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Steve Jobs hits out at Android

While Google’s executives have recently been attacking Microsoft’s Windows 7 and Windows Phone platforms, Apple supremo Steve Jobs has now stepped in to hammer Google’s Android operating system. While not attacking the OS specifically he’s been hugely critical of the tablets onto which manufacturers are dropping it, saying that 7″ screens are simply too small [...]

Author: , Tuesday October 19, 2010
Categories: Apple, Google

How To Download Camtasia Videos

The video recording software Camtasia is often used to record instructional or promotional videos. The online videos offer limited controls only, and do often lack options to download the videos to a local computer system for offline viewing. Offline viewing has several advantages, most noticeably the option to watch the video multiple times without downloading [...]

Author: , Monday October 18, 2010
Categories: Tutorials Basic

Facebook Displaying Name New Computer On Every Log In

I’m not a regular on Facebook, especially since I switched to the latest nightly releases of Firefox 4 which appear to have a problem with Facebook and the NoScript add-on. Lots of browser crashes are the consequence at the moment. Whenever I log into Facebook I get the Name New Computer screen. Every single time [...]

Author: , Monday October 18, 2010
Categories: Facebook

Bookmarklet To Download Youtube Videos, And More

One of the things that you notice when you run a browser without Adobe Flash is that the majority of videos won’t play anymore. While that’s more or less obvious, considering that Flash is the technology that most video portals use to stream the videos to the user, it is a little known fact that [...]

Author: , Monday October 18, 2010
Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

Edit, Resize Photos With BImageStudio

It takes time to manually edit or resize photos. While it is not possible to automate every photo editing tasks, some can easily be automated to save time and speed up the process. BImageStudio is a free photo editing software for the Windows operating system that can batch process a set of photos that are [...]

Author: , Monday October 18, 2010
Categories: Software, Windows

Create Wanted Posters With Poster Forge

Wanted posters play a role in many movies about the wild west, the time of the cowboys, Indians and gunfights. Today those wanted posters serve a different purpose, often created for the sheer fun of seeing someone’s face when confronted with their wanted poster in the office, home or other location. Photoshop savvy users can [...]

Author: , Monday October 18, 2010
Categories: Software, Windows

SEO Doctor, Free Firefox SEO Audit Add-on

Search engine optimization (SEO) refers to techniques to improve a website’s search engine visibility. Most Internet marketers divide SEO it into onpage and offpage optimization. Onpage optimization refers to local web page optimization, while offpage optimization everything that influences a site’s visibility on external pages. Offpage optimization is usually a consideration during development of a [...]

Author: , Sunday October 17, 2010
Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Web Development

New Apple patent to ban sex!

Now, I really have heard everything!  A report by NeoWin is detailing a new Apple patent which will prevent people from ‘sexting’, or sending sexually explicit text messages. Apple, founded and based in “the land of the free”, a country where freedom of speech and freedom of expression are ingrained into the rights of every [...]

Author: , Sunday October 17, 2010
Categories: Apple

Change your Grub and Grub2 splash screen in Ubuntu

Your first question might be “Why bother changing your grub splash screen?” The answer? Why not! Well, actually there are plenty of reasons you might want to change your Grub splash screen. You could be in a company that wants its brand from top to bottom, or you just want your computer to be cool [...]

Author: , Sunday October 17, 2010
Categories: Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Advanced

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