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6 essential add-ons for Internet Explorer

admin @ December 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Browser choice boils down to a matter of either taste or apathy, depending on your technical background.
A larger number of IT-savvy people choose Firefox over Windows’ default option of Internet Explorer 7 because it’s easily customised and there’s a wealth of add-ons and extensions available for it.
Some people stick with IE out of [...]

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7 Days on the Internet: From Stephen Fry tweets to LOLCats

admin @ December 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Even though our casual shortening of 7 Days on the Internet to ‘7doti’ failed to click with my fellow staff, I’m going to labour on under the assumption that our readers are infinitely cooler than all the people in the office and flog this dead horse for all its worth.
So welcome to 7doti – [...]

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Anonymous internet use? It’s totally over

admin @ November 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Fed up with the internet? The US Air Force certainly is. It turns out that all sorts of mean and horrid bad guys think it would be funny, profitable or politically expedient to hack, spam or DDoS the USAF. And the boys with wings on their uniforms are sick and tired of having to spend [...]

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The future of mobile internet devices

admin @ October 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Mobile internet access has come of age. No more squinting at the tiny screen on your smartphone. No more flat batteries on your laptop.
With the mobile internet device (MID), you can enjoy an always-on connection, long battery life and a decent-sized screen, all in a package that will fit in your pocket. However, are [...]

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12 groups that hate the internet

admin @ October 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet

We love the internet, but not everyone seems to share our enthusiasm. Some people hate it because it has destroyed their business models. Some hate it because people slag them off online. And some hate it because they’re crazed totalitarian nutcases. Let’s find out who they are.
Actors
Harrison Ford isn’t keen on the web: “I hate [...]

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12 essential internet apps for your Mac

admin @ September 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Whatever you need to do online with your Mac, the chances are there’s a free or inexpensive program to do it. Here are 12 of the best…
GarageSale€30, Mac OS X 10.4+Selling on eBay is incredibly popular, and yet the website’s interface itself can be tedious and long-winded to use with any frequency. Enter GarageSale, a [...]

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12 essential internet apps for your Mac

admin @ September 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Whatever you need to do online with your Mac, the chances are there’s a free or inexpensive program to do it. Here are 12 of the best…
GarageSale€30, Mac OS X 10.4+Selling on eBay is incredibly popular, and yet the website’s interface itself can be tedious and long-winded to use with any frequency. Enter GarageSale, a [...]

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MSI to Make Thinner Business Wind, Mobile Internet Device

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Following the Wind’s success, and further advancing in the mini-laptop collective hysteria, Micro-Star International is planning a thinner version for business people, as well as a new, completely unknown smaller-than-a-mini-laptop mobile Internet device. According to Andy Tung, the business Wind will re-use the components of its predecessor, but focus on design:
On Intel’s roadmap, there won’t [...]

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