This is what you should be looking for: the strongest demand for your skills, both hard skills (tech stuff) and soft skills. The more the demand, the more desperate companies are to hire, the more flexible they'll be for candidates, the more they'll offer you to join them and not someone else. You need to a) find that demand and b) be convincing that you can meet that demand. For a), you'll need a few sources so you can corroborate or refute. For example, you can try searching multiple major job boards for each of the tech skills you listed to compare which skill is most needed, and then narrow your search by adding in more criteria such as geographic location. Another way, if you're really looking for adventure and especially if you need/want to work locally: call/visit local software companies under the real guise of compiling a short report about which tech skills are most in demand locally, that you can then publish online (and offline, such as in a local paper). It's a nice little project that could put you in contact with a lot of people, some of whom may want to hire you, while simultaneously giving you the information you need AND help you discover hidden jobs. You can of course publish it only once you've used it to find a job but ideally, know where you'll publish it in advance to have a response when people ask. As for b), start spending a few hours each day contributing to one or more open-source projects on Github or a similar site where you'll have a personal profile displaying your activity/contributions. Choose well-established, popular projects that your next employer may actually be using (something that could be mentioned in local job listings). Initially, just start bug hunting. It's a great way to get a feel for the code and see how the community interacts until you have knowledge and confidence to get more deeply involved. Another way, start a social media presence around your work, such as a YouTube channel or a local facebook group. A channel will show off your hard and soft skills while a group will help you build a network, and perhaps get referrals to jobs internally. Good luck!

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You're absolutely right, the Windows one is uber-basic but still a massive step-up for anyone who's never used a clipboard manager before. I've been loving Clipboard Help and Spell for years.

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I'm not a recruiter. I teach people how to find jobs.

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Nobody wants to work with a dick who's an expert at (e.g.) C++ and is obnoxiously right most of the time. But many people want to work with an easygoing person who's a great teammate with good enough tech skills who's willing and able to become a C++ expert for the good of the team, if that's what's needed. The reality is that "many recruiters prefer candidates having all the desired soft skills (such as good communications) while missing some of the required hard skills (e.g. tech skills) rather than vice-versa. Hard skills training is a lot easier than soft skills training" which is a quote from my blog post on just this topic.

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Payoneer. I started using it about 6 months ago. With Payoneer, you get a Mastercard debit card that you load from your Payoneer account i.e. you can make purchases/withdraw cash with it as long as you have transferred money to it from your Payoneer account. For me, not being in the States, this is a gamechanger because while many places let you pay with Paypal, many, many more places let you pay with a Mastercard, so this is saving me quite a bit of money because it allows me to get paid in US dollars and also to easily pay in US dollars, no need to go through a currency exchange. Payoneer also lets you accept local bank transfers in certain countries i.e. the client does a bank transfer to a local Payoneer-owned bank account and the money is then transferred to your Payoneer account. Payoneer's fee structure is also different than Paypal's. If you bill someone via Payoneer, you get the entire sum, unlike Paypal. However, while paying via the Payoneer Mastercard costs nothing, there's a fee to transfer money to the card, and a fee to withdraw cash via ATM. Also, Payoneer has "cross-border fees": "when the transaction is made in the currency of the card, but the bank, which issued the card, and the merchant, who charged the card, are located in different countries, the cross-border fee will be charged for this transaction. Payoneer applies a cross-border fee of up to 3.5%." One annoying thing about Payoneer's Mastercard is that it has an annual fee (USD$36), and that money is immediately taken from your account as soon as you earn enough. You should take a look at your past few months of Paypal charges to estimate if you would have saved money with Payoneer. My rough estimate is that if you're charging clients less than $100 dollars at a time and Payoneer will charge a cross-border fee, it's cheaper to charge the clients with Paypal. It would be nice if Payoneer (or someone else) had a fee estimation calculator that made it easy to compare how much a given transaction cost via Paypal or Payoneer. Payoneer Customer Care is definitely better than Paypal support, replies within 24 hours. Payoneer also has an affiliate program where you earn $25 for any referral who earns over $100 with their Payoneer account. Overall, it comes down to what kind of payment services you need. I still use Paypal for some things, mainly as a seller to people who want a Paypal payment option, but I try to use Payoneer when I can.

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Payoneer. I started using it about 6 months ago. With Payoneer, you get a Mastercard debit card that you load from your Payoneer account i.e. you can make purchases/withdraw cash with it as long as you have transferred money to it from your Payoneer account. For me, not being in the States, this is a gamechanger because while many places let you pay with Paypal, many, many more places let you pay with a Mastercard, so this is saving me quite a bit of money because it allows me to get paid in US dollars and also to easily pay in US dollars, no need to go through a currency exchange. Payoneer also lets you accept local bank transfers in certain countries i.e. the client does a bank transfer to a local Payoneer-owned bank account and the money is then transferred to your Payoneer account. Payoneer's fee structure is also different than Paypal's. If you bill someone via Payoneer, you get the entire sum, unlike Paypal. However, while paying via the Payoneer Mastercard costs nothing, there's a fee to transfer money to the card, and a fee to withdraw cash via ATM. Also, Payoneer has "cross-border fees": "when the transaction is made in the currency of the card, but the bank, which issued the card, and the merchant, who charged the card, are located in different countries, the cross-border fee will be charged for this transaction. Payoneer applies a cross-border fee of up to 3.5%." One annoying thing about Payoneer's Mastercard is that it has an annual fee (USD$36), and that money is immediately taken from your account as soon as you earn enough. You should take a look at your past few months of Paypal charges to estimate if you would have saved money with Payoneer. My rough estimate is that if you're charging clients less than $100 dollars at a time and Payoneer will charge a cross-border fee, it's cheaper to charge the clients with Paypal. It would be nice if Payoneer (or someone else) had a fee estimation calculator that made it easy to compare how much a given transaction cost via Paypal or Payoneer. Payoneer Customer Care is definitely better than Paypal support, replies within 24 hours. Payoneer also has an affiliate program where you earn $25 for any referral who earns over $100 with their Payoneer account. Overall, it comes down to what kind of payment services you need. I still use Paypal for some things, mainly as a seller to people who want a Paypal payment option, but I try to use Payoneer when I can. This is my Payoneer affiliate link if you decide to sign up (don't use it if you don't

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Agreed, Google Maps' Quest view rocks. Mashable had a funny story about Virgin Volcanic creating a digger to take people to the center of the Earth. Namecheap.com visitors were shown a very old version of their site that claimed to be a redesign. It was painful but kudos to them for an idea that probably didn't take much effort but generated a lot of notice. I couldn't resist joining in the fun on my own site about job search, where I claimed that a new startup's software will make recruiters redundant.

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A school wouldn't have a hard time putting together a 2- or 3-year Bachelor's program in Web Development but I've yet to see one do it. So if someone has Bachelors in Web Dev on their CV, they'd better say which school it was at otherwise they're definitely making it up. You don't need a CompSci degree to be a good web developer but it can help alot, especially if you went to a more theoretical program where the emphasis was problem-solving as opposed to programming homework.

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Nish, The signal-to-noise ratio of job boards - even the Code Project's - make them a complete and utter waste of time between the recruiters that don't care about your career path, the spam posts or even the legitimate posts that are error-filled or simply do not tell you what you need to know. The job board crawlers like Job Central only amplify the problem by showing you all that junk and copies of it. No, before you do anything, try to figure out what your dream job would be: http://jobmob.co.il/blog/the-secret-to-finding-dream-jobs/ There's no reason you should waste years figuring that out by accident like most people, sadly enough. And that's if they ever do. Once you know what to look for, network. Then network some more. Via sites like this one, other forums/mailing lists/user groups/etc. that you follow and even LinkedIn. Sign up if you haven't done so already, and then contact people at companies that have appealing openings and ask them to refer you internally or simply ask them if it's worth applying there. You may even meet a future teammate that way. Jacob

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I use IZArc: http://izarc.org. Good interface, lots of features and formatis (including .7z). From the site: IZArc is the ultimate archive utility supports many archive formats like 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO. With a modern easy-to-use interface, IZArc provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools. Jacob

I would reinstall. In this situation, I would only clone the hard drive if the new machine had the exact same configuration as the old one (rare outside of a datacenter), and even then you'd need to be careful to change the computer name and possibly some other settings before connecting to your home network if you have one. To make the reinstall easier, you should know that InstallPad is your friend: http://www.installpad.com/ Jacob

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