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New Mac OS X Lion Features – Latest Updates from Apple

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The amazing new OS from Apple, Mac OS X Lion has several exciting features like Multi-Touch Gestures, Full-Screen Apps, Mission Control, Mac App Store, Launchpad, Auto Save and Versions, Mail etc. In all there were about 250 new features added to the Mac OS X Lion! Let’s take a closer look at some of them… Multi-Touch Gestures A huge step towards making computing more intuitive and tangible, Multi-Touch Gestures make zooming, full-screen swiping and scrolling … Read more

7 Ways to Cool down an Overheating Laptop

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A Laptop, no doubt is one of the most essential gadgets as it is light weight and portable in nature. Everyone loves to have a Laptop because of their compact design and portability. Like most of the gadgets, Laptops also have some drawbacks and problems as well, Overheating being the major one of them. Almost all Laptops overheat on continuous usage of 4-5 hours and playing high res games heats the Laptop even faster. The … Read more

File Splitter: Splitting Large Files into Smaller Parts and Rejoining Them

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Have you ever wanted to install a game or a software from a friend’s PC but could not proceed because the setup or backup file for the game or software are too large to be transferred into your USB pen drive or into your phone’s SD Card? If yes, then File Splitter is a great solution for helping you deal with files that are too large by helping you split them into smaller parts and then combine them later on.

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Convert iTunes Music to Play on Kindle Fire

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Alright, so I purchased some iTunes music for my son the other day, specifically he wanted the song Soldiers by Otherwise and it wasn’t available on Spotify and even if it was he wanted it on his Kindle Fire.  I knew I need to get it in mp3 mode, but the song was just .69 cents on iTunes so I decided to buy it there.  I then needed to find a way to either make … Read more

Universal Security for Tablets Phones and Computers

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  Despite being protected with multiple anti-virus software programs, firewalls and being more careful whenever clicking on links like doing link previewers for shortened URLs…etc I still see an occasional malware popup from my Antivirus software on occasion from a freeware file I downloaded and wanted to test and review for my readers. It isn’t just files though, viruses and Trojans are infecting virtually every operating system including mobile phone OS’s like Android, iOS (in … Read more

Get Money Back for Old Cell Phones

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When my wife went to Verizon and upgraded her phone to the iPhone 4S a few weeks ago she was wondering what she should do with her Samsung Fascinate Galaxy S phone and I told her that she probably could get some money back by visiting a cell for cash website and seeing how much she could get for it. She saw she could get between $50 and $76 dollars, so she printed out the … Read more

Finding Stock Images with Depositphotos

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I have been using creative commons and many other sites that offer free stock photography provided you use the link credit and follow the terms of service for many years.  The idea of also paying per image is also something to consider when you are a blogger who isn’t making a ton of money every month with your blog, so you want to come up with a good solution that lets you grab a ton … Read more

Google Project Glass Augmenting Reality

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Okay just watching the video for Google’s Project Glass makes me want one of these devices immediately provided they don’t beam waves into my brain that make me unable to stop using them. Project Glass is a project that allows the wearer to literally have the Internet in front of them and be able to interact with it with eye movements, you can see in the demo how you can look outside the window and … Read more

Ubuntu Tip for Establishing Permanent Mount Points for Windows Partitions

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When using the Ubuntu operation system to mount Windows partitions, it mounts the windows partitions on your computer automatically but it assigns a different path to the the disks every time they are remounted. This is particularly irritating because it breaks my wallpaper and music libraries in Ubuntu. Establishing a permanent mount point is possible by using /etc/fstab, which is a configuration file used by mount command. Steps to Setup a Permanent Mount Point To establish a … Read more

Samsung Galaxy S2 – a Powerhouse Smartphone

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The Samsung Galaxy S II іs оnе powerful smartphone. Іt іs аlsо thе best-selling smartphone tо dаtе. Аs уоu саn sее, thеrе аrе а lot оf things thаt thіs slim аnd light weight phone саn gіvе уоu. Іt іs nоt јust аbоut іts beautiful appearance оr amazing big screen, еvеrуthіng аbоut іt іs јust mаdе perfect fоr thе Android lover іn you. Let us nоw talk аbоut thе phone’s dimensions. Yоu аll hаvе heard аbоut іt … Read more