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This is probably one of the most used little hacks I have found on the net

From the Hall: GmailThis!
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
 GmailThis!

What is GmailThis! ?

GmailThis! is an easy way to make a Gmail email without visiting mail.google.com. Once you add the GmailThis! link to your browser's toolbar, emailing will be a snap. Or rather, a click. Clicking GmailThis! creates a mini-interface to Gmail prepopulated with a link to the web page you are visiting, as well as any text you have highlighted on that page. Add additional text if you wish and then email or save as draft from within GmailThis!

Big, Important News! Recent changes in Gmail have broken GmailThis! in Safari and Firefox (and possibly more, those are all I've tested in). I updated the script, delete the old one and use this new link the same old way!

Easily Boot Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) from a USB flash drive | USB Pen Drive Linux
Install and Boot Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) from a USB Thumbdrive

In this simplified USB Ultimate Boot CD walkthrough tutorial, we will demonstrate How To create a USB bootable Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) using a Windows host PC to create the USB UBCD. Ultimate Boot CD is an awesome PC diagnostics tool that condenses over 100 useful PC diagnostics and hardware troubleshooting tools into a single easy to use interface.

USB Ultimate Boot CD Screenshot:

Simple USB Ultimate Boot CD How-To:

1. Optional: Format the USB pen drive stick as Fat16 or 32 using the HP USB tool
2. Create a folder named UBCD on your Windows host PC
3. Download the UBCD ISO and move to your UBCD folder
4. Download the UBCDfix.exe file and run it, extracting to your UBCD folder
5. From the UBCD folder, click fixubcd.bat and follow the onscreen instructions
6. Move the contents within the /UBCD/USBUBCD folder to your USB flash drive
7. From your USB flash drive, run makeboot.bat to make it bootable
8. Reboot and set your computer to Boot from the USB device
9. On next launch, you should be booting Ultimate Boot CD from your USB stick

Updated 12/27/2007 simplified the tutorial to include batch files that automate the Ultimate Boot CD USB installation process.

Don't ya hate it when you start trying to shave load time on a site and you end up getting blank page loads instead of content :-s

Since we purchased a Toshiba Laptop for my Mother to use, instead of my Father’s Mac Pro (she never has seemed to grasp the OS X concept it seems). I have been battling with moving her mail from Mac back to a PC. Most write ups on the interweb have nothing to do with Vista only XP. So attempting to use these as a guide, I tried my best, only to find that Vista Mail will not import from Eudora. After countless hours and much hair pulling as well, I have an epiphany. Simply setup a Gmail account, enable IMAP, and move the mail to the Gmail servers, then download them to the Vista machine. after 5 minutes setting up the account, 10 minutes making sure I have all the mail moved to the servers , 5 minutes wondering “WTF why isn’t it seeing the server" (set the security options in the advanced tab folks) and-10 minutes pulling all the mail back to Vista Mail. We have it done, Bob’s your Uncle and all is right with the world once again, and you can finally let your hair grow back out where you were constantly pulling it out HI HI.