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Got a new Vista PC for Christmas? Heres a few tips to get you started

Christmas is over. Many of you have gotten new PCs for Christmas I know. With your new PC, I’m pretty sure many of you are using Windows Vista for the first time. Guess what, some things will not work. Vista has gotten a lot better when it comes to software and drivers, but there are [...]

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Bypass firewalls, filters, blocks, surf anonomously, and everything else you’re not suppose to be doing!

There are times when you need a little online privacy. You need to beable to hop online, without anyone knowing what you are doing?
Maybe you are at work and there are internet restrictions.
Maybe you are accessing websites on a public or borrowed PC and you don’t want to leave any tracks.
There are a few ways [...]

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6 must have parental control software features to keep your kids safe online!!

There are plenty of options out there to try to keep your kids from getting into bad things online. I just wish more parents would utilize them. Its funny, if you have a child that is about 14-15 years of age and younger, you should have some type of parental control on the family computer. [...]

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Internet film makers have a place to get film making tips and tricks

With the growing popularity of internet video on the web, people will start to want to do more than being "talking heads". With the interest in doing more with internet video, comes the need to learn how to do things that will make your video content more appealing to the viewers eye.
How do you make [...]

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Avot Media allows you to stream Youtube videos to your cell phone.

I only know one person that owns an iPhone. Other than playing around with it in the store, that one person’s iPhone is my only real experience with using the device unsupervised. One thing that was a “bullet point” on the list of iPhone features was the Youtube app, or section that allows you to [...]

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Google Analytics…Acceptable and necessary SPYWARE?

Google Analytics is a pretty useful stat tracking service to run on your website. Add a code to the <head> section of your website and you can track all of your site’s stats in pretty little graphs and do all the research you want on your sites visitors, referrers etc. The only thing about using [...]

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Dont forget to add that important piece of code when changing your blog template.

How often do you change the layout of your blog? Between my 2 blogs I have changed layouts about 6  times in the past year. Jonzee.com is a Dotnetnuke website so the things you have to do to change the layout is a little different than with a Wordpress blog.
With DNN, most of the time [...]

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Listen to your Podcast on the go, on any phone.

People love their podcast, I know I listen to quite a few myself. I use to have a podcast of my own (haven’t released an episode in a few months). I’m always on the lookout for ways to make receiving and listening to Podcasts a little easier.
Was just checking through some of my email and [...]

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Do you “TARGET=”_blank”". Do you prefer same window links or new window links?

When I browse the web, I use the middle mouse button a lot. I do a search, get the list of results then I scan the list. Anything that seems interesting, I middle click the link to open in a new tab / window. That way I have all of the items I want to [...]

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Want more functionality out of that old Xbox? Mod it! Turn it into a networked media player!!!

They say only 1% of console users have hacked or modded their console. Many might not know about all the extra functionality you can get from modding or hacking that console. The main thing people talk about when they mention modded consoles is the ability to either copy games or play copied games for free. [...]

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