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Ron K.

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About Me

Chicago's North Shore. Psychologist, gym-rat, reading on the beach, tennis, kink-oriented, really good food and fine cinema.

How I Can Help

Consumer rights and truth in advertising. I have gift of savvy intuition. I communicate ideas & concepts pretty well.

Interests

Tennis, gym, music, and film... D/s.

144 Reviews by Ron

  • Free Software Directory

4/21/10

The Free Software Directory is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and UNESCO. It is a categorized index of free software that runs on free operating systems (GNU and Linux). FSD advocates the use of free software and through its activities seeks to counter restrictive policies such as Digital Restrictions Management (DRM).

There is no free lunch; so goes the popular saying. The abundant availability of free and open source software thankfully belies the fact. Just imagine a world where open source did not exist. It would have been such a narrow existence.

"_Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. Think of "free" as in "free speech," not as in "free beer." Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.

The Free Software Directory is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). We catalog useful free software that runs under free operating systems — particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants".

Enough said. Save your money and Enjoy
Ron.

  • Freeware Files

4/13/10

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:

If you want to setup your computer system again you need to have the licenses and serial numbers at hand for all the software programs that you have purchased and registered. This does include the Windows product key but also other serial numbers for applications like Nero, Office, VMWare and pretty much every other application.

Instead of searching for the keys in your emails, manuals and recipes you could use another approach. License Crawler is a sweet little application that scans the Windows Registry for Windows product keys and other serial numbers and licenses.

The License Crawler can discover application product keys and other serial numbers or licenses very quickly and supports all versions of Windows operating system from Windows 95 to Windows Vista.

It is a portable application that can be run from any location and would be a perfect fit for an USB stick. Asking clients to find serial and license keys is often very frustrating. Instead, tech support can simply run License Crawler without having to interact with the client at all.

  • Carlos Labs

4/13/10

SIMULATOR predicts how much damage (physical & radioactive) would do to your town:

"Have you ever wondered what would happen if a nuclear bomb goes off in your city? With Google's Maps framework and a bit of Javascript, you can see the outcome. And it doesn't look good".

  • New York Times

4/13/10

KNOW WHAT YOU DRINK: Find Water Polluters Near You

"Across the nation, the system that Congress created to protect the nation's waters under the Clean Water Act of 1972 today often fails to prevent pollution.

The New York Times has compiled data on more than 200,000 facilities that have permits to discharge pollutants and collected responses from states regarding compliance.

Information about facilities contained in this database comes from two sources: the Environmental Protection Agency and the California State Water Resources Control Board. The database does not contain information submitted by the states".

Wix
  • Wix

4/13/10

Absolutely GREAT place to build a FLASH-based web site... FREE. Drag 'N Drop technology makes getting up to speed a snap. You're even provided with a "Wix" URL as your domain (FREE), and you can certainly buy your own and migrate it over.

Company Promo-Data:
"A small but growing start-up, we love it when you use Wix to make your own fabulous websites and other Flash creations. And it's thanks to the support and feedback from users like you that Wix continues to evolve! Check out our blog to keep track of our latest news & features. Or get back to playing on Wix.com".

  • Epocrates

4/13/10

Epocrates, Inc. develops clinical information and decision support tools that enable healthcare professionals to find answers more quickly and confidently at the point of care.

More than 900,000 healthcare professionals, including one in three U.S. physicians, use Epocrates' innovative mobile and web-based products to help them reduce medical errors, improve patient care and increase productivity.

This site is essentially for medical practitioners. As such, it offers an expansive library of medical information. The FREE, online version provides, Drug monographs, health plan formularies, Drug interaction checker, calculators, and
Content updates, medical news. Not bad at no-cost. The Drug-Interaction library, in and of itself, can be tremendously useful.

If one chooses, there are packages offered (the least expensive) beginning at $99. Annually. These offer an outstanding "Pill-Indentifier" and much more to make it a must for many doctors to use. The company's trusted clinical content is developed by physicians and pharmacists and is continuously updated to keep users informed and up to date.

NOTE: Epocrates offers a very cool & handy MOBILE version for your smart phone (I know Motorola DROID is compatible, I have it - and I would assume the Android series as well, but check!) The Android version is very comprehensive, more information than you'd imagine. By all means do check Epocrates out.

Stay Well...
Ron.

  • TinEye

4/13/10

TinEye is a "reverse image" search engine. Simply, this means you can upload an image to TinyEye.com, and it will find "all instances" of that image, in various sizes, resolutions, etc.

You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.

TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. It is free to use for non-commercial searching.

TinEye regularly crawls the web for new images, and we also accept contributions of complete online image collections. To date, TinEye has indexed 1,432,495,997 images from the web to help you find what you're looking for. It has an easy-to-use UI, and comes in remarkably handy when you need a better/different version of that pic you found!
Ron.

  • Milo

4/9/10

Have you heard about Milo yet? According to the their website they dub their service as: "Your local shopping companion".

What does this mean exactly? Milo is an online service that will search the inventory of major retailers in YOUR local area, advising you of availability of product you're looking for - and BEST PRICE!. In other words, it's a multi-search engine for shopping.

I was then shocked to see them say that 95% of sales happen at real stores in the real world. That is brick and mortar shops as opposed to somewhere on the Internet. Are you surprised as well? Bizarre, right?

If you have shopped for something in the real world recently, you'll know that the stores with the cheapest prices are also usually sold out of what you want. And when do you find that out? When you get to the store, of course.

I hate taking pointless trips! And I hate being unhappy even more! What about you?

Enter Milo, which will help you answer these three questions:

1. What's available at local stores?
2. Which product is the best for me?
3. Where is it cheapest and available in stock?

This could be an invaluable shopping tool to save you money on product, and "running-around" time to find what you're looking for!

Happy hunting...
Ron.

  • Bevyfind

4/5/10

GASP! I might have found a search engine I like better than Google, is this possible?

You can open results in the same partioned window, and so much more. I've not switched as yet, but I'd give Bevyfind a run around the block.

"Welcome to BevyFind! BevyFind was developed by Next Technologies Inc. and is the first consumer web product to feature Next Technologies' proprietary Bevyweb Technology.

Next Technologies Inc. was founded in 2007 to develop and provide technology consumers with advanced hardware and software solutions. Bevyweb was developed over a period of two years, and is the base technology for several web applications and sites currently being developed by Next Technologies.

Using Bevyweb, BevyFind makes web search faster than ever by allowing the user to open multiple search results in the original browser window without having to leave the search page. All the user has to do is click a button next to the search result, causing an embedded BevyWindow with the desired website to open up on the page. This allows you to immediately see whether that search result is what you're looking for. No more having to open a bunch of tabs or windows! The BevyWindow can also be maximized and minimized, allowing the user to check each search result out in either full screen or half screen - either horizontally or vertically - and if desired, use the BevyWindow as a browser window.

In addition, Bevyfind offers innovative features like the ability to view different kinds of search results (web, images, etc) simultaneously and to rearrange these results on your screen to get the layout you want! You can also email search results and search the various categories separately or at the same time."

  • CardPool

3/10/10

Cardpool offers the simplest way to save money by buying and selling gift cards.
What is Cardpool?

Cardpool is a service that lets you buy gift cards for up to 30% off or sell unwanted gift cards for cash. All orders and transactions include FREE SHIPPING and are covered by our extensive Purchase Guarantee Program.
How does this work?

Cardpool connects the millions of gift card holders around the world to create a marketplace where customers can buy, sell, or trade their gift cards safely and securely. By gathering all the buyers and sellers in one place, Cardpool helps everyone get exactly what they want, whether its a discounted gift card or simply cash.
Who am I buying from or selling to?

You are always buying directly from us and selling directly to us. Because our customers may live many thousands of miles away from each other, Cardpool actually buys the gift cards directly from customers, verifies the authenticity and balance of each gift card, and holds on to them until a buyer is found. Even though we may never find a buyer for a given gift card, we pay sellers within 24 hours of receiving their gift card.

Why should I use Cardpool?

Cardpool offers the simplest, safest, and fastest way of buying or selling gift cards and we exclusively carry hassle-free gift cards that have NO FEES and NO EXPIRATION. We securely process every gift card transaction with the highest level of encryption commercially available, validate the value of every gift card by hand, and offer an unprecedented and industry leading Purchase Guarantee Program to give our customers the ultimate peace of mind.

We are so confident you'll enjoy our services that if you are unsatisfied for any reason, even if it's because the gift card's merchant leaves your home area, stops accepting gift cards, or goes bankrupt, we will be happy to refund your purchase.

Learn more about our Purchase Guarantee Program

  • Img4me

2/5/10

http://img4me.com/18cc*******e4484f9888dd95e01ed6f*******ff1.png

Despite the ton of spam everybody gets in their mailbox, it is sometimes vital to post your email address online in blogs or forums. An excellent way to prevent spammers from getting your email address is to turn email address into IMAGE so the bots cannot detect it, and you don't get ripped off.

Img4Me is an internet tool that can help you with that.

Img4Me lets you convert any text into an image. Simply type in the text, select the background and text color you want and click on generate. You can also customize the font and font size you desire in the generated image. Once the image is generated, you are provided a direct URL for the image as well as HTML and BB code to embed it on websites or blogs. You can generate the image as a png, gif or jpg format.

At the top is a URL to a hosted version of my E-mail address.

  • Wallbase.net

2/3/10

Wallbase is the most comprehensive archive of wallapers for your desktop.

THe inteface is attarctive and fairly simple. Plug-in keywords (designate resolution and other parameters if you chose) and hit search. If your looking for widecreen 1900 x 1200, that's all you'll be shown. Laptops can indicate size and results will selected for that type of screen.

Search is very sensitive to search terms, so keywords must be chosen wisely to obtain best selection.

Have fun with this.

  • ArticleChecker

2/1/10

Very interesting and potential valuable tool.

A free online service searches for originality (or lack of it) using a few phrases taken from different parts of a document. The phrases needn't be contained within search operators (like quotation marks as the plagiarism checker does it on its own through its code). Content checking is optional with either Google or Yahoo.

There's bound to be a time when this tool becomes invaluable at the office, or when there is a question of doubt!

  • Deleteyouraccount

2/1/10

"Information on how to delete your account from all of the major social networking, blogging, shopping, etc. sites and services across the web.

Feeling a little regret? We can show you how to get it back, too! (If possible)."

  • Civilanswers

1/28/10

Need some legal assistance? Now you can answers to legal questions at CivilAnswers.com. It's a free service where users can ask all kind of legal questions to a large network of professional experts and attorneys. No-registration required, though you still need to give-in your email address.

Looks like a fantastic tool to keep handy. Could this drastically reduce number of trips downtown to visit your attorney?

IPL
  • IPL

1/25/10

This is a great tool for high school and college students. It walks one through the essential steps on how to 'ace' a research paper. It's very friendly, does not talk-down to anyone, and helps coalesce the concept of creating such a document - makes it less threatening.

Ipl2 is the result of a merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII).

Do your high school OR college student a favor, and pass this web site along!

Happy research.

  • Fleshmap

1/25/10

Fleshmap is not a porn site (sorry - smile), rather a fascinating web site that allows one to explore, in great detail, the areas on the male, and female body, that desire "touch" the most. It's not as simple as one might imagine. Any area is broken down into dozens of smaller details, to fine-tune where the skin is most 'needy'.

From The web site:
"Fleshmap is an inquiry into human desire, its collective shape and individual expressions. In a series of studies, we explore the relationship between the body and its visual and verbal representation.

Touch investigates the collective perception of erogenous zones. We asked hundreds of people to rank how good it would feel to touch or be touched by a lover in different points of the body. The resulting images reveal a map of sensual desire with multiple focal points and islands of excitement. Read more about our method.

While Touch examines collective patterns, Look explores individuality and the hidden surprises that each body reveals when bared. Through a process of abstraction, the piece reveals the multiplicity of formal possibilities contained in a single body part. Contours from different individuals are presented in collections that expose both familiar and oft-overlooked patterns, confronting prototypical notions of ourselves. Read more about our method.

Listen investigates the relationship between language and the body. Verbal manifestations of human physicality in music, poetry, and religion are distilled to their basic elements. In a play with language, the "body rebus" emerges as a visual representation of cultural expressions of the physical in us. Read more about our method."

If you're a skin aficionado, there's a lot to explore here.

  • After the Deadline

1/25/10

I'm very sensitive to 'words'. People often get a "gut-hunch" of who we are based on what we say, and how. Business correspondence is an obvious application, but I feel it spills over to how we affect friends, colleagues, and even lovers.

With that in mind, I found "After The Deadline", a great, free, site that can help you correct your grammatical errors, but syntactical issues, and more.

Here's what the site says in "about":
"We use artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to find your writing errors and offer smart suggestions". Even when I think I've created the flawless document, a cut&paste into "After The Deadline", reveals more 'over-talk' than I realised.

A highly recommended tool for finishing/sharpening important writing!

  • Pueblo.GPO.gov

1/23/10

Interesting Federal Governmental site offering information and tips on a variety of every-day life issues - online safeguards as well. The proper URL, for online and computer related issues is: http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/specpubs.htm.

Hope there's a bit of help here.

  • PC Magazine

1/21/10

The web site I've provided is simply a link to PC Magazine article on how terribly passwords are selected. The most common password revealed, from a hacked web site, was "*******", literally. The exact URL for the article is:
"http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,*******,00.asp" (without the quotations).

I have a suggestion for creating a very secure 'universal password', easily remembered, and assuredly a safer password that what most use - perhaps yourself.

The best passwords have no pattern, are alpha-numeric, and the longer (12-15 characters) the better. However the prospect of deciding on such a phrase, easily recalled - but so difficult to crack, can be daunting.

Try this: Take a piece of information (perhaps an old address that you won't forget) I'll make one up as example: "1584westanywherestreetsandiegocalifornia". Read that carefully and you'll see it's an address. First, that's a nice "long" series of characters. Secondarily it's alpha-numeric, the safest type of password. Here's a trick to make that address harder to crack.

By selecting (or un-selecting - the OPPOSITE of your default keyboard setup - play with this to be sure!) the "Num-Lock" key (one tap), the above address becomes: "1584westanywherestreetsand5eg6ca35f6rn5a". Note the changes in the latter part of that address. That information has been sufficiently "garbled" to be a much more secure password, certainly than what most people use.

Take some time with a text doc., or a Word document, and play with different unforgettable strings of information. Once you've decided on a long string, but a memorable string, play with the Num Lock key and see how it changes the data.

After a bit of fine tuning, you should have an near worry-free password, very hard to crack, created simply by hitting "num-Lock" before typing it.

If you're curious what the Num Lock key does, how it works on different keyboards and computers, you can Google that and get answers. Right now, it's sufficient to jump into a safer universal password you can stop worrying about.

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