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Official Flickr Photo Upload Software

Third party software programs that require login credentials to work are often the cause for security concerns. No one likes to hand out username and password to important accounts. That’s why official software programs are most of the time the better solution for users who want to use software to access web services. Flickr for [...]

Author: , Tuesday August 18, 2009
Categories: Mac, Software, Windows

Windows XP System File Checker

Windows XP and Windows 2003 administrators who are noticing difficulties like performance drops, application or system crashes while using the computer system that can be caused by third party applications that are overwriting shared system files of the operating system. System Administrators can run the sfc /scannow command to verify the integrity of all protected [...]

Author: , Tuesday August 18, 2009
Categories: Software, Windows

Why Dedicated Media Players are still cool

With all the cell phones to come out in recent times packing video players, mp3 players and a whole host of other media functionalities, its not hard to see why MP3 players as well as PMP’s (Personal Media Players) are taking a real hit. Recently Apple announced (no surprise here), that its iPod line was [...]

Author: , Tuesday August 18, 2009
Categories: Gadgets

Link Extend For Firefox Is The Ultimate Website Information Add-on

Firefox users can choose between several website and link information add-ons including Web of Trust or AVG Linkscanner. The Firefox add-on Link Extend takes the concept to the next level. It combines computer safety, child safety, company ethics, and popularity tools in one add-on. The computer safety services alone consist of the eight services Web [...]

Author: , Tuesday August 18, 2009
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

YouDown Batch Youtube Video Downloader

Many Internet users like to download videos from Google’s Youtube video portal. Download Youtube Videos was a popular article about a week ago and YouDown would have made it if it would have been released back then. YouDown is a software program for the Windows operating system that can be used to download videos that [...]

Author: , Monday August 17, 2009
Categories: Software, Windows

Firefox Tab Navigator

Firefox users who want to use the computer keyboard to navigate their open tabs are left with the CTRL 1-9 shortcuts that allow them to switch to the first eight tabs that are open in the web browser. There is no other way of accessing tabs beyond that count by default. Tab Navigator introduces an [...]

Author: , Monday August 17, 2009
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Editing your KDE menus

So far I have helped you to “Manage your E17 menus” and to “Edit your GNOME menus.” Now it is time to give KDE some love. I admit that I haven’t given KDE much attention here. The reason for that is mostly because KDE 4.x has been mostly buggy and often times painfully slow. But [...]

Author: , Monday August 17, 2009
Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

Email Marketing Software Email On Acid

One of the major email marketing problems is to ensure that the emails that are send out can be viewed properly in the email clients. A manual approach would be to install the most popular email software programs to test how the emails display in their interface. A far better solution is to use a [...]

Author: , Monday August 17, 2009
Categories: Email

Otaku Gadgets Week 33 Recap

Otakugadgets.com is a gadget blog that is run by Everton of Connected Internet and Martin of Ghacks. It is actually our second joint venture after the successful Windows 7 website that we run together as well. We thought that it would be a good idea to write a weekly recap of the Otakugadget posts here [...]

Author: , Monday August 17, 2009
Categories: Gadgets

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