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Toad (Oracle) - Too Many Options

Toad is a tool to let you connect to Oracle with a GUI and browse the tables, run sql, write procedures. It is kind of like Query Analyzer/Enterprise Manager for SQL 2000 or SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) for SQL 2005/2008. Except it’s not, it sucks. :)

As you can see from the options screen, there [...]

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Best Buy Store Locator - Overzealous Requirements

Why require zip code AND state? Can’t you derive state from the zip code? ugh :(
Technorati tags: Form Design, Best Buy

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Windows Media Player 11 - Design Flaws

So, on my main desktop at home I finally installed Windows Media Player 11. Ive used it since the betas, but no on my main machine. So what I usually do is download music from the net, onto my desktop, but then copy it to my server, and let WMP find the album art and [...]

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Wacky Design - TV Remote Controls

Flipping through the TV guide from my digital box the other day, and this dawned on me. The TV Remote Control design is backwards. Huh? Well, so if you are looking through the guide, you actually have to hit the “down” button or “page down” button to make the channels go higher in the guide. [...]

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Microsoft Themes

Looks like you can get some microsoft “Themes” for free. Aquarium, Nature, Space, Da Vinci.
Even the english installer is in French, so if you can get your way through that you will have the themes. If you are the kind of person who likes themed cursors and icons and sounds, this is for you!
Microsoft Themes

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