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As part of my recent migration to a new PC , I needed to find the product keys for various programs I was planning to reinstall. Easier said than done. (When, when will I organize this disaster area of a home office?) Fortunately, I found a sweet utility that saved me hours of rummaging through boxes. Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder quickly and efficiently finds the product keys for installed programs, then lets you print them for safekeeping. More at PC Mag

CHANGE Change Terminal Server Session properties CHKDSK Check Disk - check and repair disk problems CHKNTFS Check the NTFS file system CHOICE Accept keyboard input to a batch file CIPHER Encrypt or Decrypt files/folders CleanMgr Automated cleanup of Temp files, recycle bin etc., etc. Windows XP Commands

There are a few reasons to know your connected devices' IP addresses. For one, it's invaluable in troubleshooting. After making sure your unresponsive device is actually plugged in, the next step will nearly always be to point your PC's browser at its IP address and make sure that something having to do with the device appears, such as a configuration page, or at least the device name. This leads to another reason: Often, a device's "home page"—what you see in your browser when you type in the device's IP address—will give you easier access to device options, and in some cases, more settings and extras. How can you find devices' IP addresses? Through your router's configuration screens. In your browser, type in your router's IP address, then find the DHCP client table among the config screens (which vary by router brand), which shows all devices connected (physically or wirelessly) through the router (if a device doesn't appear, make sure

Here is a quick summary for those of you who don’t want to read the whole article: 1. Always use strict doctype and standards-compliant HTML/CSS 2. Always use a reset at the start of your css 3. Use opacity:0.99 on text elements to clean up rendering in Safari 4. Never resize images in the CSS or HTML 5. Check font rendering in every browser. Don’t use Lucida 6. Size text as a % in the body, and as em’s throughout 7. All layout divs that are floated should include display:inline and overflow:hidden 8. Containers should have overflow:auto and trigger hasLayout via a width or height 9. Don’t use any fancy CSS3 selectors 10. Don’t use transparent PNG’s unless you have loaded the alpha   The complete article from Antony Short is here .