Free tools for Non-Profits from Google
In addition to the regular collection of free Google apps, non-profits can use Google Checkout for donations and apply for a Google Grant for free advertising with AdWords.
If you’re a non-profit check it out!
UnitedHealthCare settlement check
I received my “final payment” from the class action lawsuit today for a whopping $8.06!
I promise not to spend it all in one place…
Add a Send To for Sysinternals Contig
One of my favorite tools is Sysinternals’ (Microsoft) Contig commandline utility to make files contiguous. However, it’s a pain having to type the full path to the file or directory you want to contig, so I fooled around until I came up with these two tricks:
To create a Send To item that will contig a single file navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\your username\SendTo, right click & select New, Shortcut and use the wizard to locate the full path to contig.exe.
After you’ve finished, right click the shortcut and rename it to something that makes sense to you – I used “Contig File”. Right click on the shortcut again, select Properties and in the Target box add a space and "%cd%"\ It’ll windup looking something like c:\sysinternals\contig "%cd%"\ Click Apply and OK. Now you can right click on any file in Explorer and a DOS window will open up and Contig will contig your file and close the DOS window.
To create a Send To item that will contig a directory recursively follow the same steps above (copy and rename the Contig File shortcut) except change the Target line to space -s space "%cd%"\ so it looks like c:\sysinternals\contig -s "%cd%"\
The trick here is using “%cd%”. %cd% is the full path to the current working directory where the file (or directory) you want to contig is located. The “” convert the Long File Name from the %cd% into something DOS understands.
Enjoy!
David Esrati may have "lost" in OH-3, but "we" won!
Almost 11,000 of us liked what we heard from David more than the other two candidates. That’s a significant number of people who are not satisfied with the way they’re being represented in Washington.
Hopefully, this will serve as a wakeup call to the Democratic Party and the “winner” that quite a few of us are ready for a change. And maybe inspire someone else, who’s not a political insider, to get involved.
So yes, David lost, but we won!
Announcing Esrati for Congress at Esrati for Congress
Announcing Esrati for Congress at Esrati for Congress
Yes, this is old news now, but worth a reminder if you’re in the 3rd Congressional District in Ohio. Esrati.com is the place to go for the latest information.