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Jake Bechtold | January 29, 2006

Looking for an interesting T-Shirt idea? Snap Shirts can help you out. SnapShirts (along with making shirts for book lovers) allows you to create a word cloud T-shirt from your blog. In other words, it searches you blog for commonly used words, and creates a cloud.
“The Custom line uses …

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Google Date

Jake Bechtold | January 26, 2006

Want a great way to find out what happened on a certain day in history? Try Google Date.
Google Date lets you enter a date and then searches using Google for what happened on that date and shows three results. Since Google isn’t very good at sorting documents for relevance …

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Comic Sans never supposed to exist?

Jake Bechtold | January 25, 2006

Just to let you know, posting is going to be slow for a couple of weeks. I’m currently working on a project that will not allow to get home until late. I would like to apologize up front for any inconveniences this causes. I will, however, post when I …

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8 Mistakes Made When Creating PowerPoint Presentations

Jake Bechtold | January 22, 2006

If you’ve ever created a PowerPoint (I’m sure you have) then you know they are a great aid when making a presentation. Most of the time they can help you prove your point, but they can also ruin it, too. To avoid doing this, you should follow the steps …

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iPod Quick Tips

Jake Bechtold | January 21, 2006

While listening to my iPod the other day, I found a couple of features that I did not know about, and thought they were worth posting about. I’ve expanded on this idea, and have put together a list of some iPod Quick Tips.

Resetting iPod if it appears frozen or …

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The Most Fun You’ll Have With Zip Codes

Jake Bechtold | January 20, 2006

Say you’re sending a package to a friend who recently moved to a different city. They gave you the address on a piece of paper. They included the zip code, but the city name got smudged, and is no longer readable (Unlikely, but it can happen). You have the …

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Gmail To Add a Delete Button?

Jake Bechtold | January 18, 2006

For the longest time, there’s been a Greasmonkey script that allowed you (in Firefox) to have a Delete button in Gmail. I had planned on posting about it in December, but it got pushed back (Sorry). But now there is no need. If you go to Gmail’s “What’s New” …

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Boot Up Windows Before You Log In

Jake Bechtold | January 17, 2006

So here’s my problem. Generally speaking, I’ll startup my computer then I’ll go do something else for a while. Then I come back and login, and have to wait more. So it would be nice to startup my computer, and when when I want on, just enter the password an …

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All iPod Hacks on one page

Jake Bechtold | January 14, 2006

So you’ve got an iPod, and you’ve become familiar with it. Now What? On Digg, I found a wikipedia article of basic iPod Hacks.
Like for example:
How to convert DVDs and put them on your 5G iPod
How to add games to your iPod
How to get power from your …

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Google Homepage Personalization Directory

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If you have a gmail account, or if you have used Google for any amount of time, then you know (hopefully) the Google offers a personalized home page, http://google.com/ig. If you don’t know, it’s a personalized Google homepage that features different modules, or the ability to add RSS feeds (Kind …

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