Go FOSS! (free open source software)

It would probably be a computer utopia if everything you ever need to spend on while using the computer is hardware, electricity, and your internet connection.  At the same time, your system is still running in tiptop shape.  As an essential step to that, a little help from Lifehacker is nice.
It may be the year [...]

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Keeping track of citations while doing research. In Firefox.

Last semester while doing research for our thesis writing course, citing web sites was a lot of trouble. Authors and dates of publication rarely showed up. I had to bring up Google Desktop’s scratchpad widget to take citation notes if I was able to catch some of that fish.
Enter Zotero. This Firefox extension sniffs out [...]

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Solution to “Illegal System DLL Relocation” in Windows XP Systems using Flyakite OSX transformation pack

Just a while ago I finally found the solution to this problem. It’s in post #4 by Anonymous.
I had long been a “non-fan” of Windows XP’s user interface. With all that unnecessary eye candy and emboss effects, it seems to take up too much screen real estate.
So I began using FlyakiteOSX, a transformation [...]

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