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Hack Your iPod To Get FREE Games

Hack Your iPod To Get FREE Games

Fosfor gadgets got wind of a way to hack the firmware of an iPod, which will give you access to free iPod games.
Probably, very illegal, and not for the faint hearted. If you’re brave enough to give this a go, then please come back and let the other readers know if it worked, or [...]

Save Money On Your Summer Holiday With Otbeach.com

Save Money On Your Summer Holiday With Otbeach.com

Have you started making plans for your summer holiday yet? I’m starting to make my plans. I’m definitely heading out to Dubai later this year, as I want to experience life in such a fast-paced city.
Booking holidays over the internet is one of the best ways to get a good cheap deal, and [...]

One For The Bloggers

One For The Bloggers

If you’re an avid blogger, then you really should check out the Bloggers Face-Off series from DailyBlogTips.
Every Tuesday Daniel features a weekly short interview with top bloggers, which provides useful insights into how they’ve become successful bloggers, and more importantly for some people, how they’ve managed to generate money.
The series was kicked off in style [...]

How To Play Xvid And Avi Files With Vista Media Center

How To Play Xvid And Avi Files With Vista Media Center

I’ve spent a lot of time this weekend finally setting up Windows Vista Media Center, and I suddenly realised that Vista Media Center won’t play Xvid and Avi files even if Windows Media Player will. If you want to add support for third party codecs including Xvid and Avi files in Vista Media Center then [...]

How To Auto-Logon To A User Account At Startup With Vista

How To Auto-Logon To A User Account At Startup With Vista

One of the annoying features of Vista is that because you have to create an account and a password for every other PC or device that you want to share files with. Because of this, everytime Vista all of these accounts are displayed, even if you don’t actually use them on the PC, and you [...]

Screen Capture Complete Web Pages With Picknik Firefox Add-on

Screen Capture Complete Web Pages With Picknik Firefox Add-on

This tip is great for people who want to use create thumbnails of their website, or have to use screen captures in documents or presentations.
One of the annoying problems with the Screen Capture function on PCs is it only captures what is visible on the screen. This is ok most of the time, but sometimes [...]

Useful Firefox Shortcut To Reopen Old Tabs

Useful Firefox Shortcut To Reopen Old Tabs

If you use Firefox then I’m sure you’ll find this keyboard shortcut useful which will re-open tabs that have been closed.
Many of you know that you can open a new Firefox tab by using the ‘CTRL+T’ keyboard shortcut, and ‘CTRL+W’ to close a tab. But did you know you can re-open old tabs by [...]

Submit Your Site or Blog To Yahoo News

Submit Your Site or Blog To Yahoo News

Although Google rules the roost in terms of online search, Yahoo is still holding onto its crown as the most popular online news aggregator. ( Source: Comscore)
Sites that are featured in Yahoo News can get thousands of new visitors per day, and joining their ranks is easier than you think. All you have to do [...]

Synchronize Your Firefox Bookmarks Between PCs

Synchronize Your Firefox Bookmarks Between PCs

My favourite Firefox extension is the Google Browser Sync extension and it’s the first Firefox addon I always install when I’m setting up a PC.
Not only does Google Browser Sync keep your vital bookmarks synchronized between PCs, it also sychronizes your history, cookies and passwords. It even syncronizes the pages you were looking at, [...]

BugMeNot - Instant Disposable Email Addresses

BugMeNot – Instant Disposable Email Addresses

Many sites make ask for you to provide an email address when you register. No matter how good their intentions, the only reason for adding this requirement is because they intend to send you emails in the future.
If like me you already receive enough emails each day and you definitely don’t want anymore spam, [...]