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The Glorious Return of Shell Extension City
« on: October 24, 2011, 04:50 AM »
Shell Extension City (or ShellCity.net) has a long and wonderful history as a site that posted updates about cool freeware.  It was one of the best places to discover new cool freeware tools.

Way back in 2005 during the first days of DonationCoder, I wrote an email to bob, the guy who ran Shell Extension City and told him about the site -- and in the weeks/month/years that followed, Shell Extension City was always super supportive of DonationCoder software, and the mission of this site.

And I know that many of the early DC members learned about us from Shell Extension City -- and many of them donated -- which is a testament to the community that hung out at Shell Extension City.

Well, the ShellCity.net site has been quiet for a while now, but they've just posted an announcement that they are getting back to regular freeware updates.. Hurray!!!  :Thmbsup:

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Re: The Glorious Return of Shell Extension City
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2011, 04:56 AM »
Nice, I've missed this site.  :D
* skwire goes to check his RSS feed for this site...

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Re: The Glorious Return of Shell Extension City
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2011, 04:58 AM »
Memories  ;D

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Re: The Glorious Return of Shell Extension City
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2011, 05:16 AM »
There is also a Donate link on the bottom of ShellCity page now, go use it!
« Last Edit: October 24, 2011, 05:40 PM by mouser »

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Re: The Glorious Return of Shell Extension City
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2011, 11:25 AM »
Yay! :)

It was a sad day when I pulled it off my RSS reader.

Maybe with a saner ( i.e. not daily) update schedule it won't overwhelm Bob so much.

I'm always amazed at the people who run a website solo yet somehow manage an "updated daily" schedule. Especially if they have a full time job or family responsibilites. Few who try ever make it past the six month mark. Which is understandable.

Nice to see Shell Extension City is back.  :Thmbsup:
« Last Edit: October 24, 2011, 11:31 AM by 40hz »

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Re: The Glorious Return of Shell Extension City
« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2011, 11:37 AM »

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Re: The Glorious Return of Shell Extension City
« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2011, 12:46 PM »
Hooray! Been a regular visitor to SEC for many years. Will be adding the RSS feed again.

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Re: The Glorious Return of Shell Extension City
« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2011, 01:32 PM »
Hallejiuah! I've been missing Shell Extension City this past, what? Year or so? A very welcome return indeed  :Thmbsup:
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Re: The Glorious Return of Shell Extension City
« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2011, 04:39 PM »
Hallejiuah! I've been missing Shell Extension City this past, what? Year or so? A very welcome return indeed  :Thmbsup:
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Re: The Glorious Return of Shell Extension City
« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2011, 05:39 PM »
Man, haven't heard from that site in years. They win "Comeback of the Year" award.
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Re: The Glorious Return of Shell Extension City
« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2011, 01:43 AM »
Man, haven't heard from that site in years. They win "Comeback of the Year" award.

+1  :Thmbsup:

Glad to see the site up again, it was one of the best places to find freeware AND read the latest tech news (via DailyRotation).
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Re: The Glorious Return of Shell Extension City
« Reply #11 on: October 28, 2011, 06:33 PM »
I had forgotten just how useful a thing Shell Extension City is.

Just this morning I noticed something in the feed that was the perfect solution to a problem that cropped up yesterday.

This is not the first time I've had that happen with this website.

Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome back Shell Extension City! :Thmbsup:

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