Five Best Offline Backup Tools

Online backup has many benefits—safety from local catastrophe, storage on professionally maintained servers, etc.—but economy, control, and 100% guaranteed privacy aren't among them. Check out these five popular tools for making safe and sound local backups.
Five Best Offline Backup Tools

Mute The Computer On Startup

Have you ever started your laptop in a crowded area and felt embarrassed because of the loud startup sound that it played once it loaded the operating system? Some PC users turn off all system sounds to avoid this problem while others do not want to work without those sounds and have to rely on other methods to mute the computer on system startup.
Mute The Computer On Startup

Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]

Justin Bieber remains an immutable force of Twitter trend power, taking the top slot again for the third week in a row. Tweeters also showed their love (and/or disdain) for a number of other pop singers, and celebrated a few holidays this past week.
Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]

SpyDLL – A Free Spyware Removal Tool

When we look at the background processes running in our Windows PCs, it is very tough to make sense of each of the processes, especially since there are so many of them running at a time. There are some tools like SVCHost Viewer which lets you know and understand about each of the SVChost.exe running on the system, but what about hundreds of DLLs which get loaded and run all the time?
SpyDLL – A Free Spyware Removal Tool

Facebook Warns of New E-mail Scam [ALERT]

Facebook has warned users to “delete e-mails asking you to open an attachment to get a new Facebook password,” in the wake of a new scam making its way around the web.
Facebook Warns of New E-mail Scam [ALERT]

How to Hang a Picture

Have you always had much difficulty getting that picture to hang straight? Follow these steps to get it just right, every time.
How to Hang a Picture

How to Help a Dog Who Has Canine Epilepsy

Canine epilepsy is hard on your dog, and almost as hard on you - it hurts to see your beloved pet agitated and anxious in the wake of a seizure or episode. Learn the best ways to treat your pet and give it the best life possible despite this condition.
How to Help a Dog Who Has Canine Epilepsy

Aussies line up for world's largest toilet queue

Around 300 Melburnians have lined up to become part of the world's largest toilet queue. They are hoping to break a world record, along with people from around the world, to raise awareness about the lack of clean toilets and water in developing countries.
Aussies line up for world's largest toilet queue

Australian Recorded Crime - Offenders, 2008-09

This publication presents statistics about the characteristics of alleged offenders who were proceeded against by police during the period 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009, for all states and territories.
Australian Recorded Crime - Offenders, 2008-09

Speed Up Windows 7 Taskbar Navigation With A Registry Hack

Windows 7’s taskbar is undoubtedly a great addition to Windows, but if you’ve got more than one application window open, you’ve got to either click twice or patiently hover to navigate to an open window.
Speed Up Windows 7 Taskbar Navigation With A Registry Hack

Warren Buffett's Investment Advice: Why It's So Hard to Follow

From WiseBerad: A year ago, I wrote a piece called Cash is King: Now What Should I do With It? After going through all the responsible options of what I could do with our pile of cash, I added one last one: what if I just threw it in the stock market and tried to double it?
Warren Buffett's Investment Advice: Why It's So Hard to Follow

Seven Foods That Will Prevent You from Overeating - DivineCaroline

David A. Kessler, the author of The End of Overeating, explains very well how people become addicted to foods that are high in sugar, fat, and salt. Like addiction does, this causes people to crave so they eat more and more foods that are loaded with unhealthy ingredients and many times, completely devoid of any nutrients.
Seven Foods That Will Prevent You from Overeating - DivineCaroline

Transfer Your iTunes Music Library

So, for whatever reason, you need to move that iTunes library that you’ve spent so much time and money on to a new location. Follow the questions in this wizard to find the solution that works best for you.
Transfer Your iTunes Music Library

Image Sharing

With the advent of the digital age and the seemingly ever-lowering cost of purchasing computers, cameras, cell phones, and mp3 players that double as image capturing devices, it is no wonder that there has been an explosion in the use of online image and photo sites, to not only store, organize, and share images, but also to tag, mashup, and create new and unique applications for digital image content.
Image Sharing

Download Internet Explorer 9 Preview

Microsoft has released many new information about their upcoming Internet Explorer 9 web browser. Even better than the information that they have showcased at the Mix10 conference is the release of a Internet Explorer 9 preview release which they call Internet Explorer Platform Preview.
Download Internet Explorer 9 Preview

Beware, the Antarctic Methane Fart of Doom!

Scientists from the University of Bristol in England believe that microbes living under ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland could be emitting large quantities of the greenhouse gas methane. "It could mean that as ice sheets melt under warmer temperatures, they would release large amounts of heat-trapping methane gas." Oh no! Not the dreaded giant Antarcti-fart!
Beware, the Antarctic Methane Fart of Doom!

Australian Social Trends, March 2010

Since 1994 Australian Social Trends has presented articles and key statistics across all areas of social concern. Is life in Australia getting better?
Australian Social Trends

The 7 Laws of Negotiation

Sometimes, it takes an economic downturn for folks to rediscover a lost art. I've heard all the buzz lately about people beginning to negotiate the price of everything from new shoes to cell phone plans. When we see companies slashing prices and luring us in with incentives and other goodies, we rightly begin to wonder just how firm the price was in the first place. Finally, America is taking the haggle out of the used car lot and applying it a bit more liberally.
The 7 Laws of Negotiation

State of the Climate

This snapshot provides observations and analysis of Australia’s climate and the factors
that influence it. Two organisations, CSIRO and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology
have combined to present this current picture of Australia’s climate. (pdf)
State of the Climate

How to Check who has visited my Facebook Profile? [Scam]

Of late I am being bombarded with loads of notifications on my Facebook profile and most of them are about me being tagged in a photo and a comment following that. They are about my friends checking ‘Who is glancing through my profile?’ or ‘Who has seen my profile?’
How to Check who has visited my Facebook Profile? [Scam]