10 Firefox add-ons that porn fiends love
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Yes, it’s true, porn addicts may have somewhat ’specialist’ tastes. But when it comes to Firefox, they want much the same as the rest of us: great search tools, professional security, faster and easier downloads, and improved browsing privacy. They really just need these 10 top Firefox extensions, in fact – and so do you.
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10 things that Apple should make right now
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Apple likes to think it’s the oracle of technology; rays of light shining forth from its Cupertino offices, Steve Jobs with a halo around his head.
But oddly, while its products are angelic, its press office is more secretive than the USA’s Homeland Security.
Apple has a strict policy, which it repeats ad infinitum: it won’t discuss [...]
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10 technologies that should be uninvented
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Technology is a wonderful thing. It’s given us electricity, the car, the mobile phone and the George Foreman deep fat fryer.
But it’s also brought us a host of inventions that, while they might have seemed like a good idea at the time, we’d be better off without.
Here’s our run-down of 10 annoying and deadly [...]
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14 arcade machines that led to a misspent youth
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With the market for videogames now eclipsing those of music and cinema, it’s worth remembering where it all began.
Back in the 70s and 80s an entertainment revolution took its first faltering steps, with an esoteric selection of coin-operated arcade machines.
Looking back at these early pioneers of videogaming, it’s easy to dismiss them as simplistic and [...]
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Revealed: 20 Facebook apps that don’t suck
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Had your fill of zombies and pirates? Despair when you’re given another egg to hatch or offered a fish for your virtual tank?
You’re not alone. Thoroughly fed up of crap Facebook apps, we searched long and hard to find useful tools and productive programs – and we found twenty.
These are all applications worth adding [...]
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10 movie releases that can save Blu-ray
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With DVD still dominating retailer’s shelves, and digital downloads and upscaling players pinching some of the limelight, Blu-ray has had a pretty hard run of it of late. All is not lost for the format, however, it needs the right film release to get back on the straight and narrow.
With this in mind we’ve taken [...]
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20 technologies that changed the world
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Some new technologies are little more than shiny toys, but others change your life. Some of them can even change the world, spawning entire new industries and making everyone slap their heads and go “duh! Why didn’t we think of that?”
The following 20 technologies range from the tiny to the shiny, but they’ve all got [...]
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20 websites that changed the world
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If there was one site that would change the world for ever, it would be the first ever website, created by internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee.
It went online on 6 August 1991 offering people help with using the brand new ‘World Wide Web’, rather modestly described as a “wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give [...]
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20 websites that changed the world
admin @ October 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
If there was one site that would change the world for ever, it would be the first ever website, created by internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee.
It went online on 6 August 1991 offering people help with using the brand new ‘World Wide Web’, rather modestly described as a “wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give [...]
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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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