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Improve Vista’s Start Menu

Ryan • October 20th, 2008 • PC, Quick Tips

If you’re a little befuddled by Windows Vista’s start menu and it’s general lack of any sort of organization - check out Vista Start Menu, a freeware program (with a pro upgrade) that enhances the Vista start menu.

On top of the organizational and customizational benefits, the Vista Start Menu’s developers have taken into account the human brain’s cognitive abilities and limitations - particularly that your brain is darn good at using visual memory to find stuff.

h/t to Tekzilla for the tip.…



How to Find GoDaddy Promo Codes

rick • October 17th, 2008 • Quick Tips, Web

I don’t buy many domain names, but when I do buy a dot-com I usually try to track down a promo code to save a few bucks on the usually $9.99 price. I’ve found the best way to do this is to search twitter for promo codes that have recently been tweeted:

Twitter search for “Godaddy” + “Promo”: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=godaddy+promo

You can also subscribe to the RSS feed for that search result as well.



How to make a Delicious “plugin” for Chrome

Ryan • September 16th, 2008 • Quick Tips, Web

When I migrated my browsing habits to Chrome a couple weeks back one of my big holdups was that Google Chrome didn’t have a Delicious plugin for quickly bookmarking links.

However, with just a tad of javascript you can correct this Chrome shortcoming.