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Multiple Signups on Websites Using Same Email Address
We sign up on websites every now and then and most of the time, websites require you to provide a valid email address in order to register. It’s easy to just use a fake or non-existent email but when it’s necessary to confirm your email before your account is validated, you may have issues and…
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Enter Advanced Boot Options / Safe Mode On Windows 8 with F8 Key
Before Microsoft released Windows 8, one could easily access Advanced boot options by pressing the F8 key. This shows options like: Safe Mode Safe Mode with Networking Safe Mode with Command Prompt Enable Boot Logging and more. Unlike Windows 7, you might have noticed Windows 8 boots a lot faster and its partly due to…
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Android Evolution: An Overview of Released Versions
Android 4.4 Kitkat has been officially released by Google for quite a while. All Android releases are named after some sort of sweet snack, cupcake, gingerbread etc. and Google’s idea of Kitkat is to make an amazing Android experience available for everyone. Here we have a brief history of the various Android releases; this is…
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Nokia May Unveil Android Phone Normandy (Nokia X) on February 24
It now evident that Nokia’s much anticipated Android device, known as Normandy and now being referred to as Nokia X, might soon be available in Vietnam as reported by an online listing of the yet-to-be-announced device. Reports of the development of the first Nokia Android phone first emerged in November 2013, but not much was…
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Windows 9 May Surface This Summer, Windows 10 Going Cloud
Right about time, Welcome Windows 9! We all know Windows 8 is a setback for Microsoft and Windows generations but Windows 9 is about to be released, this is more like a reminiscent of Windows Vista and Windows 7 saga. Facts and Rumors It is pretty cleared that the company is suffering the same syndrome…
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Fix: Windows 8 Starting Up With Notepad
My PC has been showing this thing for almost 3 months and I’ve always ignored it until I decided to do something about it a few hours ago. [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%system32shell32.dll,-21787 I had no idea what caused this error or what the stuff in the note means, I just wanted to get rid of it and…
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The Ultimate Guide to Overcoming Writers’ Block as a Blogger
You just sit there gazing at your computer screen and repeatedly trying to wriggle your fingers to try and output something to the screen. Yet, nothing is coming out. You sit up, move around the room, hoping desperately that when you return to your computer, that your writing muse will suddenly come home and you’ll…
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How Do You Overcome Severe Outlook PST File Corruption?
Outlook PST files are well known to those who have experience working with MS Outlook. This is a file format supported by MS Outlook to store data like emails, tasks, calendars, journals, contacts etc. Various unwanted issues tend to create problems while using MS Outlook with PST. PST corruption due to improper file usage or…
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Will Everyone Eventually Start Using Smartphones?
Smartphone sales are on the increase, with recent statistics by Gartner showing that smartphones occupied 55% of mobile phones sold in the third Quarter of 2013 (July, August, and September of 2013). Statistics shows that 1.5 billion smartphones are sold each year and drastically increasing. Smartphones have dominated the world, sure, and it’s Google’s Android…
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A Quick Guide to Virtualization Software for SMEs
Increasingly, small businesses are looking to virtualization technology to reduce cost and improve efficiency. Virtualization brings phenomenal capacity and power within easy reach of the SME, and virtualization software makes management and deployment simple and quick. In this article, we will look briefly at the different types of virtualization software available, including Dell’s own virtualization…
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How to Change / Disable Windows 7 Startup Programs
Windows startup programs are the programs/applications that automatically run every time you turn on your computer. Just like other operating systems, Windows 7 has been programmed to run specific applications/folders at startup. These startup programs are saved in a particular folder under the Windows directory. Microsoft has programed the OS to run all the programs…
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3 Sure-fire Ways To Make Money Online with just a PC and Internet
The list of ways to make money online is endless. Just google “make money online” and you’ll get over a billion search results! But in this definitive post, I will show you three sure-fire ways to make money online regardless of your country of residence (eBay is out of the options for some of us)…