Recently I have been having a problem with my gmail account in firefox. When I clicked on a link in an email it would try and open the new url in a new tab unsuccessfully. What was happening was when I would click on the link www.facebook.com/n/?reqs.php  it would change the domain name – so [...]

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Sometimes you just want to quickly resize a photo to send on an email, post on a blog or share on your instant messaging programme like MSN. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a simple tool that let’s you right-click on a photo and have the option to resize it? Well there is such tool. [...]

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OpenMoko is the World’s First Integrated Open Source Mobile. I came across this project at the begining of the year and have been following it’s development since.
OpenMoko is a GNU / Linux based open software development platform. Developers have full access to OpenMoko source and they can tailor their implementations to underlying hardware platforms.
The [...]

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The One Laptop Per Child project (www.laptop.org) appears to be gathering momentum, with production under way and orders starting to come in. Nicknamed the $100 laptop – at the moment the actual price will be around $175. The hope is, however, that as orders increase, so economies of scale will kick in and the price [...]

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Users often notice that after a few weeks of buying a new computer it starts to run slower and the boot process takes a lot longer than when it was turned on for the first time. There are programs like Apple QuickTIme, Realplayer, JavaRT and various others that automatically add themselves to your windows startup [...]

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One of the things that I get called about frequently here at my job (despite not really being in technical support), is people saying that their internet is down and can I help them get back on. The main complaints are that either ‘I cannot connect to my wireless router – the computer finds it [...]

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