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No matter what brand of coffee you buy or how you brew it. The way you grind it has a lot to do with the quality of coffee that you're gonna get. About two years ago I started to really get into drinking good coffee. I was thinking about getting ...

ICAL is a standard way to export calendar events. If you're using a Mac is really easy to import this feed, but Outlook 2003 on Windows XP doesn't make it quite so easy. To add an ICAL calendar with all events to a Outlook: Download the ICAL file, example: name.ics Go to your ...

PB30 has just created an awesome new Twitter service, Trackthis. Like Twitter, the premise is simple, get package updates in Twitter instead of getting package tracking updates via email or going to the shipping company's website. It works with FedEx, UPS, USPS, and DHL. To track a package all you need ...

I hate IE, it's a piece of crap. I especially hate it when my beloved Adobe AIR applications like Twhirl and Pownce open URL's into Internet Explorer Even though Firefox is my default. This only happens in Windows Vista and not Windows XP. Well, there is a simple fix, ...

Last night I was working on a retirement booklet for a guy. And he needed this logo on the front. But I couldn't find one bigger than 150 pixels anywhere! By some weird chance this guy at work had this logo in a PowerPoint file; totally saved my ass. So I'm posting ...

How to make a vodka martini from Joel Throckmorton on Vimeo. I made this quick video on how to make a Vodka Martini. I edited it rather quickly, however I was having issues with Adobe Premiere. I spent hours working on it and once I finally figured out the simple and ...

Collar Stays, those plastic things that go inside your collar to keep it "perky" always seem to get lost or bent out of shape. This is something I would A) never remember to buy and B) wouldn't have the first idea where to start, other than online. Anyways, this morning I needed ...

One of the best things I've done since I've upgraded my laptop to Vista has been to turn the 10 Gig restore partition into a Linux Partition. I first installed the 64 bit version of Ubuntu, talk about fast! However there weren't too many programs made to work on ...