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That i icon on YouTube? That's the new Cards feature

If you have watched a YouTube video lately you may have noticed an i icon appear in the top right corner on the site like on this video here. This is YouTube's […]

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The rise of torrent streaming apps continues: IsoPlex launches

There have always been two options available when it comes to watching movies and videos made available as torrents. You could either download them to your system using a torrent client or […]

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Zona is an all-in-one piracy app from Russia

Before I start the review of Zona, a new application that provides you with access to movies, TV series, music, games and live TV, I'd like to use a paragraph or two […]

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Exclusive streaming deals show that studios have not learned a thing

If you want to watch a particular TV show or movie on the Internet, you have check the various streaming providers such as Netflix or Amazon Prime to find out if they […]

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Could Netflix switch to P2P to lower ISP pressure?

Several Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the US are pressuring Netflix to pay money to ensure the optimal delivery of Netflix streams to customers. Brian over at Betanews thinks that Netflix should […]

Rumor: Windows 9 to be released in April 2015

If you compare how Windows 8 has been doing until now to how Windows 7 did in its first two years of existence, you will come to the conclusion that it did […]

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How to fix mouse lag in some games under Windows 8.1

If you are a gamer and have recently upgraded your Windows operating system to version 8.1, you may have noticed that some of the games that you play on your PC have […]

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Windows XP users: what will you do on April 8, 2014?

So what is happening on April 8, 2014 that is affecting all Windows XP users? It is the end of support for the operating system. What this means is that Microsoft won't […]

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Webydo gives bloggers a new platform

Regardless if you are looking to post your first blog or looking for a professional service, there are multiple outlets to satisfy almost any need you could have. However, competition is good, […]

Firefox first browser to pass MathML Acid Test. How about your browser?

Google Chrome for a long time was seen as the web browser that was pushing web standards the most. It was faster in terms of JavaScript performance than any other browser on […]

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Personas now called themes, don't confuse with full themes or Persona

Mozilla announced in 2012 that it would rename BrowserID, a technology and service to revolutionize how people log in on the Internet, to Mozilla Persona, or short Persona. The problem here was […]

How to protect your privacy on the Internet

With UK parties proposing to monitor the activities of all country residents come new fears of an 1984-esque government that with a single mouse click can find out everything there is to […]

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How to roll back the Cisco Cloud Connect Firmware Update

Cisco has been in the news lately with a firmware update for some of the company's routers (Linksys EA Routers) that is integrating a Cloud based service into the routers. Since routers […]

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Wing Commander Saga [Game Saturday]

Remember the Wing Commander game franchise or Origin, the game company behind it? Back in 1990 when it was first introduced it revolutionized the space combat genre both visually and story-wise. I […]

Could "Windows TV" be Windows 8's biggest surprise?

The closer we get to the unveiling of the Windows 8 beta, the more I'm thinking about the impact (or not) this operating system is going to have on the world.  Since […]

Is the Blackberry Playbook Fire Sale Beginning?

Of the biggest tech stories in 2011 it was difficult to beat the news of the HP TouchPad fire sale where silly prices resulted in queues outside stores and websites crashing around […]

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Calendar Magic, All Calendar Information You Ever Need

The Windows operating system ships with a basic calendar that's linked to the system's date and time settings. A click on the system clock displays the current month with options to display […]

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Is Your Site Being Outranked By Scrapers? Report Them!

So called scraper sites or scrapers are one of the dark phenomenons of the Internet. These sites  republish the RSS feed of one or multiple unique websites on a domain, usually without […]

The HP TouchPad Fire Sale... Was it Worth it?

Last week when HP announced both that it was going to sell off its PC division, but also that it was dropping its WebOS devices, the tech community went into shock.  This […]

Is the era of the PC over?

PCs are going the way of typewriters according to an engineer who worked on the original IBM PC.  In a blog post to mark the 30th anniversary of the IBM PC 5150, […]

Mozilla enter the Tablet OS race

Update: Mozilla developed Firefox OS in the meantime which is not based on Android or Chrome OS. Mozilla have announced that they're the latest contender for the tablet operating system crown, and […]

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NewsMix Gives Twitter News Tweets Validation Among Traditional News

There are lots of different ways to utilize the power of Twitter. Many people use it simply at its most basic level, posting tweets to their followers while scanning those of their […]

Why can we still not print from Smartphones and Tablets?

When mankind first started using computers one of the very first peripherals anybody would buy was a printer. Printing documents was just about the one thing people liked having computers for, and […]

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New Social Media Plugin Pearltrees Offers a New Take on Web Favorites

After the sweeping successes of Facebook and Twitter (and, in a distant, simpler time, MySpace), everyone wants to know what the next social frenzy will be all about. Many contenders have thrown […]

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Springpad Provides Everyday Note-Taking Alternative to Evernote, OneNote

Those looking for tools to help them organize their technologically-enhanced lives have plenty of options. Windows users can turn to the expensive prospect of using OneNote, which revolutionized online image clipping and […]

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Avoid Ever Having to Visit Facebook or Twitter with Handy Chrome Extensions

Facebook and Twitter have revolutionized the way people use the internet. Blogs and websites provide links to share information on the sites, and advertisers have completely restructured the way they approach internet […]

Smart Mobile Working Since 1986

I've got a keen interest in smartphones and tablets. I think they're just both so brilliant for what you can do with them. For instance, being able to store spreadsheets and important […]

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The Khan Academy, Free Educational Videos

The Internet is full of free educational videos. Some good, many bad. Whether a video is considered good or bad usually comes down to the individual viewer, or student. If you are […]

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Opera Turbo Overview, Discovering Opera Part 1

The developers of the Opera web browser have been inventive in past years, and it is a confirmation of their hard work that many of the features that they have introduced in […]

Tablets, Where Do We Need to Be, and How Do We Get There?

The tablet market is exploding and growing exponentially, but it's still not reaching a critical mass with the general public not embracing them in the way they did netbooks.  So why is […]

What will the new GNOME desktops mean for other Linux desktops?

It's almost time. Soon a new paradigm of GNOME is going to drop onto the desktops of suspecting (and unsuspecting) users. When this does there is going to be reaction. As with […]

Nothing Important Happened Today

I took delivery of my new Windows 7 Tablet today, an ExoPC Slate, on the day ironically when Apple unveiled the iPad 2 to the world.  It's thinner, lighter and has two […]

Will Google Kill the URL Bar in Chrome?

All web browsers are getting serious overhauls with the most recent being Internet Explorer 9 with its new one box. This is a unified address and search box and it makes sense […]

AOL Buys Huffington Post for $315m

The Huffington post has now confirmed that its been bought by AOL for $315 million.  The website, which was launched in 2005, is essentially a news aggregator featuring coverage of politics, media, […]

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IBM Celebrates 100 Years

Unless you work in an enterprise environment, IBM isn't a name you hear very often these days.  But this small typewriter manufacturer gave birth to the PC revolution that we have today, […]

Why I love Arguments

One of these days, and I'll try this eventually, I'm going to write an article called "Apple" which will contain just a single word, that word will again be "Apple".  What will the […]

The Best Technology for Travelers

You are probably expecting me to go into a review of a new laptop or tablet here, but that's not at all what I'm going to do. Indeed, sometimes we forget that […]

Over 300,000 Android Phones Are Being Activated Every Day

Back in August, Google's Andy Rubin proudly boasted that Android phones were being sold at the rate of 200,000 worldwide every day.  The statement drew snyde remarks from Steve Jobs.  Now, Rubin […]

Add a user-configurable menu to your Linux desktop with 9menu

I love menus. Actually, I love to be able to configure menus in order to make the Linux desktop be as efficient as possible. The problem with that is, I tend to […]

Change the window controls from left to right in Ubuntu

According to Ubuntu >= 10.04, left is the new right. It's old news by now, but I'm sure there are plenty of you out there who have battled to try to acclimate […]