I was recently checking and cleaning my parent’s top floor when I discovered heaps of user manuals that dated back five to ten years. That got me thinking that we – that is every person in the world – usually keep instruction manuals for devices. It’s actually a fact that instruction manuals stay longer than [...]

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If you are looking for an online service that offers free OCR scanning then you might want to point your web browser to the Free Online OCR service. The service allows users to upload images that will then be processed immediately. The OCR scanning does not take longer than a few seconds after uploading the [...]

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VocabGrabber is an interesting online service provided by Visual Thesaurus. The online tool can be used to analyze text that can consist of up to 200000 characters. All that needs to be done is to copy and paste text into the form on the Visual Thesaurus website to receive an in depth analysis of the [...]

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I’m a student. I’m also a writer, a researcher, and a number of other things that all seem to involve a ton of research. Particularly that student thing. An increasing number of us, regardless of what we do, rely on the Web to get information, do research, and get work done. For most of us [...]

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If you are one of those users who use the two-finger typing technique you might want to invest some time in a typing course to improve your words per minute count. Several free computer typing courses are available on the Internet. One of them is Typing Web’s Online Typing Tutor which can be accessed by [...]

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Port forwarding is not something that needs to be configured on most computer systems. It basically describes the concept of forwarding connections to a specific local computer system. Usually a computer router, firewall or other hardware device that is managing or controlling traffic is involved in the process and needs to be configured to forward [...]

Categories: P2p, The Web

One of the biggest problems for many webmasters is the unauthorized publishing of their articles on third party websites. Many black hat webmasters take advantage of other webmaster’s work by publishing articles from those webmasters on their websites. Many times without the actual consent of the original author of the articles. But this is naturally [...]

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Cloudo is a web operating system that has been in private beta for a long time. A public beta started just recently which allows interested users to signup and use the web operating system. A web operating system is basically an online desktop that is providing many features that operating systems like Windows or Linux [...]

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Having subscriptions to hundreds of RSS news feeds can sometimes mean news overkill. This is especially true for times when a big new application or service gets announced because these usually get picked up by more than 20% of all the tech sites out there. News Filtering – or keyword filtering – describes the process [...]

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