Almost everyone knows about http://tinyurl.com it’s a great idea but I hate copying the URL, going to tinyurl.com pasting it and then creating the short one. There is a nice plug-in/extension for FireFox that lets you do this very easily:

You can get the FireFox extension from http://www.dwarfurl.com/firefox

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I have 3 Joost invitations. If you are interested let me know through a comment or e-mail. Also check out my mini-review at http://emad.blogstogo.com/2007/04/05/joost-launched-review
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I found this post by Eric to be very helpful and I plan to use his suggestions when creating my next web application. This helps you resent all the styles to a preset so that your site looks the same on all browsers. Remember to read the comments for more useful suggestions. [...]

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I have a sql table that looks like this

Id

Name

Value

1

First name

Bob

1

Last name

Johns

2

First name

John

2

Last name

Smith

3

First name

Bill

3

Last name

Gates

I want to return the data like this:

Id

First name

Last name

1

Bob

Johns

2

John

Smith

3

Bill

Gates

 
I am completely lost and don’t even know where to start or what to search for… Any ideas?

For the time being, I used code to generate the required results, here it [...]

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This post is for me. I always forget where Windows installs sidebar gadgets. They are at C:\Users\Emad\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets
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