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Your Own Personal QR Code

mrwalker — Sun, 30 May 2010 20:23:34 +0000

This is mostly just information from the wonderful Gina Trapani and her article on How to Make Your Personal QR Code read it for a more thorough take on the entire subject and great comments. I am mostly just saving the links to the generators so I can find them in a hurry.

I see QR [...]

In The Shop: Miro 3.0 and the New Miro Video Converter

mrwalker — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:34:50 +0000

Drop on over to GetMiro.com and download the new Miro 3.0 which is billed as “Faster, louder, smoother, subtitles!” and upgrade. For those who don’t use Miro to organize and play all your video files as well as subscribe to Hulu, TED and an amazing amount of other feeds, well, why not?

What I am playing with [...]

What Does Big Brother Know About One?

mrwalker — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:45:44 +0000

I was researching database scraping and the deep web and I ran across this article from Consumerist.com and I haven’t looked up all the information, but it is an interesting list of places to look and see information about oneself.

Employment History Reports The Work Number ChoicePoint (866) 312-8075 Acxiom Abso

Tenant History Reports ChoicePoint (877) 448-5732 First Advantage SafeRent (888) [...]

The Google Map Buddy

mrwalker — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:28:32 +0000

This tool, from Augmented Reality Software, allows you to do the following:

Capture your Google Maps offline and store them as images on your hard drive Print out maps of entire cities at zoom levels that would take hours to put together with the current Google facility Best of all, this tool is completely FREE!

If you have [...]

Reviews: Commands in Demand

mrwalker — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:28:51 +0000

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This week in utilities I am trying and find to be useful I have Commands in Demand from Vasilios Freeware. This is available here on Download.com. While I notice the Quick Start key sequence is the same as AutoHotKey, resetting it to something useful is fairly easy. I am to lazy and Launchy [...]