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| Computer Related Articles Anyone who has ever been locked out of their computer because of a forgotten password, will be happy to know there is a free and easy to use solution. This unfortunate circumstance occurred for me when the fingerprint software on my laptop failed and the password management program failed to record the change to my Windows password. Despite setting up questions to answer that should have revealed my password and allow me entry to the programs, the correct password was buried deep within the confines of Windows and inaccessible to me, as was the administrative password. After many unsuccessful attempts to log on, I went online and found what I now refer to as my saviour (at least as it relates to computers). He is a self-effacing gent who wants no accolades nor money, just that users do not inundate him with emails if, perchance, his software cannot offer a solution to a user's particular dilemma. Check him out here and be thankful for the mercy and obvious intelligence of this Norwegian. His program saved my day and I have reserved a special place in my heart for him :-) Now if I could only get Microsoft to write a decent FAQ page solution for this website, I would surely be in seventh heaven! This has been the one page on this site that has given me more headaches than anyone deserves. It requires strict adherence to a format that limits one to inputting information within a structured set up and any deviation from that set up negates correct access to the appropriate answer to a question. Every page on the site utilises ASP.net and the aspx format. Through MSDN, I found a tutorial for ASP.net and related programming, but not a specific how-to for a FAQ page. It was only after much searching (seems that's the story of my life since working on my site), I found this free open source program named FreeTextBox, which I hope will help me develop this page a little better than it now exists. If nothing else, it will provide me with some new options for learning and I am always open to that. Would you like a little Oomph in your life AND save your valuable time for more interesting endeavours than entering contact names into your various contact managers? Then check out this open source program that allows you to use your browser to do the job for you. From their pages: "There’s so much reusable data in web pages – names, email addresses, dates and locations – but until recently, there had been no way to *do* anything with that information. It’s been all cut-and-paste. If we had a way to recognize this information as something specific, what could we do with this info? Microformats are about enhancing the web, representing data in HTML and moving that data around. Oomph: A Microformats Toolkit is for web developers, designers and users, making it easier to create, consume, and style Microformats. In short, Oomph makes consuming and producing content for the web just a little easier, more efficient, more fun."
Check Oomph out here. They also have many other open source and FREE programs that do all kinds of interesting things and their home page is here. There are
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