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Trillian Astra

April 18th, 2009 · Comments Off · General

I’ve been a Trillian user for quite some time, having used one of the first versions in beta form. Sadly, the current version has been showing its age and late last year I was forced to stop using it because it had become unreliable on the Windows Live Messenger platform, which I use for work.  I [...]

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The Feed Store

November 17th, 2008 · 7 Comments · General

Today I had lunch at a restaurant I have never eaten at before – The Feed Store, in downtown Springfield.  Was it good? Meh.  The sandwhich I had wasn’t anything that I couldn’t make at home, I’ll leave it at that. What did turn me off was their lack of adherance to what I’ll call Restaurant [...]

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Launchy

February 8th, 2008 · 6 Comments · General

A few days ago Brian introduced me to a little piece of software called Launchy that has quickly displaced my Windows Vista Start Menu Search. It is much quicker than searching with the Vista start menu and has a lot more features. It’s like a smart Run window (you know, the window that pops up [...]

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