Archive | April, 2008

Top 5 Essential Video Converters You Shouldn’t Miss

29. April 2008

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This post was co-written with Kay, who blogs about Technology news and tips, make money online and blogging tips over at K-Director.com, and edited by James Yeang. Video conversion websites are dime a dozen these days, but here are 5 picks which stand out from the crowd. 1. How to convert video formats easily YouConvertIt is [...]

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Thank You TechCzar

29. April 2008

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  For the last 6 months TechCzar has been helping to keep this blog going by providing lead sponsorship.  Unfortunately, TechCzar will be putting its entire blog network on hold to focus on other priorities at the moment, and from May onwards will no longer sponsor any blog.  I would like to take this opportunity [...]

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How to Set Website Specific Text Sizes

26. April 2008

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We’ve already talked about various ways to save your eyes from your screen, but here’s one more tool that I came about on which makes your life so much easier if you’re having vision problems and struggling to read text on the screen.  NoSquint is a Firefox extension that allows you to adjust the default [...]

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How to Stop Windows Nagging You to Restart After a Windows Update

20. April 2008

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When Windows downloads software updates, it initiates a countdown to restart itself after the download is complete.  Tell it to restart later and it will constantly pop up again and again (every 10 minutes) until you finally relent and restart your system.  To me, this is one of the most potentially harmful of all Windows [...]

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How to Summarize Reviews Quickly

19. April 2008

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Some time ago, I wrote a review about Wize, and how its aggregation of reviews just made it a breeze to use.  Summize just takes that model – and turns it into something even more user friendly by providing quick charts that allow you to see how good or bad a product is without actually [...]

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