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There’s a Firefox extension that allows you to easily save files which are embedded in a webpage, such as windows media files.
Download Embedded does exactly what it sounds like it does. It adds a right-click context menu entry to download all embedded files on a webpage. Its great for grabbing embedded flash animations, […]

I’m not sure how long this has been there (a while now; I’m imporing this from an old blog of mine), but Google has added a filter on its Advanced Search page which allows you to filter search results by the license that content on a website is released under, which would be useful, for […]

What I’ve always found useful since I started using Windows is to add notepad to the “Send To” menu, which is available when you right click on any file in Windows. This means that if you come across a text file with an extension which is not associated with Notepad then you can open it […]

If you’ve downloaded a corrupt .avi file in Windows then you may have noticed that if you try to delete, rename or move it that explorer complains that the file is in use. This is because Windows is trying to load the whole file to generate a preview image for you. You can turn this […]

This tip will show you how to write the output of a command at the Windows command line to a file. It’s not hard (infact it’s one of the very basics of command line programming).
Start Command Line within Windows by choosing Start->Run then entering ‘cmd’ and pressing enter.
Suppose you want to capture the output from […]