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A list of items I’ve come across recently that I found potentially useful, interesting, or just plain funny:

• xkcd Tech Support Cheat Sheet – If you work in IT, you could probably use this
• Angry IP Scanner – IP and port scanner tool for analyzing networks
• Turn off the Internet – Safely shut it down…
• Personas Metropath(ologies) – How does the Internet see you?
• Windows Live ID Becomes an OpenID Provider – Use Windows Live IDs to logon to OpenID-enabled websites
• Roommates: Episode 1 – A view of what it might be like to have Google as a room-mate
• Archive: Java Technology Products Download – For those times when you need a particular Java version (via Garry Martin).
• Tutorial: How to Write an IE8 Web Slice for WordPress Blogs – Give users a little drop down in their browser for your latest posts…
• How do I Uninstall Windows Live Messenger? – Or indeed any Windows Live application
• Aero Glass? In my Virtual Machine? – It’s more likely than you think…
• Bump for iPhone – Very cool way of swapping contact information
• I’m a Photographer, not a Terrorist –
• Create a countdown widget – Just provide the dates and URLs to create your own widget/gadget
• Windows 7 GMail Notifier – Handy little GMail notifier with jumplist support (works with Google Apps too)
• 10 Common Windows BSOD errors – Some help in diagnosing the (thankfully rare these days) blue screen of death
• How to “upgrade” from Windows XP to Windows 7 – It's a controlled migration really, but this step-by-step guide might be useful to some.
• Learn Licensing – "How to" licensing information from Microsoft
• Managing Windows Server 2008 server core – The most comprehensive list of server core commands I've seen.
• Massacre Gmail Ads with These Two Sentences (and Some Tragic Words…) – A few words is all it takes to remove the ads.
• Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V earns Common Criteria certification – So, Hyper-V is secure then…
• Download streaming videos – From YouTube, Google Video, MSN Soapbox, etc. …