Geekdom Link Dump

For the geeks (like me) out there, enjoy! (And even if you're not a geek, there is something you'll enjoy here, I'm sure).

• Outlook Attachment Remover Add-in is a free Outlook add-in for saving and extracting attachments, decreasing the size of your Outlook files. Speaking of Outlook, here's something that will screw with Outlook users heads.
• IsMyLcdOK, a tool to help see if you have dead pixels. If you do find stuck or dead pixels, here are some tricks to fix them.
• Scaring people with Flash's full screen.
• Recover lost Windows, application, IM, router, and other saved passwords.
• Whatever happened to UI consistency?
• iPhone Apps worth Jailbreaking your phone for.
• How to Update your Hackintosh Mac to 10.5.3.
• Windows XP SP3 triggers false positives in security apps.
• Geohashing with XKCD.
• Keep XP Fresh until Windows 7 arrives.
• Commercial Games Gone Freeware.
• If you own an iPhone, you may already own the Most Powerful Portable Gaming Device.
• Torrent2Exe turns torrent files into tiny executable files that will download the torrent's files for your less torrent-savvy friends.
• Has Vista SP1 caught up to XP SP3 perfomance? Quite possibly.
• Speaking of Vista, get its best features in XP.
• Prevent "locate link browser" popup dialogs in Outlook (that's mostly for my reference as I run into this now and again with Firefox and Outlook).
• Change the product key on a Windows XP install.
• Help For The E-Mail Etiquette Challenged (send this PDF to everybody).
• Windows reinstall -- Simple, Easy, and Quick. Covers the basics of backing up data, drivers, and more before bulldozing things (DriverMax is mostly why I linked to this).
• Determine if your ISP is messing with your BitTorrent traffic (haven't tried this at home yet).
• 10 Tools to Get Your Blogging Done.
• How do I find a unix/linux command?
• What can you do with a 2nd ethernet port on your linux box?
• Free (or open source) drive imaging solutions.
• In Celebration of Pixel Art.
• How To Thief Proof Your Laptop. Some of this is going to get done here at the office so a public laptop we have doesn't get stolen. Nevermind that the laptop in question is probably only worth about $20 on the black market, it still looks high-tech.
• What can you do with one kilobyte of code? Quite a bit, actually.
• Here's a fix for when clock, volume, power, or network icons are missing or grayed out in Vista.
• AutoGK is great for ripping DVDs to Divx.
• Solving the IT Turnover Crisis. Every HR and IT manager should read this.
• Building your own home theater PC.
• 10 good additions to your phone's contact list.
• "Viruses can be picked up via networks. Hackers hack in to computers via networks. Viruses are bad. Hackers are bad. QED: networks are bad. It's obvious when you really think about it! Therefore, there is no company network." Wow, I wish this were fake.

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