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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

How Strong is your Password? Check your Password Strength Online

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This is common knowledge; you should use a combination of alphabets, numerical digits, and special characters (!, @) to create strong passwo...

Add Quick Brown Fox Text in Microsoft Word

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If you want to insert some dummy text in a Word document, start a new paragraph, type =lorem() and hit Enter. Add Quick Brown Fox Text in Mi...

NASA Puts Historic Image Collections on Flickr

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Three compilations of historic NASA images have been released on The Commons on Flickr, the fruit of a collaborative effort between Flickr, ...
Monday, August 30, 2010

How to Transfer Your iTunes Collection from One Computer to Another

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If you’re an iTunes user, when you get a new machine you probably want to transfer all of your content to it. Here we show you a few differe...

HOW TO: Watch the 2010 Emmy Awards Online [VIDEO]

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As per usual, there’s no legal way to stream video of the whole 2010 Emmy Awards ceremony live online, but there are a few ways you can use ...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

Repurposing an Old Computer for Any Room in the House

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Most of us have our computers on our desks or our laps, but there are so many other places in and out of our homes that can make a great spo...

Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 18/2010

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The latest issue of new Family Friendly sites listed on The Black Stump. Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 18/2010
Friday, August 27, 2010

Katrina: 5 years later - Then and Now

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In the five years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, some areas have rebuilt while others remain unchanged. CNN photographer...

Whoops! The 10 Greatest (Accidental) Inventions Of All Time

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“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits,” Thomas Edison once said. But is hustling all it takes? Is progress always deliberate? ...

Microsoft Australia makes Meter Maids ‘apology’

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Microsoft Australia has been forced to apologise for choosing to use the Australian Gold Coast’s “Meter Maids” during its Tuesday-night welc...

The Ballad of Cat Bin Lady: The Internet's Latest Viral Villain

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It’s a thin line between Internet Hero and Internet Horror, and it seems that for one woman in Coventry, England, that line has been clearly...

Revenge of the Cat

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Cat, unaware of video camera, drops middle-aged woman into trash can. Revenge of the Cat

Snapshot: bike lane indicators get straight to the point

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Photograph was taken by Carlton Reid, and the stencil street art it documents is the work of Peter Drew of Adelaide, Australia. Snapshot: bi...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

List of Free and Fast Public DNS Servers

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DNS (or Domain Name Servers) is basically a system to convert domain names into IP addresses. Domain names are easier to understand, memoriz...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Are you safer in the rear or front seat of cars?

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An Australian study using U.S. data has shown that 50-year-old passengers in the back seat of cars are at more risk of injury or death than ...

Lose weight with 2 glasses of water before meals

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A U.S. study has shown that drinking two eight-ounce glasses of water before meals helps people to consume fewer calories during meals. And,...

Use Cotton Strips for No-Fuss Houseplant Watering

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If you'd like to keep your houseplants well-watered despite vacation plans or forgetfulness, you'd be hard pressed to find a simpler...

Top 5 Free Tools to Speed up Copying Files in Windows

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When you try to copy or move large number of files on Windows 7 (or Vista), it can get on your nerves specially if the destination directory...

2 Great Ways to Disable iPhone’s Auto Rotation Feature

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iPhone’s built-in accelerometer offers a simple way to switch between portrait and landscape mode. As all know, you can simply rotate iPhone...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

What Can I Do With A Dead Hard Drive?

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Before we delve into gutting your hard drive and repurposing its guts, let’s talk data security. While you didn’t specify what “dead hard dr...
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