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I needed my product keys for a couple of MS products, but after you enter a product key, it gets hidden pretty deeply.  I found an app called ProduKey that extracts the products keys for all installed MS products.  As an added bonus, there is no installation required, so just download it and run it [...]

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/zd/20090212/tc_zd/237037 Rest assured, the next iteration of Windows is on its way, but when and how? The latest rumor making the rounds in the blogosphere is that Microsoft will provide Vista users with a free upgrade to Windows 7 when it becomes available. Yeah, right.  If that happens, I’ll eat my hat.

Adobe PDF Reader is pretty useless when it comes to manipulating PDF files.  I found a few free tools that let you create, markup, and extract PDF files. PrimoPDF – creates PDF print driver, which lets you create a PDF from any application PDF XChange Viewer – allows you to markup a PDF, including text [...]

I pulled the trigger and moved the site.  The WP.org plugins are just too freaking cool.  Here are the “must haves” that I have found: WordPress.com stats Google XML sitemaps – generate sitemaps automatically Akismet – block spam comments WPTouch iPhone Theme Add to Any – share posts in over 100 different ways

So apparently it’s not that simple to get out from under the thumb of WordPress.com. I want to use a custom domain name and my own hosting instead of onlydarksets.wordpress.com, but I would like to retain my Google/Yahoo/Live search rankings. I had hoped throwing a little cash at it would do the trick, but apparently [...]

The problem is that you lose all of your search indexing if you just export it and start at your own domain.  However, here is a good writeup on the steps to avoid that.  It’s pretty simple if you’re willing to spend $10. Basically, you buy a domain and host it through WordPress.com for a [...]

A while back I found a good post (via FlashInsider) that detailed how to create a video sharing site, but when I went to look at it recently, it was replaced by a placeholder page written in German.  Thanks to Google cache, here is a mirror of it, including comments.  I’m not planning on hosting [...]

My hosting provider has the default limits for uploading files via PHP set pretty low (2MB).  To get around that, they allow custom php.ini files, but they don’t tell you where to put them or what to put in them. Create a text file called “php.ini” and place it in the directory where the script [...]

This took forever to find, but I was hoping XmlTextWriter would work in Windows Scripting Host (I thought I found an example), but I couldn’t get it to work.  This is the only structured way I could find to create an XML document in WSH: http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/Windows-Scripting/Creating-an-XML-Document-in-WSH/ (OK – found the problem.  XmlTextWriter is .NET only, [...]

I”ve been testing out a workflow for the photos from my DSLR, and I was leaning toward converting everything to DNG raw files.  However, Adobe’s DNG codec (which lets Vista and Windows Photo Gallery view the pictures and edit the metadata) has been less than stellar, feature-wise.  The nail in the coffin for me, though, [...]