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Password Safe is a tool that allows you to have a different password for all the different programs and websites that you deal with, without actually having to remember all those usernames and passwords.

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Google released a new search site Wednesday called Google Scholar that lets you search "specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.

Google Scholar also introduces a new query modifier:

author:authorname

How do you use the new author: query modifier? Well, here are three examples of it in work:

   1. author:stack "The effect of country music on suicide
   2. author:Balasubramaniam "Coordination Modes in the Multisegmental Dynamics of Hula Hooping"
   3. author:crispen "Social stress in pregnant squirrel monkeys"

Link: Google

MemTest is a free RAM reliability tester. It evaluates the ability of your computer s memory to store and retrieve data. A correctly functioning computer should be able to do both these tasks with 100% accuracy day in and day out. A computer that fails these tests, perhaps because of old hardware, damaged hardware, or poorly configured hardware, will be less stable and crash more often. By running MemTest, you can ensure that your computer s RAM is correctly functioning. Unlike other memory checking software, MemTest is designed to find all types of memory errors including intermittent problems. Therefore, it needs to be run for several hours to truly evaluate your RAM. MemTest works with any type of memory.

Link: MemTest

Read-Only Memory. Memory that can be read but not changed. Read-only memory is non-volatile storage; it holds its contents even when the power is turned off. Data is placed in ROM only once, and stays there permanently. ROM chips are used for storage of the essential software of the computer, called firmware. Some kinds of ROM are PROM, EPROM, EEPROM, and CD-ROM.