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		<title>Upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After waiting for just over a week to allow others to discover if there were any major issues upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04, I finally bit the bullet Tuesday afternoon and decided to upgrade my system to Hardy Heron. This was my first distribution upgrade since moving to Ubuntu last fall, so I will admit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://softwaregadgets.gridspace.net/2008/04/30/upgraded-to-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron/</link>
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		<title>Automated Upgrade to WordPress 2.5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve finally upgraded to WordPress 2.5. My upgrade experience was quite good this time because I used the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin, version 1.1. Note that the version listed on the download link on the linkd page is &#8220;0.1&#8243; but it actually downloads the current 1.1 version of the plugin. I installed the plugin and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://softwaregadgets.gridspace.net/2008/04/20/automated-upgrade-to-wordpress-25/</link>
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		<title>Brief &#8212; Fantastic RSS Feed Reader for Firefox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I moved to Linux, I&#8217;ve been looking for a RSS reader that I like as much as Great News. I have finally found one that comes very close in Brief. Brief is a Firefox extension that adds a very simple, Great news-like feed reader to Firefox. It even stores the feeds locally for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://softwaregadgets.gridspace.net/2008/03/16/brief-fantastic-rss-feed-reader-for-firefox/</link>
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		<title>FLV Extract &#8212; Extract Audio &#38; Video from FLV Files</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that FLV files are really just wrapped boxes holding audio and video files in fairly standard formats? Probably not. Until I discovered this little gem, I didn&#8217;t know this either. This program extracts video and audio without decompressing them and then recompressing them. Therefore, this program avoids the loss of quality that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://softwaregadgets.gridspace.net/2008/03/07/flv-extract-extract-audio-video-from-flv-files/</link>
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		<title>Crawler Parental Control &#8212; Free Windows Parental Control Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many parents want some way to control their children&#8217;s computer use: to help prevent them from accidentally (or purposely) accessing inappropriate sites, to prevent them from using the computer to play games when they should be using it to do their homework, etc. Most parental control software is not cheap, sometimes even requiring regular fees [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://softwaregadgets.gridspace.net/2008/02/26/crawler-parental-control-free-windows-parental-control-software/</link>
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		<title>Comodo Firewall Version 3.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;m using Linux as my primary OS, I don&#8217;t pay as much attention to the latest releases of Windows security software as I used to. That&#8217;s one of the advantages of Linux, it is much more secure out of the box. However, while updating my mother-in-law&#8217;s computer while she was visiting this week, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://softwaregadgets.gridspace.net/2008/02/17/comodo-firewall-version-30/</link>
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		<title>InstantStorm &#8212; Free Flash Screensaver Creator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[InstantStorm is a Windows freeware tool for creating Flash based screensavers with many advanced features. All you have to do is to choose a SWF file, set screensaver parameters and compile an executable installer. All 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows are fully supported, including Windows 95 and Windows Vista. And the best of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://softwaregadgets.gridspace.net/2008/02/15/instantstorm-free-flash-screensaver-creator/</link>
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		<title>Truecrypt 5.0 &#8212; Better than Ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I posted about Truecrypt back in 2006 on the old version of this blog. A few days ago, Truecrypt version 5.0 was released with a number of nice improvements, including the ability to encrypt the boot drive. From the announcement:
We are pleased to announce that TrueCrypt 5.0 has been released. Among the new features are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://softwaregadgets.gridspace.net/2008/02/08/truecrypt-50-better-than-ever/</link>
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		<title>Docx2RTF &#8212; Convert Word 2007 files to RTF (Discovery)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft did it again with Word 2007. They changed the file format so that older versions and other Word Processors can&#8217;t read it. If you get a Word 2007 .docx file from an associate or client, you no longer need to buy Office 2007 to read it. Docx2rtf is a freeware program that converts .docx [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://softwaregadgets.gridspace.net/2008/02/03/docx2rtf-convert-word-2007-files-to-rtf-discovery/</link>
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		<title>GNOME Menu File Browser Applet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you just want to open or execute a file in a directory you use a lot. Opening a file manager, browsing to and opening the file and then closing the file manager is a lot of work if you have to do it often enough. The Menu File Browser Applet is an applet for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://softwaregadgets.gridspace.net/2008/01/29/gnome-menu-file-browser-applet/</link>
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