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There’s a variant of Somewhere Over The Rainbow, mixed into a medley with What A Wonderful World, that has been used in several movies, television shows, and commercials, and I thought it was pretty remarkable. Most notably I remember it during the credits of Finding Forrester.
However, I just heard it used as background for a [...]

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Dreamhost provides a simple install and upgrade process for several popular software packages, including WordPress, phpBB, Advanced Poll, ZenCart, MediaWiki, Joomla, Gallery, and WebCalendar. If you follow their instructions, it works pretty well.
When One-Click Loses You
Unfortunately, the system provides no way to make One-Click aware of installations that it did not originally perform. For example, [...]

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Dreamhost Has Problems and I Love Them!
This and most of my other sites are hosted by Dreamhost on a great shared-hosting plan. They have excellent prices, good support, and plans that include most features you could want. The main Dreamhost blog betrays their great sense of humor and keeps us regularly entertained.
Crap Happens
However, there were [...]

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John Chow is an internet success story.

Who Is John Chow?
Chow built TheTechZone, a major resource for hardware news and reviews, in 1999 and it’s still going strong.
He also built TTZ Media Network, which provides a shopping and price comparison engine for technology-focused web publishers (with over 250,000 page views per month). It’s his main source [...]

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After reading mentions of Dark Room and its Mac predecessor, WriteRoom, for a while, I finally gave it a shot and am pretty impressed overall (with Dark Room, at least).
Update: Distraction-free text editing has a new contender. Check out my review of WriteMonkey.
Dark Room is written and supported by Jeffrey Fuller. In his words:
Dark Room [...]

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What Is Speed Dial?
Speed Dial is a concept, introduced with Opera 9.2, where several (usually nine) thumbnail shots of preselected websites are presented in a grid. The user can easily choose from these items.
The really handy thing about Speed Dial is that it extends the concept of a browser’s home page. Instead of new pages [...]

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