I'm Dan Previte, a web developer and a geek in general living in Chicago and working for Caxy Inc.

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Things that make my life better than yours

Friday, November 9th, 2007

“Compare your life to mine, and then kill yourselves.” – Bender/Dan Updated 04/06/2008 This started as an email to everyone at work, but I thought I’d post it here to share with you losers. Launchy http://www.launchy.net Forget the Start menu. It sucks hard. Instead, hit ALT+Space and type the first few letters of the program [...]

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Vista Line-In Annoyance

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

This is more of a note to myself than anything, but this took me about half an hour to figure out. For the most part I haven’t had any issues with Vista since I’ve installed it, but today I wanted to connect my iPhone to the line in on my sound card and listen through [...]

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php|tek

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

I went to php|tek here in Chicago this year. I’ve been wanting to attend one of these for some time, and got lucky because this year it was being held about 45 minutes from where I live. It was great being able to listen to developers who are much smarter than me talk. I think [...]

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Interactive Foil

Sunday, December 24th, 2006

Yesterday while doing some last minute Christmas shopping I noticed a floating image on a window of the Ralph Lauren store. At first I thought it was just a neat trick with some mirrors and a projector (which still would have been impressive), but then the video said “Touch Here”.Turns out the image that was [...]

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