You Can Buy Software and Online Services Anonymously!
A little while ago I needed to buy a competitor's software product and because they were a competitor, and a pretty unscrupulous one, I didn't want to give them my name and credit card number for fear they might do "something" with it. The solution I found is great! Visa/Mastercard/American Express gift cards that you can buy at your local grocery store, pharmacy, Best Buy, etc. The beauty of it is that you can pay in cash for the card when you buy it, leaving no record to tie back to your own personal credit card. To further cement the fake identity you can, and sometimes must (because of security checks) log on to the virtual credit card's site (using the code on the card) and supply a fake name, fake address, and fake phone number which the credit card processor might validate against.
Because of federal laws related to money laundering, tax evasion, and terrorism these anonymous cards are limited to under $300 and they cannot be recharged (you cannot add more money to them later). Also, be aware that these cards are technically debit cards, though they behave like credit cards. I have noticed that some sites, particularly ones which involved recurring fees or the possible quick accumulation of charges, will not accept debit cards.
While I am not endorsing them, nor getting any reward for mentioning them, I will say I have used the Vanilla Visa card quite a few times and have had no complaints.
WTF RU SAYN?
If you're too old, too unhip, or lead to rich and successful a life to pay attention, there's a new language in town, and it's TXT. You might need a dictionary or online translator.
GENESIS 1:1
In da Bginnin God cr8ed da heavens & da earth. Da earth waz barren, wit no 4m of life; it waz unda a roaring ocean cuvred wit dRkness
See other passages from the bible, and somewhere out there is also the entire bible as translated by the Bible Society in Australia (they have since removed it from their site).
It's interesting to note that the modern TXT language descends from one invented by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1962 short story adaptation of Hamlet entitled 2BR02B. 
Of course, like any language it can be abused... such as this guy speaking TXT while driving...
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OMG! Never Click “Next Page” on a Web Page Again!
Rarely do I find a browser add-on that so revolutions my experience of the web... Today I did. And it's soooo elegantly simple. Never hunt for "Next Page" or a tiny little "[ 2 ]" again, the next page loads automatically at the bottom of your current page when you get near the end! Welcome to the world of FastestFox, a free add-on available for Firefox and Chrome!
It may not sound revolutionary at first, but start using it and you'll see just how much better it makes things to just be able to keep hitting page down (which you're doing anyway to see the whole page you're on) instead of needing to switch to your mouse and look around for the link to click. And the auto-loading of the next page starts in the background as you near the end of the current page, so you no longer need to wait for the next page to load, it's ready for you when you need it. And amazingly if you click a link which is several pages down the page you were looking at and then go back FastestFox is smart enough to rebuild the page (the one comprised of multiple pages) so you are back at the same position you were; that attention to detail is very impressive. And their parsing logic is quite good, I've been using it a week and on almost every site and page I've read it's figured out when it has multiple pages (it has a few times been confused and loaded something as a second page that really was just some other page on the site, but that's not really a problem).
The one caveat is that FastestFox gives you lots of enhanced search "features", which can be useful but can also be a little too helpful and too cluttering. The features include the ability to combine multiple search engine results in your normal searches, provide easy searches from selecting text, etc. I've turned off most of those features, it's all easily configurable. It's a reasonable assumption that those searches are how FastestFox makes its money and remains a free add-on, they no doubt get money when you buy from the Amazon search results they inject, from the other search engine links you click, etc. If you're like me you'll want to dial back their integration a bit. Nonetheless, can't blame 'em for trying to make a buck off something as awesomely useful as this.
Experience how nice it can be to read a multi-page web the way it should be! Maybe HTML 5 will have a way to officially designate pages in a multi-page document. Until then, use this!
Download FastFox for Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome !
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Behold the power of AutoHotKey
AutoHotKey is this amazing, powerful scripting language (and related tools) that lets you customize existing applications and also Windows. It originally started as a simple hotkey/macro tool, but has expanded well beyond that.
For example, let's say I sometimes leave the volume way up when I hibernate my computer and I sometimes go into a business meeting only to have the volume blare. I can write a < 10 line AutoHotKey script that could watch for my computer waking up from sleep and automatically reduce the volume to a safe level I define.
Or, let's say I want to create a hotkey to automatically hide any Windows which might contain web porn in case my wife comes in the room, it would take < 10 lines or so for that.
It's just amazing how easy it is to do things. AutoHotKey's strength is that it lets you glue together existing Windows APIs with thirdparty applications with monitoring/responding to hotkeys, events, etc.
I got a new touch screen laptop and within a few days had written a handful of apps that made the device far more usable.
Any script you write can be compiled into an exe for faster execution and so you can distribute it.
It requires programming experience to use this, but if you've got that, you'll find it fun as hell.
For the gamers among you, holy crap, you can kick more ass with less work, and even automate in game actions based on images and pixel colors.
Here's a simple tutorial about how to make a little program to screw with your family/friends:
And for you Farmville freaks, here's how you can grow more corns:
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Check out the quick start tutorial!