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Aspire to work for Google? 2008-06-29 00:03:00 Picture yourself working in an environment so similar to home, a workspace that includes gaming rooms, 'relaxing aquarium' and plenty of free good to satisfy your appetite, all of which is accessible by slide and fireman poles. That is definitely a perfect workplace for all of us to work in.Interestingly, the building itself was specially designed for - and partly by the engineers employed over th Read more:Google
Squares 2 game - Are you up to the challenge? 2008-06-27 03:50:00 *Warning: Those easily addicted need not apply*Strategy games like Desktop Tower Defence, are fun no doubt, but this takes it up to a new level. Its hard to explain why Squares
2 is so addictive. Maybe its the zen-like simplicity of squares and circles hurtling through the screen. Maybe its the sound track that alternates between being annoying and catchy. Or maybe its just the adrenaline rush fro
How to speed up/optimize Firefox 3 2008-06-26 01:14:00 [image courtesy of flod] Now you've just setup your spanking new computer and loaded Firefox
3 on it. Now lets go about making a few changes to supercharge your surfing experience. Whether you are on a fibre optic connection or just a simple broadband connection, you should see a noticeable difference in your surfing speed. Here are a few tricks that theysaY have lined up to speed up your Firefox.
PSP Firmware 4.01 Update...Minor fixes?! 2008-06-26 00:59:00 As if the previous announcement of the PSP Firmware
4.00 release wasn't enough to get you excited, Sony has come up with another update to keep you on your toes. Unfortunately all that is promised in 4.01 are some bug fixes to the new features found in 4.00, which weren't exactly too amazing either. * Display of search results under Internet Search has been improved for certain languages. * Read more:Update
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ATI Radeon HD 4870 Graphics Card launched 2008-06-25 12:56:00 Following on the tail of the announcement of the ATI Radeon
HD 4850, it gets a bigger brother in the form of the ATI Radeon
HD 4870, just announced today.The HD 4870 is a dual slot card, PCIE 2.0, with 512MB of DDR5 memory and a clock speed of 725 MHz. The memory speed is 900 MHz, designed with 800 stream processors. The games just keep getting prettier, and the graphics cards just keep getting to Read more:Graphics
Windows XP support to be offered till 2014 2008-06-25 02:25:00 Microsoft, makers of the most popular operating system in the world, have announced plans to provide support for Windows
XP up to the year 2014. While new computers produced nowadays are shipping with Windows Vista, the successor to XP, many consumers still find themselves stuck with XP on their computers, and are perfectly satisfied with it. In fact, Vista has yet to achieve the same acceptance a
More than 1 billion PCs in use today 2008-06-23 20:29:00 In what was only going to be a matter of time, the number of PCs in the world have reached the 1 billion
mark. The number of personal computers in use around the world has exceeded 1 billion and will double by 2014, with most growth coming from developing markets, according to Gartner research released Monday.Gartner analysts also revealed that they expected the number of PCs in use to hit 2 billi
New Yahoo Mail addresses - Nickname1234 no more! 2008-06-23 09:11:00 We all know what happened back then. New to the world of computers, we happily signed up for a Yahoo
Mail! account, one of the best email providers back then. Sadly, all the cool sounding names had been taken, and we had to make do with something like Yorke1988@yahoo.com, hardly the unique email addresses
to separate yourself from the masses.Some things haven't changed since then. Yahoo Mail is st Read more:New Yahoo
Genepax to introduce water-fueled car 2008-06-22 04:34:00 With the price of oil soaring above the US$130 per barrel, it is no wonder that more and more people are choosing the alternative of taking public transport. It is no good news to car owners that the price of oil will continue to rise throughout the months to come. If you're anything like us you are seriously pondering a carless existence for life. Not to worry though, theysaY has good news to sha Read more:water
How to disable the "Smart" location bar in Firefox 3 2008-06-21 20:13:00 Most of you probably have seen the new features of Firefox
3 dancing around your monitor. Of all the new features introduced, I must say that you couldn't have missed the "Smart
" location bar that prominently displays your favourites whenever you type anything in the location bar. To add to this, there is currently no way to shut off the function via the options panel.Fortunately, we can somewhat
Sony Ericsson Gaming Phone Leaked 2008-06-21 11:00:00 When you're a famous phone maker like SonyEricsson
, it becomes a little tough to keep your newest products under wraps. The new kid on the block is the F305 motion gaming phone, which features a built-in accelerometer for motion sensing games.Other notable features include a 176 x 220 resolution, a Memory Stick Micro slot, and a specially designed directional pad and two face buttons specially lo Read more:Gaming
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New measures by EBay to curb fraudulent transactions 2008-06-19 20:35:00 With the burgeoning growth of the online market, security and reliability come as a major concern. To attract and retain potential online market share, EBay Inc. will strengthen PayPal's Anti-Fraud Provisions as extra protection for its online traders when making transactions
on eBay's Internet marketplaces.EBay executives said on Thursday at the company's annual user conference that buyers who pa
Nintendo shows off new Wii add-on 2008-07-17 08:56:00 We all know how successful Wii
is in the today's market. The undeniable lure of using a motion-sensor joystick to maneuver your way around in the virtual reality is simply too attractive to resist. People from all age groups flock to grab a copy of the gaming console, not wanting to lose out in the hype. Just recently, Nintendo
has released a new Wii add-on, a terrific news which is akin to adding
Intel to bring quad-core CPUs to laptops next month 2008-07-15 08:39:00 Following the craze of the processor core race, users have been speculating about the possibility of shifting focus from just desktops to some more portable, say laptop to begin with. Just next month, Intel
projects to release its first quad-core processor for laptops
to the market."We're bringing quad-core to mobile in August," said Sujan Kamran, regional marketing manager for client platforms at
Optus Tennis Challenge - Fear with every bounce 2008-07-14 05:31:00 Now it has come to the part of the month whereby theysaY will introduce some interesting games for relax. This time round, Optus TennisChallenge
is bound to bring you to the edge of your seat, not so much of the adrenaline part like Square 2, but the possible anguish moments that you may face when the tennis ball touches the ground because of an accidental sneeze or a momentary lapse of concentra Read more:every
Tutorial - Reduce Firefox startup time 2008-07-12 10:04:00 Have you ever wonder why you take relatively longer time to load your Firefox
browser compared to Internet Explorer, even when on your brand new computer? Although Firefox can be tweaked more easily to speed up your Firefox, the extra few seconds of wait can be annoying at times.Indeed, there is no myth to this question. Windows XP has simply been designed so that it will pre-load Internet Explore Read more:Tutorial
Superb download portal - FileHippo 2008-07-10 06:36:00 Avid downloaders of the latest software will count Download.com and cnet.com amongst their favourite haunts. But as they often say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Older rather than the newest versions of most software have proven to be more stable, and for those who just want reliability, we've scouted a perfect website just for you.Behind the innocent looking hippo banner hides a goldmine of so
Unzip / Decompress files online - Wobzip.org 2008-07-08 07:44:00 Picture this: You're surfing on your school library's computers when your friend sends you a link to a file. "Its awesome", he says. Unfortunately, the file happens to be in the .rar format; the school computer doesn't have Winrar installed, and you don't have the admin rights to do so. Now do you give up and view the file at home, or find a loophole somewhere like any normal computer enthusiast? Read more:Unzip
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Adobe Reader 9 Download 2008-07-07 02:51:00 Adobe fans, would be probably much delighted with its new product Adobe Reader
9. Before you rush to download Adobe 9, let us examine some of its features. Apart from the pretty design on the surface, it promises much new features, amongst them is the new ability to work with the beta version of Acrobat.com. This is an addition to its arsenal of tools such as PhotoShop Express and its online media Read more:Adobe
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Tutorial - How to print screen an entire web page with ScreenGrab! 2008-07-05 04:00:00 [Photo courtesy of wazari]If you like a website and would like to save it into a picture file for future reference, you would probably have to save the whole page via "File > Save Page As". This method would no doubt save huge chunks of unwanted files along with it. The other possible alternative is to print screen
multiple copies of the web page and save them using Microsoft paint/GIMP. However Read more:Tutorial
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Send Free SMSes to any handphone number - Chawt.com 2008-07-04 03:07:00 Free SMS services are a dime a dozen out there on the internet, but its hard to find one that actually works and in our region as well. So when we came across this little gem, we had to share it with you.Enter Chawt.com a website that lets you send 15 messages daily to any number in the world that you desire. It even works in Singapore, and the best thing is that the messages are sent from your nu
Apple shortages in the forseeable future 2008-07-31 07:30:00 In recent news, Apple
has informed its resellers of possible shortages of Ipods and certain Mac notebook models. The latest advertisement bulletin released by Apple to its resellers "strongly suggested" that their resellers bring in up to 4 weeks worth of certain Apple products to safeguard themselves against shortages in the future.The last time something like this happened, shortages of the 2G I
5 Quick Performance Tips For Windows XP That You Probably Don't Know 2008-07-30 20:21:00 Photo courtesy of smudge_cmlDespite the release of Microsoft Vista and the possible release of Windows
7 in the distant future, many computer users still stick to the tested and stable version of Windows XP. Just last month, Microsoft announced that it will extend its support of Windows XP to 2014, a good news for the Windows XP fans. Since we are still stuck around with Windows XP for another hal Read more:Quick
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How to backup your Blogger blog - Blogger Backup 2008-07-30 07:20:00 Blogging is an activity that has taken the online world by storm. From little more than an online diary, blogs now serve as news updates platforms and valuable repositories of information. So can you sleep well at night, knowing that the only copy of your blog is inside a remote computer server somewhere else in the world?Blogger
Backup is a utility designed to help you easily backup all your blog
Disposable Web Notes that Vanish After being read 2008-07-28 22:20:00 In today's digital age, it is a fact that we will leave behind a digital trace of whatever we do online. How we wish we can leave a secret note that will simply disappear once read? Privnote is an online service that allows you to send a encrypted private message that vanish after being read once..How do we go about using Privnote?Visit Privnote and type your own secret message in the space provid Read more:Disposable
, Notes
Google Pagerank Updates 2008-07-28 02:36:00 Aspiring webmasters will all be familiar with the term Google
Pagerank. For those newly acquainted with this term, Pagerank is the variable which Google assigns to each webpage to rank their relevancy and importance in search pages. Simply put, pagerank determines how highly a website is ranked in search results, and conversely its popularity and traffic statistics, the holy grail for any webmaste
How to Unregister a dll Safely in Windows 2008-07-25 23:13:00 Image courtesy of OGGHOOSometime or another, we find ourselves having to delete a .dll file which is locked or causing conflict to our windows operating systems. Yet the only possible solution to troubleshoot the issue is to remove the problematic .dll files. Of course we cannot just delete the file first because it still has an entry on the registry itself. To avoid damage your computer, the firs Read more:Windows
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Free popular magazines viewed online 2008-07-25 09:08:00 Here's a way to get your fix of the newest magazines in town. Mygazines.com is a service that allows users to upload and share publications that they create themselves. It also happens to be host to the newest issues of the most popular
magazines in the world, as well as a way to get your hands on non-local editions of your favourite read.Enjoy browsing through the large catalog of titles for fre Read more:online
Smaller PCs Inject Uncertainty for Industry 2008-07-23 00:20:00 In our previous article on ultraportable computer series, we mentioned that many new models are being produced. As we speak, many more small PCs are continuing being rolled out. The personal computer industry is poised to sell tens of millions of small, energy-efficient Internet-centric devices. Interestingly, some of the biggest players in the industry associate it as bad news.The new computers, Read more:Uncertainty
Guide on how to remove unwanted startup entries from msconfig 2008-07-21 02:25:00 Because the Internet is inundated with unlimited programs and files, it is not weird to see us installing a lot of unnecessary items just for the fun of it. Removing unwanted startup entries became a must to us who install every single program within our grasp. MSConfig Cleanup is the perfect tool here. It enables users to remove any startup entry that has been previously disable via MSConfig. Bef Read more:Guide
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