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  • 10 Of The Best Super Bowl Ads Of All Time

    February 22, 2012

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    The Super Bowl is pretty much the one and only time advertisers can guarantee almost everybody (in the U.S. at least) is avidly watching the television. Which is why the cream of their commercial efforts get saved until the annual event. And with the cost of advertising on TV during the Super Bowl, the ads have to live on in people’s minds in order to warrant the considerable expense


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  • 6 Fun Fake Facebook Walls & How To Create Your Own

    January 31, 2012

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    Facebook is the leading social network. As such it is a prime target for practical jokes and pranks. However, creating fake profiles and conversations on Facebook is rather tedious. With a bit of skill, imagination and the right tools, you can easily create your own custom wall posts and fake profiles. Have a look at what is possible and how to make it happen.


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  • Eat Your Tech With These 14 Creative & Delicious Geeky Recipes

    January 27, 2012

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    Being a geek or a tech-lover is all about keeping up with interesting new gadgets, the best operating systems and the most trendy and fun games out there. Once in a while, though, you might get the urge to express your love for all things techy in quite a different way. Tech-related recipes can be quite a challenge. I’m not going to say they’re easy. But won’t it be worth the effort?


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  • Have A Few Laughs & Try The Metro User Interface With Windows 8 Beta Simulator

    January 11, 2012

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    Windows 8 is fast approaching, expected to arrive sometime in 2012. Not everyone is going to want to download the developer preview version of Windows 8 currently being hawked by Microsoft. Or the Windows 8 beta due to be made available shortly. Thankfully you don’t have to do so in order to get a basic feel for how the latest – and if you believe the hype, greatest – OS from Microsoft will shape up.


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  • The Top 10 Photoshop Blunders Of All Time

    January 10, 2012

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    Over the past decade or two, Adobe’s Photoshop image editing software has become a staple in the world of graphics and media. In fact, Photoshop’s popularity and usage is so widespread that the word “photoshop” has become a colloquial verb meaning to edit and touch up an image. Unfortunately, not every image that is put through Photoshop turns out well.


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  • 6 Computer Viruses That Changed The World

    December 30, 2011

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    Yesterday we took a look at some of the most damaging high-profile computer viruses in history, and today we’ll be exploring some of the more obscure ones instead. The term “virus” wasn’t attached to malware until 1983, but viruses as we know them date back to the early 70′s. But these viruses didn’t necessarily make front page news.


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  • A Brief History Of The 5 Worst Computer Viruses Of All Time

    December 29, 2011

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    The word “virus” and its association with computers was affixed by American computer scientist Frederick Cohen who used it to describe “a program that can ‘infect’ other programs by modifying them to include a possibly evolved copy of itself” way back in 1983. They come in all flavours, from problematic worms that spread like wildfire to backdoor entrances caused by trojan horse imposters.


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  • 6 Great Geek Gifts For The Holidays That Won’t Cost That Much

    December 22, 2011

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    The original meaning of Christmas isn’t separating people from their money, but that’s the effect it has today. Don’t panic – there are geeky gifts out there that won’t separate you from all of your cash. Technology is supposed to make our lives better, but it also tends to cost a lot. With some creativity, though, you can find affordable gifts the geeks in your life will appreciate.


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  • 5 More Tech Ideas For Cheap Holiday Gifts You Can Make Yourself

    December 22, 2011

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    The holiday season is still around, brimming with reminders at every store we go. All the sales and decorations might make a lot of your children excited when you’re out shopping with them but maybe they’re a tad too hectic for you to truly enjoy the holiday spirit. In that case, there are ways to soothe this holiday stress. You can do your shopping online or you can make your own gifts.


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