I'm posting this here so that I can find it again. This is Life Hacker's most popular Hive Five Topics of 2009 . I hadn't seen this before I bought my Netbook but it turns out that the one I bought was an update to the most voted Netbook on their Five Best Netbooks posting....
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I've been trying to work out how to rotate an image through the Y-axis and display its mirror image on a web page. One of the problems that I faced was trying to find the right word(s) to search on as rotate (so I discovered) is used to refer to rotation through the Z-axis most of the time. I finally...
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I just bought and installed Intuit Quicken Deluxe 2010 from their site for $59. The first thing to disappoint me was the fact that there was nowhere during the purchasing procedure to enter my coupon code and get a discount. I was in too much of a hurry to bother with hunting around for how to do this...
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I've just been battling for the last 30 minutes to try and burn an ISO as an image to a DVD. I have a version of Nero Burn and tried to line up the planets with this bit of not-so-great software and ended up creating a data DVD with the ISO as the single file on this DVD. I took a second attempt with...
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I wasn't even aware that there was a banker's method to rounding numbers until I came across what I though was a bug in the Math.Round() function in the .NET library today. If you call this function: double x = Math.Round(.005, 2); then you will discover that x is set to zero. If you call this: double...
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I installed SpamBayes for Outlook 2007 eight days ago and have been using it since then. I can understand the reluctance of users to installing this software because it's not trivial to understand how it works or exactly why it would be better than the spam software built into Outlook. Before I installed...
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For about the last year I've been using ClipX which is a clipboard manager. This worked well-ish with a few minor annoyances but seems to have been languishing in a vacuum of non-development and stagnation. Recently a friend put me on to the Ditto Clipboard Manager which I've installed on to a number...
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