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Microsoft's Biggest Beta Tester? Itself

Posted on July 17, 2006 by Michael Koby

Here is a nice little article with Microsoft’s own Cheif Information Officer (CIO) about how Microsoft uses it’s own products internally from the Alpha testing period of a product all the way through release. This process which they refer to … Continue reading →

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Having Safe Passwords

Posted on July 10, 2006 by Michael Koby

If you spend any time on the internet, your life is filled with passwords. You need a password for your email account, one for your website, for your bank, for your blog, for your applications, and just about everything else. … Continue reading →

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Gliffy

Posted on June 28, 2006 by Michael Koby

Gliffy is a web based diagramming tool similar to Microsoft Visio. And it’s free. This is something that OpenOffice does not yet have included in it’s suite. To be honest, if OpenOffice would get a Visio like program included into … Continue reading →

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Mouseless Firefox

Posted on June 23, 2006 by Michael Koby

I found an interesting little blog over at Lifehacker about Firefox keyboard shortcuts. There were some new ones in there that I didn’t know about that I’ll make good use of like: Ctrl-K = Search Box Ctrl-[1-9] = Takes you … Continue reading →

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Sirius Satellite Tuner for Yahoo! Widgets

Posted on June 19, 2006 by Michael Koby

In an attempt to become more productive, I just reinstalled Yahoo! Widgets here at the office to utilized some of the calendar and todo widgets. While search through the widget gallery I found this that lets me log into my … Continue reading →

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GnuPG (OpenPGP)

Posted on June 18, 2006 by Michael Koby

I have just installed GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard) which is basically an open source version of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) which was free many years ago but is so no longer. You can download my public key using the link … Continue reading →

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