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Free SkypeOut Calls For 6 Months
Skype is offering its UK subscribers free calls to UK landlines for the next six months, provided they buy a minimum of £10 Skype Credit. That’s a cracking deal if you already use Skype.The deal is open until 31st December 2006, so you can wait and get your half year of free calls in 2007 [...]
2Nov2006 | Tony Williams | 1 comment | Continued
Privacy And Security Add-Ons For Firefox 2.0
You can never be too safe…. Although Firefox is a great browser, there are lots of things you can do to make yourself more secure. gHacks have pulled together a great list of add-ons for Firefox that will turn your browser into the equivalent of Fort Knox.
Here’s the full list.
Browse At Work - Adds [...]
1Nov2006 | Tony Williams | 0 comments | Continued
Send Free SMS To Any Phone Around The World
goFreeSMS is a free SMS messaging services that lets you send free SMS messages from a browser to any phone worldwide.All you have to do is provide the name of your country/city and goFreeSMS will list the carriers available in your area. SMSs can be even be sent to multiple phones.
To try the service [...]
Tiny Menu Firefox Extension - Make More Space For Browsing
I love clearing up clutter on my PC and the Tiny Menu Firefox Extension helps in a big way by removing one of my Firefox tool bars to make more room for browsing. This cool extension compresses all the Firefox’s menu items into one pulldown, rather than taking up a whole toolbar.
To install the [...]
How To Make Old Firefox Extensions Compatible
Firefox 2.0 is a great browser, but unfortunately some of the older extensions aren’t compatible. However, it is possible to manually make the majority of old extensions compatible.
To make an extension compatible, do the following:
How To Make All Your MP3s Play At The Same Volume
Isn’t it annoying sometimes when you are playing back mp3s and the you have to keep dashing for the volume control because the playback volume can differ dramatically from track to track. This can occur particularly for older CDs that weren’t recorded in a modern studio. Although some mp3 players like iTunes try [...]
28Oct2006 | Tony Williams | 1 comment | Continued
16 Top Tips For Your iPod
Love them or hate them, they’re here to stay. Apple’s iPod is the top mp3 player on the market by far and 80% of us have one. To get more out of your iPod and mp3 collection, then check out these cool tips. Ranging from how to prolong battery life to how to copy songs [...]
27Oct2006 | Tony Williams | 4 comments | Continued
Watch More Than 200 Channels On Your PC For Free
There are several services that let you watch free TV on the internet. ChooseAndWatch is the best I’ve seen with over 200 TV channels available, all nicely categorized including news, business, music, movies, cartoons and many more. Best of all, no download is needed so all you need is a browser.
To try the [...]
Avoid Spam Create Disposable Email Addresses With Gmail
No matter how hard your email service tries, spam always gets through. Sometimes we have to register with services that then end up becoming spammers. If you are a Gmail user then you can avoid this by using ‘disposable email addresses’. Here’s how:
(i) Gmail uses plus-addressing, which lets you put a plus sign after your [...]
Bypass Work And School Firewalls - Use PimpmyIP.com
It can be annoying sometimes trying to use the internet at work or at school as they can have quite draconian access controls. The easiest way to bypass any controls is to use a proxy site to browse the internet.
Most proxy sites don’t have easy to remember names. If you find remembering [...]
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