If you’re a shopping addict and own an Android phone, consider yourself lucky, since there are so many Android apps that can give you the opportunity to shop directly from your phone and save much money. I guess it’s hard to choose some of those shopping apps on iTunes, that’s why we’ve sorted out the best 5 of them: 5) Google Shopper Google has developed a number of apps that are aimed at making our lives easier and Google Shopper continues that trend. The app turns your phone into a barcode scanner, price checker and discount finder, giving us the…

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When it comes to power management, the Mac far excels any of the PCs. I have my Mac configured such that it goes to sleep within 30 minutes of it being idle. unfortunately this tends to disrupt my downloads and also prevents me from remote logging in whenever I want to. I’ve been hunting for a good application that keeps my Mac from falling asleep. Before you proceed with installing a new utility, keep in mind that preventing you Mac from sleeping has to be done with care, especially when the lid is closed. This can cause your Mac to…

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Adding a block of HTML to a WordPress post If you use HTML when you post, then you will realise that WordPress has its own way of dealing with it. Which means that you can either use a host of plugins or just give up and take what you get. scriptygoddess guides you to using shortcodes in adding blocks of HTML in your WordPress posts. You can just add the code into the functions.php of your theme. How to Add a Live Facebook Share Button to Your WordPress Facebook is an extremely powerful marketing tool and if you aren’t already…

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Welcome back to the Top 7 stories of the day! So there’s some useful stuff for iPhone, iTouch users; people thinking about upgrading to Windows 7 and Mac Users! 1 – ONE! The Ultimate Guide To Speeding Up Firefox 3.5 – Makeuseof.com – We all love Firefox but if you’ve ever wondered about how to speed it up even more, wonder no more! Here’s a nice and extremely effective list that will get FF running even quicker than you’d want it to! 2 – TWO! Microsoft Windows 7 (Professional) – Cnet Reviews – So Cnet does us all a favour…

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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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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!

So we’re already at the end of the first quarter of 2009 and things haven’t been so great on the economic front. However, for you chip-heads out there who love their videogames and can’t wait to get your hands on something new to play, there is good news. There are quite a few video games that will be releasing in 2009 and I’m going to list the top 5 games that I am looking forward to. These are games that I’ve been waiting for since the day they were announced. In fact, I’ve already started saving up to actually go…

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When it comes to playing movie there is only one software that I use and it’s the VLC player. Since I don’t own a Mac machine I haven’t tried anything on it personally but here are some of the most widely used Video players you can use to play your videos on Mac. On the top of my head I have my personal favorite Vlc Player Vlc is without any doubts one of the best media players out there that is highly portable for various audio and video formats including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX and mp3. It has the ability…

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Got your whole pile of CDs lying around and worried of losing the music due to CDs getting scratched? Then, it’s about time you converted them into MP3 format and store them safely on your hard disk… or even multiple copies across several hard disks. Here, we look at five free software applications that help you quickly extract your CDs and save them as MP3 files. MediaCoder MediaCoder is a FREE universal audio/video batch transcoder distributed under GPL license, which puts together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of…

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Youtube is the most popular Video Streaming website out there. Even though they have recently removed thousands of videos that had copyright issues you still can’t get enough of Youtube. For those of you who are looking to convert their Youtube videos to Mp3 and other formats can check out the following web based converters that actually works. I’ve personally tried each of them and they work just great. KeepVid Keepvid is one of the most popular Youtube converter online. It supports just about any video sharing site out there. Another great thing about Keepvid is that it displays the…

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