Pakanswers.com

The website is a question and answer website for the Pakistani community. Seems interesting.

www.pakanswers.com

Google Code University

Google Code University is a very nice effort to share information about latest tools in software development with everyone. Distributed systems design tutorial looks really interesting.

Xylitol

I have just discovered Xylitol. This is an amazing artificial sweetener that isn't controversial like the other sweeteners (hint, aspartame). In addition it is has almost half the calories of sugar and has a protective effect on teeth!

There are chewing gums available that mention using xylitol but those like Orbit's and other brands still have aspartame... so you need to confirm, if it is just xylitol or does it have aspartame.

Flossing

The importance of flossing regularly cannot be over-stated. It may even prevent heart disease and high blood pressure.

Check Google and these links here and here.

Online lectures

There a very nice set of lectures videos available over the internet, nowadays. Different universities have started offering these for free. The most popular example is OpenCourseWare by MIT but there are many alternatives, check this!

For free ebooks and courseware same blog as well as for research.

Also worth checking letcurefox.

Remap your keyboard

Todays keyboards have many legacy keys that are of little or no use. Take for example the scroll-lock key or the caps lock key. It is possible to remap the keyboard keys with SharpKeys.

Sharpkeys is a very small utility that allows you to remap any key on your keyboard to another key. It does not stay resident in memory, instead it writes to the registry and then you can just exit it.

The only downside is that you have to reboot your system.

Disabling Autorun in Windows XP

Many of the common viruses, nowadays, transmit themselves using usb-drives. One thing required to protect from getting infected as soon as you plug in an infected usb-drive/CD is to disable the autorun feature.

You will need to run the following reg file to disable it:
http://ali.jan.googlepages.com/noautorun.reg