Slick Network Speed Test

Ever want to test your network at home or at work to see what kind of bandwidth you are getting? Well here is a great site with a very slick interface that lets you do just that. Now you can see if you are getting what you pay for.

Check it out here.

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Free Online Drawing Lessons

Having trouble drawing Tippy the Turtle ;) Here is a great resource site that teaches you the principles and techniques for drawing many different subjects. You can also set it up to display your darwings in an online gallery.

Check it out here.

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Dont Buy Junk

Here is a great website which reviews all sorts of Electronic products. You can read reviews from people, filter products by features, weight, storage capacity, etc. There is even a slick slider bar for price. All in all it is a pretty good site for comparing the latest tech stuff and getting unbiased opinions from real users.

Check it out here.

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Google Catalogs Online

Here is a neat Google resource that allows you to search hundreds of online mail catalogs. In order to find a catalog, you can browse the categories that range from Accessories to Toys, use the Advanced Search tool, or just type in the name of the catalog you might be looking for.

Check it out here.

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Great Bittorrent Aggregator

This is bound to become your favorite torrent search site. Although I still do love the Pirate's Bay. Scrape Torrent is a bittorrent search aggregator that scours the most popular torrent sites to find you the best download available.

Check it out here.

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Default Password List

Here is a great resource for figuring out the default passwords on most network hardware. This is good if you forgot the password to your router or for other reasons. :)

Check it out here.

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Build You Own Cat Tree

Here is a great little DIY Project for all you cat lovers out there. Scratching Posts and Cat Trees are often priced around $100-$200 Dollars. Here is one you can make at home for little cost and with common tools around the house.

Check it out here.

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Create an Email Blacklist in Gmail

Well boys and girls, I haven't been around much these days and have been bogged down in other stuff, but I wanted to start posting again, and let you know I haven't died ;)

If you constantly receive messages you'd like to ignore from the same persons or Gmail's spam filters aren't too good for you, it's time to create a blacklist. How to do that in Gmail?

1. Go to Contacts, click on Groups and create a new group (let's say "Blacklist").

2. Click on "All contacts", check the email addresses you don't like and add them to the group (at the bottom of the window).

Each time you send a message to someone not in your Contacts list, Gmail will automatically add the person for you. So if you didn't reply to a person, you'll have to add the mail address in the last step.

3. Go to Groups / Blacklist and click "Compose to group". Copy the text from the "to" field.

4. Paste it here and click "convert". Then click on the resulting text and copy it. (This is a simple JavaScript. No address will be sent to a server.)

5. Create a new filter. Paste the text obtained above in the "from" field, check "Also apply to..." and "Delete it".

If you want to add more addresses, edit the filter by appending " OR newaddress1 OR newaddress2 ... OR newaddressN" in the From field.

Note that if you only want one or two address, you can create just the filter described above, by adding the address in the From field. If you want to block many addresses, it's time consuming to do this manually by copying each email address from the contact list.

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