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[How to] Download YouTube Videos to iPhone/iPod Touch

There will surely be times when you really like a video on YouTube and like to save it on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Apple by default do not provide that feature, neither do they allow any app which can do that for you. Jailbreaking an iPhone or iPod Touch has its own advantages and [...]

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Limit uTorrent Bandwidth Usage With Transfer Cap

uTorrent is no doubt one of the most popular and widely used torrent clients in the world. With a wide variety of files available for download on torrents, one might go overboard when downloading files and actually cross the bandwidth usage limit set by the ISP. There have been instances when the ISP has temporarily [...]

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Top 10 Online Services to Encrypt Text Messages

Online privacy has started to sound like an oxymoron! Every e-mail (confidential or not) you send is sent as a plain text and if intercepted, it will just be a sitting duck with no protection whatsoever. There are multiple ways to automatically encrypt text messages and emails using some kind of hash functions like MD5, SHA1 [...]

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Get Educative Books for Free via Wikibooks

What if you found yourself wanting an old Mathematics or Geography textbook but not find it in your college library? Yes, you can borrow it from your friend or look for an used copy from a local book store or even buy a new one at Amazon. Well, you have another interesting option at your [...]

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Access Blocked Websites via Mobile Simulators

The schools, colleges and offices these days block many websites, especially the social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter etc, video sharing websites like Youtube, Metacafe, Megavideo etc and web email clients like GMail, Yahoo mail & Hotmail. Depending upon how smart and knowledgeable the network admin is, the probability of tricks we suggest to unblock [...]

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Check Who is Accessing Your Wireless Network

Have you subscribed for high-speed broadband internet connection? Do you use wireless network/wi-fi to connect to the internet? Are you still unhappy about not getting the speed you were promised? If the answers to the above questions are YES, then you might need to check your Wireless router’s settings once again. There is a possibility of someone sharing [...]

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10 Ways to Open .Docx Word Files

It’s been more than 3 years since Microsoft introduced a new document format in their Office 2007 suite called Docx, but still many people seem to wonder what .docx file is and how to open, read and edit them! Note: This article is like a help guide for technically challenged who are looking at how to [...]

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Get Your Google Buzz Profile Verified

The Buzz about Google Buzz is still on and doesn’t seem to die down anytime soon. My personal opinion is neutral when it comes to Google Buzz, so I have managed to use it as much as I can over the last 2 days. While browsing, I found that some people have “Verified name” badge next [...]

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