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Easily Hot Swap SATA Hard Drives With HotSwap!
One advantage that SATA added over previous connection standards is the ability to hot swap devices. This allows users to add and remove devices, such as hard drives and optical drives, without restarting the computer. While it is possible to manage these hot swapped devices in Windows, it doesn’t always work properly and can be…
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Fix: Apple’s Mini DisplayPort Wireless Internet Connection Problem
Apple’s newest MacBook Pro models feature a Mini DisplayPort for connecting external monitors. While the new connection is in many ways much better than a full-sized DVI or even DisplayPort, there have been recent reports of problems with wireless internet connections. When connecting an external monitor through the Mini DisplayPort, the Airport wireless signal drops…
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We’re Giving Away Limited Edition Android Collectibles! [Updated]
The contest is now closed, check out the results! Check it out: we have THREE sold out, limited edition Android collectibles created by artist Andrew Bell that we can’t wait to give to a few lucky readers. Only 2,000 of these bad boys were ever made, and you can pretty much only get them on eBay nowadays…
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Keep Your Roster Up-To-Date with the Yahoo! Fantasy Football App
Here I am in class, when I realize that the Minnesota Vikings have a bye week this week. Normally this wouldn’t bother me much (I’m a Packers fan), but I happen to be lucky enough to have Adrian Pederson on my fantasy football team. So, all of a sudden the bye week is a huge…
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First Impressions: DivX HiQ Web Player 2.1 BETA
The DivX team hopes to impress again, providing users with the highest quality video for their PC – this time taking aim at YouTube and other top video sites. Some big features the DivX Labs are working into their newest web player are support for MP4 and MOV files, HTML5 support, and interoperability like decoding…
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Friday Fun! Expand Your Gaming Horizons With ‘The Day’
This week’s edition of Friday Fun is a bit of a departure from the usual games we feature. While it’s still technically a Flash game, The Day is more interactive fiction than it is an addictive time waster like most Flash games. Gameplay is incredibly simple, and much greater emphasis is placed on atmosphere and…
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4 Great Ways to Give Your Old Computer a Second Life
Do you have an older computer sitting around and don’t know what to do with it? An old computer can be repurposed to serve as a TV, print server, file server, music server, kitchen recipe computer, and much more. I’ll take you through a few of the ideas, including the things you’ll need and give…
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Create Budgets, Visualize Expenses, and Reduce Debt for Free with Mint.com
When I got my first glimpse of a “big kid job” by taking an engineering internship in 2008, I quickly realized that my strategy of “save enough money for food” wasn’t going to cut it anymore. Since I was earning significantly more than I was at my previous part-time jobs, I needed a way to…
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How to Fix Chrome’s Broken RSS Feed Handling
If you’ve ever tried opening an RSS feed in Google Chrome, you may have been dismayed to find that it does a horrible job of handling them. RSS feeds (like ours) are meant to provide an easy subscription method to a website, allowing you to view your favorite websites all in one place with an…