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The file was always just an empty file (0 bytes).

I wanted to know what application was creating this log, so I opened up process monitor and watched for access to this file.

Internet Explorer 8 is creating this log. You can see the proof below.

What does this mean and why is it doing this? Not sure! Once you close Internet Explorer you can delete the file without error.

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Display the current temperature by entering the airport code.

List of Airport Codes

Download the Airport Weather Application

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Use this simple tif to gif command line image conversion tool to convert a single file or a batch of files.

Use like: tconvert.exe somefile.tif or to convert all the files in the directory use: tconvert.exe -all

Tif to Gif Download

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IE Proxy Changer (60 k)

IE Proxy Changer with Installer (1 MB)

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Another reason to get rid of you Acrobat Reader… SECURITY!

The Foxit Reader can be downloaded for free from Foxit Software

Also, in case you are wondering. Foxit reader will look similar to your old friend Adobe Reader, see the screen shot below.

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• DVD Video NTSC (mpg)
• DVD Video PAL (mpg)
• MPEG-I (mpg)
• MPED-II (mpg)
• Flash Video Movie (flv)
• Mobile Phone MPEG-4 (mp4)
• AVI Movie (avi)
• Windows Media WMV (wmv)
• MP4 Movie (mp4)
• Wave Audio (wav)

The most important one to me is the FLV conversion. Just about any video you wish to put on the web works great in FLV.  Or if you have an FLV and want to edit the file in Windows Movie Maker, just convert it to AVI, or WMV, bingo.

Look at the screen shot below to see all the options you have when converting. (this is the flash file options)

There is a free version and a paid version of the Any Video Converter software. So far the free version has been able to do everything I need without any problems. I would highly recommend this program for your video conversion needs.

Also did I mention that you can pull out video directly from You Tube? Yes, it will do that as well.

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Click on that and you will bring up the simple window. Here you can choose your address group, and it will extract them all into a nice format that can be copied to the clipboard, and used for whatever you wish. Perfect for exporting into an external email list tool, or newsletter software.

The original site is no longer hosting this utility, so I have made a copy available via the link below.

You can get the free Outlook Email extractor/exporter utility here.

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Your e-commerce shopping cart may come with a newsletter module, but chances it might get the job done. So what do you do if you want a little more out of it?

There are plenty of pay for email newsletters services out there, one of the better ones being Aweber. But of course this comes at a price. In the case of Aweber, it will cost you $19 a month for the service for up to 500 customers.

Many of us fall in between, not yet ready to commit to the monthly charge, but still wanting an easy, and reliable way to get out a newsletter.

In comes phplist to save the day. This free script is loaded with features. It was very easy to install, it took me about 30 minutes of playing around with the program. I set up a few small test lists with a handful of personal email addresses (Yahoo, Gmail, etc…), and soon I had a good feel for the program.

I would certainly recommend you make sure that you fully understand the program, because sending out a newsletter to hundreds of customers in NOT something to be taken lightly. While it won’t make your business, it could break your business. Again, I would not import you live list until you are pretty sure you know what you are doing in the program.

phplist is a very flexible program. You can create your own questions associated with a newsletter signup, and it can all be done from the web-based interface. (this part took me the longest to figure out, but I was glad I could remove the “sample” questions).

Once I was ready I imported my emails from my shopping cart, (during the import be sure you mark your users as confirmed, as you may end up having a confirmation email go out to all your already confirmed users.), you can also mark all your imported users as “html” users. Meaning they prefer to receive HTML based newsletters.

Once all my users were imported, you simply go to “send a message”, enter your message, set a few options and off it goes.

Now, since I am using the list just to import, setup and send. I will be flushing and reloading my user list each time. There isn’t an obvious way to do this in the program, but it can be easily done following these steps I found in the forum.

Go to your lists and ‘view members’
At the bottom of the page it says:
‘What to do with all users
This will process all users on this list
Delete (from this list)’
Do that.
Do that for all your lists.
Now all the users in the database are not connected to any list.

Now go to:
Manage users
Reconcile Users
‘delete all users who are not subscribed to any list’
and they will all be removed.

from http://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?p=43905#43905

I will admit it took me a little while to fully understand the program, but don’t give up, after just a little while you will find that it is a pretty simple, yet flexible program to use. Phplist has many more features than those I’ve touched here, that is only because I already had my list, and I only need to import emails. Phplist can be a “start to finish” email marketing solution, and will actually manage your list for you. Phplist also has fantastic online documentation.

Not bad for a free program!

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You just want to see a calendar, and clicking on the time in the tray is cumbersome, and there is the possibility you may accidentally change your system date and time. So here is a free windows calendar app that could not be more simple and easy. A 16k file, that just opens up a calendar.

Download Windows Calendar

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Google Chrome. Personally I think this is really big move by Google. They are completing the circle. Almost all of their applications are web-based applications. Now they are making sure that they run correctly and as fast as possible by having them run in their own specially designed web browser. Everything new in this browser points to the goal of running their own web applications. The focus on fast JavaScript, this it the core of most of their web-based apps. Another is the “application shortcuts”, this one could not be more obvious. They want to make you feel like a web-based application is the same as a desktop application. When you create an application shortcut in Google Chrome, it takes the icon for the shortcut, removes almost all web-like buttons from the app, and looks like a desktop application in your taskbar.

Each tab runs in it’s own process. This is designed to allow you to run more critical applications in your web browser. Maybe like running an important spreadsheet in Google Docs, and not have the whole page lost when a flash game you were playing in another tab crashes.

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Runs on Linux, Unix, Windows, and many other operating systems. Requirements are a PERL enabled OS, and a device or OS that supports SNMP.

Multi Router Traffic Grapher – Network Troubleshooting – Download

Screen Shot of an MRTG Graph

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