Archive for the ‘Internet Technologies’ Category
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Tired of wading through tens of posts a day on your favorite tech news site just to get the piece of news that holds your interest? Well have I got a website for you.
The Gadget Advisor is a resource that strives to post about products and news that are "the ...
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Have you ever thought about how secure your computer is from nefarious elements in cyberspace who wouldn't think twice about stealing your private information? Do you think you're completely safe from those who would snoop around your internet connection to see if they can pick up a password or two? ...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Microsoft's docx format for Word 2007 isn't necessarily the most cloud-based or non-Microsoft Word processor-friendly format. For example, it isn't possible to import docx files into Google Docs. If you're an OpenOffice 2.4.1 user good luck opening a docx file. Heck even if you own a license for Microsoft's Word ...
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
If you have Firefox 3.0.1 running on your system as of today, Sept 23, in Firefox click on the Help menu then click on "Check for Updates...". The browser should detect an available update, namely version 3.0.2.
This latest version of the browser has fixed some security, stability, webpage layout issues ...
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
I finally got Google Chrome installed on my Vista SP1 laptop today. I figured out that the offending bit of software preventing me from installing it properly was ZoneLab's Forcefield. I got it off my system and viola Chrome is working without a hitch. I realized I didn't really need ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
If you want to watch a flash video like those found on YouTube, DailyMotion, or Metacafe offline, you're going to want to download it to your computer.
Video Downloadhelper
Firefox has a great free plugin that can help you do that called Video DownloadHelper which is at version 3.2.2 as of this ...
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