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Drop In PHP Caching Function
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Remove Advertising From Windows Live Messenger Or MSN Messenger
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Windows Media Centre Remote Control & Winamp
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Perform A Regular Expression Search And Replace
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This page lets you do various things to text, and gives you the encoded, decoded, or otherwise converted text back.