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Amazon reviews: room for improvement

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Amazon is a superb place to purchase goods: excellent customer service, efficient order processing, and a vast selection. Their website, however, could use a few enhancements such as an improved review system not to mention the ability to ACTUALLY sort by price (they still cannot seem to perfect this last one). Since many people have written about the price sorting issue, I thought I would discuss the current Amazon review system and how it could be improved. Amazon reviews: plenty of

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Productive and fun day

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This morning I got up early to work on finishing the kids’ WoodPlay playset. Everything went well and by mid-afternoon everything was in a state where they could go ahead and play on it, they love it! Also, my wonderful wife insisted that I have a guys days with one of my good friends. We ate a nice late lunch and then watched Iron Man 3. After heading back, both of our families hung out and had a nice evening.

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Roundup of Visitors Online plugins for WordPress

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I chose to install the first plugin listed below, wp-useronline, but there are a bunch of options out there! WordPress › WP-UserOnline « WordPress Pluginshttp://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-useronline/This plugin enables you to display how many users are online on your WordPress site, with detailed statistics of where they are and who they are (Members/Guests/Search Bots). WP-UserOnline 2.50 Readmehttp://www.lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-useronline.htmlFeatures: » Enable you to display how many users are online on your WordPress blog with detailed statistics of where they are and who there are(Members/Guests/Search

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ACPI INT33A0 driver download [SOLVED]

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Q. Looking for a Windows driver… ACPI INT33A0 unknown device, what driver should I use? –Ken Kollar A. The ACPI INT33A0 is a iSCT ACPI Virtual Device which is part of Intel’s Smart Connect. You can download the correct driver here: (dl link) Driver is compatible with Windows 10, Windows 8, and Windows 7. PS The Intel Smart Connect technology is being included with a lot of nice new Ultrabooks and it can be pretty handy. If you would like to find out more about

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Silent mod for Intel NUC, Haswell and more

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Care for a silent fanless NUC? Very doable! UPDATE: Thanks to commenter KW for letting me know about Logic Supply’s offering of Intel’s latest and greatest i5 NUC motherboard. They are also preparing a new fanless case, model ML300, for the NUC. Woot! 🙂 Silent build recommendations? – Ars Technica OpenForumhttp://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1197169&p=24244795&hilit=nuc+case#p24244795I was just taking a gander over at Puget Systems and their super-silent systems. I love the promise of near silence, but the pricepoint seems pretty dang steep considering I’m

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How to close a tab on Chromebook? Press Ctrl + W

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Q. How do I close the current tab on my Chromebook? There is no F4 key on my Chromebook and that means I cannot press CTRL+F4 like I do on Windows to close a tab. 🙁 A. Press Ctrl+W to close the current tab 🙂 Top Search Terms:current tab chrome (2)how to close tabs on a samsung cromebook (1)how to close a tab on samsung chromebook (1)how to close a chromebook tab (1)f4 on a chromebook? (1)ctrl alt del samsung chromebook (1)control w

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GIGABYTE BRIX specs, similar to NUC but even faster

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With Intel’s NUC you are stuck choosing between Gigabit Ethernet -or- Thunderbolt, and you get zero USB 3.0 ports 🙁 GIGABYTE arrives on the scene with their BRIX small form factor PC and it appears to improve upon the NUC by offering a faster CPU (up to 2GHz [w/3.1GHz turbo] on the BRIX vs 1.8GHz on the NUC) and (2) USB 3.0 ports. Photos courtesy of GIGABYTE One of the only drawbacks on the BRIX is that lack of Thunderbolt support.

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Name generator ideas

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I wrote a character name generator a while back. Since then I have come across a variety of requests for various other name generators: fake name generator fake id generator wow name generator baby name generator fantasy name generator _____ name generator name generator _____ name generator app name generator skyrim name generator seventh sanctum name generator star wars name generator superhero name meanings what does _____ name mean? Much of it is traditional gaming name requests, but some of

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