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Cameras for Every Budget – Top 5 Picks

14 Dec, 2010 by
Featured, Gadgets

As compared to the yesteryears, today, a cheap digital camera is also fully equipped with powerful and rich features. It is no longer essential to splurge a big lump of money, in order to buy a good digital camera. Before purchasing a camera, one must bear in mind their budget and usage. The task of finding the right camera is easier said than done. The amount of variety available in the market is simply exorbitant. There is a broad range of devices, from point and shoot to DSLR cameras. There are a few things, one must consider, in order to find the right camera for them. For a casual photographer, who prefers something sleek and light weight, a point and shoot camera would be the ideal one for him. This is the most simple, non fussy camera with easy adjustments. It is most certainly the best bet for impromptu and candid shots. Unlike the point and shoot cameras, DSLR cameras tend to be on the pricier side. They are complicated to use and bulky to bring. Instead, a point and shoot camera would be more convenient and easier to use. They are increasingly getting popular with...
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Facebook Profile Picture Hack Explained [How to Guide]

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Social Media, Tutorial

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The above Facebook profile snapshot is of a French artist, Alexandre Oudin who has now started a new kind of viral meme and now, even you get to mess with your profile pictures in exactly the same way as Oudin's! Thanks to TechCrunch and a photographer/designer Florian Stravock, we have a video guide to follow and come up with our own creative Facebook profile pic hack!

Steps to Recreate Facebook Profile Picture Hack

All I did was, just followed these simple steps which Stravock clearly explains in the video. Note that I hardly know the ABC (or PHO) of Photoshop. It's really simple and would take 15-20 minutes of your time. 1. Take a screenshot of your current Facebook page. 2. Create a new Photoshop doc. 3. Grab the Slice tool (same family as the Crop tool) and select around the pictures. 4. With the Marquee tool, select around the sliced areas. 5. Bring the image that you want on Facebook into Photoshop and position it roughly the way you want it. 6. Drag the image layer under the Facebook layer and refine your positioning. 7. Go to “File,” select “Save for web and devices,” select all your document area,...
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5 Simple Tips to Secure Your PC

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Tiny Tip

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Guest Post by Bilal Ahmed With the increased usage of internet, it is now becoming important for all computer users to keep their system secure from spyware and malware on the web. Big companies like Kaspersky and BitDefender have developed different security software to protect users' computers from network attacks, malware, adware and so on. However an antivirus or internet security might not always protect and secure you computer system, since there are hundreds of new virus and trojans being created everyday. You need to follow a few more tips to fully secure your system from any kind of harm or dangerous activities.

Tips to Secure Your System

1. Always Scan External Devices Don’t ever trust any external device like USB, Memory Card, Hard Drive or Discs. It may contain worm, trojans or spyware that can put your system in danger. As you know your system is very important for you, because it has lots of your important data saved in it. If you did not scan the external device and plug in to your system, then the possibility is that you system can get infected. You can lose your important data in a few minutes....
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Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2010

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News, Online Tv
top-10-youtube-videos Google has released the Top 10 most watched videos on YouTube in 2010. The list includes some of the classics like the Old Spice guy and the bed intruder song and of-course those annoying Justin Bieber screeches. According to Google, more than 700 billion YouTube videos were watched this year and there were more than 13 million hours of video uploaded! YouTube was incidentally one of the most popular social media websites of 2010 and these stats tell you why. The top most video - The bed intruder song garnered more than 48 million views in US and around the world. And, let's check out the top 10 most watched YouTube videos in 2010.

Top 10 YouTube Videos of 2010

#10. Ken Block's Gymkhana THREE, Part 2; Ultimate Playground; l'Autodrome, France. #9. Jimmy Surprises Bieber Fan #8. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE – Trailer #7. OK Go – This Too Shall Pass – Rube Goldberg Machine version 1 Comment Read More

Chip Manufacturing Technology – Tough Road Ahead!

13 Dec, 2010 by
Featured, Tech
chip-manufacturing What lies at the rear of products like Apple’s iPad and iPhone, are thousands of manufacturing jobs. Majority of these jobs have been created overseas, while the US is left battling chronically soaring levels of redundancy. This leaves everyone contemplating, whether it is possible to create more jobs in the USA. The need and usage of personal computing is broadening beyond the laptops. Intel has a burly existence when it comes to manufacturing in USA. Despite of Intel being the market leader, the popularity of Apple’s successful products like iPad and iPhone overshadows it. The swell in demand for Apple products, have resulted in a seismic shift in chip manufacturing, to Asia - the new breeding ground of fresh silicon ecosystems. Companies like Hewlett-Packard and Dell are still primarily Intel centric PC makers, as compared to Apple, which is transforming into a maker of smart-phones and tablets. Apple seems to be inclined towards creating the substitute, non-Intel silicon producing ecosystems overseas. It is known to get its products from Asian companies. Even though their gadgets are produced by American companies, it is not consequential in boosting job opportunities, in the chip manufacturing field...
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Track Santa in Real Time with Google Maps

12 Dec, 2010 by
News

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Christmas is just a couple of weeks away and Santa must be getting ready buying all the gifts he has promised us! To help all of us track Santa, Google and NORAD are ready with their Santa tracker, using which you can follow Santa once he gets on the move at around 2am EST on December 24 2010. NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, has been tracking Santa since 1955 and Google joined them in 2007 and integrated the data with Google Earth and Google Maps. You can track Santa either in 2D or in 3D right on your PC or mobile phone! All you need to do is - search for 'santa' on Google Maps or Google Earth. If you don't have either of the applications, you can check out NORAD's twitter account, which will presumably tweet Santa's current location in real time! In addition to the tracking maps, the NORAD Web site, also features interactive tools that allow children to explore Santa's village at the North Pole, play holiday-themed card games, and see what's going on at Santa's bakery and workshop. 0 Comments Read More

Make Free Calls to India, China, UK, US, Canada and More

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Giveaway, Tiny Tip
It's been a while since we saw a proper service to make free international calls. But here is a promotional offer from the Australia based VOIP provider - PennyTel which is offering 10 million free local, domestic and international call minutes to a lot of popular destinations like US, UK, India, China, Canada, Hong Kong, NewZealand and Singapore.

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10 million minutes might sound huge, but the catch is that the offer is going to be shared amongst all the PennyTel subscribers who register for this offer. Though officially the offer runs between 1st December 2010 to 8th January 2011, do not expect it to last long and make use of the offer right away.

How to make Free international calls using Pennytel?

Well, you are required to register to PennyTel service first. In order to do that visit this promotional offer page, look for signup link, fill in your email address and wait for the email from PennyTel. You will then receive the detailed account information such as user name, web password, VoIP password in your mail. For me, it took almost 15 minutes for the mail to arrive. No initial deposits or credits...
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Free Download – Avanquest PowerDesk Professional 8

11 Dec, 2010 by
Downloads, Giveaway
free-avanquest Just around a month back we had told you about a promotional offer for Avanquest PowerDesk Pro 7. In case you missed that, no need to fret. Here is an even better offer, for the latest version - Avanquest PowerDesk Pro 8. Yes! You can get this latest software absolutely for free! As you might already know, PowerDesk Professional is a simple to use Windows file management software which provides users a wide variety of tools to search, organize, edit, delete, copy, move, sort, zip, label, view, convert and so forth, performing as an expert, ultimate file manager for your Windows PC.

Avanquest PowerDesk Pro 8 Features

  • Advanced File Finder
  • Multi-Pane File Viewer
  • Easy FTP Utility & Support
  • New Hard Drive Indexing
  • New Search Emails & Attachments
  • New Color Code Files & Folder

Grab a Free license of Avanquest PowerDesk Pro 8

Avanquest PowerDesk 8 Pro normally costs $39.95 or £29.99 for purchase. As part of Avanquest promotion offer, the interested users are now entitled to download the full version of the PowerDesk Professional 8 at no cost. 1. Visit the promotional offer page. 2. Enter the basic details as always. The page is in German, so check the helpful image below free-powerdesk 1 Comment Read More
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