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8 Essential Email Security Tips You Should Know by Now

Everyone should know these essential email security tips and put them in practice to protect their most important accounts.

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Get An Alternative Facebook Interface Customized To Your Interests With LeFeed

Some brave souls have managed to close their Facebook account, or somehow managed to never open one in the first place. As for the rest of us, most of us use Facebook on a regular basis, either to catch up with old friends, stay in touch with faraway family, or to stay updated on favorite brands and groups. But no matter what it is you actually do on Facebook, you’re pretty much stuck with the same old interface.

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MyImgur Lets You Use The Best Image Host Right From Your Desktop [Windows]

Hugely thanks to internet superpower Reddit, Imgur is definitely regarded as the web's most elite all-purpose image host. The website's emergence took a huge chunk out of similar sites like Tinypic. Imgur just does free image hosting better. The look and feel of the uploading interface is so much nicer than other sites in the same class and it'll definitely help when you aren't barraging users with ads.

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How To Get To Grips With a Foreign Keyboard While Travelling

Have you ever travelled abroad and sat down in an Internet café only to find that you can't work out how to type anything on the foreign keyboards? Well, you're not alone. This happens to many travellers and is a huge source of frustration - especially considering how much Internet cafés can cost! No-one wants to waste time searching for a key that must be typed.

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How To Setup Gmail Accounts On Windows Phone

Due to a severe spam issue (and to take the storage load away from my PC) I decided to migrate my email accounts to Google Mail. This has had an interesting effect on my ability to collect messages on my Windows Phone. While it isn’t a problem to set up a Gmail account if your email address ends in @gmail.com, the situation is a little different for Windows Phone users if they’re trying to access an email service that uses Google Mail but has its own domain name.

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GVnotifier: A Simple Google Voice Client [Windows]

Use Google Voice from your Windows desktop without leaving your browser open. With its chat-like interface and instant notifications, GVNotifier is the best way to send free SMS messages in Windows – assuming, of course, you live in the USA. You can do this from your web browser, or using the Google Voice extension for Chrome, but there is no official desktop app for Google Voice at this time.

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Speed Up Typing And Other Tasks With Your Head Using Switch Via Cam [Windows]

Wouldn't it be really cool if you could wear a headset and use facial and head movements to control your computer? Blink a couple of times and press the enter key. Nod once and press the space bar. Speak, and the sentence appears on the screen. You've heard about mouse gestures to control a computer, but what about head or face gestures? Here at MUO, we've often covered interesting special effects that you can accomplish with a webcam, but how about combining the two concepts?

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Play & Manage Your Music Collection With Rhythmbox [Linux]

Music is a way of life for a lot of people, and their music collections often reflect that to a massive degree. We all enjoy our music, and should be able to keep tabs with what music we have. This requires a good program that can easily organize our music so that perfect song is only a short distance away. Whatever your needs may be, it'd be ideal to take care of it all using just one program.

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Atari Arcade - Play Retro Video Games In HTML5 [MUO Gaming]

Anyone who plays video games today owes a huge debt of gratitude to Atari and the founders and engineers who worked for the company during its formative years. Atari was responsible for many of the earliest arcade games and some of the earliest games consoles, and throughout the 1970s and 1980s helped shape the industry that now competes with Hollywood in terms of budgets and earnings.

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How To Upgrade Your Laptop In a Flash: Add a New Hard Drive & Increase RAM

Laptops are not as easy to upgrade as desktops. Many components are simply soldered on to the motherboard and others, though technically replaceable, are restricted by technical skill and cost. There are, however, two upgrades you can perform that will improve your laptop. One is beefing up the RAM, and the second is replacing the hard drive – preferably with a solid state drive.

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