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Speccy Gives You Detailed Information About Your Hardware

Planning an upgrade soon? Save yourself the web searches for your specs and download Speccy. Speccy does a quick scan of your machine and gives you a complete rundown of every piece of gear that’s in your computer.

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Christmas Cards for Recovering American Soldiers [HOAX]

[[HOAX]]  A Great Idea!!! Not so much…

When doing your Christmas cards, address one to : A Recovering American Soldier c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center 6900 Georgia Avenue NW; Washington, D.C. 20307. If we pass this on, think of how many cards these wonderful special people would get.

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Fake CDC vaccine e-mail leads to malware

You can ignore that e-mail that looks like it comes from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about creating a profile for an H1N1 vaccination program. It’s a malware scam, according to security provider AppRiver.
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The Ultimate List of Google Wave Robots

This list has been a long time coming, and for that I apologise. But I think it will be worth the wait. In just the last month invites for Google Wave have opened right up with second and third generation testers getting invite codes of their own to distribute. Developers and users are now flooding into the new and exciting service.

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Lenovo goes crazy, lets you switch Fn and Ctrl keys in BIOS

This is one of the things that drove me CRAZY about the IBM. Every other manufacturer placed the Control key in the lower left hand corner. I use Control C and Control V way too much so i really bugs be…

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Sales Guy v. Web Dude, Parts 2-4

Most of you have probably seen Sales Guy v. Web Dude, a hilarious video on the joys of tech support. If you haven’t seen it, kiss ten minutes goodbye and start there. It ranks up there with the stuff on Best Page In The Universe in entertainment and laugh value.

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Pirate Bay’s tracker closes down

In rather shocking news, The Pirate Bay (TPB) has shut down its torrent tracker. The search engine remains, but instead of dishing up torrents it will instead serve as a magnet-link repository. [Read more...]

What’s New in Firefox 3.5.4?

Firefox 3.5.4 fixes the following issues:

  • Several security issues.
  • Fixed several stability issues.
  • Added the ability to re-submit crash reports (bug 378528)
  • After using Clear Recent History some SSL sites would not load all images and styles without pressing reload (see bug 480619)

Please see the complete list of changes in this version. You may also be interested in the Firefox 3.5.3 release notes for a list of changes in the previous version.

Credit Karma To Take The Mystery Out Of Credit Scores

Credit Karma, a site that looks to help consumers understand, track, and improve their credit scores, has raised a $2.5 million Series A funding round led by QED Investors, with participation from SV Angel, Aydin Senkut, and Founders Fund, via FF Angel.

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SugarSync Sweetens File Syncing For Small Businesses

Sharpcast’s SugarSync, an application that synchronizes data across desktop computers, laptops, mobile phones, and even televisions, is rolling out a service designed specifically for businesses. As people split up their digital lives across devices and the Web, allows you to back-up any kind of digital file, including videos, spreadsheets, photos and documents, in the cloud and access it from virtually anywhere via a variety of devices. You can read our past reviews of SugarSync here and here.

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