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World Of Warcraft Now Free To Play To Level 20 [Mac & Windows]
World of Warcraft gets a lot of bad press, yet clearly it’s doing something right to a have a few million players worldwide. In a bold move to invigorate the aging game, attract new players and just let everyone have a little fun, Blizzard recently announced that the game was now 100% free to play up to level 20.
How To Install OSX Lion On An External Drive To Test It Out [Mac]
One of the great things about Macs is that the OS is bootable on any Mac machine, regardless of which computer it was originally installed on. This means that if your desktop breaks, you can grab the drive and boot it from your laptop instead, without having to worry about data recovery services and lost work time.
8 Reasons Why I Switched To A Mac
I've been using Macs for about 5 years now, and before that I was a 100% Windows and PC guy. What happened exactly? Why did I switch? Without wishing to start a flame war, here are 8 reasons why I now buy into "the Apple way".
How To Backup Your Mac With A Homemade Time Capsule
After losing some fairly important accounting files recently, I realised that my backup strategy is quite flawed. Although I take a weekly bootable backup of my Mac, that doesn't really help when I deleted the file I want a few weeks ago. To do that, I would need to make use of Apple's built-in Time Machine functionality.
The Top 5 Websites For iPad App Reviews
Finding good iPad apps in these new fangled app marketplaces is hard enough at the best of times, so let me show you 5 of the best sites I use to find great iPad apps and those little hidden gems, without having to trawl through the entire app store.
How To Find And Watch YouTube 3D content
Love it or hate it, 3D is here to stay. It’s a natural progression of visual displays, and I’m kind of bored of hearing it’s a fad. So let’s take this opportunity to look at something which is in fact, quite clearly a fad – yes, YouTube in 3D.
5 Baby Steps to Learning CSS and Becoming a Kick-Ass CSS Sorcerer
CSS is the single most important change webpages have seen in the last decade, and it paved the way for the separation of style and content. In the modern way, XHTML defines the semantic structure - the meaning and content of the webpage, while CSS concerns itself with the presentation. While most of us are comfortable writing a little HTML, we seem to think that CSS is some kind of black magic.
5 Ways to Increase Your Torrent Download Speed
For many people, the distributed peer-to-peer download power of torrents isn’t all it’s made out to be. If you’re feeling drowned in fake files, choking from ISP speed throttling, and sick of being told you’re unconnectable - this guide is for you. We'll have your torrent downloads in tip-top shape in no time. If you follow everything I show you here, your torrent overview screen should soon be capable of looking like this.
How To Make Your Own CinemaGraph In Photoshop CS5
Cinemagraphs are small animated GIF files created from a movie, that capture a tiny moving section of that movie in a forever looping sequence. See the sample to the left if you have no idea what I'm talking about, or check out Tim's upcoming article on the 5 best blogs to find Cinemagraphs. Today I'm going to show you how to make your own from a movie file, using Photoshop CS5 Extended.
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About CAPTCHAs But Were Afraid To Ask [Technology Explained]
Love them or hate them - CAPTCHAs have become ubiquitous on the Internet. What on earth is a CAPTCHA anyway, and where did it come from? Responsible for eye-strain the world over, the humble CAPTCHA has been the centre of much attention as the single most effective weapon in the fight against web spam. But are they effective?
How To Control Your Windows PC With Kinect
Last time, I introduced you to Kinect hacking on the PC and the drivers involved, as well as a basic zombie survival game demo. While killing zombies is awesome, it's time we moved onto doing something actually useful. So I'd like to show you the Kinemote application, as well as how to use it to control both your mouse for general Windows tasks, and Xbox Media Center.
How To Create Your Own Basic Wordpress Widgets
Many bloggers will search for the perfect Wordpress widget that will do exactly what they want, but with a little programming experience you may find it's easier to write your custom widget. This week I'd like to show how to do exactly that, and the widget we will be writing is a simple one that picks out a single random post from your site, pulls the featured image, and displays it on the sidebar.
3 Cool Things You Can Do With Windows 7 Cloud
If you're running Windows 7, it's entirely possible you've never even heard of the Windows 7 Cloud. Beyond being the thing that came installed with your new computer, there's actually an awful lot of incredibly useful technology built into Windows 7 and the entire Microsoft product line. The Windows 7 Cloud is Microsoft's way of promoting and tying together a range of different technologies.
Setup A Perfect Media Center With Plex [Mac & Windows]
Plex is widely regarded by many as being the best media player, manager and streaming application around - available for both Windows, Mac and even mobiles (though the mobile apps are not free). If you're looking for a single solution as both a media center and server, then read on.
How To Set Up A Motion Detection Surveillance System With iPhone Notifications
One thing I've been meaning to do is set up my always-on home server as a CCTV Surveillance System that sends alerts to my iPhone whenever it detects motion. Though the results are fantastic, you do need a lot of free software to get the thing up and running properly. It's a lot to download, but there isn't anything inherently difficult about it.
Optimize, Sterilize, & Harmonize Your System With ioBit Advanced System Care [Windows]
Having given ioBit Advanced System Care a test run, I can confidently say it’s a great free solution for – indeed – many of your windows problems. The app makes a thorough effort at both cleaning and optimizing your system.
Automate Your Wordpress Backup With Simple Shell Scripting & CRON
Last time we talked about Wordpress backups, I showed you how incredibly easy it was to backup your entire database and files though SSH with only a few commands. This time, I'm going to show how to automate those commands, giving you fresh backups of your entire site every week, with very little effort.
How to Fix the Windows 7 Activation Countdown After Installing the SP1 Update
If you had previously applied an activation hack to your Windows install to get around that restriction, you may be shocked to find that the recent Service Pack 1 update from Microsoft nullified that hack and is now given you a warning and countdown. Here's how to fix that and activate Windows permanently again (without phoning Microsoft).
5 Cool CSS3 Effects You'll Be Seeing More Of
CSS3 (combined with the power of HTML5) is rapidly being supported by all the major browsers (read - anything except Internet Explorer), so I thought now would be a good time to see some of the incredible effects we can achieve using the power of your the browser and a little CSS code.
Protect & Speed Up Your Website For Free with CloudFlare
CloudFlare is an intriguing start-up from the creators of Project Honey Pot that claims to protect your website from spammers, bots and other evil web monsters - as well as speed up your site somewhat by caching certain page requests. It's free, setup is relatively painless, and who can say no to free security protection?