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• PC Magazine – One Year Subscription for Free
  Posted on Friday, November 21st, 2008 in News – Comments: (8)
  As reported by NYTimes, Jan 2009 will be the last time the print edition of the famous PC Magazine will be rolled out. And here is a chance for you to quickly grab one year free subscription of the DIGITAL EDITION of the magazine.All you have to do is click on this link and fill in your email address. You will be sent the download link of the magazine whenever the new issue becomes available.This is given as part of the Read Green initiative through which they are aiming to make people realize the benefits of environment-friendly magazine format. There are other magazines available in addition to PC Magazine like Parenting, MIT Technology Review, Playboy, iPhone Life, Men’s Journal etc, all available at highly attractive rates.
• MorphThing – Easiest Way to Morph Yourself
  Posted on Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 in Featured – Comments: (7)
  Morphthing is all about FUN! I had come across quite a few “online morph tools” in the past few months, but none of them were so cool, accurate and easy as MorphThing!This is a mindless but funny online tool suitable for wasting your valuable time! Just pick the faces of any two celebrities and morph them together for a new super beauty! Or you can upload your own images to create personal / infernal photo funnies.Brangelina has become a house-hold name these days. Have a look at this now!or this!! The photo of the New President of USAThat’s morph of Barack Obama and Me!
• [Timepass Tip] Run Websites From Windows Calculator
  Posted on Saturday, November 8th, 2008 in Tech – Comments: (6)
  First of all, I suggest you to skip this post unless you are utterly jobless! If you still wanna know more, here is a tip to open Websites from Windows Calculator in XP / Vista (using IE)Here is how to go about it - Open your MS Calculator. This is normally found in Start –> All Programs –> Accessories –> Calculator. Open the Help window by pressing the F1 key. Click the top-left corner icon of the help window once (Default is a Document with a Question mark). Click on the Jump to URL…. Type your address into the available field, but remember to type http://, and not just the www (or equivalent).
• 60+ Popular Torrent Clients for Windows, Linux and Mac
  Posted on Friday, November 14th, 2008 in Featured Downloads – Comments: (5)
  Sometime back I had listed down the famous torrent clients in my old blog, thought of enhancing the list with latest additions. Without any blah blah, here is the list and brief description of Top 40 torrent clients for Windows/Linux/Mac.1. μTorrent – Windows only. Known as both “u-torrent” or “micro torrent”, this is the most popular torrent tool today. uTorrent has all the functions a torrent downloader will ever need, and it only requires 2 MB of hard disk space. Memory hogging is bit of a problem but its overall performance is much better than other clients.2. Azureus – Azureus is one of the more popular BitTorrent clients around.
• [Tiny Tip] Save Battery Life of Your Digital Camera
  Posted on Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 in Tech – Comments: (5)
  I am not going to tell you something which you are not aware of. I am just collating all the tips on how you can save and enhance the battery life of your Digital camera. So go ahead and Bookmark this page for your reference!1. Most of the cameras these days come with “Auto Power Saving” mode. Make sure you keep it on when you are not using the camera for a while.2. Always make it a point to buy genuine and large capacity batteries. Keep away from the Grey Market stuff. Not just your batteries, even your camera’s life will be at stake.
• [How to] Decode an Encoded PHP Script in Wordpress Themes
  Posted on Saturday, November 29th, 2008 in Tech – Comments: (4)
  I adore Wordpress themes! And I like to download and test the themes (free ones) frequently. Few days back I bumped across a plugin – TAC (Theme Authenticity Checker) which checks for any malicious code in the Wordpress themes present in /wp-content/themes folder.When I ran TAC today, I found that couple of the themes I downloaded yesterday (name withheld) were having some encoded string in the Footer section. TAC projected them as potential threats since some malicious code could have been injected and encoded. The code looked something like started looking out for a tool which can decode
• Free Trend Micro Antivirus Internet Security 2008 License
  Posted on Monday, November 3rd, 2008 in Featured Downloads – Comments: (3)
  Get Free Trend Micro Antivirus Internet Security 2008 License “Legally” which is valid for 3 Years!! Thanks to Raymond yet again!!Here are the main steps:1. Go to this page http://www.sccoast.net/tools/internetsecurity/download.php and note down the key that is listed there: PFEP-9991-7436-4997-15452. Download Trend Micro Internet Security 2008 v16.1http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/tis/TrendMicro_TIS_16.1_1063_x32.exe3. After downloading, run the installer, enter serial number that you got from step 1 and proceed with the installation.4. After finishing the installation, just activate Trend Micro Internet Security 2008 by providing your first name, last name, email address and country.
• Easiest Way to Backup GMail Data
  Posted on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 in Featured Downloads – Comments: (3)
  I am damn sure that GMail freaks (like me) will adore this post! I have always tried different ways to backup the data in my GMail account, since it is my primary email account. I had tried configuring Microsoft outlook and Outlook Express for GMail, so that I can download those important mails to my PC. But they turned out to be pretty slow.But now, Jan Švec & Filip Jurčíček have developed a small utility called Gmail-Backup which can be used to backup and archive GMail account in a single click. It basically uses the IMAP feature in Gmail to save and restore the complete archives.
• [Tiny Tip] Skip User Accounts Screen in Windows Vista
  Posted on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 in Tiny Tip – Comments: (3)
  I am sure many geeks would have given a silly look after reading the title, indicating its such a simple thing to do. But this blog is NOT only for geeks. One of the avid reader, Binoy George, who happens to be one of the very first RSS subscriber of Technically Personal was asking me about it. It was then I realized the importance of posting it on my blog.When you start Windows Vista, you are presented with a list of available users accounts, which is good when two or more people use the computer frequently. But for most situations, it is absolutely meaningless since he/she will be the lone user of the computer.
• [Tiny Tip] Reading the CSS File of a Website
  Posted on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 in Tiny Tip – Comments: (3)
  When I first wrote a Tiny Tip last week, I was apprehensive about how the geeky friends of techpp.com would take it. But Techniqueal’s comment put my apprehension to rest. He summed up my intentions beautifully -It is most effective to initially weigh the topics to blog about. blogging about too techie stuff almost all the time promotes “intimidation” especially to users who are not as “geek” as the blog author is. blogging about the basics once in a while creates a friendlier and lighter “atmosphere” to the blogosphere.Here I present the next Tiny Tip on how to read the CSS file of a website.

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