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Mobilizer: location-based actions for Mac OS X

Mobilizer PrefsIf you're a Mac laptop user who is often mounting different network shares or picking different printers depending on which network you connect to, then you may want to checkout the free utility Mobilizer Lite. Mobilizer lets you add locations (in this example we've used "Home" and "Work") which would be different networks that you may use.

Mobilizer can determine your location in a few ways: when you select it manually via the Mobilizer app, when you're connected to a specific wireless SSID, when you receive an IP address from a specific DHCP server (good for wired networks), or even when your power adapter is connected.

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Filed under: Business, Internet, Windows, Microsoft

Microsoft will push IE7 with Automatic Updates

Internet Explorer 7I was considering prefacing this post with 'recipe for disaster', but I didn't want the food and cooking news aggregators to pick it up by mistake. Microsoft Watch is reporting that the Redmond giant is planning to use their Automatic Updates service to push IE 7 out to Windows users sooner or later in Q4 once the product is ready to ship. Fortunately for the sysadmins in the crowd, Microsoft will also provide corporations with the ability to optionally block or postpone the automatic download and installation of IE 7. Further, the update will be presented through a notification - it won't just happen automatically - and users who have chosen to hide IE altogether won't even be bothered with the download at all.

Of course, Windows users will still need to pass the WGA test, whether they grab this 4-years-coming update to Internet Explorer, whether they grab it through Automatic Updates or download it from Microsoft's site.

Filed under: Internet, Video, Windows, Freeware

Automatically downloading TV shows with BitTorrent

TedThough I hate to admit it, my "poor man's TiVo" solution consists of me checking CAT every morning to see what's new and then hitting the BitTorrent trackers to start my downloads. I know there are better ways to go about it, but what can I say, I'm a creature of habit. But speaking of better ways, Lifehacker's Adam Pash has written a brand new guide to automatically downloading your favorite TV shows using the free Windows app Ted and the BitTorrent client of your choosing. He steps you through setting up Ted and configuring it for your favorite shows, making it work with Azureus and uTorrent, and setting up custom feeds.

Filed under: Security, Windows, E-mail, Productivity

Automatically backup important files to e-mail

Gmail BackupLifehacker Gina Trapani has written a great tutorial for automatically e-mailing yourself file backups. While e-mail isn't a great place to store an entire system backup, my 2.7 GB of Gmail space is enough to store my My Documents folder 50 times over, and being able to securely access important files from anywhere is priceless. As with many of Lifehacker's tutorials, the process takes some fiddling, but uses free software and gets the job done.

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, Mozilla, Freeware, Browser Tips

ViewMyCurrency - Today's Browser Tip

ViewMyCurrency

A few weeks ago I was thinking to myself, wouldn't it be great if my web browser automatically converted currency on foreign web sites to U.S. dollars? I thought briefly about trying to hack something together with Greasemonkey, but in the end I was too lazy, which is just as well because of course someone has already done it for me, though not with Greasemonkey. ViewMyCurrency is a Firefox extension and it does just what I've described: it automatically converts currency on foreign web sites to your local currency. If you want to see it in action, its developer has created a short screencast demo, or you can just download it. It works as advertised, with the particular caveat that currently it assumes all amounts preceded by a plain $ are U.S. dollars. Otherwise, though, this is supremely useful.

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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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