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Free Ringtones That Sound Like Real Phones
You're pitching the business case for your great money-making-and-saving idea. All the C-Level types are there. Then all of a sudden, you and everyone else can hear the strains of Michael Jackson's Billie Jean. You didn't turn the phone off before the meeting.Who knew that your career would end to the song you moonwalked to [...]
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Choosing A Laptop: 9 Great Review Sites
Is your current laptop or computer slowing down your productivity? Taking too long to get simple tasks done on your PC? Tried everything to make it go faster, to no effect? If you have some cash lying around, it would be more worth your time to buy yourself a new laptop or if your like [...]Continue reading ...
How To Analyze A Windows Blue Screen Of Death With WhoCrashed (Windows)
Windows machines are often the subject of jokes within the computer geek community, and much of that bad credit is due to cryptic error messages that reveal very little information even to the veterans of this operating system.Of those type of errors, BSODs (Blue Screen of Death) are the worst and are often caused by [...]
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Play and Download YouTube Videos On Your Mac with MacTubes
YouTube has become one of the biggest names on the internet. If the number of hits the site gets a day is not convincing enough for you, try to find out how many YouTube video downloaders are available out there – either as online services, browser plugins, or stand alone applications.Choosing the best YouTube video [...]
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Ophcrack – A Password Hack Tool to Crack Almost Any Windows Password
There are a lot of different reasons why one would want to use any number of password hack tools to hack a Windows password. Of course, there are the good-hearted reasons, like helping your grandpa because he forgot his password and is locked out of his own computer. Then, there are the more dubious reasons, [...]Continue reading ...
Make The Perfect Screencast With These 6 Great Tips
Over the years screencasting, also known as video tutorials have became very popular on the internet. The reason that they have became so popular is because it lets a user record their screen and share it with others to show them how to do something on a computer.If you browse through sites such as YouTube, [...]
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15 Best Windows 7 Tips and Hacks
You have upgraded to Windows 7, love the new taskbar, and enjoy the power of using the cool Libraries feature.
But now you want more. You want the cool tips and tricks that make Windows 7 fun!
So here are the best ones to help you get the most out of your new OS. In this article, [...]
Continue reading ...How to Make Your Hotmail Sign In More Secure
Microsoft's Hotmail, having gone through many revisions, has been around since 1996; which may as well be "eternity" on the Internet. If you use this service, good security practices are in order, and I'm here today to help secure your Hotmail sign in. If you're not a Hotmail user, many of these tips can still [...]
Continue reading ...How to Make Index Cards in Microsoft Word 2007
I read somewhere that Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist, was the guy who invented index cards three centuries ago. That way he could pigeonhole vast amounts of data during his studies.
We might not need it for organizing heavy duty scientific information but index cards are one of the best ways to organize information of any [...]
Continue reading ...Break Free From iTunes With Amazon Music Downloads
Up until a few years ago, I had never really been into downloading music. Seriously – I was so old school. Give me one of those little radio-tuner players that look like a memory stick and I'm good to go.
However, one night I was sitting at the computer and came across one of the [...]
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How to Use Mozilla Firefox in Safe Mode
The Program menu of our computer lists two shortcuts for Mozilla Firefox. The first is of course the one which starts our Firefox browser. Strangely, we couldn't care less about the second one.
What is Mozilla Firefox safe mode? Mozilla Firefox (Safe Mode) becomes the next resort when the regular browser comes crashing down. Firefox is [...]
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What Language Is This? 5 Online Tools to Identify Almost Every Unknown Language
이 웹사이트에 환영. 이것은 보기 원본이다
What language is this? Chinese? Japanese?
It's Korean actually. Detecting this manually would have taken me a lot of time. Fortunately, I found some very accurate tools that can do this automatically. They are all listed below.
The experiment: I tested the websites using sample text (1-2 sentences with 8 words) from the [...]
Continue reading ...The Ultimate Guide To Your Windows Mobile Phone [PDF]
If you have a Windows Mobile phone, you will know that stuff can occasionally get pretty difficult. These devices, which are basically mini-computers, have endless possibilities — and thus endless possible difficulties as well.
With that in mind, one of our long-time staff writers started working on a PDF manual covering everything a Windows Mobile user [...]
Continue reading ...Technology Explained: How Does Wireless Internet Work?
In my role supporting SCADA units in the field, I've often been asked how does Wireless Internet work. I usually answer with the question, "Which kind of wireless Internet?" Some people say that WiFi is wireless Internet, some think of radio-based Internet access as wireless, some even think of satellite Internet access as wireless. Then [...]
Continue reading ...8 Tips To Effectively Boost Your Wireless Router Signal
Look at it – staring you down so innocently, yet I know that your Linksys wireless router refuses to give you signal. Since you decided to place it in a corner to gather dust, using it only for its relay capabilities, it has decided to constantly bring up the feared "Limited Network Connection" bubble. Don't [...]
Continue reading ...5 HTML Tips to Create a Fast Loading Free Website
My HyperText Markup Language (HTML) skills are rusty for certain, but perhaps that qualifies me for this article. Back in the day when Friends was still on TV and AOL was sending out free coasters and mini-frisbees daily, I was creating websites to load on dial-up modems. As time went on, I had the nerve [...]
Continue reading ...How To Protect Sensitive Information by Erasing Your Hard Disk Completely
Maybe you are giving away your computer to one of your friends/family, or perhaps you are lending your hard disk to a friend. You don't want them to be able to get your data and see what you had stored on your hard disk, so you delete everything and scrupulously make sure that you cannot [...]
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