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Say goodbye to BIOS and hello to UEFI
If you’ve ever struggled with your PC’s BIOS, or been knee-capped by a rootkit that assailed the BIOS, you undoubtedly wondered why this archaic part of every PC wasn’t scrapped long ago. Well, be of good cheer: Windows 8 will finally pull the PC industry out of the BIOS generation and into a far more [...]
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Little Secrets
When your having a bad day or feel that you may be a little bit strange or weird, see what other people have to say. What is your little secret? Tweet
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Twitter Spam – Infographic
Twitter spam is probably the most common (and annoying) out of all the social networks. Below is an infographic showing the types of spam to affect Twitter and a little description about each one. Twitter really needs to do more to stop the spamming from idiot users, unwanted business products, DMs and bots. Tweet
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Version control for images
If you’re used to working with version control systems like CVS, Subversion or Git in order to keep track of changes to your code, then you will be well aware that changes to binary files such as images, just can’t be tracked in the same way. Sure, there is no problem storing your binary data [...]
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Manhattanhenge 2011
Last night at roughly 8:17pm New Yorkers got a chance to experience ‘Manhattanhenge‘, the semiannual occurrence where the setting sun aligns perfectly with east-west streets. If you missed it don’t worry though, a second date this year is expected to take place on Monday, July 11 at 8:25 p.m. I so wish I lived in [...]
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Frozen Tsunami in Antartica
For anyone familiar with the movie The Day After Tomorrow you will have seen the effects of Supercooling. This happened thousands of years ago in Antarctica. It happened before, It will happen again. The annual mean temperature of Antarctica is below 0c (freezing temperature of fresh water). Salt water has a lower freezing point, depending [...]
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Download Firefox 5 beta now
Mozilla has released the first publicly available beta of Firefox 5, which acts as a halfway house between the final stable, final release of Firefox and the developmental version, Firefox Aurora. The beta version offers a more stable environment than Aurora in which to road-test developmental features before they’re implemented into the next final release. [...]
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PhotoDNA Fighting Child Pornography
Most people will never be exposed to photos of children being sexually abused by predators. But images of that abuse can be found in dark corners of the online world, where networks of child abusers and child-pornography consumers produce and propagate photos of children being victimized. This week, Microsoft is donating a new technology to [...]
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Stop Phishing: A simple guide
Phishing has been around for a while now. Longer than most of you think, and over the next year or so, its going to get worse. Can you detect a Phishing site or Scam? Are you protected… What is Phishing OK, for those of you who don’t know what phishing is, here’s a quick overview. [...]
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