Archive for December, 2006

Turn Off Unnecessary Windows XP Services

Turning off unnecessary services in Windows XP can greatly reduce your exploit risk, while improving system performance. It’s a good time to inject that often there are all sorts of “download optimizers” and other cute programs that vendors like to push on users. The first rule is “If you don’t know you need it, you probably don’t.”

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Break Your Cingular Contract Without a Fee!

Cingular customers may have noticed the cellphone provider changing its text message rates from $.10 to $.15 and realize they can use that to escape contract without early termination fee.

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Sweet hack for FF and IE users. Make web pages load much faster.

Make web pages load lightning fast.. A must-see tweak for Firefox and Internet Explorer users. Most browsers are configured for dial-up.. Tweak the settings to boost surfing speeds and minimize page load times…

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MPAA Is Helping Their Users Pirate Movies!

MPAA tells readers of their website what clients to use to pirate software and movies. They also tell you the advantages of pirated movies. They include no DRM, no region locking, they are cheaper, and come out before the actual release. Thanks for the tips!

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Microsoft Begins Work On The Next Version of Windows codenamed “Fiji”

Microsoft has Started working on next version of Windows and it is Codenamed “Fiji”.

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The 15 Best Places to Waste Time on the Web

It’s first thing in the morning and you’re at the office. You’re sipping your coffee and sifting through e-mail, but you’re not quite ready to delve into the real work of the day. So what are you gonna do? Fire up your Web browser and distract yourself by wasting time on the Internet.

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How to Have an Overnight Internet Success Story

The near overnight success of companies such as YouTube, Facebook, Flickr and Digg has motivated a slew of us into believing that we too can create the next big thing on the Internet. But does your idea truly have the potential to attract millions of monthly unique visitors in less than two years time?

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New in GMail - “Get mail from other accounts

“Now Gmail can check for the mail you receive at your other email accounts. You can retrieve your mail (new and old) from up to five other email accounts and have them all in Gmail.” In limited release, but coming soon. Looks cool!

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Eat this Google Earth - NASA World Wind 1.4 promo

The video shows off many of World Wind’s new features from sun shading to more scientific features like NRL (near realtime weather), the new compass, scale bar and more.

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Costco To Make Return Policy Stricter?

Costco is making its liberal return policies stricter, according to a little birdy. Previously, you could return anything, except computers, at anytime, with or without a receipt. Our tipster says Costco will limit returns to 30 days, citing ‘abuse.’ If you have any Costco merch lying around the house, Dec 31 might be the last day to return it…

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