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File your Taxes for free!

March 28th, 2008 No Comments

TurboTax Free Edition - Don’t stress out!  Already know you’ll just need a 1040EZ?  Use this link to complete, E-File and Direct Deposit (or withdraw, ugh!) your 2007 tax return for free!  Just click on “Start Now”.  TurboTax will try and offer you “Upgraded” services throughout the process, but just say no.  And when you […]

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Tech Tip: Vista giving you a Server Execution Failed?

January 30th, 2008 1 Comment

<rant> I use Microsoft’s latest and greatest OS, Vista Home Premium.  It sucks. A lot.  It is slow, bloated and non-intuitive.  It takes everything you’ve learned from the past few OSes and makes you toss it out the (no pun intended) window!  You have to relearn some of the most basic tasks to do it […]

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TechTip #2

September 25th, 2007 No Comments

That’s two tips in as many days!  Today’s tech tip contains the magical link that got me started on all this Linux-craziness:
Build your own Linux Server

Tags: Tips & Tricks · Linux · Software · Network · Tech

TechTip #1

September 24th, 2007 No Comments

Here’s my inaguaral tech tip of the day. I want to post a few things as I learn them, that way I can give back to the community and help other poor souls.
How to browse Windows and Samba shares from a Linux CLI

Tags: Tips & Tricks · Linux · Network · Tech

Howto download TV episodes

September 14th, 2007 No Comments

I guess it’s a little more mainstream: downloading TV torrents. A guide over at CNet showing you how to use “Miro” (hurray, for Linux/Windows/Mac). Once you get that, go to tvRSS.net to subscribe to the RSS feeds you need to get your favorite tv shows on a weekly basis! Awesome!

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