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February 2008

Windows Shortcuts to your favorite apps.

Submitted by phil on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 15:46

Like most of you, I use the Windows Run command (Win + R) to start many applications which I have added to the PATH environment variables to simplify my life.

However, as I have grown tired of this inefficient method, I looked around and found not 1, but 2 better solutions:

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WordFusion FREE

Submitted by phil on Sun, 02/10/2008 - 19:47

Electronic forms designer - completely free

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OLCP... Delays in getting the order.

Submitted by phil on Sun, 02/10/2008 - 17:13

Hardware/OLPC

Here is the recent email received around the order placed last year during the G1G1 promotion:

"Dear ...,
Please accept my apologies for the delay in receiving your XO laptop. Give One Get One was such a phenomenal success that we over-taxed our order processing and payment systems. Demand exceeded supply.

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ETL... what is available as FOSS?

Submitted by phil on Sun, 02/10/2008 - 17:08

Talend

Pentaho Kettle

And a nice little article comparing these 2 leading FOSS around ETL:
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/bi/websphere/archives/wiki-wednesday-comparin...

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Like writing Excel Macros? Use Firefox? Want to automate?

Submitted by phil on Sun, 02/10/2008 - 17:04

Automating the web, or at least what you do on it is finally here with iMacros from iOpus

Free for download as a Firefox add-in:
http://www.iopus.com/imacros/firefox/

Need more convincing? Check out these demos:

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