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Tired of Wikipedia? Want Encyclopedia Britannica search results in Google? Heres how…

When you do a search for many things in Google, you usually get a Wikipedea entry somewhere in the search results. Those Wiki entries are good when you are looking for certain things. But some things, wouldn’t you rather find results from a real traditional Encyclopedia? Like Encyclopedia Britannica? If you have a Google account, [...]

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Get Paint.net, a free alternative to Photoshop

There is one necessary evil that comes with every windows install, or in my case Vista re-install. Thats getting all of the drivers and software that you had installed before back onto your PC just like you like it. So after my last re-install, I started putting Office back on, Win RAR, Firefox etc. I [...]

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“Ad manager” and “Active Adsense” makes things a little easier for us Adsense users

I was checking out my Google Adsense account today and saw something that may make things a little easier. Soon there will be the option to manage your Adsense ads from within your Adsense account. That way you dont have to go and re-create the code every time you want to make a change to [...]

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Tech items, deals, plan out your BlackFriday shopping

Tomorrow is the big day!!! The start of the holiday shopping season. Black Friday is what many call it. Its the day where there are tons of sales and deals that can only be found on that day. Unbelievable prices. But for what? 
Why do stores lower prices on Black Friday? 
Its obvious, to get you in [...]

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Microsoft Windows has a threat looming about and it isnt the Mac OS

I never thought I would say what I am about to say right now. There is a threat to Windows looming about. A lot of people think the threat to Microsoft’s OS is Apple. Apple has been slowly gaining market share but they are still a long ways away to be any real threat. Actually, [...]

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Is PayPerPost haters giving too much credit to PPP in this Google PageRank dropping fiasco?

Yes I did say FIASCO
What is Google trying to accomplish with all of the PageRank drops? Think about it for a minute… what are they doing? I may be wrong but when I sit down and think about it, I feel pretty confident that there is a legitimate reason Google is doing what they are [...]

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PC gaming needs a “Games for Windows”-like initiative

The other day I was having a conversation with a friend, and he said something that I had been thinking lately. He said…
"I give up on PC gaming, Im going to do all my gaming on consoles"
Its not because he thinks consoles are better, its just that games lately have been performing very badly on [...]

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Am I lucky? Or is there really a reason to hate Vista

Its been just about 7 months since I installed Vista on my notebook. Im use to using it, I like it, and I’m to the point where Windows XP is starting to seem like "the old OS".  I did something the other day that I usually do every 6 - 8 months. I wiped out [...]

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BlogRush, is it as great as I thought it would be?

If you look on the right sidebar of this blog, under the email subscribe form (sign up while your at it), you’d notice a empty space before the recent post list. What use to be there was there was the Blogrush widget. The code is still there so it should be showing up, but its [...]

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Is it time to start promoting other search engines along with Google?

Sometimes in the tech world, things happen that cause a stir. The Google page rank drops has been the latest that I can think of. Apple has been causing quite a stir themselves with all of the iPhone happenings since its release. Those stir’s usually are just topics of the day that come and go, [...]

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