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Bill Gates' Think Week - An inside view
Robert Guth of the Wall Street Journal has a fascinating article on Bill Gates’ twice-yearly solo retreats, known inside the company as “Think Week”.
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Grammar check article on Slashdot
I submitted an article to Slashdot today and it was accepted! Within a few hours, it collected over 200 comments.
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Create New Folder in Explorer – why not easier?
Since I started working with the Windows Explorer shell in Windows 95, I’ve often wondered why there isn’t a “New Folder” toolbar button.
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Windows Media Player not adding albums to media library
Have been moving my music collection around and noticed that nearly half of the files didn't get added to the media library when monitoring the folder, or manually scanning it.
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Backup Favorites Quickly
A friend and former co-worker at Microsoft recently sent out an e-mail to several people describing a way to backup the Favorites folder to a writable CD/DVD-ROM drive. I started thinking that it could even be easier:
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Microsoft vs. Slashdot
Is anyone else getting sick of the anti-Microsoft bent Slashdot has? For years I avoided the site because of it's slated, often fact free view towards Microsoft, Windows, etc. A year ago however, I subscribed to their daily news summary and have found most of the stories interesting.
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Google toolbar tip - Shift+Enter
When using the Google toolbar, you can press SHIFT+ENTER after typing a search query to open a new browser window with the search results. Nifty.