February 2012
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Email and web scams: How to help protect yourself
When you read email or surf the Internet, you should be wary of scams that try to steal your personal information (identity theft), your money, or both. Many of these scams are known as “phishing scams” because they “fish” for your information. CalamityJon) Read More http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/security/online-privacy/phishing-scams.aspx Related articles Avoiding...
Feb 22nd
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Online Paper Grader
PaperRater.com is a free resource, developed and maintained by linguistics professionals and graduate students. PaperRater.com is used by schools and universities in over 46 countries to help students improve their writing. Use it here http://www.paperrater.com
Feb 18th
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7 Reasons Why Windows Phone is the Best OS No One...
Windows Phone has been out for a while now, and while we’ll admit that the first generation of Windows Phones weren’t all that, ever since the second generation of Windows Phone devices running Mango have arrived, we have had a difficult time understanding why the platform is struggling so much. Image via Wikipedia As a matter of fact, Nokia just reported that despite all their new Windows...
Feb 16th
intoxic4ti0n asked: this girl blocked me from her tumblr and I wanna block her-how do I find out her IP address?
Feb 16th
How I improved my life with a PS3 controller. →
anushervon: Picture this: after hours of web browsing, your body is contorted in various unnatural positions over time: your legs up on the table or you’re lying on the bed sideways with the laptop rotated sideways as well. Does that sound familiar? For me it does. Of course, I am not proud of my posture…
Feb 9th
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How To Extend Your Wi-Fi Network With Simple... →
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January 2012
Using Google documents as a web proxy - Hack a Day →
Jan 31st
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Change Your IP Address From the Command Prompt
Most everybody can figure out how to change their IP address using Control Panel, but did you know you can set your network card’s IP address using a simple command from the command prompt? Wikipedia Note: The following commands require you to have an administrative command prompt open by right-clicking on the icon and choosing Run as Administrator.
Jan 28th
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Best Linux Distributions
On this page you will find the best 20 Linux distributions for various purposes and different types of Users. Wikipedia http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/best-linux-distributions
Jan 28th
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10 Simple Google Calendar Tips and Tricks to Boost... →
Jan 25th
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Five things to know before using Facebook Timeline...
Initially announced at the F8 conference in San Francisco last September, Timeline apps (also known as Open Graph apps) allow brands to add real-world interactions to their applications. Spotify was one of the first companies to release a Timeline app, letting users share what they are listening to with their Facebook friends in real time. Read More on Cnet»
Jan 19th
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Orkut App Finally Arrives for iPhone, iPad →
Jan 19th
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How to get Traffic from Social Bookmarking sites
Sites like digg.com, reddit.com, stumbleupon.com etc can bring you a LOT of traffic. How about getting 20,000 and more visitors a day when your listing hits the front page? Getting to the front page of these sites is not as difficult as it seems. cambodia4kidsorg via Flickr I have been successful with digg and del.icio.us (and not so much with Reddit though the same steps should apply to it as...
Jan 13th
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What, Exactly, Is an Ultrabook?
What, Exactly, Is an Ultrabook? We’ll be swimming in sleeker, lighter, faster PC notebooks in 2012, thanks to Intel’s brand new guts and a major marketing push. Here’s how to cut through the hype
Jan 12th
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Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage...
Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systems Check them out http://www.therestartpage.com/
Jan 12th
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Cleaning: OldChromeRemover Frees Up Disk Space... →
Windows: We’ve mentioned before that Chrome stores old versions on your hard drive, which can eventually take up lots of space. OldChromeRemover is a simple app that will free that space back up for you.
Jan 11th
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How To Make Photoshop Cartoons In About One Minute
It’s become an internet cliché—”cartoonify yourself!” But given a few moments in Photoshop, you can cut out the middleman and turn one of your own photos into a surprisingly nice photo filter cartoon. Wikipedia C’mon, you know you have a minute. Via http://www.howtogeek.com/102351/how-to-make-photoshop-cartoons-in-about-one-minute/
Jan 10th
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How to Password Protect Ubuntu’s Boot Loader
Ubuntu’s Grub boot loader lets anyone edit boot entries or use its command-line mode by default. Secure Grub with a password and no one can edit them — you can even require a password before booting operating systems. Image via Wikipedia Read How http://www.howtogeek.com/102009/how-to-password-protect-ubuntus-boot-loader/ Related articles Changing the boot sequence in dual boot system (Windows...
Jan 3rd
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“TIP: You can shorten any FB URL by writing:...”
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December 2011
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How To Completely Remove Norton Or McAfee From...
They slow your computer down, they ask for your money annually and they rate no better than various free products when compared by AV-comparitives.org. If you have an ongoing relationship with Norton or McAfee, it’s time to break up. Happily, both companies provide free software for doing just that. CrunchBase Read How Here http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/completely-remove-norton-mcafee-computer/
Dec 30th
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Free Batman: Arkham City skin, unlock code offered...
Rocksteady is giving us all a free _Batman Inc._-style Batman skin for _Arkham City_, as a “thank you all for your incredible support before, during a… Read more http://i.joystiq.com/2011/12/20/free-batman-arkham-city-skin-unlock-code-offered-as-a-thank-y/
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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How to Control the Windows Firewall With a GPO
The Windows Firewall can be one of the biggest nightmares for system administrators to configure, with the addition of Group Policy precedence it just becomes a headache. Here we will take you from start to finish on how to easily configure the Windows Firewall via Group Policy and as a bonus show you how to fix one of the biggest gotchas. Read full tutorial...
Dec 20th
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Dec 17th
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What is Telnet?
Telnet is one of those tech terms you may occasionally hear, but not in an ad or a feature laundry list of any product you may buy. That’s because it’s a protocol, or a language used to talk to computers and other machines; not only that, but Telnet is actually ancient in Internet terms, dating back from 1973. Read More So what is Telnet, and what is it good for, anyway?
Dec 16th
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Understanding Routers, Switches, and Network...
When do you need a switch? A hub? What exactly does a router do? Do you need a router if you have a single computer? Network technology can be quite an arcane area of study but armed with the right terms and a general overview of how devices function on your home network you can deploy your network with confidence. Read Full Article...
Dec 16th
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Microsoft takes the wraps off its So.cl...
Microsoft is taking the wraps off a new learning tool, it social-search research project known as So.cl, from its FUSE Labs division. Image via Wikipedia Read More» Related articles Microsoft takes the wraps off its So.cl social-search project (zdnet.com)
Dec 15th
Seven Ways to Get Yourself Hacked →
technologyreview.com As tar­get­ed scams become more com­mon, it’s vital to pro­tect your­self. In recent months, I’ve met at least three peo­ple who have been the vic­tim of hack­ers who’ve taken over their Gmail accounts and sent out e-mails to every­one in the…
Dec 15th
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Malicious Android apps double in six months →
Elinor Mills, cnet.com Mobile secu­ri­ty firm Look­out report charts dra­mat­ic rise in Android mal­ware.
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Dec 13th
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Web site exposes Bit Torrent users’ IP addresses... →
theinquirer.net A WEB SITE is able to show what users have down­loaded using Bit Tor­rent and is expos­ing their IP address­es to oth­ers who visit it. Accord­ing to Tor­rent Freak, the devel­op­ers of youhavedownloaded.com want to make peo­ple aware of …
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
Microsoft will give Windows phones to people with... →
theinquirer.net STRUG­GLING MOBILE soft­ware house Microsoft is offer­ing peo­ple suf­fer­ing from frus­tra­tion with Android phones the chance to get a Win­dows one for free. The offer comes from @Benthepcguy, a Twit­ter account run by Ben Rudolph,…
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Android Breaches 10 Billion App Download Mark -... →
IBTimes, ibtimes.com Like us on Face­book Well aware of that high pos­si­bil­i­ty, Google announced this week a 10 per­cent cut on its best­selling apps, a ploy that obvi­ous­ly hopes to fur­ther ramp up its down­load fig­ures and accel­er­ate the rise of…
Dec 9th
Send Free Text Messages to Any Mobile Number in... →
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to send free text messages to all your Friends and Family or anyone else in the World. Well now you can with JaxtrSMS. Its a free service from the Man who founded…
Dec 8th
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Task-Killer Apps: Will They Help or Hurt Your...
Some frustrated Android users turn to task managers such as Advanced Task Killer to preserve the handset’s juice. The theory makes sense: Apps for Facebook, Google Maps, Pandora, and Twitter, for instance, love to start up in the background. If you automatically and regularly stop such apps, the thinking goes, you’ll end up with longer battery life. Read...
Dec 7th
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Optimize BitTorrent To Outwit Traffic Shaping ISPs...
These days, nothing worries an internet service provider more than peer-to-peer file trading. Depending on where you live, P2P can account for between 50 and 75% of broadband internet traffic. We mostly have the popularity of BitTorrent to thank for this crazy amount of data going to and fro. Image via Wikipedia This amount of traffic can raise the ISPs daily costs of delivering service, cause...
Dec 5th
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Writing forward-compatible websites
This is a list of best practices for creating websites that do not break when browsers are updated. It’s not always possible to follow all of these, but following as many of them as possible will help future-proof your website. This is especially important for intranet applications and other non-public websites where problems are likely not to be noticed during testing by browser...
Dec 5th
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Learn to Code: The Full Beginner's Guide
If you’ve been looking to learn how to code, we can help you get started. Here are 4.5 lessons on the basics and extra resources to keep you going. Image by striatic via Flickr Read Article http://lifehacker.com/5744113/learn-to-code-the-full-beginners-guide» Related articles Create Android Applications Without Any Coding Skills (mickgill.tumblr.com) How To Move A Full Operating...
Dec 5th