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I am using Windows 7 SP1, and I ran the Disk Cleanup utility. It tells me that I can save 920MB if I delete the Service Pack Backup Files. Apparently, if ...

So I have these bookmarks in Chrome, and some web pages will not actually set an icon: Is there anyway to assign a small icon to them manually?

In Inkscape, rounding the corners of a rectangle is easy - you select the object, press F4 (rectangle tool), and drag the circular nodes. How do you do th...

On my Windows development machine, I use Pageant with a secret key to authenticate with an SVN server. I want to know: what's the equivalent Mac proc...

I'm trying to figure out a way to add an application into WinPE so that I can run it from the command line (specifically, Firefox though I will proba...

I've been working on several website designs lately, and it looks like I'll be making a lot more in the near future. I find myself browsing to l...