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Skip “Use the Web service to find the correct program”

Recently I’ve been opening up files that don’t have a program assigned to their file extension. Each time I try to open these files, Windows prompts me with a dialog asking me is I want to “Use the Web service to find the correct program” – no thank you, Windows.

So, I did a quick search and found this nice little registry edit:

1. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

2. Create a new 32-bit DWORD value on the right-hand side with the following values:

• Name: NoInternetOpenWith
• Value: 1

This causes Windows to never open that useless prompt ever again. Thanks, HowToGeek.com.

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Simple PHP Twitter Script

Here’s a customizable little PHP script that takes a Twitter username, password, and RSS feed and prints out however many of the last twitter entries you choose.

There’s a lot of documentation out there on the Twitter API, but it was hard for me to find a small quick script to do this seemingly simple query, so I’m providing the one that I wrote.

Let me know if/how you like it. Code is here: twitter_script

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