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Puran Defrag 5.1 Giveaway!

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Puran Software has generously offered 5 licenses for Puran Defrag 5.1! So I’m going to have a contest to give them away.
This is how the contest is going to work:
1 – Leave a reply in this post.
2 – The reply must contain the following:
-Your favorite freeware app and your favorite Computer related website (name only, no links/url’s, and not this site)
3 – You must use a valid email address so that I can contact you if you win.

***edit:
***READ THE ABOVE AGAIN***

2 – The reply must contain the following:
-Your favorite freeware app and your favorite Computer related website (name only, no links/url’s, and not this site)

“favorite app” AND “favorite Computer related website”. I don’t understand what is so hard about that???

The contest will end Friday October 31st, 2008 at midnight EST (GMT -4). Winners will be notified Saturday November 1st, 2008. Winners will be drawn randomly. That is, I will use a random number generator to pick 5 numbers from the entries (based on the # next to the reply).
( my Puran Defrag mini-review)

CONTEST HAS ENDED

Puran Defrag – Fast, Efficient, Low-Cost Defragger

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Puran Defrag is a relatively new program. It’s origins only date back to August of 2007. I get lots of requests to review software and after a little research about the product and/or company I usually turn it down unless there is something there that piques my interest. In this case it was the positive comments by Donn Edwards, author of The Great Defrag Shootout.
[Read more…] about Puran Defrag – Fast, Efficient, Low-Cost Defragger

Firefox 3: Getting rid of the drop-downs

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Just a quick How-To. I can’t stand the drop down menu in the Firefox address bar. Here are the 2 keys to change the behavior.

Type: about:config in the address bar and navigate down to:

– To go back to the old style of drop down that only showed where you had already been:
browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped change false to true by double-clicking on it.

– To change the number of items in the drop down: browser.urlbar.maxRichResults change to a number you want. 0=none (This looks like you’ve disabled the drop down but you really haven’t. I haven’t found an easy way to actually disable it.


Double-Bonus time:
I use Google as my home page and I hate the new “suggestions” in the search box. Want to get rid of it? Change your home page / bookmark / search page to this url:
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0

Metallica & AC/DC New Albums…

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Some of you may have noticed the banners I made for the side bar. Yep, I’m stoked about these upcoming albums (I pre-ordered both from the bands websites).
I’ve been listening to 2 of the new Metallica songs. I got them from Mission Metallica but you can get them from iTunes too.
You can listen to AC/DC’s “Rock ‘N’ Roll Train” just by heading to AC/DC.com (it’s embedded flash).