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Choosing the Right Mobile Phone

It is not difficult to spot the trend in mobile phones that they have more and more features every year. While the first mobile phone arrived in 1973, currently phones have drastically changed and do not resemble the ones that were popular 20, or even 10 years ago. I believe that many features of the [...]

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Protecting Yourself from Pop-Ups

Most pop-ups are used by advertisers in order to promote their products and services by driving traffic at minimum cost or at no cost at all. However, some pop-ups can be dangerous to your computer. Whenever you see a pop-up message like, for example, “free upload your files or images”, or “speed up your Internet”, [...]

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Bulding Your Own External Hard Drive

Many files such as programs, music, games, and movies take a lot of space on our hard drives. Getting some extra space for data is always a good idea. If you want to save some money and get more storage space, then I recommend that you build your own external hard drive. There are a [...]

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Gold Farmers

When it comes to online games, gold farmers have become a serious threat to online games to the extent that many free-2-play games have hundreds of bots roaming around. The problem with gold farmers is that they ruin the economy of the game. They do not communicate other players, but rather disturb them. Generally, they [...]

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Is Your PC Too Slow?

One of the things that computer users dislike is a computer that is running slowly and one that boots for a very long time. Computer users simply enjoy when everything runs smoothly, and they do not like to wait for too long for anything to load. Apart from software and viruses that can possible slow [...]

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Windows XP

Windows XP is a quite old operating system, but it still is very popular and that is why many people are worried about its future. An operating system needs support from its developers in order to be safe from hackers and to work efficiently. Microsoft knows that a great deal of users refuse to switch [...]

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P2P Clients

Peer to peer software is being used by millions of people around the world to transmit and exchange data including videos, music, books, and applications. The idea behind P2P networks is to use connectivity between participants in a network, and the cumulative bandwidth of network participants. This is a completely different system than a conventional [...]

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Saving Power with Screensavers

There are many beautiful screensavers on the market, and they portray many things such as a sea, forest, animals, mountains, and almost anything you can think about. A lot of them are free, so no wonder that they gained on popularity. Almost all computers have some sort of screensaver installed, besides the default ones installed [...]

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PCs Getting Outdated Fast

It is true that video games require more and more RAM and better graphic cards in order to run smoothly. If you bought a computer, let us say two years ago, then for that time it was a powerful machine. Even if it was not the most expensive on the market, playing every major game [...]

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Free Media Players

We live in times when most people like to watch movies and listen to music. Media players are usually defined as programs that can play video and audio files. If you like listening to music and watching videos, it is important that you choose the right media player. It might be pretty cool to store [...]

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