The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is like Christmas in January for technology geeks. If you like having the latest cool gadgets for your home or office, the CES is the place to be. We always look forward to Vivint’s Twitter feed and other reports from the floor. As usual, this year there were exciting finds from both the leading tech firms and new headline grabbers. Here are a few of the most popular gadgets from the CES. Roku Streaming Stick The Roku box was an instant hit when it hit the scene a few years ago. Now Roku has introduced…

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The bubble screensaver of Windows 7 may be the Windows 7 users’ favorite screensaver. In fact, these transparent bubbles can become solid and metallic balls through a little modification. The operation is simple as below: Start-Run-Regedit. After the Registry Editor is opened, locate in: “HKEY_CURRENT_USER? Software?Microsoft?Windows?Current Version?Screensavers?Bubbles”. Right-click on the blank in the right pane to new build a “DOWRD (32 bit value)” and name it as “Material Glass”. Then double click the “Material Glass” and input the value “0” in the popup window. Finally, save the modification and exit the Registry Editor. Now you can open “Personalization”-“Screen saver” and…

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I’m back… again… with the top 7 stories of the day, according to ME! Right! This time I’ve got some serious stuff for you guys to feast on. 1 – ONE! Weaponizing Web 2.0 – The Washington Post – I thought this was quite an interesting article. Imagine your browser turning against you, all your personal information being used by someone else without your knowledge! I’m sure we’ve all had this nightmare before, but if what this article says is true, I think we’d better be really careful. This is a real life version of one of those scary movies…

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According to Me. So I’m back just a day later with 7 more stories for you to check out. Of course, their importance depends a lot on how aligned your priorities are with mine, however even if you’re from a different planet it’s fun to ‘throw caution to the wind’ sometimes.. 1 – ONE! The iPhone’s Latest Hit App : Sex Offender Locator – TechCrunch -  I think this is hilarious. Now every iPhone user knows if you hang Pedo-bear posters in your room. Don’t think this app has much use outside of the US, but I’m sure it’s a…

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Stuff we’d like to throw into the black-hole, Microsoft’s new retail store, how to hack the iPhone (well, not really…), it’s all in here!

Wishing all the readers of Techtites a Merry Christmas and happy holidays. Thanks for your continued support all through the year The image above is a Christmas tree in Driskill.

After looking at this video, we have little wonder why Microsoft no longer supports Windows 98 If you can’t see the video above then view it on YouTube directly.

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They first offered $25,000 and today ReviewMe upped their Giveaway to $100,000. I’ve already signed up for ReviewMe and even written my first paid review. People are surprised the mega giveaway. This is definitely a bid to attract bloggers. And I really hope to see a similar flocking of advertisers to the same. Will be great to get some advertisers for my blogs. But, if you planning on using ReviewMe on your WordPress.com blog, then think again! Others can signup for ReviewMe.

I complained about a major bug with this design in Internet Explorer 6. The sidebar kept scrolling to the bottom. I didn’t have IE6 with me and hence was stuck. Tracked down Luminus who spent a good deal of time and bandwidth over his bad internet connection patiently hitting Ctrl+F5 everytime I asked him to. And, I was finally able to debug the problem. For those interested, this was caused because I missed the overflow: hidden in the #content div. Additionally the advertisement to the top was placed within the content div causing the page to be stretched. IE6 got…

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