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  • 4 yrs 32 wks 4 days old
  • Updated: 20 Nov 2009
  • 72 entries
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Tipical Charlie
Welcome to Tipical Charlie, a repository of all kinds of tips related to computing, from web developer and technologist, Charlie Arehart.
I'll mostly share my own tips that I've found others enjoyed hearing about. I'll welcome tips from others, too.
(Wondering where I came up with the name?)

May 2005



Looking for a tivo-like recorder for Internet audio/radio?

Monday, 23 May 2005 5:53 P GMT-04
Have you ever listened to some interesting internet audio (perhaps a conference recording, or a sermon, or a radio show) and wished you could record it, but couldn't because the player's "save" feature was disabled? What if you had somethin
Category: tools

Forcing a line break in an HTML email link

Wednesday, 18 May 2005 8:27 P GMT-04
OK, this is the first tip I've done that's about HTML, so it may not suit all readers, but for those who do work with HTML, it may be a useful discovery. did you know you can both pre-load the body AND force a line break within that body of an email?

Neat tool for starting/stopping multiple services together

Sunday, 15 May 2005 5:03 P GMT-04
Do you have your development machine setup to support any of several combinations of Windows services, which you find yourself starting/stopping in tandem? For example, do you maybe want to sometimes run Apache and Tomcat, or other times IIS and Cold
Category: tools

No search mechanism on a site? Or an incomplete result? Never fear, Google is here

Monday, 9 May 2005 5:16 P GMT-04
How many times have you been to a site where you knew there was info you wanted, but there was no search mechanism--or it was anemic? Did you know you can leverage Google to search a site directly? In the google search criteria, simply add "site
Category: browser google

Resurrecting "dead" web site content with the web archive

Monday, 9 May 2005 4:31 P GMT-04
Have you ever been to a site looking for content that simply no longer exists? Perhaps you had a link (or someone gave it to you), and it now gets a "file not found" error. Of course, if a desired page has simply been moved, you may be able
Category: browser tools

Check out Kayak for a new take on finding air/hotel/car fares

Wednesday, 4 May 2005 1:17 P GMT-04
If you haven't seen it yet, Kayak.com offers a very interesting twist on traditional travel booking sites like expedia, orbitz, hotwire, etc. The spartan front page is brings to mind the contrast of google to yahoo, in its simplicity.Yet even that f
Category: browser