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A few FREE Useful apps for your Blackberry Smartphone

Now that I have a Blackberry Bold, Ive been looking for apps and games to put on it. yea coming from the iPhone, where there are a ton of apps at your fingertips, there has to be a little bit of a search and research effort for things to put on your blackberry but I [...]

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Rid your system of that sneaky Magic Jack software

A while ago I bought a little product that was being heavily advertised called “The Magic Jack”. I actually thought it was pretty good. Everything worked out for me. No problems, They finally got a local numbers and it was no hassle at all switching my number to the new number.
It hasn’t been that easy [...]

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The snipping tool in Windows 7 can be pretty useful for bloggers

This Windows 7 Feature could be a pretty helpful feature for bloggers. Lets say you were blogging about a particular peice of software, giving a tip or showing a bug or something. you wait till the item you want is on your screen and you want a screenshot of it…what do you do?
Well for me, [...]

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One legitamate way to use illegitimately obtained software

As time goes on, people loose things. Recently I was doing a little repair on a friends laptop. There was a lot wrong with it. Viruses, random errors, missing files. I think that at some point his laptop got hit with a really heavy virus that borked things up permanently. Not to mention he was [...]

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Do you hate iTunes as much as I do? Try Media Monkey.

Ive said it before, I really hate the iTunes software. Ive stayed away from iPods since they were introduced years ago, not because of the software (I didn’t know how bad it was) but because I didn’t want my music to be locked down to one player. Ive had the iPhone now for about a [...]

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Wordpress.tv a Hulu.com style website that teaches you to use Wordpress

Wordpress.com has launched a pretty interesting website the other day. If you ever wanted to figure out how to setup, configure, and use wordpress, you can now visit Wordpress.tv.

Wordpress.tv offer video tutorials and help with all types of wordpress task’s. If you are new to using wordpress you can visite Wordpress.tv and get all of [...]

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Have you tried the Windows 7 beta?

If you haven’t heard (which you probably have) Microsoft released a beta for the new Windows 7 Operating during CES. Windows 7 is the operating system that is going to pretty much replace Vista when it released later this year (or early next year). The day it was released, I downloaded and installed the 64 [...]

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Looking for audio/video software that does just about everything?

Christmas was yesterday. As you all know, during the holidays you see people that you may not see on a regular basis. Most of my friends and family members know my interest in computers and other tech/gadget products so I usually get questions. “Whats the best DVD ripper software?”, ” I need a good audio [...]

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Teach yourself that Computer based skill you’ve been wanting to learn with Lynda.com

Have you ever had a website idea but didn’t know how to go about creating your own website?. Back in 2005, I had a website idea and I wanted to teach myself how to create a website. I bought a couple of books and while they were helpful, I dont think I got what I [...]

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Fieldrunners, a pretty addictive iPhone app (game)

You know, there are a lot of apps on the iPhone’s app store. Probably over 1000 by now. The problem is this
99% of those apps are worthless!
Yea Ive downloaded a lot of the free apps, bought a few of the paid apps. Other than a handfull of of apps, most of the apps are just [...]

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