Friedbeef’s Tech

How to Generate Dummy Data – REALLY FAST

Need to populate a database with some dummy figures?  Here’s perhaps the fastest way you’ll be able to do this. GenerateData.com is a free service which quickly generate large volumes of custom data in a variety of formats (eg. Excel, CSV, SQL, HTML).  What I like most about GenerateData.com it is you can choose the [...]

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Universal Document Converter : A Review

Universal Document Converter (UDC) is a piece of software that will allow you to convert documents of any type can be exported into Adobe PDF or graphical files in 7 popular formats: TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PCX, DCX, GIF or BMP.  Once installed, UDC will be listed alongside your printers, so within any application, just click [...]

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How Supercharge Your Clipboard

  Microsoft’s Windows Clipboard (The virtual space which stores your ‘cut/copy’ so you can ‘paste’ it), is perhaps one of the most underdeveloped features of Windows.  Its ability to only store ONE item at a time has been the bane of many a Windows user who just needed something more than that.  Fortunately, the community [...]

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How to Streamline Your Right Click Context Menu

Just last month we talked about ‘Giving Your Right Mouse Button Super Powers’ where you were able to add a ton of features to your right click.   Some of you loved it, but some of you thought the extra options were just too overwhelming!  For those of you in the latter group – here’s something [...]

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How to Get Ahead: Top 5 Essential Web 2.0 Career Resources

Just how do you get ahead these days?   Here are 5 high tech tools to supplement traditional job-hunting site on the web like Monster or Jobstreet.  Hopefully they’ll give you that little extra edge you need to move ahead in your career.  Of course, nothing beats the traditional method of working hard and smart – [...]

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