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CommentLuv – A Link Builders Dream Or The Latest Waste of Time?

August 27, 2010

First off I’d like to say I have never used comment spam, and I never plan to, I will admit that I have partaken in some forum spamming in my early days, before I seen the light. Matt Cutts and Google decided that they wanted to put a stop to this spam and the nofollow [...]

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Cameron Diaz – The Most Dangerous Celebrity Search Query

August 25, 2010

One year ago, Jessica Biel was the most dangerous celebrity online. Now, it’s Cameron Diaz. What’s making celebs so dangerous? Viruses! Celebrities are very popular decoys for the bad guys to lure non-tech-savvy people into virus-spreading websites. According to McAfee, Cameron Diaz is currently the most dangerous, because if you search for her, there’s a [...]

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iPad Wins EISA Award

August 25, 2010

The well-known iPad from Apple has won an EISA award this year. EISA stands for “European Imaging and Sound Association” and behind it are 50 tech magazines from 19 different countries. Why did iPad win the “European Tablet 2010-2011 award”? This revolutionary new product marks the beginning of a new era for publishing. Magazines and [...]

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How to Resize Your Photos Easily on Windows

August 23, 2010

In recent years the cost of digital cameras, as well as digital camera memory chips, have been decreasing rather rapidly. These trends, along with increasing hard drive capacity, have paved the way for a situation in which individuals often store hundreds, if not thousands, of pictures on their computer. Now, in all honesty, transferring pictures [...]

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10 Money Saving Android Apps

August 22, 2010

Everyone is interested in saving money in the wake of the Great Recession of the last couple of years. The first step that must be taken in controlling one’s spending lies in keeping a tight reign on what the person currently has. Also, a log with all of the information on everything being spent is [...]

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[Poll] Mashable: 10 Classic PC Games That Found New Life on the iPhone

August 22, 2010

Mashable did a story yesterday about 10 classic PC games that found new life on the iPhone. For me, one of the problems with iPhone gaming is that most of the games quickly becomes bored to me. It’s not that I don’t WANT to play them, cause I really do, and I buy them as [...]

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Win £10,000 – British Weather Photographer of the Year

August 22, 2010

Here’s a chance for amateur photographers to enjoy the British summer weather and get a chance to win a £10,000 prize. Lloyds TSB is a sponsor of Channel 4 Weather and they have a photo contest running until September 30th 2010. All you have to do is submit a weather related photograph and you’re in [...]

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BlackBerry API Gears Up For Mobile Shopping

August 21, 2010

With the imminent arrival of the new Motorola ES400, RIM is already adding EDA-like capabilities to its Blackberry phones. When the BlackBerry 6 mobile operating system was released with the BlackBerry Torch 9800, it already supported an API for barcode scanning, one of the main features of a typical EDA. An API or Application Programming [...]

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YouTube Tip: Link to Specific Timestamp in Video

August 19, 2010

I often find that I don’t need to share a full YouTube video with somebody, I just need them to see a certain part and so I tell them to just skip ahead to whatever timestamp that certain part is about to start. There is something much easier though (for the recipient), that not many [...]

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“Entourage” Has Blown Me Away – I Love That Show!

August 18, 2010

Entourage is not a new tv show. It first began in 2004 and is now up to its 7th season. I’ve heard about the show a few times but thought it sounded boring. I mean, it’s about this actor guy in Hollywood who hangs out with his 3 friends, one being his manager, another being [...]

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iPhone 4 Commercial Parody [Fun Video]

August 16, 2010

There are more Apple parody videos on the net that you could probably ever count and this is one of the better, and newer, I think. This one is based on the iPhone 4 video where some high-standing Apple employees are talking about how great the iPhone 4 is. This one, however, also includes the [...]

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10 Best Apple iPad Travel Apps

August 15, 2010

With over 200,000 available, there are iPhone apps for everything. There are apps for storage, organization, money, marketing, networking, business. cooking, fitness, and so much more. Many of these apps, or programs, are geared toward travelers; they perform some specialized function that can help globetrotters navigate their way through the world. The following list offers [...]

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9 Best Android Apps for Writers

August 14, 2010

If you’re like a lot of writers these days, you may have an Android phone. If so, which apps can help you be more productive? Here’s a list of the top 9 apps that will do just that. 1. Fbabble (Free) This nifty little app helps you stay connected with your friends on Facebook. It [...]

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Tips For Digital Photography

August 12, 2010

Photography will ultimately become a hobby if you own a digital camera. Any one who is new to the camera is sure to turn himself to a professional soon, because every feature in the camera is user-friendly. An advanced model digital camera is built with features that make the photos appear vibrant and natural. The [...]

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Video: Microsoft Created Real-Life ‘Nigeria Scam Letters’ – Teaches New Yorkers A Lesson

August 11, 2010

We continue to see videos like the one below, popping up every now and then and sometimes also as part of certain promotions, but there’s a reason for it – people continue to be stupid when it comes to giving up personal information that should have been kept personal, at all times. In the video [...]

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AT&T Leak Shows Concern for Their Internal Security Processes

August 10, 2010

In the past, users connected to the Internet through a broadband connection. But with the advent of personal, mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets like the iPhone and iPad, we have new security concerns—especially with the wireless operators who serve these devices. Take the recent reports about AT&T’s leak of over 100,000 personal email [...]

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iPhone/iPad App Review: Air Video – Stream Video From Your Computer

August 9, 2010

iPhone (and iPad) does a good job at playing video and music content from your iTunes library, once it has been synchronized. But getting the content into iTunes in the first place can be tricky since iTunes is very strict when it comes to supported formats. In most cases, you’ll have to convert your content [...]

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Sony HX5V – First Impressions (Quick Review With Video & Photo Samples)

August 7, 2010

This is just a short “first impressions” review of the Sony Cybershot HX5V digital camera with GPS. I’m not going to go much into details and technical analysis, there are many other photo review blogs out there doing a much better job at that, than I would probably ever be able to do. Here’s a [...]

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See How Easily Video Cash Is Made [YouTube]

August 7, 2010

If there’s one thing I hear all the time about making an income with video, it’s that it’s too HARD. Too time-consuming, difficult, expensive… Listen up friend: THAT IS SO 2005! Take Gideon Shalwick for instance. He cranks out cool videos pretty much as fast as he can think. These clips often get thousands of [...]

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iSuppli: Android to Outstrip iPhone in 2012

August 6, 2010

More Android-based smartphones were sold in Q1 2010 than iPhones, on the North American market. A trend, which according to iSuppli, will continue so we’ll see more Android smartphones in 2012 than iPhone OS. In 2012, iSuppli believes that Android will be on 75 million smartphones and Apple’s iOS on 62 million devices. Obviously Android [...]

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