I normally use Outlook Express for my email.
And I was only playing around with Thunderbird the other day, when I accidentally hit “Get Messages” without first configuring Thunderbird to “Leave mail on the server” …
So here I was, with Thunderbird holding hostage the mail that belongs in my Outlook Express.

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One of my friends recently wanted my help with recording a web telecast for viewing offline. I thought it would be a good idea to write a small tutorial about it.

To capture good quality video without sacrificing a huge amount of disk space, we must compress it before storing it onto the disk.

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Vista test driven

I got my hands on a copy of the beta 2 of Vista (touted as the next big thing for the average joe computer user) last week and decided to give it a try.
Although I try not to cave in to the enticement of being able to try software before most other users, I went ahead and installed Vista Beta because Microsoft was giving away authentic product keys on this occasion.

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Beauty “Con”tests

My roomie was watching a beauty contest the other day, and that obviously meant that I couldn’t watch anything else.

So the drama began with the usual political correctness …

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What’s on TV ?

I decided to watch TV recently.
My roommate was out with some work, and I finally had an opportunity to have my way with the TV.
But after a few hours of channel surfing, I found out that I wasn’t missing much before.
There was not a single program worth watching.

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