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Monday, August 8, 2011

All my Marbles (aka the websites I Use)

It's the time for me to blast out all the little tips, tricks, and tools I use to have fun.

TV Shows, Movies, Standup Comedy
you can stream of download with no sign-up

www.icefilms.info

2 steps to make it work (DIVX player and a script)
http://forum.icefilms.info/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=19906 (how to make it work use DIVX player automatic update the first choice, red and follow it)


Internet Radio
- Pandora.com is still free for <40 hrs a week
- Grooveshark.com -
free and runs off yours and other people music
- slacker.com - has a bunch of variety and is all radio

Apartment/Room Searching
Padmapper.com - searchs CL, Rental.com, and a bunch of others. it combines what most people do already with google maps, but puts everything on one map and blasts you with info. They also have an alert feature whic works well and the website is great when you are trying to find a place that location and price are important.



Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Which Laptop Brand is Best?


There are many PC brands out there but this article



Gives us a break down of Failure, not resistance to failure, but actually failures within a 2 and 3 year period.

If you are looking for a new laptop and find a nice preconfigured deal of the top tier of manufactures , GET IT.


Sunday, January 9, 2011

When Is Good?

Have a Group Project?
Trying to figure out what time is good for everyone?

Instead of asking endless questions try using the web-app that is pretty powerful.
It can show when is good for your team as as well as show you when people are available too

Site: http://whenisgood.org/

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Open Source Project Managment Software

I found one I like
Its an open-source alternative to microsoft project, I like it better in some regards.

It is called OpenProj .. it even imports .mpp or not 2007 version of microsoft project.

Main Site: http://openproj.org/
Download site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openproj/files/

Features
Taken from wikipedia

The current version includes: