Giveaway of the Day is a nice website where you can find a new application to download every day. These applications include programs which normally cost money, but the developers make an exception to give the program free for people to try. This is how it works, according to their website:

    Basically, every day we nominate one software title that will be a Giveaway title of that day. The software will be available for download for 24 hours (or more, if agreed by software publisher) and that software will be absolutely free. That means - not a trial, not a limited version - but a registered and legal version of the software will be free for our visitors*.

Also, there is a game giveaway of the day with the same concept - only for games.

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One of the most productive things in Firefox is the ability to designate a keyword for each website that you want to search, and easily use that keyword to quickly search a site. Instead of having to search for a site by going to the search bar, choosing the site that you want to search from the drop-down menu, and then entering the search phrase, you can simply type the keyword followed by the search phrase into the address bar.

For example, if you want to search IMDB for the movie Ice Age, all you have to do is type ‘i ice age’ into the address bar and press enter. This makes searching sites like google, newegg, amazon, or any other site which you search at much faster. Of course, you can designate any keyword you want for any site, so IMDB can be ‘i’ or ‘imdb’ or anything you want the keyword to be. To set a keyword for a specific site, follow these steps:

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The programs that startup with windows should be monitored the most. Sometimes there are those programs which are installed and allow themselves to run at startup, without really notifying the user - like installed iTunes and quicktime magically appears in the taskbar, or adobe reader. It is really unnecessary to have such programs run if you don’t use them consistently.

Luckily, there is an amazing program which lets you be in control of every single program which launches during startup:

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Lifehacker had a post about how to ‘Transform Your Classic Xbox into a Killer Media Center‘. It is a great read and anyone who has an old Xbox lying around should definitely try it out. In fact, it wouldn’t hurt to buy a used one for really cheap to have an amazing Media Center, instead of building your own from scratch. Once you’ve got that set up, one of the most useful things that you can do is get your universal remote to work with the Xbox Media Center. This is fairly easy to do, just follow these steps:
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Did you ever notice that Internet Explorer displays font’s so much better than any other web browser, such as Firefox or Opera? Open up an IE tab and another browser’s tab and compare. Can you see the difference?

Here are screen shots of the results from the front page of Yahoo News.

Internet Explorer:

Opera & Firefox:

Notice the difference? Internet Explorer’s is much more smooth and looks a lot better. However, it is very easy to get this style on all of Windows, not just Internet Explorer.
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