Better even than a multiple monitor set-up, is the multiple computer set-up. A familiar phenomenon for the geek with a laptop for on the go and a desktop computer at home or at work. Instead of splitting your computing power over several displays, you're putting several disjunct systems in parallel. Then again, it's almost comical how you have to ju
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This week were going back to basics, and want to find out which OS you’re using on your main computer, be it a desktop, laptop, or even your computer at work (if you consider it to be your main computer).
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Sound Sunday is a weekly feature promoting free album downloads. Every edition invites you to explore various genres and artists from around the world. If you happen to be a little stressed these days, let these instrumental albums help you calm down and relax. Note that name your price albums can be downloaded for free [...]
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One problem that faces us as bloggers is how to keep users on the site, how to show them other content they might be interested in. The best way to do this appears to be a "related posts" plugin of some sort; but which to choose? For a long time, I've recommended YARPP (Yet Another Related Posts Plugin), but nRelate is a fairly new contender.
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Rap music isn't all just what you hear on the radio or thumping from the teenager's car beside you at your nearest intersection. It's a pretty popular opinion that the radio rap genre is very dumbed down and easy to understand. I'd agree with that. Rap is sort of where pop music was in the late '90s. Understanding that much, you're cutting yourself
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Can you think of a song you like? Why not turn it into a little bit of cash? If you don’t mind sharing your favorite song (or any song name, really) with your Facebook friends, you can get $2 MP3 credit on Amazon. All you have to do is click on the link, enter the name of the song, and click on Share & Claim. Easy. Your answer will be posted
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Newegg has the NEW 2012 1080p Apple TV for a low $89.99 and free Shipping (Tax in CA, NJ, TN. ). For more fresh hot deals, visit our Hot Tech Deals page, which is constantly updated.
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Try a fast and feature-filled Twitter client for Linux. Polly is a native Linux app for Twitter that features multiple customizable columns, support for multiple accounts and desktop notifications. Sure, I've shown you Twitter clients for Linux before. Some are great, but not all of them survived the Oauthpocolypse. And don't get me started about Gw
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Ever since Instagram was introduced on iOS, people have been easily adding filters to their images to make them look better, or cooler, or any other adjective you can think of. The only downside to Instagram is that it is only for iOS and Android devices, so it cannot be used while you're on your desktop, laptop, or other daily driver. What can you
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Want a cheap computer that runs Android on an ARM processor and isn't a Raspberry Pi? Now you can have it. I'm talking about a new system, called AllWinner, that is now shipping out of China. This tiny, inexpensive Android PC has impressive specifications. It uses an ARM A10 dual-core running at 1.5 GHz, a Mali 400 GPU and offers 512MB of RAM. This
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Every Friday MakeUseOf Answers honors the Best Answer of the Week to reward the skills and time required to solve tough questions. Every single comment made on Answers is reviewed for the contest and positive feedback can help decide the winners! So whether you have an answer or received free support, please contribute!
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I am a huge hockey fan. I have been playing hockey for well over 15 years, and watching it on TV for even longer than that. The Stanley Cup Playoffs are nearing their end, and watching these entire hockey playoffs made me think about what might be some cool and useful applications on iOS for hockey lovers. So, I dug deep in the App Store and found s
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Thanks to my wife and other inexperienced users of iOS devices, I'm always learning about which features many people are not aware of on their iPhone or iPad. I've met users who still don't know for example how to put apps into folders on their device. I gather most of my MUO readers know that, but below are a handful of other features and tips that
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Time - it passes. Whether we like it or not, time’s inexorable progress cannot be stopped. So the least we can do is measure it, right? This morning I went in search of interesting Android apps for doing just that. I don’t mean just kitchen timers, although I did find a few nice ones. I also mean tools for tracking longer periods of time, slicin
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In the corner of my room, collecting dust, sits the component pieces of my Xbox 360. Purchased as a Christmas present for me and my better half in mid-2007, it has been in a state of disrepair since Christmas 2011 when it decided that – for one reason or another – it didn’t want to play anymore. As most of you reading this will know, most Xbox
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Twitter has added six more languages to its translation center, and is now looking for translators who will help Twitter officially support them. The languages are Catalan, Afrikaans, Ukrainian, Greek, Czech and Basque. If you can speak these languages and want to help translate Twitter, you can head over to the Translation Center and start working.
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For a while now, there have been a number of free Internet VPN solutions available or private personal use. I’m rather new to the whole VPN idea, but even I can remember programs like Hamachi, Wippien, Leaf (now discontinued), and Comodo EasyVPN (now called Comodo Unite). As an avid gamer with many gamer friends, I love to play private games on a
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You’re probably familiar with browser extensions, but there are many other ways to customize your browser and tweak websites. The web isn’t a one-way, passive medium – you have the ability to remix websites you view on the fly, adding features or changing their look. Each of these methods has its own advantages and drawbacks.
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If you're a board game geek, you've probably heard of the game Dominion and its ever-growing list of expansion packs. That's because it's an excellent board game and everyone who plays it feels the need to pass that message on. In short though, it is a deck-building game where each card you pick up determines what you can do each turn.
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Tracing the history of your house by following even boring information like who built it, what stood here before, when was it built etc. could hold remarkable stories for a future fireside story. If you are lucky, you will get it all in one place. That’s rare, so you have to dig around a bit. Maybe even take the online route to discover more about
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Are we in the midst of the final days of Microsoft as we know it? Feedback from tech professionals about Metro UI has been predominantly negative so far, but that's the least of our worries if recents trends are any indication of the future. Here, dear readers, are 3 reasons why I think Microsoft is truly losing, if not lost already, the proverbial
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Have you ever bricked your router? Were you able to fix it, or did you give up and throw your router away? Follow this tutorial that shows you how you can bring back your router from the dead with the help of a few handy third party apps.
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