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Simply said by the creator of Instapaper:
"Previous-me tried to persuade everyone to switch to my setup, but I now know that it’s not worth the effort. I’ll never know someone else’s requirements, environment, or priorities as well as they do...
You should use whatever works for you. And I no longer have the patience or hubris to convince you what that should be. All I can offer is one data point: what I use, and how it works for me."

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A very handy tool (albeit commandline based) that allows you to work with image metadata. You can even extract the metadata to a file for detailed analysis.

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Makes for pretty sad reading, and the situation with Android updates outside of the US is even worse. I share the exact sentiments with my Galaxy S i9003 that's still stuck on Froyo 2.2

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"Virtual Router turns any Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 Computer into a Wifi Hot Spot using Windows 7's Wireless Hosted Network (Virtual Wifi) technology."

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Shows you the technological progress we've made in 15 years too. Just look at the way the computing power has increased & at the same time reduced in cost.
Most stats show the difference between 1996 & 2011. It could've done with an intermediate period circa 2002-03 when Win XP was at its peak, especially for browser share (IE had ~90% of the market).

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Handy little tool to benchmark the DNS servers locally & thus choose the best one

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Quite a variety - from ebook organizers to toxicology testers

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Quite a handy utility that lets you build a custom installer for a bunch of software & then have them silently install\update

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Interesting article on commoditization. Microsoft did it pretty well in the PC era, while Sun shot itself in the foot by trying to commoditize both hardware & software. Wonder what happens in the mobile computing (smartphone\tablet\netbook) era. Will the app marketplaces do the trick?

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How do you price software? Lots of theories ranging from basic macroeconomics to capitalism & the likes, but no definitive answer.

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A very handy tool to analyse the different parameters of your photograph.
"ExposurePlot (former FocalPlot) is a new free utility that analyzes your usage of the focal length of your lenses (jpeg only), show charts for ISO, aperture and shutterspeed.Great to determine which lens you 'really' need, or which lens did you actually use on the trip to the mountains."

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Download the original version of VisiCalc for the PC, provided by the inventor himself. The site also includes reference cards and lots of other resources, links & articles

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A very handy utility to synchronize folders across different locations including network drives. Includes an option to install in the portable form as well.

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Resulting in disasters like rockets blowing up & fatal radiation doses

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A tool that helps make blurry photos passable
via http://lifehacker.com/5540163/unshake-makes-blurry-photos-passable

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Works really well

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A video streamer for the iPhone\iPod that works!

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Quite a few options

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Automated troubleshooting from MS.

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