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9/9/06 Gil's LotD

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http://www.portablefreeware.com/ Portable versions of common programs (portable means that you can copy them to a flash drive and they will work off of that flash drive from any computer you plug it into). Very nifty!
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/bizfinance/biz/features/10816/index1.html A very interesting story about the creation and marketing of the Grey Goose brand of vodka.

8/1/06 Gil's LotD

Submitted by gil on

http://www.macworld.com/article/46543/2005/08/fullscreen.html How to get movies to play in full screen in QuickTime without paying for QuickTime Pro.
http://www.opendns.com/ A free alternative DNS service which has very speedy servers and blocks some phishers, typosquatters, and spammers. I like the service a lot, I configured our home router to use it for DNS so now the whole network here uses their service.