Friedbeef’s Tech

How to Copy Files Faster and Easier

   If you want to supercharge the simple act of copying and pasting – Teracopy is just the piece of freeware for you. Here are 5 key features that stand out the most to me: Copy files faster – Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives Pause and resume file transfers – Pause copy process [...]

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Top 5 Most Useful How-To Video Sites

YouTube is fun – but are you looking for something more than Chris Crocker’s ‘Leave Britney Alone’ video? Here are my top 5 videos sites which actually show you how to do something useful. 1. A video encyclopedia in 5 minute segments – 5min.com   The idea behind 5min is very simple: any solution can be visually explained [...]

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3 Quick Web 2.0 Tips

As part of my deal with them, here is a shoutout to my kind sponsors whose contributions have enabled me to keep this site alive.  Of course – true to the nature of this site… even the shoutouts will contain valuable nuggets of tips for you :) How to get better estimates of US real estate prices TechCzar reviews [...]

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How to Find the Most Popular Pictures on the Web

Taking a cue from one of my favourite sites PopURLs – which aggregates all the most popular stories from popular URLs, PicURLs is a site which does the same for pictures.  It monitors and aggregates popular pictures from… Social Bookmarking sites: digg, reddit, del.icio.us, stumbleupon, flickr, simpy, furl New Media sites: BoingBoing, Wired and of course… flickr … So [...]

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How to Analyze Your Feedburner Stats in Greater Detail

Blogperfume has recently released an excellent tool for analyzing your feedburner statistics.  Taking basic feedburner stats, it churns out excellent reports which help you understand your blog and its subscribers better. How is your subscriber growth progressing? This metric helps to determine how you are progressing in gaining subscribers.  This is one useful way to look at your past [...]

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