M.D. Creekmore at The Survivalist Blog – a survival blog dedicated to helping others prepare for and survive disaster – with articles on bug out bag contents, survival knife choices and a wealth of other survival information is giving away a 1,000 round case of 9mm – 124 Grain FMJ (a $200 value – donated by LuckyGunner)! To enter, you just have to post about it on your blog. This is my entry. Visit The Survivalist Blog for the details.

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M.D. Creekmore over at the The Survivalist Blog – a survival blog dedicated to helping others prepare for and survive disaster – with articles on bug out bag contents, survival knife choices and a wealth of other survival information is giving away a Go Berkey Water Filter System (a $139.00 value)! To enter, you just have to post about it on your blog. This is my entry. Visit The Survivalist Blog for the details.

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I have the oppurtunity to experiment with another brand new out-of-the-box Dell laptop.

It is a Vostro 1520 (entry level business class notebook) with a Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 3Gb RAM running Windows 7 Professional.

I am going to use Microsoft Office Professional 2010 Beta and Microsoft Security Essentials and see how this turns out. This lowers the TCO for the user (at least temporarily) and gets it up and running faster.

I will publish the results later in the year.

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If you are using TuneUp Utilities 2009 or 2010 in conjunction with the best multi-computer file sync program Dropbox, you may be wondering why your Dropbox tray icon keeps disapearing every 3 days.

It seems that TuneUp sees Dropbox as something needing to be fixed, and since Dropbox has no Program Files entry, the whole thing goes away.

Supposedly TuneUp Utilities is working on a fix, but so far, no luck.

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I have been trying to figure out the easiest way for people to batch rename and resize images without having to learn convoluted processes to accomplish what should be a relatively simple process.

Microsoft PowerToys has an Image Resizer that allows you to simply select one or more images and then Right Click > Resize.  Bydefault, the program will even create copies so as to not mess with the originals!  How awesome!

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Combine this with my favorite batch image renaming application Namexif and you’re good to go.

Also,  I just found out this little pearl of wisdom about native Windows Image Renaming

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