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How To Recover Your SharePoint 2007 Product ID
small, handy vbscript to get your product id back from a working sharepoint installation.
microsoft  sharepoint  utilities  recovery 
5 weeks ago
Change Finder sizes between Base 10 and Base 2
if you never liked the way 10.6 started representing volume/file sizes.
apple  utilities 
6 weeks ago
The Step-by-Step Guide to Digitizing Your Life
recommendations for turning paper, images, audio, and video into digits. plus, storage and optimization tricks.
howto 
7 weeks ago
Infographic: Get More Out Of Google
excellent set of shortcuts and tricks.
search  google  research 
11 weeks ago
HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio review
key phrase being "beats audio review". analysis of exactly what beats by dre is, and how it figures into audio devices.
audio  beats  analysis 
november 2011
[iPhone] How to Create Custom Shortcuts For WiFi Settings, Airplane Mode, and More – No Jailbreak Required
yet another reason to be content without jailbreak.
iphone 
november 2011
New Touchpad? Here's your "Get Started" guide
this forum member has done a /really/ good job of covering everything i'd tell a new touchpad owner, and more. regularly updated!
touchpad  howto  guide 
november 2011
How do I - Install PowerPivot into an EXISTING SharePoint 2010 farm
strong contender for worst first-party integrated solution, ever.
microsoft  sharepoint  powerpivot  sql  server  howto  install 
october 2011
Why is this content database growing so fast?
yeah, that might be an issue. fortunately, sp2010 has made patching a touch easier (no more separate foundation/server cumulative updates after aug 2011)
sharepoint  microsoft  database 
october 2011
Breaking Bad Themes as Loteria Cards
spoilers ahead for those who don't follow the show...
breaking  bad  loteria  cards  illustration  tv 
october 2011
Reporting Services Configuration: SocketException issue
so, reporting services (current version) doesn't support sql aliases. wonderful.
microsoft  sql  reporting  services 
september 2011
Windows 8 Keyboard shortcuts
the win8 dev preview isn't all that friendly with just a mouse and keyboard. this should help out a bit.
microsoft  windows  win8  shortcuts 
september 2011
don't come to the dark side: acquisitions and star wars.
yet another argument against monolithic solutions.
humor  government 
september 2011
How I Manually Add Books to Kindle
for non-drm'ed .mobi format e-books
books  touchpad  hacking 
august 2011
Cleanup Workflow History
found a workflow history list with ~300k items in it. had to whittle it down 1k rows at a time using this invaluable utility.
sharepoint  microsoft  utilities  workflow 
august 2011
ZFS Tutorial
i really don't see this getting any easier
tutorial  howto  zfs 
august 2011
Babble.ly
...creates private, disposable links for your phone numbers
phone 
may 2011
Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie | Men’s Journal
health 
april 2011
Transmission 2 on Apple TV 3
most comprehensive, easy-to-do process for...well, says it on the package.
appletv  hacking 
april 2011
Dexter's Victims - Infographic by ~dehahs on deviantART
source for the dexter infographic. current for all of season 5
graphics  awesome 
march 2011
stories about kvelertak
it's all in norwegian. some dude translated the basics of the story each track from the self-titled release is about.
music 
march 2011
"My Puny Human Brain" By Ken Jennings
the jeopardy prodigy on what it's like to face a non-human competitor
article 
february 2011
QWiki
baseline knowledge on a topic presented with pictures and links to deeper topics, narrated by a generated voice. excellent way to quickly learn about something
awesome  reference  education 
january 2011
Rejex: the JavaScript regular expression editor
live regular expression building.
hacking  scripting 
january 2011
namebench - Project Hosting on Google Code
automatically figure out if your local dns servers are faster than free, public ones like offerings from google and opendns.
hacking  dns 
january 2011
Dynamic Dummy Image Generator
the lorem ipsum of images.
http://dummyimage.com/[w]x[h]/[bgcolor]/[fgcolor].[format]&[text]
webdesign 
january 2011
Why You Can't Get Decent Earphones for Less Than $100
gizmodo gives you at least 100 reasons to ditch the earbuds that came with your mp3 player.
music  hardware 
january 2011
Less
minimalistic css framework. good width detection and mobile browser support.
css  webdesign 
december 2010
The Evolution of the Hipster
from 2001-2010, a comprehensive portfolio of trend-hopping.
humor 
december 2010
Using TVNamer to Move Completed TV Torrent Downloads - 1000umbrellas.com
the one missing piece of fully-automated tv show downloading.
december 2010
Fasten Seat Belts
short, informative videos that teach international etiquette.
travel 
november 2010
DevExpertise » Deleting List Items in a SharePoint List
for an object model, sharepoint isn't very object-oriented. works for all list members, as well.
sharepoint  microsoft  article 
november 2010
The IT Crowd - Explore: The IT Basement
best tv show ever. now there's no need to wait for the right camera angle to pause and guess what the random paraphernalia is.
awesome  fun 
november 2010
ProCSSor - Advanced CSS Prettifier
much simpler and yet, more customizable than most css optimizers.
css 
october 2010
Logon Type Codes Revealed
for posterity's sake. i think i search for this exact article about once a week when chasing down failure audits.
microsoft  article  reference 
october 2010
SharePoint 2007 Downloads
lots of crazy configuration whitepapers with screenshots and everything!
sharepoint 
october 2010
ORINGZ
hey, look at that. a site dedicated to free, original ringtones that actually sound like regular notifications. amazing.
free 
june 2010
QuicklyCode - Cheat Sheets and programming stuff
wow...cheat sheets, wallpapers, reference guides...addedbytes (formerly ilovejackdaniels.com) was good, but this looks even better!
programming  reference  webdesign 
june 2010
The Indie Game Database
good portion of these are freeware. great to download for a laugh (or in the case of cave story, complete obsession).
free  fun  games  list  software 
june 2010
Chrometric
simulate colorblindness when designing web pages. sadly, requires the adobe air runtime. we'll forgive it, though, in the name of accessibility.
software  webdesign 
june 2010
HTML5 Readiness
doesn't get easier than this to figure out your target audience for the web's newest favorite buzzword.
css  webdesign  reference 
june 2010
Windows 2008 R2 DHCP Cluster Setup
ugh. everywhere else on the internet says "don't do it! it's stupid!" well...if i'm tasked to do it, i need to know how. you hear me, microsoft mvps? if you made it an option, have the damn documentation.
microsoft 
march 2010
VSeWSS 1.3 Post-Install Configuration
holy crap...installing the wss extensions for visual studio is a royal pain. here's the dummy's guide to post-install configuration.
iis  sharepoint 
march 2010
origami club
oooooh...this could waste a whole bunch of time.
free  reference 
march 2010
Robin Hood Morality Test
interesting test of where your honesty and morality gauges fall.
march 2010
Atlas of The Verse
for the firefly/serenity completionist nerd in you.
awesome 
march 2010
10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling
seriously.
grammar  humor  education 
january 2010
SelfADSI : The ADSI Scripting Tutorial / The LDAP Scripting Tutorial
excellent reference for screwing around with the api for ldap. saved my ass this morning when google couldn't find a 12-number-long, negative error number.
scripting  microsoft  reference 
january 2010
Description of Windows Management Framework Core
about damn time, microsoft. it specialists: get this now - powershell 2.0 finally adds some much needed remoting support.
Microsoft 
january 2010
Web 2.0 Suicide Machine
once upon a time, i did this manually. had i known about this service, would've done this instead. hope these guys add more support for other services.
awesome  web2.0 
december 2009
Rethink Afghanistan
this. over and over and over.
november 2009
House Medical Reviews
blow-by-blow recap of every single house episode, ever, with sanity checking reviews of the medical diagnoses determined by the team.
humor  article 
november 2009
Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories
a bunch of stories about my personal favorite underdog.
apple 
november 2009
Cell Size and Scale
just so you know how small everything really is.
education  awesome 
october 2009
Giz Explains: Why Every Country Has a Different F#$%ing Plug - Worldwide electric plugs
travellers, take note. this is why you have to shell out $40 for a 220v-240v converter with eight kinds of plugs.
article 
october 2009
Net Neutrality Worst Case
here's a pretty simple-to-understand chart about what will happen if your representatives vote "no" on net neutrality.
web2.0 
october 2009
How Long Does Bill Murray Spend in Groundhog Day?
for the obsessive-compulsive movie watcher in you.
movies  humor  article 
october 2009
Reward Points: The Real Deal
bursting the bubble of "reward points" programs was never so much fun. admittedly, after racking up about $5,000 worth of credit card debt over the life of one of my cards i got.../almost/ $75 in itunes gift cards. i think i'm another $500-$600 away. good thing i pay it off every week...
money 
october 2009
iPod and iPhone Firmware Download
good place to get any version of any ipod or iphone firmware. direct links to apple, too.
apple  software  iphone 
october 2009
CallWiki.com - Free Reverse Phone Directory
out of curiosity, i searched google for a spam call. one of the first results was this site. lots of existing numbers and comments from users about who's scamming. a few articles on how to file complaints for not paying attention to the "do not call" mandate, as well.
phone  list 
september 2009
The Fiction Generator
i'll never run out of story ideas again. if i wrote stories.
comics  humor  awesome 
september 2009
Admit it : When you were a child, during road trips you imagined a laser beam shooting from your eyes that would cut through the scenery outside the window.
yep. any time i was overly quiet, i pretended the car had to precariously jump from road segment to road segment; the gaps being the yellow lines. there's an insane amount of comments for people who can relate.
awesome 
september 2009
Scripting Active Directory Users using VBScript
been meaning to save this one for awhile. tons and tons of adsi/ldap scripts.
scripting  Microsoft  reference 
september 2009
The Hierarchy Of Digital Distractions
screw maslow. this is self-actualization based on your devices and social networking skills. oddly enough, only the phone-related things apply in my case. don't know if that counts as "fortunately" or "unfortunately."
humor  web2.0 
september 2009
Hackmodo: Making a Stand
stands for your gadgets are great, but probably way too expensive than they should be. here's a bunch of cheap/free ones you can make yourself.
awesome  free 
august 2009
Add "_popup" between "watch" and "?" on any Youtube video and you get a fullscreen version without related videos, video responses, inane comments and other regular Youtube irritants
great stupid youtube trick! also included in the comments of this reddit thread: a greasemonkey script to automatically do this for you, and a method to link to a specific point in a video.
awesome  web2.0 
july 2009
SQL Server 2005 Activity/Job Activity Monitor Code
actual sql code that generates the grids for sql server's activity monitor and job activity monitor. really helpful if you want to install management studio on a workstation.
database  scripting 
july 2009
Finding an app in a haystack
since going over to the dark side, the sheer amount of applications is a little ludicrous. in addition to using appminer to track apps on sale, these are some other comprehensive trackers.
software  iphone  reference 
july 2009
Clever JPEG Optimization Techniques | How-To | Smashing Magazine
a few clever tricks for making your jpegs look like something moderately decent...and possibly smaller, too!
article  webdesign  graphics 
july 2009
10 Useful Firefox Extensions to Supercharge Firebug
i've waxed lovingly on firebug, the firefox extension that turns your browser into an ide. was not aware of the many firebug extensions, though. some of these could be extremely useful...
scripting  webdesign 
june 2009
Proper Use of the Semi-Colon: Four Ways to Use Semi-Colons in Sentences
not like you'll ever really have a need for it.
article  grammar 
june 2009
Add more power to 10.5's screen sharing
windows server's remote desktop functionality is pretty damn good as it is. apple's had a version of it, and it sort of comes free with mac os x 10.5. this is how to enable it without paying $300 for a 10-person license!
apple  software 
may 2009
MyLifeIsAverage - Life Is Normal Today
parody/alternate for www.fmylife.com.
humor 
may 2009
5 great free CD and DVD burning apps for Windows
nero or roxio too much or too expensive for your cd burning purposes? i've had infrarecorder on my portable usb drive for a year now, and it does a much better job than the giants, but any of these should do the trick.
free  software 
april 2009
PDFreaders.org - Get a Free Software PDF reader!
open source acrobat reader replacements. get rid of the bloat! windows users - my personal favorite is foxit, which is not on this list, but still very free and very fast.
list  free  software 
april 2009
Discovering Music in 2009: The New Tools
this is how we do it. turn off your freakin' radio and spend about a day getting used to finding new stuff in a much better way.
music  article 
april 2009
The dark side of Dubai - The Independent
fyi, dubai isn't as perfect as you'd like to think. doha had the same kind of feel to it - lots of glitz and cleanliness, but the same blue-suited immigrant workers toiling away.
news  article 
april 2009
Install iTunes (PC) Without the Bloat
itunes seems to be the new realplayer. follow the links in the article to get rid of everything that sucks about itunes.
software 
april 2009
Who else thinks lip piercings look like robot herpes?
alright, so i'm pretty liberal when it comes to body modification, but this single question and resulting thread just ruined that.
humor 
march 2009
401.1 and 401.2-Authentication Problems (IIS 6.0)
every time i think i know everything there is to know about iis, i am constantly humbled by the amount of bullcrap one has to deal with when working in an imperfect environment (read: one i haven't built with my own two hands over the past 5+ years).
microsoft  iis 
march 2009
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