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What Search Engine Poisoning Is & How It Spreads Malware [MakeUseOf Explains]
If you thought malware popups and relentless email spam were the worst of it, think again. There’s a new contender on stage and it’s spreading malware like butter in desert heat. It’s called search engine poisoning and hundreds of thousands, even millions, of people have fallen victim to it all over the globe. Here’s the thing about malicious intent: the worst forms of villainy occur when the bad guys take something that is good and use it for evil.
It’s Time To Organize Your Music Collection: Tag & Rename Them With TagScanner
I don’t like to see things out of place. Lately, my music collection has been. Thankfully, there are many music organization tools that can ease the spadework if one is falling behind. MP3Tag was my tool of choice till now. Just to perk up my motivation, I thought I would try out TagScanner and see how friendly it could be with my haphazardly organized MP3s.
4 Reasons Why Mists Of Pandaria Makes WOW Worth Going Back To [MUO Gaming]
The latest World of Warcraft expansion has been on the market for a couple weeks, and I have been able to spend far too many hours playing it. I started playing WOW again a few months ago, before I even knew that Mists of Pandaria existed, and I could not be happier with my decision. There is so much to do in WOW, and this new expansion makes it all even better.
3 Excellent Defrag Utilities & Why You Still Need to Defragment In 2012
Accessing files from the hard drive is a speed limiting step in operating a computer. Hard drives used to be a major bottle neck and fragmentation of data slowed them down even further. With the New Technology File System (NTFS), terabyte sized hard drives, and solid state drives setting new standards, fragmentation has become a non-issue and defrag utilities are almost obsolete. Almost!
What Water Cooling Is & Should You Use It? [MakeUseOf Explains]
Water is a great coolant. It’s plentiful, cheap and can be easily moved via pumps. The need for specialized hardware has often made this solution too expensive and too complex for mainstream users, however. That has finally changed. Several companies now offer retail water cooling options that are no more difficult to install than any PC air cooler.
iPhone 5 Review and Giveaway
On 21 September 2012, people all over the world queued up for the biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone -- the iPhone 5. The iPhone 5 is the fastest, largest, thinnest and lightest iPhone Apple has ever made. It is also the very first Apple product which features a Lightning connector. We will be giving away an iPhone 5 at the end of this review! Read on to find out exactly which one it is.
sWeather - The Best Portable Weather Tracker In Your System Tray [Windows]
For the past couple of years, one of the first extensions that I'd get for a new browser installation is one that can track local weather. With services like iGoogle dead, I just need a way to quickly eye what conditions in my area are going to be like. Firefox and Chrome both have a lot of great extensions in that area, so it's a no-brainer. For something as important and as frequently-checked as the weather, I'd really prefer the browser not to be a dependency.
Windows Live Writer: The Easiest Way To Blog, Right From Your Desktop
There is something nice about being able to blog from your desktop and simply clicking “submit” and then having it appear on your blog. Of course since you are creating it locally on your computer you’re also able to save it locally, which for many bloggers is a plus – backups are always nice, especially when you don’t have to think about it. Windows Live Writer (WLW) can do that and more.
9 Action-Packed Comic Book Subreddits You Have To Check Out
Reddit is the best place for trivia about any topic, and comic books are no different! Right on Reddit are several communities devoted to nearly all of your favorite comic book superheroes. Best of all, these communities are mostly active, and that means there are people lurking about who love talking about your favorite comic book characters just as much as you do. Below, we have nine subreddits devoted to these costumed heroes, and hopefully, you'll find something that you like.
Keep Your PC Running Smoothly With Glary Utilities Pro
There are quite a few PC maintenance utilities that make it a matter of routine. And keeping one’s computer in good running health should be a matter of routine. So, today we are going to pick up just such a tool for our review and see if it can help us save a few hair splits. Glary Utilities Pro is a well-reviewed and well-championed name in utility tools. If you are looking for an all-rounder to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC, this is worth a trial by fire.