly known as Gmail Hard Drive, Xmail Hard Drive allows you to login, and save stuff to your gmail account, like a gmail drive. I tried it when it was …

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