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One-Way Backup Service?
Up until a month ago, my girlfriend has used MobileMe to backup all the files on her MacBook. This turned out terribly when a quirk of MobileMe caused it to erase all of her files on MobileMe, and ...
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Electronic Postage provider compatible with Microsoft Word Mail Merge
We're looking for an e-postage provider that is capable of working with the Mail Merge function in Microsoft Word 2007. Every now and then we extract addresses from our database to mail letters or ...
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Need a temporary but fast internet solution in the UK, does it exist? [closed]
I've looked into mobile 3G, but the download limits seem to be very low; the best I've seen is 10GB (from Orange). Ideally, I could go for something like ADSL, but the problem is that I'd need BT ...
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Where would you go to mass produce something built with a microcontroller? [closed]
Let's say you built a prototype of a product using a microcontroller and a few little parts (LEDs, etc.)
If you wanted to have it mass produced (in quantities of 1000, 10,000), where might you go? ...
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What is the best free service to host images and mp3 files? [closed]
I am making an educational social software silverlight application.
I would like users to be able to point the application to a URL with text, images, and audio files which they have created.
Many ...
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E-mail hosting provider that can set up aliases with wildcards [closed]
I am looking for an e-mail hosting provider that allow e-mail aliases containing wildcards.
In more detail: I own my own domain. I want an e-mail hosting provider to manager e-mail for my domain.
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Where to buy longer PC cables online? [closed]
I am planning to build a new PC soon that will need almost all of it's cables to be extended or longer then noirmal cables to reach including,
Longer cables for my 3-4 monitors to reach my PC to ...
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Recommend a free/cheap CRM system [closed]
I am part of a 4 person volunteer team who manage a small housing development in London. We need a low-cost/no-cost contact management and issue tracking system. Specifically, it needs to be:
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email to sip voicemail
I don't know if this is the correct place to ask this question, but here it goes.
I am looking for a cheap email-to-SIP-voicemail service. I got a Linksys/Cisco SPA-941 phone which has a led which ...
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Looking for a z/OS account
I am interested in experimenting with the IBM z/OS mainframe operating system. I am wondering if anyone knows of places on the 'net which offer a free remote account(even time-limited).
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Online Fax Services
What (preferably free) services are there to send and/or receive faxes, and which one(s) do you recommend? (besides a fax modem)
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Australian Wifi Hotspot Providers [closed]
More informational than techy, but are there any Australians (or frequent visitors to Australia) who can tell me who the big players are in providing Wifi hotspots over there?
A colleague is going ...
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What would you teach a novice computer user? [closed]
My wife is starting to teach "computers" to people of three level, Complete beginners, Somewhat OK and OK. She is given a free hand - she can teach them anything that is useful.
What would you ...
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Where can I buy a sound effects package?
Does anyone know if a good sound package for games (like online flash games). Just looking for a verity of high quality sounds effects on a DVD.
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Which Online Notepad to use? [closed]
What is the best online notepad?
I once used Google Notebook but Google no longer supports it and I don't want to put my stuff on an unsupported site. I now use Luminotes but I find editing of the ...
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How can I create a Usenet Newsgroup?
How can I create a Usenet newsgroup?
I would like to create a Usenet discussion group in the Big Eight hierarchy. I am not interested in hosting a chat room or internet forum, or creating a ...
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Register fancy domains
What’s the cheapest way to register fancy domains like ma.tt, del.icio.us etc?
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Zenbe.com free mail service still remaining free? [closed]
I made my email which I today use as my main email address when Zenbe.com was back then in beta state.
Now out of curiosity I went to their page and to my shock they offer the email service as paid ...
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Free Upload Site? [closed]
I'm looking for a site that i can upload files to. It must meet these requirements:
can hold 50MB files
little to no ads
doesn't require signup (if possible, it isnt required)
is free
Does anyone ...
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open source remote desktop webapplication?
is there such open source remote desktop web application project available? i looking for webapp that ease technical team to do remote desktop user behind firewall and troubleshot their problems
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What is the easiest way for a non-designer, non-programmer to create a company website? [closed]
My brother owns a small business (2 people) and wants to make a web site for it:
site should have a professional design (e.g. templates, no design necessary)
easy to post articles and pictures
he ...
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What is the best free VPN provider? [closed]
I am looking for a free VPN provider.
Which is the best one?
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What are good Usenet account providers, both free and paid?
I used to access newsgroups via the Berlin university's facilities - they provided free acccounts, but that stopped a few years ago. Since then I have been using Google groups to access newsgroups but ...
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Logo Editing Software For Non-Techie
A logo... Pretty simple graphic that requires a little TLC when it comes to formatting, etc.... I know that Vector's are great because you can expand and shrink without losing quality... My question ...
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Off-site storage solutions for individuals
What are some good options for large (measured in Terabytes) off-site data storage solutions, priced for private individuals (i.e. not enterprise-level solutions)?
Update:
This is mean to be a ...
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What is the best online bookmark service? [closed]
I'm looking a super simple way to record URLs for me and family and friends, something preferably with zero ads and no signup and the simplest interface just for saving URLs quick on any computer that ...
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Are there any good Pandora alternatives? [closed]
Unfortunately for us Europeans (and all the other non-US) based people, services like Pandora aren't available.
So does anyone know a good alternative to Pandora, where you can listen to streaming ...
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Online virus scanner
What is the 'best' online virus scanner for Windows. Although the target machine is running Vista the more platforms supported, the better.
A quick Google search reveals a few from the top security ...
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Google Reader Alternative
I currently use Google Reader for all my feeds and am looking for an alternative. My only requirement is that the service store a copy of the text of the feed just like Google does. If the feed site ...
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How do you keep track of what you have to do throughout the day? [closed]
Throughout the day at work I have people coming to me asking me to do things, letting me know about problems, etc. Some of these come "in-person", some come via e-mail or phone. I can't always drop ...
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How well does DropBox fit into a SmallBusiness environment?
For a small business with 10 users and a single server, it seems as though DropBox may be a good option to act as a file server. It would certainly remove some dependencies the server which would be ...
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Looking for a free/cheap Exchange Account Provider [closed]
Most students at my alma-mater were stuck with using the regular old email system (which also booted you off after a certain period of no longer being enrolled), but as a former employee of the ...
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Which GTD tool/webservice do you recommend?
Which GTD (Getting Things Done) tool/webservice do you recommend?
(Assume the user is on Windows.)
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What is the best service for media inventory? (DVD, CD, VHS)
Like many folks, the number of DVDs and CDs in my closet has grown over the years. Its at the point now where I'd like to have a catalog of some kind that I can look at to see what I have, if I ...
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Are there any blog sites like wordpress.com that are a bit more flexible?
I've had good luck with wordpress.com for hosting my blog, but I'm beginning to want something a little bit more flexible. No javascript, a limited selection of themes, etc. Are there any similar ...
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Experience with LiveDrive or alternatives? [closed]
We're thinking of using LiveDrive (www.livedrive.com) to replace a file server for our small web shop (there are three of us, in Baltimore, Boston, and Washington DC, respectively).
LiveDrive has ...
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What is the easiest way to make a graphic available on the Internet i.e., photo/image host? [closed]
My desktop computer is down at the moment.
So I am on my laptop and have taken a picture of my CPU fan and want to post it on the Internet somewhere where I can reference it in a Stackoverflow ...
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Online meetings: any recommendations? [closed]
There's a few times at work when I have to host a meeting and physical presence is impossible. For these situations I've been using Acrobat ConnectNow. Specifically because it's free.
Are there any ...
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What simple online backup services exist for personal use? [closed]
I'm looking for an online backup solution simple enough that my father could use, so it needs to be simple, automatic and trustworthy.
My current advice is to use a portable USB drive, but I am now ...
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Which subscription music service do you use? [closed]
I used Zune Pass for a few months and really enjoyed it while I had it. What other subscription music services are out there? Do you prefer this method of 'renting' music over paying for satellite ...
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Self-hosted image gallery [closed]
I'd like to host an image gallery for family and friends.
Is there any solution out here which offers:
albums ( I expect most do );
ability to specificy tags/persons/places etc, similar to what ...
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Which tool do you use for your to-do list?
I've been constantly switching tools that keep track of my to-do list:
Online account in SimpleGTD
To-do applet in my RSS aggregator
Outlook's builtin Task List
My cellphone's built-in to-do list
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Upload-and-forget remote backup
I'm looking to upload some personal items ( family photos, movies ) to a secure remote location and then forget about them ( unless disaster strikes and my hard drives / DVDs are all broken ).
Please ...
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Time Tracking Applications
What Applications do you use for time tracking.
I have used hamster-applet on Ubuntu. The Rescue time uploader doesn't seem to work well.
In each of the platforms (Windows/*nix/Max/iPhone/Symbian) ...
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What online backup for business use? [closed]
I am looking for a online backup to recommend to customers. Our company mainly deals with business so we need a solution which can be used in a commercial environment.
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What software do you use to manage your images?
I have a directory full of a massive number of digital photos on my laptop. It has been copied and re-copied a number of times and occasionally duplicate copies have been made. I have procrastinated ...
