Arg arg arg.
No, not hot coffee in the lap again, but seeing the same post on so many different sites. Take for example these animal silluettes on boing boing, neatorama, productdose and cribcandy. That’s just a quick example of how the same thing will spread across big sites that really shouldn’t be repeating each others [...]

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Keeping your Windows up to date? Good. What about all your applications?
Thought not.
Well your apps connect to the net as well and they’re as vulnerable as your OS. It’s time you updated them. How? I’m glad you asked, for Windows try FileHippo or Secunia.
Run the scanner and you get a list of all the apps [...]

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A spiffy mod to turn your old Powerbook into a cool new desktop tower. This is a really neat trick but somewhat beyond most people — including me.
Link

Tags: Apple, mods, reused

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Now here’s a post that very important to all Wordpress users: The security of your blog. The whole Speckyboy article lists 10 useful plugins that will help to secure your WordPress site.
Just think about it — all your posts, comments and even your theme, GONE. No way to get them back.

Now that you have that [...]

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I’ve posted about this before but here’s more specific instructions on how to get a full OS onto a USB stick. They recommend a 1GB stick, but go with a 4GB to give yourself space. Personally I’m doing this with a 16GB stick.

Essentials for creating a Portable gOS using Windows:
* gOS [...]

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I knew about the memory limit in Windows XP before I went ahead and upped the memory in my Mac from 2GB to 4GB. I just knew that XP would not manage to cope with 4GB even though the limit on 32bit (standard) Windows XP is 4GB. This is because, in Microsoft’s words:
The physical address [...]

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Remember when I wrote about this?
Well this morning I got an email that I have 10 days to download the Speed Download 5 for free. It seems that Yazsoft and Machiest have buried the hatchet, and not into each other for once.
Congratulations goes to Yazsoft who finally did the right thing. So if you bought [...]

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It’s not a ‘virus’, it’s art. It causes you Macs icons and menu bar to have gravity linked to the MacBook Pro’s motion sensor. Video is below:
In the beginning were harmless computer viruses. Viruses born out of the wit of early computer adopters, viruses whose sole purpose was to surprise and amuse. A non-destructive form [...]

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