Monthly Archive: December 2007

Dec 14

7-Zip: Compression vs. Speed

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Earlier this year I had discovered the joys of running 7-Zip with the multi threaded support. At the time, I saw some incredible time savings. Since then, however, the files being compressed have gotten much larger and I’m back to some inordinately long compression runs. As a quick refresher, 7-Zip is an open source file …

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Dec 11

Google Reader in Netvibes – Solved

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Last January I mentioned how cool it would be to have a Google Reader module that I could add to Netvibes, my start page of choice. I’ve had some great comments on that post that have proven to be helpful. Beej had mentioned using Bitty Browser in Netvibes to run Google Reader. I was intrigued …

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