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Ah, the marriage of two of my favorite programs, uTorrent and Firefox. Over at TorrentFreak they’ve got an add-on for Firefox that integrates the two, putting uTorrent’s WebUI (which you must download separately) in Firefox’s sidebar and reporting you download and upload speeds in the status bar.

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This article takes a look at some of the most popular software applications used in Microsoft Windows and compares them with some alternatives that get the same job done.

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Takeaway: You can’t boot Windows XP from a floppy disk the way you used to be able to with DOS. One handy way to easily boot XP is by using a USB flash drive. Here’s how to make it work.

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-6346-5928902.html

Voiceover Internet Protocol is currently midway through running the typical technological adoption process gamut. VoIP has gone from curiosity to oft-employed in the business world, and is well on the way to becoming a necessity like the internet medium itself. Getting VoIP technology installed in the small business is truly merely a question of time. No longer is “Should I replace PSTN with VOIP?” the issue, but rather “When should I…?” Further, the query becomes “Why doesn’t your small business have VoIP already?” Further spurring on to implement this soon-necessary technology in your small business follows.

http://www.myvoipnews.org/2006/11/33_reasons_why_.html

You can’t build a slick application without good icons. Professional icons cost too much, most free icons suck and I know I don’t have the time to create a set of icons. Here is a site offering a full set of professionally designed icons for web applications for free. Digg it for later and save yourself the search..

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Rainbow tables reduce the difficulty in brute force cracking a single password by creating a large pre-generated data set of hashes from nearly every possible password.  Rainbow Tables and RainbowCrack come from the work and subsequent paper by Philippe Oechslin [1]. The method, known as the Faster Time-Memory Trade-Off Technique,…..

http://www.ethicalhacker.net/content/view/94/24/

As the old saying goes, “Third Time’s the Charm!” It’s almost Halloween at Nerd Vittles, and today you get a real treat as we introduce the third generation of the free turnkey (aka preconfigured) Asterisk system for Windows: nv-TrixBox-1.2.3. With a few minor changes, this version is about as rock-solid as any Asterisk system on the planet. Of course, the planets do continue to move so be sure to check back here from time to time and review all the newly posted comments. None of our readers are particularly shy when bugs are discovered. As with the prior versions, it runs on the desktop of any Windows XP home or office computer.

http://nerdvittles.com/index.php?p=152

Perhaps the most requested new article by Nerd Vittles’ readers has been a HOW-TO for configuring a Linux-based TrixBox system to do everything our VMware TrixBox build for Windows can do. So today we decided to tackle it.

http://nerdvittles.com/index.php?p=153

There are many tutorials out there on how to create your own image gallery. There are simple ones made from pure CSS, and there are complex ones using css and javascript. By the end of this article you will have the information necessary to start building your own photo gallery.

http://youneed2see.com/web/99/Top_10_CSS_image_gallery_tutorials

200+ extremely useful Firefox extensions that save time and effort.

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