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ITA’s Matrix Offers No-Frills Flight Price Comparison Tool

19. August 2010

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I have long been a fan of Kayak for hunting down flight deals anytime we travel. They offer really nice interface to compare prices and find flight deals for destinations.
It looks like their search engine is actually powered by ITA Software’s Matrix engine. It also powers most of the major deal hunting websites such [...]

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Rich Contact Profiles Inside Gmail with Rapportive

17. August 2010

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When you are composing or reading an email from a contact, how would you like to have their whole social profile at your fingertips?
Rapportive is a web solution that replaces the ad column in Gmail with a rich contact profile.
Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox.
You can immediately see what [...]

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Download Best of Free Software As a Bundle with FreeApps

16. August 2010

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The most tedious part that puts us off from doing that occasional clean re-install of any OS is the time it takes to get it back to how we like our system again.
There are probably a few dozen free and great software that you have found over the years and can’t live without.
FreeApps [...]

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Passpack Comes to Mobile Phones

11. August 2010

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Passpack is my choicest online password manager and I trust it with a lot of my data. You can read all my Passpack review and related posts here.
i have written a lot on why I trust them and will skip trying to convince you that it is secure. Instead, this post is for Passpack [...]

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ToodleDo is A Great GTD Oriented Task Manager

10. August 2010

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I have taken a great interest in Getting Things Done concept after I started listening to the book – David Allen’s Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity book on Audible.
In my quest for a GTD workflow I can implement with the way I work, I needed an online tool that I can access [...]

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Bend Editor – Sleek and Simple Windows Text Editor

9. August 2010

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I turn to Notepad++ for all my text editing needs. It is free, open source and extensible with functions. Like Firefox, it is the swiss-army knife of code editors. You can get any feature on it with the right plugins.
However, it lacks sorely in visual interface and it looks so drab and it can [...]

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Machinarium’s Experience With Non-DRM/Piracy, Offers Amnesty

6. August 2010

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DRM advocates tend to argue that they add anti-piracy protection to keep users honest with paying for the software or product.
Machinarium is an amazing point and click adventure game playable on Windows, Mac or Linux.
In an effort to prove a point, Machinarium developers – Amanita Design from Czech released the game without any [...]

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